ubuysa
The BSOD Doctor
Well, I just had an hour or so to kill, so I took an image of my Windows 8 partition and upgraded to 8.1.
The upgrade went well but many fonts are fuzzy. Windows and IE11 are crisp and sharp but many of the legacy applications (including Chrome) have blurred fonts. I tried messing with Cleartype (even though the Windows fonts are fine) and experimented with the anti-aliasing settings in the NVIDIA control panel and searched (in vain) through the Intel graphics control panel for anti-aliasing settings. I even tried turning hardware acceleration off for those applications that I could. I have the latest graphics drivers from Intel and NVIDIA already installed, no newer drivers were found.
Since I only had an hour or so I've restored my Windows 8 image and I'll stay with that for as long as I can now. There was a time when new versions of Windows and new service packs just worked. Those days seem to be gone.......
The upgrade went well but many fonts are fuzzy. Windows and IE11 are crisp and sharp but many of the legacy applications (including Chrome) have blurred fonts. I tried messing with Cleartype (even though the Windows fonts are fine) and experimented with the anti-aliasing settings in the NVIDIA control panel and searched (in vain) through the Intel graphics control panel for anti-aliasing settings. I even tried turning hardware acceleration off for those applications that I could. I have the latest graphics drivers from Intel and NVIDIA already installed, no newer drivers were found.
Since I only had an hour or so I've restored my Windows 8 image and I'll stay with that for as long as I can now. There was a time when new versions of Windows and new service packs just worked. Those days seem to be gone.......