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Blurred text, background and text descriptions
« on: September 08, 2010, 02:04:15 pm »

(Hope you can see the image.)

My friend has suddenly experienced an issue with the background text along with the in-game text descriptions being blurred.  We were playing AI War last night just fine with the latest ZR version.
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Re: Blurred text, background and text descriptions
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2010, 02:19:09 pm »
It sounds like it might be a driver issue or something along those lines. A reboot might fix it, honestly. It's something odd in directx or the drivers causing it to go into a lower-res texture mode compared to what the game normally asks for. Only one other person reported this ever, and it was some sort of driver thig if I recall (it's somewhere in this subforum). Yet another transient issue I will be happy to be leaving behind with unity. Hope that helps!
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Re: Blurred text, background and text descriptions
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2010, 02:27:45 pm »
Thank you very much for the reply as always Chris--I have notified him and we shall see if this still occurs at out next continuation. 

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Re: Blurred text, background and text descriptions
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2010, 02:45:36 pm »
Sure thing!
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Re: Blurred text, background and text descriptions
« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2010, 02:52:49 pm »
Make sure to power cycle the monitor also, that looks to me like either the resolution or some other monitor adjustment has gone screwy. (sharpness/saturation/etc.)

If the power cycle on the monitor doesn't do it, the LCD should have an "Auto Adjust" somewhere in it's menu that's accessed by the buttons on the monitor itself.

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Re: Blurred text, background and text descriptions
« Reply #5 on: September 08, 2010, 02:55:27 pm »
I would advise him to do that, though his menu text and such appears to be fine.

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Re: Blurred text, background and text descriptions
« Reply #6 on: September 08, 2010, 08:50:16 pm »
Actually, never mind.

The distortion I am talking about would not show up in a screen shot, it's specific to the monitor that it is happening on.

If it's showing up in a screenshot like that, it's something else.

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Re: Blurred text, background and text descriptions
« Reply #7 on: September 09, 2010, 07:55:40 pm »
He's still experiencing the problem even after a graphics update... this is odd.
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