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Blurry screen fonts
Over the weekend I switched from an older Optiplex G150 running Win2k
with a low-profile nVidia Riva graphics card, to a NEW Optiplex XE running Win7 Pro and integrated Intel video chipset. The fonts are awfully blurry both in ClearType mode and with it disabled. The fixed-pitch characters aren't too bad but the TTFonts (variable-pitch) are crap. What's causing this? and what can be done remedy? The SyncMaster 931BF running at 1280x1024 has looked superb for years, and now it's really fatiguing. -Ed |
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Over the weekend I switched from an older Optiplex G150 running Win2k with a low-profile nVidia Riva graphics card, to a NEW Optiplex XE running Win7 Pro and integrated Intel video chipset. The fonts are awfully blurry both in ClearType mode and with it disabled. The fixed-pitch characters aren't too bad but the TTFonts (variable-pitch) are crap. What's causing this? and what can be done remedy? The SyncMaster 931BF running at 1280x1024 has looked superb for years, and now it's really fatiguing. -Ed http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=333998 "Adjust the appearance and performance of Windows Uncheck Smooth edges of screen fonts" For contrast, to determine whether this is hardware related in some way, you can also boot a Linux LiveCD and see whether text is sharp there or not. If the text happens to be sharper, then it's a software issue of some sort. If both OSes are blurry, try a video card. There is mention here, of an available HD 4550. Depending on how the machine was configured, it may have more than one video output. You might be able to test and compare VGA and DVI-D on the monitor. http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/optiplex-xe/pd Just a guess, Paul |
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On Mon, 16 May 2011 23:50:27 -0400, Paul wrote:
wrote: Over the weekend I switched from an older Optiplex G150 running Win2k with a low-profile nVidia Riva graphics card, to a NEW Optiplex XE running Win7 Pro and integrated Intel video chipset. The fonts are awfully blurry both in ClearType mode and with it disabled. The fixed-pitch characters aren't too bad but the TTFonts (variable-pitch) are crap. What's causing this? and what can be done remedy? The SyncMaster 931BF running at 1280x1024 has looked superb for years, and now it's really fatiguing. http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=333998 "Adjust the appearance and performance of Windows Uncheck Smooth edges of screen fonts" For contrast, to determine whether this is hardware related in some way, you can also boot a Linux LiveCD and see whether text is sharp there or not. If the text happens to be sharper, then it's a software issue of some sort. If both OSes are blurry, try a video card. There is mention here, of an available HD 4550. Depending on how the machine was configured, it may have more than one video output. You might be able to test and compare VGA and DVI-D on the monitor. http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/optiplex-xe/pd Just a guess, Paul Thanks.. that was the answer. I see the HD4550 option. Any low-profile Nvidia cards for this PC? The system only has: 280W 88% Efficient Power Supply; Energy Star 5.0 compliant, Active PFC. This is a nice PC for use when contracting (on the road and temporarily in offices/hotels) and it can be zipped in a padded carrying case for transit. -Ed |
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