Windows 7/8 image quality vs XP

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On the same computer, multi booting between windows 7, windows 8 CP and windows XP the image quality is much better on windows XP.

Has anyone else noticed this? Is there a fix?

Where the text is pin sharp in windows xp, it is a bit fuzzy in windows7/8. It hurts my eyes working in win7/8 to be honest.
 
You need the right driver for the monitor - it does make a difference. You also need to check the monitor is set to it's native resolution, which sometimes without the right driver you can't do. I can't think why Hz would make a difference to the image quality on a static image. It used to in that too low a hz lead to flickering and quite a few people (including me) needed it in the mid 70s to avoid seeing flicker in our peripheral vision.

I don't think Clear Type affects images, and I use it and tune it.
 
cats_five said:
You need the right driver for the monitor - it does make a difference.
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There's no such thing.

PnP will detect the supported resolutions and refresh rates on pretty much any monitor anything made in the last 15 years.

As said before, check Cleartype - it's off by default in XP. That and use a digital connector to the monitor and run it at the native res.
 
It's ClearType as others as said. All modern OS's use anti-aliasing on text now, because it's simply better. Cant imagine how it could hurt your eyes unless you're using a ridiculously low resolution.
 
Using 1680x1050 lcd at that resolution.

I did a bit of googling yesterday and found some answers which have improved things.

1. disable cleartype
2. change default font from Segue to Tahoma (Tahoma is used on xp)
3. disabled graphics card hardware acceleration in ie
4. not relevant to image clarity, but disabled all those annoying permissions nags when copying moving files.
5. installed classic shell

Things are looking good now. Need to do same thing on win7 laptop because that has blurry text too, but I thought it was the screen/graphics card - now I know I can fix it!
 
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Doing all that would make things look worse :confused: ... MS have made all these improvements and you've just gone and made it look and work like something from the 90's?

And disabling graphics acceleration shouldnt have any affect on image quality, but it will have an affect of higher CPU load, even for simple things like dragging a window around, and it can also cause screen/graphics tearing when dragging, minimising/maximising windows (as what happens in XP) especially if the CPU is busy and cant render the UI fast enough. It's far more efficient to have the GPU do it.
 
It's not blurry text - ClearType increases readability on LCD screens. Turn it off if you will, but you're just hiding in the early 90s and might as well run Windows 3.

Don't disable graphics acceleration, has no effect whatsoever on text apart from slowing the rest of the machine down.
 
Lol, there is lots of people looking for solution to win7/8 blurry text online so I am not the only one. I guess with some hardware default looks good. To my eyes and with my hardware it did not look good, looks better now though! Full time webmaster so it is important I do not suffer from eye strain. Each to their own definitely!
 
Hxc said:
If you give yourself a week to adapt to it you'll wonder how on earth you survived with jaggy text.
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Haters gon' hate.
 
Why? He could fit a Trident VGA card and install some old 256 colour drivers and it'll be awesome like it was before. ;)

If the OP doesn't like Cleartype god help him if he ever uses OS X!
 
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