As title says, the latest update ruined the graphic interface to where it’s impossible to get things done because the screens are out of whack with the resolution on my PC, so only a portion of the window fits in the interface, hard to explain but look at the picture below, it happens way too often whenever there is an update, please fix! And get your act together Avast!
Think about it. The OS is agnostic to the physical dimensions of a screen. It doesn’t matter if pixels are small and highly compressed, or bigger and less densly packed.
The ‘size’ of the pixel array does not change. Just its presentation in the form of a monitor screen.
UHD = 3840 x 2160, no matter how big or small the actual screen is in cm or inches.
That’s also exactly why scaling is a thing: text and even UI elements can become unreadable and unusable if viewed at native resolution if the screen is small. At the same it will be very crisp and sharp. So you can scale up and render everything bigger, but retain the crispness. You’re just using more pixels per letter or UI element. It negates the need for subpixel rendering i.e. ClearType et al.
I’m not entirely sure about that there are some very small monitors/laptops with very high resolutions Ultra HD+, unfortunately I haven’t got one to test.
Many HP XPS Ultra HD+ laptops in this range:
16.3-in. touch display Ultra HD+ (3840X2400) OLED
13.4-in. display Ultra HD+ (3840X2400)
This sounds like good news. However as I understand it, it is an issue that has come and gone before. Let’s hope a more permanent fix can be implemented. High res displays, and thus scaling, are becoming more common by the day.
Hi, sorry for the inconvenience! Thanks a lot for reporting this scaling issue. Our team is already looking into it, and we’ll work to get it fixed as soon as possible.
Yeah I understand why you would. I opted to brute force it haha.
Great job reproducing and documenting! I hope (and assume) the Avast devs monitor this forum, and will take care of it ;)
I have my doubts if they actually look at it, until they get prodded to do so. It seems to be a long standing issue. I hope for your sake they one day decide to care enough to fix it. In the years I’ve been using Avast I’ve seen numerous issues come and go, only to regress back into a new release. So honestly all I can do is steer them in the right direction by doing some of the work for them, and wishing you good luck.
That unfortunately is the problem of the Avast Fixed size UI (yet the text within it seems to conform with the Windows browser/OS zoom levels), something that really needs to be addressed by Avast, in these days of large screen and or very high resolutions.
Nope. I just did my testing on the fly. Changes take effect immediately and so does reversing them. Except Avast needs a kick in the pants to redraw its main window by forcing a refresh.
OK I can replicate the problem, and it seems to be a scaling issue indeed.
Avast build: 24.8.9372 (build 24.8.9372.871)
Windows 11 22H2 Enterprise 22621.4169
Display: 42" UHD OLED 3840x2160 @ 120 Hz
I set my scaling from 100% to 150% and this was the resulting Avast window.
Setting scaling back to 100% kept the Avast window like this, until I minimized and un-minimized the window by clicking on the Avast taskbar ‘button’ (because the top right side buttons were missing due to said scaling issue).
Upon coming back up again it had returned to normal. Basically I forced a refresh of the window. Closing and re-opening has the same effect.
So it seems Avast doesn’t always handle scaling correctly, and currently it is messed up.