Poor font rendering in Windows 8 (blurry text)

My finding is it has been a long time since ClearType in Vista beta. At that time The font smoothing in beta was so scaring. Lucky Microsoft can fixed it in final with also IE 7. IE 8 beta also has the same problem. Once again Microsoft fixed in final. But that did not happen with IE 9. IE 9 grey font rendering is so bad that I can stand it. I am a power user old guy. In the old time PC was expensive. That's way many trick to speed up Windows is useful. Like don't use wallpaper, etc kind. One trick that effected in this problem is "use best performance" especially the "disable font smoothing". I have been using Windows 8 Pro X64 RTM for a few months with "best performance". I use Opera, Chrome, Maxthon, Firefox just fine with text rendering. Other program that use MSHTML or IE Engine like Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger is blur text.

I use from Athlon II X4 640 to I5 3470 with HDMI Geforce GTX 460 on Samsung BX2250 and latest driver 3.14 etc.

If you want more dramatic effect event try launch "Adjust Clear Type Text". Randomly check and uncheck the "enable clear type" a few times. And your windows font will be horrible event if you close that apps.

I hope this will attract world attention.

I figured out the problem. With the screen resolution so big and having it at the default DPI (which is meant for 15 inch screens with low resolutions) its basically at a magnification. Just to be clear, since my resolution is at 1920 x 1200 and I set it at 100% DPI the computer is going to group an image in small amounts of pixels to form the picture requested where if I was at 150% DPI it would grab on to more pixels to form that same picture. Say you had a resolution of 800 x 600, this would give you 480,000 pixels on ur screen while at 1920 x 1200 there are 2,304,000 pixels to grab onto

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I'm sorry, this is not the solution. DPI is supposed to stay at 100% , unless someone whishes to have larger text and icons due to eyesight problems or other reasons. As mentioned previously, everything is crystal clear on Windows 8 with DPI @ 100% (on a 1920x1080 22 inch monitor) except Internet Explorer 10 and Office 2013! Chrome works fine with the same Windows' settings and the same text size, if compared with IE side by side.

Download this image and view on "actual size" to see the difference between Chrome and IE 10.

Also view this image after downloading and setting on actual size, to understand how DPI works and how resolution settings affect the display.

If you don't download them and zoom them at 100% (actual size) you won't be able to notice the problem.

You can also add a like to http://www.facebook.com/IHateBlurryTextInWindows8Ie10AndOffice2013

Best wishes

Jamie

The font rendering on Metro Apps, Metro & Desktop IE10 is truly unusable. It's O.K. about Metro bloat, but IE 10 on desktop? Too bad, I'd really like to use IE10.

I can achieve the exact same bad results on Firefox deliberately in order to show the case... If you know how, enable manually Directwrite, disable GDI-Table-loading, use Natural Symmetric font-rendering technique and the most important, after you do this, disable Hardware Acceleration

http://i4.minus.com/iWGFXyP80yDt9.png. 

This is how you can do it; don't forget to disable HWA afterwards. If you simple do this without to disable HWA, you can see how IE10 should be with Natural Symmetric Technique.

This is exactly the point I don't understand. On Firefox with HWA enabled, even the Natural Symmetric is somewhat good.... But Natural Symmetric without HWA and Cleartype applied, is truly bad. It's what I see on IE10. Do I have a bug on my end? Drivers maybe? IE is being disconnected from my graphics settings? Or this atrocity is truly intended?