Windows 10: Blurry text

I had a problems to run the extended monitor with 100% and cant find DPI scaling from the Outlook 2016 (O 365).
So i made the external monitor as my main (HP E271i) and BOOM, no more fuzzywuzzy.

So if you dont wanna mess up with the 100-125-150% text size stuff, you can always swap the main display from the options.

 

*** Apparently this is a repeat of an earlier post. Reputation added to the dude. Name's confusing, but it's there, and it worked for me... Might as well be at the end of the list as well :\ too many pages to wade through...

I was able to resolve this on my machine. Instead of using the slider in the display properties, there's a buried hyperlink a couple clicks past that page. I'm not sure why it works... It's allowing you to custom scale the DPI and should effectively be the same thing... But it works.

Hopefully it does for you as well.

1. Right Click on the Desktop, select 'Display Settings'
2. Scroll down, select 'Advanced display settings'
3. Scroll down, select 'Advanced sizing of text and other items'
4. Within the paragraph under 'Change size of items', click the third hyperlink that says 'set a custom scaling level'
5. Type '120' in the drop down box and wait for the system to tag it with the '%' sign
6. Click 'Ok', in the next window 'Apply', and then choose to sign out
7. When you log back in, navigate back to the setting by repeating steps 1-4
8. Type '125' in the drop down box and wait for the system to tag it with the '%' sign
9. Click 'Ok', in the next window 'Apply', and then choose to sign out

When you log back in it should be fine, but the slider will no longer work... You have to disable custom DPI scaling for that slider to work *sarc but whatever. Leave it and hopefully you're good.

NOTE: these steps are what I did... You may be able to get away with not using steps 5, 6, and 7. Good luck!

EDITS: Typos and such

 

What works for me - Office 2016 - restart the office and until changing monitors again it remains OK. So not needed to log out, but the win 10 is very problematic with that. I think I will change to 100% ont both to solve this?. Better small than blurry. I dont know what is better. In my situation I never use both monitors at one time, but I simply switch from notebook to external when connected. And this makes some programs blurred.

 

It seems i have also this problem with my new samsung 4k TV.
My other computer that is also connected (hdmi) to this TV is just fine, like it always whas.
Both are 1920-1080 resolution.
But my older PC has grainy or blurry text with a white hase to it, i can see that the pixels of the fonts are distorted, like they where converted from 7 by 7 pixels to 10 by 10 pixels, some pixels end up in a place where they dont belong, the resolution seems to low.
I had also connected a 4k graphic card but then it gets really worse, its not readeble anymore.
I found out on the asus site that the motherboard has compatebility problems for 4k, it must be a Intel Core 4th ~ 6th generation platform (Skylake) or higher motherboard.
But i have a AMD chipset, so it wont work.
My other computer is a HP with a xeon processor by the way.
I think that this problem is a conflict between windows and some hardware, like AMD chipsets.
It cant be solved.
My PC whas just fine with my with my older 55inch HD TV by the way, but this whas with a VGA connection.
Only the HDMI sucks, so.........
I will buy a VGA to HDMI converter and it must be solved in my opinion.

 

Ive tried all kinds of resolutions today but still the probleems seems to be inside windows itself, with my amd chipset 32 bit asus system, the other 64bit intel chipset is just fine.
But i found out that in a lower resolution it seems some better, its less pixelised, but thats logical.
I discoverd that when you do the colour adjustment and the cleartype function on a lower resolution it has results on the higher resolution as well.(in a different way)
When i switched back to 1080 the fonts where more crisp, still to pixelised but the white hase or echo whas gone.
Maybe this works with others as well *Wink

 

I have my VGA converter recieved today and i connected it, but it seems that the problem is still the same.
So the output is the same as with hdmi.
It keeps a problem in windows with my motherboard with the AMD chipset.
My other computer has a normal image, its not pixelised, its a normal smooth image.
Also pictures and movies are pixelised by the way.
But anyway i had to buy this converter, my hdmi has a other problem too, after some time the colours shifted into a green echo on the screem.
That must be gone now, otherwise i must use a lower resolution on a other sort of hdmi input and then all colours are disterted too.
I hoped my posts helped for some.

 

Hello,
After two weeks of desperately trying to fix the blurry font issue on my Dell laptop, a friend shared the Advanced Display Setting fix with me, and it worked!
Unfortunately, my employer's ITS needed to reinstall Windows 10 Enterprise on my machine, and the Advanced Display Settings is now gone. Changing just the custom scaling does not improve things. At every attempt, things get blurrier.
I would be so grateful if you could offer any suggestions on how to fix the issue.
Thank you!

 

I also discovered that this is an issue of the sharpness setting of the display, (only 4K displays) if the setting is to scharp it will get blurry with a 1920 1080 input.
Just because it cant handle a low resolution because of upscaling or something (with 4K TV's)
If you lower the scharpness things will get normal again.

 

I fixed my issue. I changed the video cable. Now it is perfectly crisp.