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#1 User is offline   lucstef 

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Posted 03 December 2016 - 09:05 AM

Good day everyone.

I am having some problems with on screen text, namely the lines overlap and/or don't show the correct graphic, this is an example:

https://i.gyazo.com/2a803006e20ec73df3826c8f5259ebf8.png

(I hope this link doesn't disappear in 2 hours.....).


Now I ask, do I need to have some specific fonts installed?
Normal Win10 Home, I didn't play with "accessibility" settings at all (I think, W10 is a mess in that regard), and the Nvidia drivers are standard without any "enhancement".


Thanks for your time :)


Ciao, Luca

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Posted 14 December 2016 - 05:56 AM

 lucstef, on 03 December 2016 - 09:05 AM, said:

Now I ask, do I need to have some specific fonts installed?
Normal Win10 Home, I didn't play with "accessibility" settings at all (I think, W10 is a mess in that regard), and the Nvidia drivers are standard without any "enhancement".

Hmm, that's strange. We use Arial for all on-screen text, so should be no issue with the font.

Could you double-check the Windows scaling option found in "Settings > System > Display" and see if it's on 100%?

Oddly it looks like things are being scaled down slightly, which isn't even an option normally.

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Posted 14 December 2016 - 08:29 AM

I've seen text like that on my laptop in OR ... Intel graphics. They work, but in addition to performance limitations the on-screen text in OR and MSTS has a lot of defects.

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Posted 16 December 2016 - 07:43 AM

 James Ross, on 14 December 2016 - 05:56 AM, said:

Could you double-check the Windows scaling option found in "Settings > System > Display" and see if it's on 100%?


As soon as I'll return home I'll make this test, thanks.


 Mike B, on 14 December 2016 - 08:29 AM, said:

I've seen text like that on my laptop in OR ... Intel graphics.


Thanks for your input but....I have two Nvidia cards, a 980 and a 970, each one with a HD monitor connected, and the internal graphic is even disabled in the BIOS.

I'll check the character scaling, I KNOW I must have done something weird setting Win10 (I'm too used to the Win2000-XP-Win7 control panel to understand all the nuisances of this new system, which seems engineered to confuse any casual passerby.....).


[mode RANT on]
Adding to that the reverting of most Win10 options to standard values after every single update is making me go ballistic sometimes :furious:
[mode RANT off]



Ciao, Luca

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