What's the Difference Between "Maintain Display Scaling" and "Maintain Aspect Ratio" in the Intel® HD Graphics Control Panel
Content Type: Product Information & Documentation | Article ID: 000036912 | Last Reviewed: 04/15/2022
What's the difference between "Maintain Display Scaling" & "Maintain Aspect Ratio" and tried help (?) "Select the screen scaling from the list?"
The aspect ratio is the relationship of the width of a video image compared to its height (i.e. the resolution).
The scaling determines how much the screen content should be enlarged when measured in pixels. For example: scaling may be needed when trying to display a 1920 x 1080 resolution to take up the entire screen of a 4K monitor/TV to get the feeling of 4K content.
Maintain Display Scaling: This is the default scaling option.
Maintain Aspect Ratio: Select this option to let the display output match the resolution selected from the drop-down list.
| Note | For some resolutions the Scale full screen, Maintain Display Scaling, and Maintain Aspect ratio will look the same. |