Is it possible to lower the resolution of the scene window?

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Hi,

I am very new to Unity. I am using a 4k monitor and would like to lower the resolution in the scene window. Is there a way to do this other than lowering the resolution of my screen before starting unity? I see options to change the resolution for the game window (although I am not sure if this even works) but nothing for the scene window.

Thank you!

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AFAIK there’s no way to reduce the resolution of the Scene view, no. Certainly an interesting thing to request, especially as high resolution displays continue to be more common and less expensive, but GPUs that can actually drive them are getting significantly more expensive and harder to get. Unity added options for scaling the UI to support high resolution screens, but they didn’t add anything to scale the resolution scene view or other real time previews.

The only thing you can really do without changing the screen resolution is scale the scene view are smaller by adjusting the window sizes.

The resolution setting for the Game view does work though. If you set your game view to a specific resolution and not just a specific aspect ratio, that is the resolution it will render at.

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I poked someone over at Unity about this. The request is one they’ve heard brought up before, and certainly talked about internally, but they weren’t sure if it was something anyone was working on yet. So, the short answer is it’s something that they’re aware of and will probably get added, but not something you’d want to wait on since even if someone was working on it right now it wouldn’t show up until Unity 2022 or 2023 (so another year or two out).

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I had this request 3 years ago. Also real time update in the scene view for image effect’s update (SSR, Volumetric lighting …)
This is a very important feature but Unity has not added it… especially when you want to render the 4K image on a lower resolutions

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Thanks!

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Is it in 2022 now possbile to lower the scene view resolution?

Having lots of problems on 4k and 5k screens, even on 16 Core GPU M1 Pro. I dont need the scene view to be in 2x retina resolution

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Quick +1 on this - an option to enable half res scene view would be awesome!

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It is three years later, 2025 now and I am on Unity 6, still not possible ???

I have a 5k screen. If I have Unity fullscreen the scene view is nearly 4k size … Even latest 2025 Nvidia RTX cards have problems rendering HDRP scenes in 4k at +60fps … I want to set it to 1440p max but I can only change it for game view not for scene view …