Text looks pixelated when viewing on external display on MacBook Air M1

[Withers99]

I recently purchased a new MacBook Air M1, this is my first Apple device so I am still figuring some things out. I connected it to my BenQ 1080p 24 inch external monitor for the first time today, initially I noticed that the text was too small. So I went into the display settings and changed the resolution, this made the text and interface a nice size. But the menu bar and smaller text (such as the address bar in Vivaldi or the search in spotlight), is pixelated and hard to read. The text is the right size, but so pixelated it's basically impossible to read.


I am running macOS Tahoe, the MacBook updated a few days ago, I have only ever used Tahoe, so I don't know if this happened on previous versions.


I have read some articles about this, and have installed and tried Better Display, but I couldn't seem to get it to work, I aren't sure if I am doing something wrong, but some guidance or an alternative method would be much appreciated.


Many thanks in advance to anyone who helps.

 

[Withers99]

Hi there,
I was doing some more playing around in Better Display today, and I thought I would try adding a virtual display. I am pleased to say that buy adding a virtual display, mirrored to my BenQ, I seem to have been able to resolve this issue.

I aren't sure why, but using the virtual display, seems to enable the MacOS scaling options that are available for only Apple displays, which doesn't cause the pixelation.

 

[Satcomer]

That's because some of Displays are made for only Windows users! The better display just has a finer tuning to displays! Thus happens because abuse Apple has stricter things for Apple Users for own displays they sell because they 6k displays that is why on YouTube Macs being great looking on 6k displays!