Visual Studio Community 2015 blurry on second monitor to Surface Pro 4

Question

My surface pro 4 display is 2736×1824, scaling 200%. The external monitor I plugged in on HDMI is 1920x1080, scaling 100%.

Other apps (such as Chrome) display OK on the external monitor, but Visual Studio text editor is very blurry - so blurry that my eyes kept trying to refocus and became very tired very quickly.

So I basically had to turn off the large monitor and work only on the surface's own display.

What can I do to fix it?

Answer 1

This worked for me: ensure that your high resolution display is not your primary. Set one of your other / Full HD displays as primary, and reboot -- the reboot is unfortunately required.

Answer 2

Try to set the scale of 'text apps and other items' to 100% for all of your monitors. Open 'Settings' of windows 10 and go to the 'Display' and find 'Change the size of text, apps, and other items:' to set its scale to 100%. Yes it can make you hard to read text on your high resolution (but small in physical size) monitor. So, it's your choice as