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Visual Studio 2010 "Smudging"

After buying a new monitor and adjusting the display with a dual monitor, VS 2010 is blurred. I'm not quite sure how to describe it, but it is really annoying. See here:

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I tried reinstalling VS, but no luck. My graphics card is ATI Radeon HD 5770, and I use the Catalyst Control Center drivers for this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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This Microsoft Connect error report suggests symptoms similar to the ones you describe.

A simple fix would be to disable the "rich visual client experience . " To do this, follow these steps:

  • From the Tools menu, select Options.
  • Expand the Environment category and select General.
  • Uncheck "Automatically adjust visual perception based on client performance."
  • Uncheck "Enable rich visual customer experience."
  • You can also try disabling "Use hardware graphics acceleration, if available."
  • Click OK.

Adjusting relevant settings in VS Options dialog

I understand that this is not a very good long-term solution, but it can help make Visual Studio suitable for you. There are still some problems like this that have been occurring since they switched the user interface to WPF. It is very difficult to justify the transition of client applications to WPF if they cannot get it completely right in their flagship development software.

Of course, many things have been greatly improved from beta versions to RTM fonts in the editor window were large , although they are still not quite the same in VS 2010, as in previous versions. It seems that some client configurations may still cause strange errors like this. For what it's worth, I have never personally experienced this on any of the several machines on which I run VS.

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I had a similar problem and you made your recommendations. Here is my screenshot of the behavior enter image description here

But the problem is still there after applying what Cody said. I could fix the "LogMeIn Mirror Driver" removal problem that caused this lack of update (I had to choose some code to force a good update).

Hope this helps if you have the same issue. Behavior in Visual Studio 2013 is still unchanged.

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