This Amazing Solution Enables MacOS HiDPI with Any Screen Resolutions

A solution to make your external monitor display any HiDPI resolutions

Andrew Zhu
2 min readOct 30, 2024

I purchased the SAMSUNG 34-inch Odyssey G85SB Series QD-OLED Ultra WQHD Curved Monitor some days ago. This is a 3440x1440 OLED monitor and works great with Windows 11.

The HiDPI resolution problem

When connected to MacOS, I can choose two types of HiDPI resolutions, one 3440x1440 and another 1720x720.

I can choose only one additional 1720x720 HiDPI resolution

The default 3440x1440 displays small text and is a little bit blurry. The 1720x720 display text way too large.

I tried to set the resolution as 2560x1440. In Windows, I can set the scale to 1.5, and works well. However, in MacOS, tried on both Macbook Air M1 and Macbook Pro M3 max, no matter what I do, I can only select one additional HiDPI resolution: 1720x720.

A solution to enable any HiDPI resolution

After lots of trials and test, I found a solution that perfectly solve the problem for FREE. Here are the step by step solution.

Step 1. Run this script in Terminal

bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xzhih/one-key-hidpi/master/hidpi.sh)"

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Andrew Zhu
Andrew Zhu

Written by Andrew Zhu

Working on AI stuffs | a HF Diffusers contributor | a ex-Data Scientist@MS | His LinkedIn is www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-zhu-23407223/

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