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Maya UI too large on external monitor but normal size on main monitor

fATIMAANIMATION — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 23:28:40 GMT

Hi! I'm setting up an external monitor and the Maya UI looks fine on my main monitor but it looks too large on the external monitor. If I change the scaling under "preferences / interface" to "do not scale" then the UI looks fine on the external monitor but too small on the main monitor. I want to have the the main maya window on the external monitor graph editor on the main monitor, so I'd like to know if there's a way to get the right scale for the UI on both monitors.

I've also tried the suggestions on this article: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/windows-scaling-issues-for-high-dpi-devices-508483cd-7c59-0d08-12b0-960b99aa347d and I haven't been able to fix it.

Thanks in advance!

Re: Maya UI too large on external monitor but normal size on main monitor

fATIMAANIMATION — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 01:44:36 GMT

Update on this issue: I was able to fix it by right clicking the maya icon on my desktop, going to properties -> compatibility tab and clicking on "change high DPI settings" and checking "override high DPI scaling behavior" and setting it to system. However, now Maya has a glitch: every time I click on a button that is supposed to show a drop-down menu the menu doesn't show up. I know this was caused when I changed the DPI scaling settings, because if I change it back to how it was before it doesn't have that glitch

Re: Maya UI too large on external monitor but normal size on main monitor

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 04:48:51 GMT

Thank you! This was really helpful.

Re: Maya UI too large on external monitor but normal size on main monitor

jyounglovePW3ZS — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 03:07:18 GMT

So did you ever solve the issue to this glitch, because your solution solved my problem, but now the menus are glitching in scale and position.