Changed video cards and Windows font is blurry

[furillo]

A friend of mine recently replaced his MSI Geforce 5700 with his brother's Geforce 6800GS but the font is extremely blurry.

He turned on MS Cleartype without much help. The 6800 GS did not have any font problems on his brother's PC nor did he have any problems before the swap. Could this be a driver issue?

Driver: 93.71
Monitor: 19" HPL1925 LCD.

[Leezard]

Check the refresh rate on the monitor, mine defaults to 60htz when I put in a new card and the font is blurry, changing it to 75 fixes it.

[Mica]

Seeing as you are running an LCD, have you tried running the auto adjust on the monitor. It should readjust to the output of the new video card and fix the problem.

[Leezard]

Seeing as you are running an LCD, have you tried running the auto adjust on the monitor. It should readjust to the output of the new video card and fix the problem.

I'm running an LCD to, auto adjust did nothing for it, changing the default refresh rate did.

[DarthSius]

Check the refresh rate on the monitor, mine defaults to 60htz when I put in a new card and the font is blurry, changing it to 75 fixes it.

This a rule for all LCDs? I use a Dell 2005FPW and I leave it at 60Hz.

[furillo]

Auto adjust did the trick. My refresh is also at 60hz. Does this matter?

[Mica]

Not usually. LCD's dont have the flicker that most change their refresh rate to solve. If you notice a problem you can always change it later... I run mine at 60hz and have never had a problem.

[furillo]

I looked anyways, and even though my monitor is listed (doesn't say plug and play), I have no option other than 60hz.

[akia]

LCDs are generally ok at 60hz. Notebooks work the same way.