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March 17, 2024
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Faces are very small in Gallery View and very compressed in Speaker View

  • March 17, 2024
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When I am in a meeting, all the participants' faces look wrong -- they are either very small or compressed depending on the view -- and this is making Zoom unusable. I have searched Google, Support, the Zoom Community, and used the Zoom Chatbot and haven't found a solution to this. 

 

In Gallery View,  faces only take up the top left portion of the yellow box and are very small. They are not filling the entire yellow box, but are taking about 1/8th of the space. Faces are only about 1" wide.

 

In Speaker View, the speaker's face looks normal and takes the normal amount of space. But the other participants faces along the top of the screen are extremely compressed such that I cannot identify people. Each person's face is about 1/2" wide when it should be much wider. I have example screen shots of both scenarios, and both occur when the Zoom window is maximized or not. 

 

I am using version 5.17.11 in my Firefox browser on a desktop. I also had this issue in the version previous to 5.17.11. I don't get an error messages about this, it is just how it is. I had no issues until about mid February 2024.  I am a basic member so I cannot get personalized support. Please assist as this is making Zoom unusable. Thank you.

 

14 replies

Newcomer
May 14, 2024

I am having this same exact issue with the Zoom client, and it's May. I thought it was my computer, but now everyone seems to have this same issue. I don't know who to contact about it.

Newcomer
May 23, 2024

sign into your account. go to  My  account. choose  support dsshboard where ther is a form to request help and a real live person gets back to you!!!

 

Newcomer
May 15, 2024

I too am having this problem.  Drivers, OS and Zoom up to date. Been a problem for about 8 weeks at least.

Newcomer
May 15, 2024

I clicked on link zoom rec support in message above from zoom zoom community champion and it took me to a contact zoom form which I filled in 

alsowithin that link was info that the problem in gallery view is a bug/ virus which they are working to resolve

Too late for me. I’ve wasted hours trying to resolve it and just bought a new lap top !!!

Newcomer
May 22, 2024

This issues appears to be a driver compatibility issue with Microsoft and Zoom.   

 

I had this problem on one of our systems.   The system is running the Intel HD Graphics driver from around 2015.   I went into device manager on this system and updated the driver by telling the system to find the driver via Microsoft Updates.   The updates listed about 5 different Intel drivers and about three other drivers.   I downloaded and installed all of them.   

 

THIS FIXED THE PROBLEM!

 

I had several other systems running a different Intel HD driver that did not have any issues.   

Here are the drivers I installed today (5/22/24) that fixed the problem:

 

Intel - System - 11/2/2017 12:00:00 AM - 8.3.10207.5567 (2)

Intel(R) - HIDClass - 10/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - 1.1.1.318

Intel - System - 10/11/2015 12:00:00 AM - 2.0.0.1094

Intel Corporation - Display - 11/10/2016 12:00:00 AM - 20.19.15.4549

Intel-net 19.51.50.2

 

MediaTek Inc. - Ports - 3.0.1511.0

Dell Inc. - Monitor, Other hardware - Dell E2011H (Digital - DVI)

Acer - Display - ACER S271HL

AOC International (Europe) GmbH - Monitor - 10/29/2015 12:00:00 AM - 1.0.0.0

 

 

 

Newcomer
May 23, 2024

I have bought a new laptop and updated to widows 11 and the problem has resolved. I also found that if I sign into my zoom  account there is a tab that allowed me to contact the tech team about tec issues and they got back to me!!!! . too late for me but hopefully others could find this way in

Newcomer
June 12, 2024

I solved it choosing video rendering settings to DIRECT3D9 instead of Automatic.

Newcomer
July 16, 2024

This fixed the issue for me! I've had it for almost a year and have tried a lot of things that didn't work. Thank you for sharing!