What's a plugin width and height that might look OK on a vast majority of screen setups?

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When thinking of a plugin’s height and width, is it a good idea to offer a “regular” GUI size, and a “large” GUI size.
Or, can you decide upon one height and width that should look OK on a vast majority of screen setups?

I’m guessing 4k is a high screen resolution we can expect (3840x2160).
And a low one, for example on a laptop, we could expect might be 1920x1080.

At present my plugin dimensions are w=1078 x h=493 px.

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We have two sets of bitmaps, with one set for HiDPI that is 2x the size of the non-HiDPI bitmaps, and use those whenever the scaling factor is >= 1.5. Don’t know if that’s the best solution, but it works (for all our plugins).

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I’m recently looking into the same issue as @Ian-SAfc but I’m worried about the Windows platform where the default renderer does all the scaling in software.
Are you targeting Windows? How’s the scaling performance there, in your experience?

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No problems I am aware of. Studio One had some issues, but they fixed them in a recent build.

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