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TL,DR; Is there a UI zoom setting?

There seems to be a difference between the screens I design in the simulator and how they are displayed on my iEFIS panel. Specifically all the text and numbers seem a bit larger when I load my custom screens onto my EFIS so that text over-runs itself. I've searched the manuals and dug through all the settings I can find on my panel and can't find anything. Does anyone have any ideas as to why these discrepancies exist?

Apologies if this is an insulting answer..... but are you sure you’re selecting the project size that matches your unit? I.e Challenger, Oddysey etc?

Not insulting at all! I'm kinda expecting it to be something stupid like this.

That said, I have double checked I'm using the correct project size.

There can be a very small difference depending on font. In the simulator text is rendered using Windows's text functions while the EFIS does it from pre-prepared font tables.
If you find you have a large difference please check your Windows "easy read" magnification setting - make sure Windows will render fonts in original size. Windows may increase the font size but will not change the rest of the graphics so it tends to look a little odd.

I've looked the windows magnification settings, but those are disabled (fresh Windows install running the latest simulator and EFIS also recently updated). I also tried disabling display scaling in case that had an effect. Sill, I find no effect.

I can imagine that there may be small differences, but the difference seems to be rather substantial to me. Text elements on the actual EFIS appear ~150% of the size that they do in the simulator.