Applications like Chrome look blurry in Windows 8.1

After installing Windows 8.1 update, a lot of applications, like Chrome, Skype, etc. looks blurry. How do I fix it?

For example, (bigger image here):

Blurry windows

windows-8.1

Dhana

Posted 2013-10-18T08:18:29.190

Reputation: 1 041

Possible duplicate of http://serverfault.com/questions/570785/how-can-i-make-microsoft-management-console-high-dpi-aware-in-windows-8-1

– Rod Boev – 2017-03-18T16:51:57.453

Answers

Fix: You should disable scaling by opening properties of the application/short cut.

Disable scaling

Even better is to disable the DPI scaling by the custom sizing option:

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Dhana

Posted 2013-10-18T08:18:29.190

Reputation: 1 041

Should it be 100% or higher? – AlikElzin-kilaka – 2015-07-13T14:26:43.290

2Disabling DPI scaling (the second option) worked perfectly for me. Thank you so much, was driving me crazy!! – AJ. – 2013-10-21T13:05:13.523

The blurry text is caused by the new DPI scaling which is added in 8.1.

Set the size back to 100% and this fixes the issue.

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magicandre1981

Posted 2013-10-18T08:18:29.190

Reputation: 86 560

2Setting the size back to 100% strains my eyes thats the reason why i changed the size in the first place, I have found the solution thats disabling auto DPI scalling, look at my updated answer! – Dhana – 2013-10-19T18:26:23.470

3This is not new in Windows 8.1 -- display scaling has been with us since at least Vista. And a Surface and similar device really needs scaling, which worked just fine on 8.0. I think there must be more to this story, because 125% scaling in 8.0 was fine (and necessary); 8.1 is all fuzzy. – Jon Watte – 2013-11-22T16:57:19.383

in 8.1 the scaling was changed to make it independent for each monitor. Vista till 8.0 the setting was applied for all monitors. – magicandre1981 – 2013-11-22T18:00:49.277