display font is squashed (viewsonic va2216w)

Fods · 7 Mar 2010 at 11:13

i have 2 monitors (Dual monitors) that i've had running on a Radeon 4800 HD and its been fine for a while. but the other day i was playing around with the settings and ended up breaking the font.

as you can see the font is broken (squashed).

i tried reinstalling the ATI drivers to no prevail :/

one thing i have noticed is in Device Manager the monitor (viewsonic va2216w) is called "Plug and Play Monitor". so i thought maybe the drivers where uninstalled so i reinstalled them and it was still called "Plug and Play Monitor" maybe this is what its called in device manager or maybe its not installd properly?

Fods · 7 Mar 2010 at 11:35

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Fods · 7 Mar 2010 at 12:02

yea its true about the images, they dont seem to show the effect on the font from a screenshot.

i see if i can find something with regards to aspect ratio

Fods · 7 Mar 2010 at 13:11

Why don't you reset the resolution to 1680x1050? Or is this your problem?

yea if i set it to the native resolution (1680x1050) it looks worst (so i leave it on 1600 x 1200 as its better but not good :/)

Fods · 7 Mar 2010 at 13:27

I got the monitor for christmas. its been fine since then, until i messed with the settings (dont ask me what i did - as i cant even remember myself

).

its strange if i reset the computer the monitor puts the icons on my desktop in different positions as if the resolution has been made smaller and then back to the resolution i've set it at.

something just doesnt feel right.