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[Sir Knight]

Here's another question.  If you're following that thread at all (where I'm using REXPaint), you may have seen the discussion starting here:

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=162868.msg7442147#msg7442147

I'm finding that my super-duper-high-resolution new computer does horrible things when upscaling exported .png images to be visible online or in the operating system's image previewer.  This seems to be a common complaint online.

However, if you'll look here:

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=162868.msg7443575#msg7443575

You'll see my conclusion that "REXPaint is smarter than anything else on my new computer."  Only in REXPaint do the images look good at (what I presume to be) a 2x zoom.

On an older computer, without the super-duper-high-resolution, all images look equally good in REXPaint or outside.  This suggests either that art programs in general are smarter than the rest of the computer when they need to zoom, or REXPaint in specific is doing something special to "stay with the times."

What is it doing?  And are you aware of any way I can get Chrome to upscale correctly?  Given that this is where modern computers are going with screen resolution, everybody who works with pixel art will need answers . . .

[Kyzrati]

Yeah I've worried about display trends with respect to pixel art myself... It's going to be significantly affected as pixels get smaller :/

"REXPaint is smarter than anything else on my new computer."

Fun quote

I honestly have no idea purely on the display side. Maybe yours comes with specific software you have to disable? Certainly on the OS side you need to disable High-DPI upscaling to get rid of the funky look a lot of things will take on, but notice that affects everything, more than just images appearing within programs. High-DPI is pretty stupid in my opinion--sure hi-res movies and pictures may look better, but it makes so many other things look far worse.

REXPaint behaves quite differently from most software, because it doesn't use the video card for stretching anything. Instead it renders individual pixels directly to a Windows software layer, and uses larger and larger bitmaps (provided) as there are more and more pixels available.

By comparison, your browser and OS image viewer will be using GPU scaling where necessary.