Blurry Text in Windows 8

Anonymous
2012-10-27T01:27:12+00:00

I did a clean install of Windows 8 RTM when it became available.

The blurry font rendering that plagued the Preview versions has remained.

It is particularly bad in IE10 and Office 2013.

No amount of adjustment with Clear Type tuner helps much.

I have tried all the fixes recommended like ticking "use Software rendering instead of GPU rendering" in IE10 and in Options in Office 2013.

It makes absolutely no difference.

I installed Windows 8 on completely different hardware to check if it was a graphics card issue. The poor font rendering was still there.

I am currently dual booting Windows 7 and 8 on the same PC. Fonts in Windows 7 remain perfectly clear. In windows 8 they are so bad, the OS is basically unusable.

How do I get readable fonts in Windows 8?

Hardware: ASUS P8Z77-V PRO, Intel Core i7 3770K, ASUS Radeon HD7770 graphics, Samsung Syncmaster 2443BW 24 inch monitor.

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Anonymous
2014-10-02T13:21:40+00:00

In Chrome 37.x go to chrome://flags and disable DirectWrite. That's the first thing i did with this update.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-04-16T20:49:40+00:00

    This is also a problem with Windows 7 (64bit) -- some of the text is not clear (for instance, the tabs in IE 10 are blurry & VERY  t h r e a d y  looking.  As I type this the "1" in the number "10" is GREEN.  The Start menu is very light green text, that's after trying to get rid of the very light red text.  I have tried everything to get it back to the way it was -- just not working for me!  ALL my programs have text that are just Okay Readable -- to BARELY readable.  (I don't game, but need the Nvidia GeForce 450 for a cad program -- the text in this program has changed to barely readable - that is NOT acceptable).

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-04-18T13:04:44+00:00

    Okay so I had this problem also. If your computer is running with an AMD graphics card then go to this site. http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/downloads.aspx Choose your driver type and OS. You will have three options on the next page to download. Just download all three. After I did so I haven't had blurry text at all. Now every once in a while as you update your PC you will also need to go back to this page and re-download the three options. Remember, I'm running an AMD A10 processor and an AMD 7660 graphics card. I do not know or believe this will help you if you have an Intel.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-04-25T04:14:15+00:00

    try this little software : https://code.google.com/p/mactype/

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-04-25T06:13:54+00:00

    This has previously been suggested on another thread.

    I tried Mactype on Windows 8 a while back.

    I could see the program's intent but could not get consistent results with its font rendering.

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