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So, there's also no way how this RDP client should tell the target Windows OS running within the RDP session "hey.i am on retina display, please increase DPI dynamically to 200%". It has no settings pushing it operating in a high resolution mode (retina). It doesn't support any of logics described above. I heard Microsoft is working hard to improve that in 8.1 onwards and implement some kind of "real" and dynamic support for high resolution and high pixel-density displays, but so far i had no chance in testing windows 8.1 as guest OS or target OS in RDP sessions.Ĭoming back to your RDP connection: The simple RDP client on windows (mstsc.exe) is not intelligent at all in that respect. In any case, this is all Windows can offer for now in versions up to 7. ![]() As mentioned, this is not the same as correct retina support and results are not as perfect and proportional as on a host-OSX, but quite acceptable in most of cases and for most of applications running in Windows guests. ALTERNATIVE TO MICROSOFT REMOTE DESKTOP CLIENT FOR MAC SOFTWAREEnabling this setting in the local virtualization software pushes the guest Windows to dynamically raise the DPI setting to 199-200%. Therefore even Windows-guests running on a macbook via Parallels or VMWare do not scale all elements fully proportionally when so called "Best for Retina" setting is enabled within the virtualization software. ![]() However Windows is not consistent in how it applies those high DPI settings to different graphical and textual elements. Increasing DPI to 200% should have same effect as retina support logic in OSX (4:1 pixel translation is equivalent to 200% density). Using DPI settings in control panel one should manually increase manually the DPI % to "tell" windows allocate more physical pixels per inch. Windows versions up to 8.1 are pretty primitive, they take all pixels the hardware gives them and interpret them by default as 1 to 1. ALTERNATIVE TO MICROSOFT REMOTE DESKTOP CLIENT FOR MAC MAC OSThis is how Mac OS and its apps implement retina support. By that is meant the following: the app/OS has to interpret 4 physical pixels as 1 logical OS pixel, by that rendering normal sized and very nice crispy images and text. They both do not scale correctly and, most important - dynamically, retina resolution (or any other high resolution). The problem is with the RDP-Client and also with the Windows OS running within the RDP session (if that is not version 8.1).
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