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flying-spirits
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10 years ago
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Blurred and unreadable

Just installed Power BI on Win7 desktop.  Many dialogs contain blurred text.  Having google'd, folks suggest adjusting ClearType and scaling but none of these have any effect.  Can someone give me a ...
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flying-spirits
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10 years ago

One thing to note is that blurred text that is hyperlinked, when hovering over it, it becomes crystal clear again :)

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flying-spirits
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10 years ago

After a bit of hunting around and thanks to this post 

 

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/fonts-in-windows-7-are-fuzzyblurry/0d76de45-0e87-4554-b14c-2aef6eb6ea29?page=2

 

I've managed to change the nVidia settings for Power BI so that anti-aliasing is switched-off.  In particular, open up the NVIDIA Control Panel, got to Manage 3D settings on the left panel, and set:

 

Antialiasing - FXAA to OFF

Antialiasing - Gamma correction to OFF

Antialiasing - Mode to Aplication-controlled

 

This works for me anyway.  

 

Out of interest for the Power BI folks, can't this be detected so that the user does not have to bother?