blurry fonts and problem with Native Resolution button in Nvidia control panel

Horgycat

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I have an HP Pavilion Ultimate D4999T PC with a Nvidia Geforce 8800GT video card. I am using a 32" LCD Samsung TVas my monitor. The test photo on this screen is amazingly beautiful so I cannot understand why the fonts on websites I look at are fuzzy.

There are two issues here: the main one is how do I improve the look of the fonts? The second issue is that I went into the Nvidia control panel to see if there was anything I could tweak. In order to try tweaking the fonts, I went to the "Change flat panel scaling". Once there I saw a horizontal button near the bottom that had not been clicked down which said "Change to the Native Resolution". The "Do not scale" radio button was also chosen. Thinking it might help, I clicked on the "Change to the Native Resolution", not knowing that there appears to be no way to click back off it again. I also noticed that the "Use my display's built-in scaling" radio button was now checked instead of "Do not Scale."

My resolution is much worse now and I cannot go back to the way it was; the button for "Change to Native Resolution" is now unavailable to click on. Is there any way to reset this? this? I did try to click on "Do not scale" again but when I clicked Apply, it just reverts back each time to "Use my display's built-in scaling". So that is not an option.

Do I need to uninstall the Nvidia driver and reinstall? How do I do this safely? Thanks for any help you can provide!
 
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Hello Horgycat,
If you are having problems then its always a good idea to start with a fresh clean driver.

Use option two on the NVidia site.

Drivers - Download NVIDIA Drivers

Boot into safe mode and use Driver Sweeper to get rid of all the old NVidia components.

Guru3D - Driver Sweeper (Setup) download from Guru3D.com

Reboot and install the new driver.

As for the Font problem, i suspect that it is a resolution problem, i would play around with the resolution and see what happens, you may be lucky and find one that is acceptable.
As i have never used a TV for a monitor, thats the best i can do.
Give it a while and you may get some more information on the font issue.

Hope this helps, good luck and post your results.
 

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System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Self Build
    CPU
    QX9650 (black box) [email protected]
    Motherboard
    Asus P5Q Premium
    Memory
    8GB-4x2GB Corsair Dominator DDR 2-1066
    Graphics Card(s)
    2 x ASUS EAH 4870 X 2 (Quad)
    Sound Card
    Supreme FX 2
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Fujitsu Siemens 22inch flat screen
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    150 Gig WD Raptor
    300 Gig Maxtor
    300 Gig Maxtor, (External)
    PSU
    CoolerMaster 1000
    Case
    CoolerMaster N-Vidia stacker 830
    Cooling
    Noctua NH-U12P x 1x120mm fan, 6x120mm case fans
    Keyboard
    Logitech G15
    Mouse
    Logitech G5
    Internet Speed
    20Mbps
    Other Info
    Audio FX Pro 5+1 gaming head set
Thanks for the advice! I will try this.

Any idea about the second part of my query? Anyone experienced the native resolution button getting stuck to where you cannot "go back"?

Thanks.

Pam
 

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