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Chrome renders text jagged (but only on my work machine)

Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Mitlov, Aug 6, 2013.

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Help me solve this puzzle. On my work desktop (Win 7 desktop with a 1680x1050 monitor set to native resolution and 100% for "make text and icons larger or smaller" in the control panel), this is how Chrome renders text (not all text, bizarrely, but perhaps 50% of webpages):

and this is how IE9 renders the same text (consistently attractive on every webpage):

What on earth would cause this, and how do I fix it?

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Can you access the CSS of that page and look for " -webkit-text-stroke: ..." ? That might be the cause of the bad rendering.

Also, try navigating to about:flags and look for GPU compositing on all pages and set it to Enable, see if it changes anything.

Another thing you could do is toggle ClearType text on and off in Control Panel, restart Chrome and reload the page.

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ClearType was disabled, and when I enabled it, the problem was gone. Thanks! +1 rep

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Chrome renders text jagged (but only on my work machine)

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