Text looks a bit odd...

[g12601]

If you are going to quote the post, quote this.

First off I'm not sure if this is in the correct spot.

Now on to the problem. Before I upgraded to Windows 10 from 8.1 text looked normal on all the things.

Now it looks like this.

(The bottom light blue area is the part) 

 

I don't understand why it looks like that.

It's also like that in MSI Afterburner and in some other applications.

[UL_42L]

Text scaling options, perhaps?

[g12601]

1 minute ago, UL_42L said:

Text scaling options, perhaps?

 

What does that mean, can it be found in the settings?

 

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It looks like scaling to me.  Interfaces that use a lot of images or aren't quite up to the right modern techniques don't scale properly and so they show up (best case) just a stretched version of a low res render, and worst case, text gets so messed up you can't even read it

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1 minute ago, g12601 said:

 

What does that mean, can it be found in the settings?

 

Yeah. Just search "scaling" in the start menu

[dany_J92]

Try recalibrating clear type

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Hit the windows key, type 'cleartyp'e and select adjust cleartype text.

 

Hope this helps!

[UL_42L]

2 minutes ago, g12601 said:

 

What does that mean, can it be found in the settings?

 

In Windows 10, right-click on the desktop and click Display Settings. You will see a slider for text scaling.

[g12601]

3 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Yeah. Just search "scaling" in the start menu

 

2 minutes ago, UL_42L said:

In Windows 10, right-click on the desktop and click Display Settings. You will see a slider for text scaling.

 

Yeah, OK, my scaling is at 125% and if I go lower or higher it is worse. So, my guess is that i'm stuck with this problem.

[UL_42L]

1 minute ago, g12601 said:

 

 

Yeah, OK, my scaling is at 125% and if I go lower or higher it is worse. So, my guess is that i'm stuck with this problem.

Are you running your monitor at its native resolution? That is, the resolution the monitor is designed to show.

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1 minute ago, g12601 said:

 

 

Yeah, OK, my scaling is at 125% and if I go lower or higher it is worse. So, my guess is that i'm stuck with this problem.

at 100% the problem should disappear.  Note that you may have to log off and back on for it to take affect

[UL_42L]

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

at 100% the problem should disappear.  Note that you may have to log off and back on for it to take affect

I agree with this. Try relogging.

[g12601]

7 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

at 100% the problem should disappear.  Note that you may have to log off and back on for it to take affect

 

6 minutes ago, UL_42L said:

I agree with this. Try relogging.

Well that worked!

It does not look like crap any more, thanks for all the help.

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2 minutes ago, g12601 said:

 

Well that worked!

It does not look like crap any more, thanks for all the help.

Well actually... 

I assume you took this from a different display than the first screenshot?  That or cleartype got messed up because it seems to be set for a sub-pixel layout different than horizontal RGB

[UL_42L]

3 minutes ago, g12601 said:

 

Well that worked!

It does not look like crap any more, thanks for all the help.

Spoiler

 

[g12601]

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Well actually... 

I assume you took this from a different display than the first screenshot?  That or cleartype got messed up because it seems to be set for a sub-pixel layout different than horizontal RGB

No, it's the same display. And the second part, you lost me at sub-pixel...

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3 minutes ago, g12601 said:

No, it's the same display. And the second part, you lost me at sub-pixel...

OK let me explain that bit  

 

You know that each pixel is made up of 3 parts - a red, green, and blue bit, or "sub-pixel", right?  Now, to anti-alias text, systems like cleartype will take advantage of this to simulate resolutions higher than that of your actual display.  For example, because the RGB in most displays is aligned in vertical bars in that order.  So, consider black text on a white background.  By making a pixel to the right of a black one cyan (ie, turning off the red) this will create a black stripe along the right edge of that black pixel, but with a width of only 1/3 that of a full pixel.  This is why you will typically see blue fringing on the right of text and red fringing on the left of text when zoomed in.

 

but not all displays arrange the sub-pixels like that.  You can imagine that if you took an image designed for one type of layout and displayed it on another, this fringing, instead of smoothing the text, would stand out as weird colour "jaggies", and that is how the image above appears to me on my ordinary RGB display.

[GoodBytes]

This is not a ClearType problem.

 

The problem is that the software you pointed to aren't high-DPI aware. So if Windows sets a larger scaling factor for your monitor (it auto detects what should be best, or you can define it under Start > Settings > System > Display > First slider you see)

 

What it means, is that the software doesn't get the user DPI scaling (or scaling factor if you want to call it that), so Windows takes the program, and scales it like a picture larger, so because it does that, it looks blurry.

There is a way to fix this, somewhat on the unsupported applications. You right-click on the program shortcuts or exe file for each affected program, and select Properties.

On that panel, go under Compatibility tab, and inside you'll have the option "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings". If you check it, the next time you run that program, Windows will do either do the following:

• Inject code to the program to force larger text, and make elements that it can detect larger. Note: This only works for software made with a Microsoft GUI framework (Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation and Microsoft Foundation Class).
   
• Do nothing. No scaling, no injection. Program will be small as if your DPI of your display was set to 100%. It does this when it can't force larger text and elements. This usually applies to programs not made with a Microsoft GUI framework, but rather with a third party one or in-house one.

 

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2 minutes ago, GoodBytes said:

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We solved the scaling issue with afterburner, etc. already.  I was talking (in the last few posts) about the steam logon dialog - notice how the text has that weird colour fringing.  I'm almost certain that that is a cleartype issue.