Windows 10: Blurry text in applications on windows 10

Event viewer on my Dell is slightly soft looking. I wonder how many see it like that ? The top line is super sharp (as a reference) and the others are not.

 

Hi there

Have you tried changing any of the HARDWARE controls (from the monitor's OWN menu --independent of Windows / Linux etc).
You'll probably have to use the Monitors handset to get all the options.

I usually find when fixing problems like this for other people that they usually have GAMMA too high, contrast incorrectly set, picture size incorrect, sharpening set too high and a whole slew of other adjustments.

First thing to do is to "Autosize" your picture if the menu allows that. Then there's often - at least on decent monitors - a whole slew of picture / image options.

Go through them and you'll probably be amazed at the difference.

Windows itself is perfectly capable of displaying Ultra crisp Ultra 4K UHD pictures on the appropriate hardware. Of course if your graphics card isn't man enough for the job then all bets are off - but even relatively cheap graphics cards are 4K capable.

After watching a 4K movie - looking at a bog standard TV transmission (usually 720p or 10801) again on a standard TV - even a decent one - is a disappointing experience !!!!!.

Cheers
jimbo

 

My monitor is perfectly calibrated for photo editing!

 

Hi there

Still Photo editing is slightly different from "Video" -- Windows itself is absolutely capable of decent rendering. Perhaps refresh rates etc are not optimal.

I use Photoshop a lot and do prepare large images for professional publication at times -- up to A2 size in good quality so I've done this type of stuff before.

I'm sure it's not a Windows software problem.

Maybe choice of fonts, incorrect DPI or a whole slew of other stuff.

As an interesting exercise try and boot say a stand alone Linux LIVE CD or a WINPE macrium restore program. Does the video look "acceptable" on those.

Cheers
jimbo

 

The "disable display scaling on high DPI settings" isn't a certain fix for me and I don't know why. Once I check it for utorrent or iTunes. It works perfectly but after restarting my laptop it goes back to normal and being blurry. Is all of this Becoz of Windows 10? And is there a proper fix. Thanks

 

Try disabling for all users. It worked with iTunes for me.

 

When you say it goes back to normal, do you mean the tick box had unchecked itself ?

 

Yes Mooly. Some how it goes back to being unchecked

 

I've never encountered anything like that.

Can only guess at things... are you altering the setting when logged in as an administrator and not just using a standard account ?

If you look in the program files and locate the program of interest you should be able to see the executable file. This shows the executable file for the example I showed earlier (LTspice). You can get to the tickbox from here in the same way. See if altering it this way lets it stick.

 

thanks mooly I shall try that. I've also tried ticking it and making it ticked for all users. I'm going to see if that works

 

Lots of people. Everyone with hDPI screen I expect. MS fixed it a few months ago on insider builds (at least for me). Hopefully this fix will make it into the Anniversary update in July.

Anyway this fixed it for me perfectly in the past...

Make a .bat file like this changing the LogPixels value to whatever hex value is applicable to the scaling you want and save it somewhere Code: GOTO EndComment DPI--->Scale Factor 96(x60)--->100% 120(x78)--->125% 144(x90)--->150% ** Current** 192(xC0)--->200% Every 25% of the scale factor corresponds to a difference of 24 dpi (120-96) :EndComment REG ADD "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v DpiScalingVer /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00001018 /f REG ADD "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v Win8DpiScaling /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000001 /f REG ADD "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v LogPixels /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000090n /f[/quote] Then schedule it to run when the computer starts with task scheduler (Task Scheduler - Create New Task - Windows 7 Help Forums)

Idea taken from here... Solved Blurry text - Page 4 - Windows 10 Forums

 

Thanks for the solution but I'll wait for the MS fix if it's due soon.

 

As above (thanks *Smile)

I think I'll sit it out too. Tbh it hadn't really bothered me in event viewer, it was just seeing it get mentioned that prompted me to see if it was a little soft looking.