Visual/Graphics looks sluggish

[Tech Wizard]

Hello,

 

I'm using an MSI Laptop, and removed a lot of bloatware yesterday. The visuals/graphics looks bad, almost "cartoonish" as in not readable. On windows it's fine, but on 3rd party softwares like Steam & Afterburner for example, the text looks as described. What could be causing this? I've chosen best appearance in settings.

 

Edit: It doesn't look bad on printscreens, only for my eyes it seems.

 

 

[Tabs]

It's probably because the display is high resolution and the application is being upscaled to look readable on high resolution/small displays. I have a 27" 4K monitor and I have to run Windows in 150% scaling mode, which is the default for my configuration.

 

You have a few options here.

 

You can set scaling to 100% - which will make everything *absolutely freaking tiny* on your display, but guarantees that programs are going to be displayed pixel perfect.

 

You can try to force "System Enhanced" scaling on a program-by-program basis - it works well on some things, but not on others - Steam for example responds quite well to it, except the web-based pages like store and community pages then start being displayed in 100% regardless of scaling - which usually makes them unusable. To do this, right click on the application exe, go to properties > compatibility tab, and change "Override High DPI Scaling" to System or System Enhanced. The Enhanced option is only available with Windows 10 1709+.

 

The reason for this is that some programs - especially those that render their own UI instead of using windows standard API's for rendering - cannot be upscaled properly without stretching of the actual whole window bitmap, which unfortunately causes blurring.

[Tech Wizard]

17 minutes ago, Tabs said:

It's probably because the display is high resolution and the application is being upscaled to look readable on high resolution/small displays. I have a 27" 4K monitor and I have to run Windows in 150% scaling mode, which is the default for my configuration.

 

You have a few options here.

 

You can set scaling to 100% - which will make everything *absolutely freaking tiny* on your display, but guarantees that programs are going to be displayed pixel perfect.

 

You can try to force "System Enhanced" scaling on a program-by-program basis - it works well on some things, but not on others - Steam for example responds quite well to it, except the web-based pages like store and community pages then start being displayed in 100% regardless of scaling - which usually makes them unusable. To do this, right click on the application exe, go to properties > compatibility tab, and change "Override High DPI Scaling" to System or System Enhanced. The Enhanced option is only available with Windows 10 1709+.

 

The reason for this is that some programs - especially those that render their own UI instead of using windows standard API's for rendering - cannot be upscaled properly without stretching of the actual whole window bitmap, which unfortunately causes blurring.

It's an MSI GL62M 15.6". Resolution is set at 1080p. How can I change the scaling? Using both iGPU + GTX 1050 (for 3D applications).

[Tabs]

Right click on your desktop and select "Display Settings", then change the scaling dropdown. I didn't realise you were using 1080p, so it's possible Windows has detected it automatically and set it to 125% or even 150%, which seems too high for that monitor anyway.

 

 

 

 

If scaling is 100% it could be an issue with the display perhaps? As you mentioned, the screenshots you posted look fine here so the actual image being sent to your display is okay.

[genexis_x]

8 hours ago, Tech Wizard said:

GL62M

It has a terrible display