diff --git a/OpenRA.Game/Settings.cs b/OpenRA.Game/Settings.cs
index b46c7ce312..aebeee4707 100644
--- a/OpenRA.Game/Settings.cs
+++ b/OpenRA.Game/Settings.cs
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ namespace OpenRA
 		public int MaxFramerate = 60;
 
 		[Desc("Disable high resolution DPI scaling on Windows operating systems.")]
-		public bool DisableWindowsDPIScaling = false;
+		public bool DisableWindowsDPIScaling = true;
 
 		public int BatchSize = 8192;
 		public int SheetSize = 2048;