A door closes, a window opens; a glitch is fixed, a bug appears.

[milkshake_b]

All I did was change the OS. How is it possible that the exact same font settings are now making my eyes hurt to the point I can't look at the screen for more than a minute at a time?

(And why has XP decided I have no sound card?)

Possibly trying this while Mercury is retrograde was just a teensy bit unwise.

Comments

[kickair8p]

That sounds more like the screen's refresh rate than the font settings -- that can change when changing an OS. But I don't remember the best refresh rate to reduce eyestrain, sorry.

~

[milkshake_b]

I hope it's not that--it won't let me edit that. I managed to improve conditions slightly by changing the font smoothing from Standard to Clear Type, but when I say slightly I mean slightly. I can now read some fonts, whereas before I couldn't read any. (No monospaces, so I have to keep closing my eyes while typing this. The ms and uppercase Ts and us and numerous other letters are green, what the fucking hell.)

[kickair8p]

Huh? But you've gotta be able to edit that, no matter what the OS -- you've gotta be able to change your screen settings. What OS did you change to?

~

[milkshake_b]

XP, but it's an LCD monitor so the hardware settings are locked in. It's not the refresh rate anyway; there's a genuine issue with how XP displays fonts. Naturally.