Blobby blobby blobby :(

[venta]

I've been in work since 9. After a couple of hours of consistent effort from Sysadmin #3, I've just got myself logged on... as Sysadmin #1 said last week, I am the kiss of death to PCs :(

We're now up and running. Unfortunately, something somewhere has gone peculiar, and my fonts, icons, etc are enormously horrible and blobby. All settings seem to be as normal. The resolution won't let me set it any higher.

It used to be OK.

*whimper*

Comments

[wimble.livejournal.com]

What is the resolution?

Try redetecting, or resetting the monitor type (under advanced settings I think): if it thinks you're using a VGA monitor, that's the most obvious reason for it limiting you to a low resolution.

But you've tried the really obvious things, right?

[condign.livejournal.com]

as Sysadmin #1 said last week, I am the kiss of death to PCs :(

What's the phrase? "Oh sure, she's the kiss of death, but what a way to go!"

Anyway, I'd really recommend ignoring your sysadmin and updating the monitor driver. In my experience, that solves the problem most of the time.

Even if they haven't reinstalled a driver, Windows will, cunningly, often revert to an old driver when it feels like it... or at least I've found so.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Despite the fact that it didn't work this morning (when I or my boss tried it), setting the resolution to 1280x1024 now works.

I *think* this is smaller than I used to have it. It certainly looks teeny-tiny after this morning's fat bloaty fonts. Still, it's much nicer.

Thanks to zandev for glaring at my machine and making it behave.