Had an interesting experience today installing MMS 2024 on my hand-me-down 1920x1080 laptop, which had a brand new install of Win 11 on it. Basically, all the Magix content during and after the install was a confusing mess because a lot of it was off the screen. I was gobsmacked at how bad things were, and how hard it was to get the workspace sorted out into the normal layout. I wondered how on earth people on a 1920x1080 screen got on trying to work out what they were looking at.
A couple of examples follow:
This is what the program looks like after installation is complete. Menu? Hidden behind the Preview monitor. Drag that out of the way, and use Window>Reset Window Arrangement or Standard: no change. Nothing I could do would get timeline/storyboard area to show (it was all below the bottom of the screen). F9? That opened some function of the computer. I had to use Function F9.
Program did it's update (179>192). This is the screen after:
Yes, the close button is below the screen, out of sight. Nor can you drag the dialogue up to expose it. Only by hovering on the taskbar icon could see the Close button was there:
So just I closed the whole program and the update ran.
I restarted the program, same problem with getting things arranged.
Then I remembered about the screen magnification/scale. I checked the Desktop>Display Settings and found the Scale was on 150% (it defaulted to this on the install of Win11-and is the Microsoft Recommended setting). I dropped that to 100% (now very hard to read any text labels on the screen) and the Magix workspace finally appeared in bits and pieces, and resetting the window arrangement basically worked. I still had to drag the timeline/storyboard area boundary up a lot.
I found I could set the Scale to 125% to achieve a still workable Magix workspace, albeit with quite small text.
You may notice the slightly non-standard task bar. I have Explorer Patcher installed, but I don't think that is affecting the scale problem.
The above info may be helpful when troubleshooting problems from rookie users.
I'll be submitting this to Support. The whole saga was really very very messy.
Oh, and since I haven't yet set up a second virtual drive, I had a play around with some files in a folder on the desktop. Do you think "Desktop" is anywhere to be found at a top level in the media pool? Nope. It's buried 3 layers down in the C Drive.