Nah, unfortunately I still got the same issues, albeit maybe not that often as before...
Hi Sebastian.
I found with my Dell's that the refresh rate (as set by windows) defaults to 59Hz, and I had blackness/dropouts quite a bit. Changing it to 60Hz has improved things a lot. Also if you haven't checked, make sure your monitor has DisplayPort 2 enabled in the settings - mine didn't out of the box.
Lastly on scaling, I've been grumpy on this since getting the SP3, but have finally found a solution I'm comfortable with via
this post . It took me a while to 'get it' as there was talk about selecting monitor sizes that distracted me. The real essence of the (partial) solution is:
- Create a custom resolution for the SP3 screen -1440x960 works for me.
This way the display driver does the scaling, and Windows is less aware of the true DPI so doesn't do as much of the stuff that annoys me.
- Select this custom res when docked, and the native when undocked.
Windows seems to remember the settings for each.
Once set up I have native resolution on my external monitors (which is where I'm doing the real work), but can view something else on the SP3 without everything going crazy small.
It's far from perfect, I usually need a logout/in to settle after docking. And some days the only answer is to totally power off the dock and monitors.
Maybe W10 will save us all.