Power BI Desktop February 2023 DPI Scaling Problem

Since updating to this month's new Power BI Desktop release, the UI appears to be using my secondary display's DPI scaling upon launching a pbix file. The UI is blurry and zoomed in until I resize th...

Data Modeling

Reports

victorar

Microsoft Employee

3 years ago

1. Type "Environment" in the Windows Search bar and it should show "Edit system environment variables".

2. Open the dialog and click on [Environment Variables] button... Then in the Environment variables dialog click on the [New...] button in the User variables section and enter
Variable name: PBI_PerMonitorDpiAware
Variable value: 0

3. Apply & close all the Environment variables dialog

Alternatevely, go to Windows Settings > Accessibility > Text size and reset the Text size to 100%

Either way after setting the Environment variable or Text size settings you'll need to restart the PowerBIDesktop application

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