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    Blurry text in games

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by eadgar, Apr 24, 2012.

  1. eadgar

    eadgar Notebook Consultant

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    I'm wondering whether anyone else is having this issue... I've noticed that the text in games I play on my M11x is a bit blurry.

    Here's an example: Screenshot.

    You can see that the quit button isn't sharp, and the Steam overlay text isn't either. I don't know what's causing this. Text looks fine in Windows. EVE has the same issue.

    I've set the graphics quality in Portal to the highest, it's not a demanding game, but it's still blurry. The resolution is the native one as well. The text on my M18x is sharp as a pencil.

    This has got something to do with the nVidia card, as that's the one running the game, but I haven't noticed any setting that would do this. Any ideas?
     
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    Never mind, FXAA was causing it.

    Reminds me of the "morphological filtering" crap AMD lets you enable that just blurs everything.
     
    eadgar, Apr 24, 2012
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