Fuzzy/Blurry UI and Text in many appliactions

I'm having a very strange issue with my recently arrived sager np7330.

This pc has a 1920x1080 screen which looks really crisp, when the apps work correctly. For some reason some applications look blurry or fuzzy while everything else looks sharp.

Here I have a comparison of google chrome (looking blurry) vs firefox (looking sharp)

CHROME (notice how both UI and websites look blurry)


FIREFOX


My first thought was that the screen might be set to a weird resolution but after checking I know that is not the case. As I install more and more applications I notice this happeniing in several of them. This is something I have never come accross in over 12 years of owning laptops of all brands and sizes.

Not sure if this helps but the pc is running windows 8.1.

Thanks for any help you can provide!

Alex

 

Quick update.

I noticed that the Nvidia Geforce Experience software, under "My Rig", listed all components of the pc. Among them was screen resolution which was displayed at 1280x720. It prompted for an update and after the update it was no longer blurry and it displayed the right, 1920x1080, resolution.

All other applications that had the problem still have it. Now I imagine that the OS is running them at 720p?

Ideas?

Alex

 

Try re installing the drivers.

 

Hey easy fix for you in chrome for example you need to go to task manager and locate chrome.exe then right click, go to properties and in compatibility check disable screen dimensions with high DPI settings value (something like that) this fix the blur problem of chrome, well other think you can do (to fix other blurs problems in windows 8.1) go to screen resolution and enter in increase or decrease the size of text and other items and put a check in let me choose a level of scaling for all my screens.

Sorry my english... i hope this helps a lot !

 

Thanks to both for your ideas..

1. I reinstalled all video drivers to no success.

2. I tried the DPI scaling trick and does the trick on some apps... some.

What is so strange is that I have owned several laptops that have a 1080p screen and this has never been an issue. Why do i need to fix this per app and not just flip a switch and have everything work like all other computers i've owned?

Thanks again

Alex

 

It sounds like a setting somewhere has gone funky. You have double checked the windows global scaling options right? Tried flipping that back and forth?

 

You sir, are a genius!

I had no idea those options even existed! For some reason it was set to the largest setting. Its now set to the default and everything looks perfect! Now i can really enjoy my new pc

Many many thanks!

Alex

 

Windows Registry editing fixed the font thickness issue for me completely, we can tune the font thickness/darkness by calibrating FONTSMOOTHINGGAMMA value to between 150 and 190 hexadecimal( 336 to 400 decimal )

- START -> RUN -> REGEDIT
- search for FONTSMOOTHINGGAMMA by keying " Ctrl F " ( will automatically take us to CurrentUser\ControlPanel\Desktop path)
- double-click mouse on FONTSMOOTHINGGAMMA enter anything between 150 and 190 hexadecimal.(the Lower the value, the thicker the fonts.)
- close the REGEDIT tool
- LOGOFF and then LOGON

Now all the fonts are very thick & very dark in Chrome Browser.

But we must make sure that ClearType smoothing is enabled in Windows( controlPanel -> personalization -> appearance -> Effects -> ClearType smooth check [ ticked box ] )

OR alternately in RegEdit ...

FONTSMOOTHING=2
FONTSMOOTHINGTYPE=2
FONTSMOOTHINGORIENTATION=1 for LCD-screen, 0 for CRT-screen

 

In this case it was a global setting rather than a font issue, interesting none the less though.

 

Another element that affects text in Windows is ClearType. Open up the control panel and type cleartype in the search box. Walk through the prompts and that will help as well. As Meaker put it though, the scaling is the biggest element.