Application images on the desktop look poor quality and jagged.

[Emir423423432]

Hello, my video card is RX 580. My video card drivers are up to date. No matter what I did, I couldn't find the solution. I'm having the same problem with shadow in games.

 

[Edwired]

Seems like the graphic card is having issues either with vram/gpu memory controller which is causing some sort of distortion on display. Have you tried this on another hdmi cable or another system to narrow down the possible cause. You might want to do DDU in safe mode to clear out the driver and anything related the display department and reinstall the driver in normal mode to see if it can or can't be fixed

 

[Emir423423432]

Seems like the graphic card is having issues either with vram/gpu memory controller which is causing some sort of distortion on display. Have you tried this on another hdmi cable or another system to narrow down the possible cause. You might want to do DDU in safe mode to clear out the driver and anything related the display department and reinstall the driver in normal mode to see if it can or can't be fixed

I tried, reset the computer, deleted and reinstalled my video card driver with DDU, changed the HDMI cable to DPI.

 

[Edwired]

Yeah since you did all that and still the same problem is the graphic card is dying unfortunately

 

[Emir423423432]

Yeah since you did all that and still the same problem is the graphic card is dying unfortunately

Yeah since you did all that and still the same problem is the graphic card is dying unfortunately

thanks for help

 

[Edwired]

thanks for help

I'm glad to help hope you can get a better graphic card soon

 

[Chrispy_]

Doesn't look like a dying graphics card to me, it looks like Windows font scaling has messed up and isn't applying subpixel AA (Cleartype) properly.

On the assumption your windows display scaling is set correctly to 100%, try running the Cleartype wizard, making sure your display is set to native resolution and refresh rate of your monitor before you start.

Just search the start menu for "Adjust Cleartype" or Win+R and cttune.exe

 

[Emir423423432]

Doesn't look like a dying graphics card to me, it looks like Windows font scaling has messed up and isn't applying subpixel AA (Cleartype) properly.

On the assumption your windows display scaling is set correctly to 100%, try running the Cleartype wizard, making sure your display is set to native resolution and refresh rate of your monitor before you start.

Just search the start menu for "Adjust Cleartype" or Win+R and cttune.exe

Nothing changed

 

[Edwired]

That the whole point of DDU the driver and clean state install to limit other possibilities like scaling is already at 100% default not too sure about cleartype as the display will defaulted to it native state same with the refresh rate. Only time I encounter a similar problem like this when the window refresh rate was set above 73hz where the monitor only handled 60hz at the hardware level given pixalted screen and unreadable garbage on screen. Using DDU fixes this problem by clearing and resetting the settings but if the graphic is dying the problem remains

 

[Ware]

thanks for help

I'd put a little more effort into presenting your problem, and finding a real answer.

Yeah since you did all that and still the same problem is the graphic card is dying unfortunately

Really? Based on that picture alone?
Seems like a lot of assumptions based on little information.
It's a low value/low effort answer at best.

 

[Edwired]

I'd put a little more effort into presenting your problem, and finding a real answer.


Really? Based on that picture alone?
Seems like a lot of assumptions based on little information.
It's a low value/low effort answer at best.

Don't see you making any effort in helping either

 

[Emir423423432]

I can't find the solution to this anywhere lol

I'd put a little more effort into presenting your problem, and finding a real answer.


Really? Based on that picture alone?
Seems like a lot of assumptions based on little information.
It's a low value/low effort answer at best.

 

[neatfeatguy]

I don't see any issue. These small icons on all 3 computers I have access to right now look just like the ones you see. These are just small images, they look pixilated because of the size of the icon. Smaller the icon, the less room for pixels. It's slightly less noticeable with my background colors being darker, but they still look just like what you see on your computer.

 

[skizzo]

lmao that is NOT a drying GPU. I wonder if anyone has actually tossed a GPU in the trash over this, because they are actually working fine

I don't see any issue. These small icons on all 3 computers I have access to right now look just like the ones you see. These are just small images, they look pixilated because of the size of the icon. Smaller the icon, the less room for pixels. It's slightly less noticeable with my background colors being darker, but they still look just like what you see on your computer.

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same here. mine looks the same for notepad and this pc. taking a guess, but I would assume the images shown on the left hand side are actually the super tiny .ico (icon) files. they are likely 16 pixels or up to 256 at best. they will look pixelated compared to basically anything else

here's my own screen shot and looks the same

 

[P4-630]

What happens if you change your desktop taskbar and start menu to dark...

 

[Chrispy_]

The only thing that looks wrong to me is the text clarity - this is it zoomed 600% and you can see that ClearType isn't setup correctly, that is all.
Icons and all other UI elements are displaying perfectly.

There might be more to it than that, but we can only go on what we're given. What about this "same problem with shadows in games" can you screenshot of video that? It's exceptionally unlikely to actually be the same problem, since you've shown a text clarity issue which is totally unrelated to game shadows which are also handled a bunch of completely different ways by different games.

If Cleartype is broken in Windows and "nothing changed" then it's probably time to repair or reinstall Windows. Either use an admin command prompt to run DISM /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth, or just backup what you care about and do a full clean install of Windows from scratch. It only takes 3 minutes to make a bootable Windows install stick and the actual install takes 10-15 at most.

 

[Emir423423432]

The only thing that looks wrong to me is the text clarity - this is it zoomed 600% and you can see that ClearType isn't setup correctly, that is all.
Icons and all other UI elements are displaying perfectly.



There might be more to it than that, but we can only go on what we're given. What about this "same problem with shadows in games" can you screenshot of video that? It's exceptionally unlikely to actually be the same problem, since you've shown a text clarity issue which is totally unrelated to game shadows which are also handled a bunch of completely different ways by different games.

If Cleartype is broken in Windows and "nothing changed" then it's probably time to repair or reinstall Windows. Either use an admin command prompt to run DISM /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth, or just backup what you care about and do a full clean install of Windows from scratch. It only takes 3 minutes to make a bootable Windows install stick and the actual install takes 10-15 at most.

Greetings again, I solved the in-game shading setting, but as you said, Clear Type is on and I already reinstalled Windows for this reason, for some reason the texts already seemed to me to be of poor quality, will reinstalling windows for the 3rd time be a solution?

What happens if you change your desktop taskbar and start menu to dark...

What happens if you change your desktop taskbar and start menu to dark...

same as above ss

 

[Chrispy_]

Do you know what subpixel layout your display is using? Anything other than RGB in Windows is going to look pretty bad, that's not something you can share with us via screenshot though, that's simply a side effect of Windows not really handling displays that don't use the standard RGB subpixel layout.

Go to http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/subpixel.php

 

[ShrimpBrime]

Looks like bad hdmi scaling. Can sometimes show this effect. Options are, try hdmi scaling in the driver settings. Or get a monitor that's 1080P.

I have a TV that's supposed to be 1080, but it's actual native is 1050. The driver auto-scales the image and it'll be off the screen. When I adjust the scaling, it'll look fuzzy. Not with all cards and drivers, NV doesn't seem to care about desktop resize.

But without any information from the original poster, it's going to be rather difficult for anyone to diagnose and repair. Could be as simple as a new hdmi cable..... start with the basics without basic information.

 

[Emir423423432]

Do you know what subpixel layout your display is using? Anything other than RGB in Windows is going to look pretty bad, that's not something you can share with us via screenshot though, that's simply a side effect of Windows not really handling displays that don't use the standard RGB subpixel layout.

Is this something we can understand from the images on the test site?
I uploaded the photos below

 

[Chrispy_]

Is this something we can understand from the images on the test site?
I uploaded the photos below

Those aren't photos, those are screengrabs. The issue of poor text quality is specific to your monitor if your monitor isn't a standard RGB subpixel layout. Screengrabs from windows bypass the monitor and don't include subpixel information.

You need to read the page and follow its instructions:
Observe the colored square below from close by, e.g. 20 cm or 8 inch. On one of the red-cyan borders, a thin black line should be visible. This black line indicates your subpixel layout.

Edit - here's mine at work:

 

[Emir423423432]

Now I examined it from my phone camera, yes I can clearly see the black line on the left.

Those aren't photos, those are screengrabs. The issue of poor text quality is specific to your monitor if your monitor isn't a standard RGB subpixel layout. Screengrabs from windows bypass the monitor and don't include subpixel information.

You need to read the page and follow its instructions:
Observe the colored square below from close by, e.g. 20 cm or 8 inch. On one of the red-cyan borders, a thin black line should be visible. This black line indicates your subpixel layout.

Edit - here's mine at work:

Those aren't photos, those are screengrabs. The issue of poor text quality is specific to your monitor if your monitor isn't a standard RGB subpixel layout. Screengrabs from windows bypass the monitor and don't include subpixel information.

You need to read the page and follow its instructions:
Observe the colored square below from close by, e.g. 20 cm or 8 inch. On one of the red-cyan borders, a thin black line should be visible. This black line indicates your subpixel layout.

Edit - here's mine at work:

 

[Chrispy_]

Next step is to give us nice in-focus close-up photos (not screenshots) of the problem you're seeing in Windows icons/fonts. It's not showing up in your original screenshot but as mentioned, the screenshots don't show subpixels, only full pixels.

 

[Emir423423432]

Next step is to give us nice in-focus close-up photos (not screenshots) of the problem you're seeing in Windows icons/fonts. It's not showing up in your original screenshot but as mentioned, the screenshots don't show subpixels, only full pixels.

I'm trying to take a picture of it but it looks extremely blurry, it looks more detailed on the chrome logo, it looks like they cut the sides of the paper with scissors.
If you want a more detailed image feel free to tell me lol I tried it

 

[Emir423423432]

Buy a new monitor with high DPI and be done with it....

So is the problem related to the monitor?