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ClearType font smoothing is not working correctly
I bought a new ViewSonic VA2226w monitor and text on the
screen appears more blurry than on my conventional aspect ratio ViewSonic monitor. Is this because the 1680 x 1050 widescreen aspect ratio? |
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ClearType font smoothing is not working correctly
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Peter Olcott wrote: I bought a new ViewSonic VA2226w monitor and text on the screen appears more blurry than on my conventional aspect ratio ViewSonic monitor. Is this because the 1680 x 1050 widescreen aspect ratio? Viewsonic VC2226w is an LCD monitor. Use a screen resolution that matches the native resolution of the LCD monitor. Anything else results in interpolation which makes the output look fuzzy. Read: http://www.viewsonic.com/products/de...es/va2226w.htm Yep, 1680x1050 is its native resolution. So use that. If your video card doesn't support that resolution, either get a new video card or suffer with the fuzzy pixel interpolation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_resolution 2nd paragraph This can result in text size that makes you squint trying to read it. If you want text size to be larger, up the DPI (dots-per-inch) setting in the Display applet, Settings panel, Advanced button, General tab (that's where to find the DPI setting in Windows XP - you never bothered to mention WHICH operating system and which version of it that you use). This increases the size of text without changing the screen resolution. |
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ClearType font smoothing is not working correctly
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:45:59 -0600, "Peter Olcott"
wrote: I bought a new ViewSonic VA2226w monitor and text on the screen appears more blurry than on my conventional aspect ratio ViewSonic monitor. Is this because the 1680 x 1050 widescreen aspect ratio? If you are using the original analog cable that came with that monitor, it is thin, low quality and must be replaced for optimal results even at the native 1680x1050 resolution. At that resolution, a higher than average analog cable, or DVI cable, needs be used to retain maximum crispness. If you happen to be using an OS with a font-smoothing feature, that will also increase blur on text. |
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ClearType font smoothing is not working correctly
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:45:59 -0600, "Peter Olcott"
wrote: I bought a new ViewSonic VA2226w monitor and text on the screen appears more blurry than on my conventional aspect ratio ViewSonic monitor. Is this because the 1680 x 1050 widescreen aspect ratio? If you are using an older integrated video chipset, it's slow ramdac can also account for the problem, but primarily it would be the original, included cable if that is what you're using. |
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ClearType font smoothing is not working correctly
Peter Olcott wrote: I bought a new ViewSonic VA2226w monitor and text on the screen appears more blurry than on my conventional aspect ratio ViewSonic monitor. Is this because the 1680 x 1050 widescreen aspect ratio? No. The image will be sharpest running at the native resolution with a digital signal input. If you are using an analog signal check the auto adjust function. If you are running at non native resolution you might be able to adjust the sharpness with the on screen display settings. -- Mike Walsh |
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ClearType font smoothing is not working correctly
Peter Olcott wrote:
I bought a new ViewSonic VA2226w monitor and text on the screen appears more blurry than on my conventional aspect ratio ViewSonic monitor. Is this because the 1680 x 1050 widescreen aspect ratio? What GPU are you using? Have you got the latest drivers for your GPU? Did you install the drivers for that monitor? Have you checked the refresh rate on the display properties? Are you using digital or analog cables? |
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ClearType font smoothing is not working correctly
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:45:59 -0600, "Peter Olcott"
wrote: I bought a new ViewSonic VA2226w monitor and text on the screen appears more blurry than on my conventional aspect ratio ViewSonic monitor. Is this because the 1680 x 1050 widescreen aspect ratio? I seem to have overlooked your topic title previously. You wrote "ClearType font smoothing is not working correctly", then you described the text being more blurry. The purpose of ClearType is to make text blurry! If you don't want blurry text, disable ClearType. Some claim it makes text more readable, and that can be true because what it does is takes a small thin line and makes it wider and more smooth through that blurring. ClearType can be adjusted if you want less of an effect but don't want it completely disabled. Online Tuner - http://www.microsoft.com/typography/...ner/step1.aspx Offline Tuner - http://www.microsoft.com/typography/...ePowerToy.mspx I vaguely recall seeing a different offline tuner somewhere, but either of these is a good start. |
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ClearType font smoothing is not working correctly
I don't think that this is the issue, at least the symptoms
are not consistent with this being the issue. On some things ClearType font smoothing is working perfectly, on other things black text is appearing with red edges. I know how ClearType works, (sub pixel rendering) but, in the past black text always appeared to the naked eye as being purely black. Using an inferior connection cable would seem to produce a signal strength problem, and the actual case appears to be a (sub pixel rendering) pixel alignment problem. Issues such as this would seem to be related to the unconventional aspect ratio. If (for example) the display data is graphically stretched (after it was rendered) to accommodate the wider screen, this would be expected to cause the precise problem that I am having. I have another ViewSonic monitor that has no problem at all using the out-of-the-box cable. "kony" wrote in message ... On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:45:59 -0600, "Peter Olcott" wrote: I bought a new ViewSonic VA2226w monitor and text on the screen appears more blurry than on my conventional aspect ratio ViewSonic monitor. Is this because the 1680 x 1050 widescreen aspect ratio? If you are using the original analog cable that came with that monitor, it is thin, low quality and must be replaced for optimal results even at the native 1680x1050 resolution. At that resolution, a higher than average analog cable, or DVI cable, needs be used to retain maximum crispness. If you happen to be using an OS with a font-smoothing feature, that will also increase blur on text. |
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ClearType font smoothing is not working correctly
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:47:44 -0600, "Peter Olcott"
wrote: I don't think that this is the issue, at least the symptoms are not consistent with this being the issue. On some things ClearType font smoothing is working perfectly, on other things black text is appearing with red edges. I know how ClearType works, (sub pixel rendering) but, in the past black text always appeared to the naked eye as being purely black. Using an inferior connection cable would seem to produce a signal strength problem, and the actual case appears to be a (sub pixel rendering) pixel alignment problem. Issues such as this would seem to be related to the unconventional aspect ratio. If (for example) the display data is graphically stretched (after it was rendered) to accommodate the wider screen, this would be expected to cause the precise problem that I am having. I have another ViewSonic monitor that has no problem at all using the out-of-the-box cable. As others have written, you need to make sure the display adapter is using the monitor's native resolution. You should also try the auto-adjust feature on the monitor's menus, through it's OSD. Otherwise, consider just trying a different cord... considering I have one of these monitors and the original cord did cause problems while a different analog cord came much closer to what would've been easily accomplished with DVI instead. |
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ClearType font smoothing is not working correctly
"Peter Olcott" wrote in message ... I bought a new ViewSonic VA2226w monitor and text on the screen appears more blurry than on my conventional aspect ratio ViewSonic monitor. Is this because the 1680 x 1050 widescreen aspect ratio? I use ClearTweak to get more contrasty cleartype as I found it a bit grey looking otherwise. I decided to use Cleartype mainly to make text in Firefox look like Internet Explorer which turns it on by default. http://www.ioisland.com/cleartweak/ |
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