diff --git a/GSR/GSR.cs b/GSR/GSR.cs
index f3dabcf..4dda055 100644
--- a/GSR/GSR.cs
+++ b/GSR/GSR.cs
@@ -359,26 +359,29 @@ public int MainLoop()
 
 			_mainWindow.NewFrame();
 
-			var statusBarHeight = 0f;
+			_imGuiMenuBar.RunMenuBar();
+			// position of the emu window is below the menu bar
+			var barHeight = ImGui.GetFrameHeight();
+
+			var statusBarHeight = 0.0f;
 			if (!_config.HideStatusBar)
 			{
 				_osdManager.RunStatusBar();
-				statusBarHeight = ImGui.GetFrameHeight();
+				statusBarHeight = barHeight;
 			}
 
 			var vp = ImGui.GetMainViewport();
-			ImGui.SetNextWindowPos(vp.Pos);
-			ImGui.SetNextWindowSize(vp.Size - new Vector2(0, statusBarHeight));
+			ImGui.SetNextWindowPos(vp.Pos + new Vector2(0, barHeight));
+			ImGui.SetNextWindowSize(vp.Size - new Vector2(0, barHeight + statusBarHeight));
 
 			ImGui.PushStyleVar(ImGuiStyleVar.WindowRounding, 0);
 			ImGui.PushStyleVar(ImGuiStyleVar.WindowBorderSize, 0);
 			ImGui.PushStyleVar(ImGuiStyleVar.WindowPadding, new Vector2(0, 0));
 
-			if (ImGui.Begin("GSR", ImGuiWindowFlags.NoDecoration | ImGuiWindowFlags.NoMove | ImGuiWindowFlags.MenuBar | ImGuiWindowFlags.NoBringToFrontOnFocus))
+			if (ImGui.Begin("GSR", ImGuiWindowFlags.NoDecoration | ImGuiWindowFlags.NoMove | ImGuiWindowFlags.NoBringToFrontOnFocus))
 			{
 				DrawEmu();
 				ImGui.PopStyleVar(3);
-				_imGuiMenuBar.RunMenuBar();
 				_imGuiModals.RunModals();
 			}
 			else
diff --git a/GSR/Gui/ImGuiMenuBar.cs b/GSR/Gui/ImGuiMenuBar.cs
index abbf3ba..1448053 100644
--- a/GSR/Gui/ImGuiMenuBar.cs
+++ b/GSR/Gui/ImGuiMenuBar.cs
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ internal sealed class ImGuiMenuBar(Config config, EmuManager emuManager, RomLoad
 {
 	public void RunMenuBar()
 	{
-		if (ImGui.BeginMenuBar())
+		if (ImGui.BeginMainMenuBar())
 		{
 			if (ImGui.BeginMenu("File"))
 			{
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ public void RunMenuBar()
 				ImGui.EndMenu();
 			}
 
-			ImGui.EndMenuBar();
+			ImGui.EndMainMenuBar();
 		}
 	}
 }
diff --git a/GSR/Gui/ImGuiWindow.cs b/GSR/Gui/ImGuiWindow.cs
index 798992f..f0b929e 100644
--- a/GSR/Gui/ImGuiWindow.cs
+++ b/GSR/Gui/ImGuiWindow.cs
@@ -554,6 +554,10 @@ public ImGuiWindow(string windowName, Config config, bool isMainWindow)
 			// this doesn't matter too much in dark mode
 			// but without a border light mode is terrible
 			style.FrameBorderSize = 1;
+
+			// this must be done in order to scaling to properly take effect for e.g. GetFrameHeight() calls
+			ImGui.NewFrame();
+			ImGui.EndFrame();
 		}
 		catch
 		{
@@ -922,20 +926,11 @@ public void NewFrame()
 				SetFont(dpiScale);
 				_dpiScale = dpiScale;
 
-				// can't use SetWindowSize, ImGui.GetFrameHeight() is not up to date
-				if (!_isFullscreen)
-				{
-					var newWidth = _lastWidth * _lastScale;
-					var newHeight = _lastHeight * _lastScale;
-					// nasty hack to account for ImGui.GetFrameHeight() not being up to date
-					var frameHeight = io.Fonts.Fonts[0].FontSize + ImGui.GetStyle().FramePadding.Y * 2.0f;
-					newHeight += (int)(frameHeight * _lastBars);
-					SdlRenderer.GetRendererOutputSize(out var lastDisplayW, out var lastDisplayH);
-					SDL_GetWindowSize(SdlWindow, out var lastWindowWidth, out var lastWindowHeight);
-					newWidth = newWidth * lastWindowWidth / lastDisplayW;
-					newHeight = newHeight * lastWindowHeight / lastDisplayH;
-					SDL_SetWindowSize(SdlWindow, newWidth, newHeight);
-				}
+				// get ImGui.GetFrameHeight() up to date (important for SetWindowSize)
+				ImGui.NewFrame();
+				ImGui.EndFrame();
+
+				SetWindowSize(_lastWidth, _lastHeight, _lastScale, _lastBars);
 			}
 		}