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Can't get decent screen font rendering on LCD monitor
I have an old PC (Celeron 450) initially equipped with a RAGE 128 PRO
and Windows 2000 Professional, connected with a Philips 190V LCD 19'' monitor. Images and videos are quite good (not as with the old CRT), but at 1280x1024 and 60Hz or 75Hz (best resolution suggested by the produce rof the LCD monitor) I can't get a decent font rendering in Windows Explorer. To give an idea, fonts are "thin" and barely readable. The same monitor, connected to an even old laptop with Rage Mobility and Windows 2000 without ClearType technology, give really better results. So I tried to change the video card with others collected from friends - an old S3 Savage 3D on AGP slot - an even older Matrox on AGP slot - a more recent Sapphire Radeon on PCI slot The results (after driver update) is... the same. I tried also to mess with BIOS shadow memory values, without any success. I've read also of ClearType technology available on Windows XP and not available for Windows 2000, but I think the problem is in the PC and I haven't a clue of what it is. This problem is growing into an obsession, so if anyone can help Thanks for your answer. bacco |
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Can't get decent screen font rendering on LCD monitor
Try turning ClearType on
right click an empty spot on the desktop...properties.....appearance......effects peter "bacco baccanels" wrote in message oups.com... I have an old PC (Celeron 450) initially equipped with a RAGE 128 PRO and Windows 2000 Professional, connected with a Philips 190V LCD 19'' monitor. Images and videos are quite good (not as with the old CRT), but at 1280x1024 and 60Hz or 75Hz (best resolution suggested by the produce rof the LCD monitor) I can't get a decent font rendering in Windows Explorer. To give an idea, fonts are "thin" and barely readable. The same monitor, connected to an even old laptop with Rage Mobility and Windows 2000 without ClearType technology, give really better results. So I tried to change the video card with others collected from friends - an old S3 Savage 3D on AGP slot - an even older Matrox on AGP slot - a more recent Sapphire Radeon on PCI slot The results (after driver update) is... the same. I tried also to mess with BIOS shadow memory values, without any success. I've read also of ClearType technology available on Windows XP and not available for Windows 2000, but I think the problem is in the PC and I haven't a clue of what it is. This problem is growing into an obsession, so if anyone can help Thanks for your answer. bacco |
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Can't get decent screen font rendering on LCD monitor
Thanks for your answer, but as far as I know, in Windows 2000 there is
no ClearType technology, nor a way to install it, since it's included only in Windows XP. bacco |
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Can't get decent screen font rendering on LCD monitor
Thanks for your answer Bill,
I tried to change the font size, but the rendering is still bad. As you can read in my first post, same monitor with a different pc with same OS give better results, and same monitor with same pc and 4 different video card gives bad results. bacco |
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Can't get decent screen font rendering on LCD monitor
Images and videos are quite good (not as with the old CRT), but at
1280x1024 and 60Hz or 75Hz (best resolution suggested by the produce rof the LCD monitor) I can't get a decent font rendering in Windows Explorer. To give an idea, fonts are "thin" and barely readable. I don't know what do you call "thin and barely readable", but I had often seen problems with font displaying in all types of monitors and cards if the VGA cable was not of a good quality or if any kind of a switch was between the card and the monitor. For example, in a local computer store All monitors on display cannot display word "All" properly (letters l and l are practically merged together in a single blurry spot). So, make sure you are using the same VGA cable, which you used with the laptop and there are no switches. If you suspect the font rendering problem (registry or malware, as other people suggested), then try simply drawing 2 parallel 1 pixel wide vertical lines with 1 pixel white separation in Windows Paint application and check how they are displayed. The lines should come out crisp black with a clear white line in between, without any blurring or echo. |
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Can't get decent screen font rendering on LCD monitor
bacco baccanels wrote:
I have an old PC (Celeron 450) initially equipped with a RAGE 128 PRO and Windows 2000 Professional, connected with a Philips 190V LCD 19'' monitor. Images and videos are quite good (not as with the old CRT), but at 1280x1024 and 60Hz or 75Hz (best resolution suggested by the produce rof the LCD monitor) I can't get a decent font rendering in Windows Explorer. To give an idea, fonts are "thin" and barely readable. The same monitor, connected to an even old laptop with Rage Mobility and Windows 2000 without ClearType technology, give really better results. So I tried to change the video card with others collected from friends - an old S3 Savage 3D on AGP slot - an even older Matrox on AGP slot - a more recent Sapphire Radeon on PCI slot The results (after driver update) is... the same. I tried also to mess with BIOS shadow memory values, without any success. I've read also of ClearType technology available on Windows XP and not available for Windows 2000, but I think the problem is in the PC and I haven't a clue of what it is. This problem is growing into an obsession, so if anyone can help Thanks for your answer. Cleartype is a red herring--it's useful in some cases but you said yourself that you get good results with the same monitor on a Rage Mobility chip. What you're describing sounds like the dot clock is just a little bit off. You may be able to adjust this either using the monitor front panel settings or by using Powerstrip http://www.entechtaiwan.com. -- --John to email, dial "usenet" and validate (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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