REVIT 2026 - GUI does not scale on larger screens, command icon soft and fuzzy

[greg_benson-shettle]

REVIT 2026 - GUI does not scale on larger screens, command icon soft and fuzzy. Anyone noticed this, it appears fine on smaller screen, e.g. 15" laptop but on 24" all the icon are dull and soft, I can imagine it is worse on larger screen.

[HVAC-Novice]

What scale and resolution? Screenshot of the issue? 

[ian.mag]

Experiencing almost the same issue. I'm using override high DPI settings set to application, but still the dark margins around the project browser and the properties are still visible when displayed on my extended monitor

[HVAC-Novice]

Is the black box around project browser what your complaint is about? What hardware? Drivers updated? What Revit version specifically? R2026.2 just came out

I'm running it on two 4K monitors at 100% scale and have done so for many years without problem also on older hardware. 

How did older versions work? 

[ian.mag]

Hi @HVAC-Novice 

Revit Version

My display and video drivers are up to date. I updated the Revit to R2026.2.

Scaling settings

See my monitor scale settings in this snapshot. 

Setting the scale to 100% makes text unreadable. Clearly too high for the monitor I use, so 150% works fine.

Compatibility settings

See my compatitbility setings in the snapshot as well.

Project browser and Properties 

1. When I open Revit on my laptop screen everything is ok, and scaling is perfect; all text is clear and works very well. Once I drage the Revit window to the 4K monitor screen, the properties window scales properly, but on the other hand the project browser doesn't scale well.
2. If I terminate the Revit window on the 4K monitor, then launch it again, I now get black margin around the properties and the project browser, but when I drag it back to the laptop screen close the window, then launch it; I have to drag it to the 4K monitor then scenario (1 above) occurs. 

NB: My work around to the black margin has been to always launch Revit on my laptop and drag the window to the monitor once I've opened a project (even thought the project browser doesn't scale well as compared to the properties) and draging back to the PC  screen before exiting Revit (just so that it lauches on my PC screen), then repeating this whenever I want to use Revit. Pretty annoying but it's a work around. Revit 2022 used to work fine, setting "high DPI scaling override to application"

Hardware

Mylaptop is Lenovo P14s and my monitor is Lenovo P32-p20

I hope this information will better explain the situation I'm faced with right now. Will appreciate your help on this. Thanks.

[HVAC-Novice]

Looks like your monitor is 32". that's small for 4K. My 4K monitors are 43" and work fine. i can see how 4K 100% on 32"will be too small. 

Googling tells me your laptop has the "NVIDIA® Quadro® P520 2GB"? is that correct? Uh, uff, ahhg... that isn't powerful at all and you will need 8+GB VRAM

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadp/thinkpad-p14s/22wsp14p4s1?srsltid=AfmBOorr...

And only 8GB RAM? Is that true? Maybe list the complete specification. If the link is correct, this definitely won't work for Revit in any meaningful way. 

[ian.mag]

Hello @HVAC-Novice 

Thanks for looking into this, but I think you may have seen a different variation. Mine actually came with 16GM of RAM, plus did some hardware upgrade as well.

Anyways, I actually found a solution to this whole issue! The secret is just making your second screen (monitor in this case), the primary diaplay! Resolves everything, and works great with 150% scaling.