Waves display super tiny, cannot read

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Hi all,
I purchased/installed Waves Masters bundle on my Win10 Dell XPS 15, and the L2 GUI is basically unreadable it is so tiny.

3840x2160 is recommended by Dell but I changed it down to 1600x1200 and L2 was still the same tiny. I am using Adobe Audition.

Is there any possible way to use these so they are a readable size? What is recommended?
Thank you so much for any help,

(bonus question, is this “V10” stuff I read applicable to my Masters set I just bought?)

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Hi John,

If your plug-ins display in a ‘tiny’ manner,
That means you might have to change your DPI Scaling settings for your Graphics Adapter -

See if you can change the scaling to %100, and set the resolution to 1600x1200 as recommended.

Let me know how this goes, so I can help out further as needed.

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Hello, thanks for the reply.
Set to the Dell recommended I have this.

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Audition is good but the Waves is tiny, need a magnifying glass to read it.

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If I use 100% instead of 250%, and if I use 1600x1200 then the left and right of my monitor are un-utilized, like the display is just a box in the middle of the screen with nothing in the margins.

Am I missing the DPI setting maybe?

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Hey @johnh714!

Offically, we don’t support these high resolutions as of yet.
As you can see in our system requirements,
recommended resolution is 1280x1024 / 1600x1024.

Here is a workaround though: right click the Audition exe file:

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Go to the compatibility tab and click "Change high DPI settings:

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Under “High DPI scaling override” - check the box and set “Scaling performed by” to System

That should do the trick :slight_smile:

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Hello,

I’m not sure if anyone from Waves will see this reply since the original post is 6 years old. I’m having the exact same problem all of a sudden with all of my Waves plugins. My plugins from other manufacturers are all coming up at normal window size, but my Waves plugins are all tiny…exactly looking like the original poster showed. My specs are the following:

Macbook Pro running OS 10.15.7

Monitor size says 2880 x 1800

Pro Tools 2022.12

Is there a fix for Pro Tools like the one provided for Audition? I would love help getting this fixed as the plugins are almost non-usable at that size. I’ve uploaded a screenshot showing what the plugins look like.

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Thank you so much,

Matt

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Hey @mrcomber,

Welcome to the Waves Forum.

The Recommended Resolution We Support is: 1920x1080.

Additionally, since V16 GUI can now be resized in every Waves plugin by dragging the lower-right corner of the plugin.

If you require further assistance or still experience any issues, please Contact Technical Support directly, and they will happily assist.