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Joe, please check you have the latest graphics drivers by either going to your manufacturer's site or by checking in Knowledge Base How do I get the latest drivers for my graphics card?
 ATI have recently released Catalyst 9.4 OpenGL 2.1.8577
If you still have an issue, please add your comments and vote on the main issue Thank you : ) I've experienced font legibility issues in 1.23 as well on the Mac viewer. Specifically, the friends/groups list text is slightly blurred, as if the viewer is trying to render a certain sized typeface using anti-aliasing. The result is that the font appears smudged and harder to read.
I have gone back to main client because I could not handle the extra blurr. (PC)
This is a much bigger issue than it may seem as so many people have some vision problems however small, perhaps requiring reading glasses ( with middle age in my case), and will find legibilty more diffcult leading to vague disatisfaction- but only the absolutely dedicated will want to get new drivers or figure out font options. The smudge becomes worse on larger fonts, and is a very bad blurr on bolded, friends online especially. (Cant give details i went back to main client - but will get rc again if you want) Can anyone experiencing this issue please provide full environment details, including graphics driver version
full details are as above when i created the issue. Nvidia driver version: 182.50,and 185.85. i had to roll back to 182.50 because of constant crashing when taking high rez photos to disk. small squat fonts are with either driver.
Second Life 1.23.2 (120719) May 18 2009 09:43:42 (Second Life Release Candidate)
Release Notes Built with MSVC version 1400 You are at 264659.9, 248588.4, 25.0 in Korea1 located at sim2879.agni.lindenlab.com (216.82.19.122:12035) CPU: Intel Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon (0.25 micron process) with external L2 cache (2000 MHz) I too am experiencing the same issue with the choppyness of fonts. I have tried all points on the UI scale and every one has the same chewed up fonts. I have ensured all my drivers (system and graphics card) to no avail i have not been able to resolve this issue. I have no problems with the normal viewer only all of the most recent release candidates. This issue is not resolved.
Dresden,
Can you please provide your full environment details
Please understand this readability issue would be the perfect thing for the Disability Liason to handle
Second Life 1.23.3 (122255) May 30 2009 13:13:41 (Second Life Release Candidate)
Release Notes Built with MSVC version 1400 You are at 287028.4, 280335.3, 110.6 in Jessgate located at sim5192.agni.lindenlab.com (216.82.48.193:13002) CPU: Intel Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon (0.25 micron process) with external L2 cache (2000 MHz) libcurl Version: libcurl/7.18.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8j zlib/1.2.3 Sorry thought i got it all. Yes i am still having this issue and can provide more screen shots if needed. Dresden, please check you have the latest graphics drivers by either going to your manufacturer's site or by checking in Knowledge Base How do I get the latest drivers for my graphics card?
ATI have recently released 5/15/2009 Catalyst 9.5 OpenGL 2.1.8664
Please add your comments and votes on the issues VWR-3947 'Ugly font rendering in menu bar after upgrading to ATI drivers 7.12' & Thank you : ) Please focus on using this as a meta issue and putting any comments on the linked issues for specific problems - ie parts of characters missing, or blurry text
Im having this issue (fuzzy/poor text) as well but only when Anti-Aliasing is enabled in 1.23.4
This is only in the windows version. Linux version is fine Im attaching 2 screenshots. Without anti-aliasing, with anti-aliasing. Nvidia driver 185.85 Second Life 1.23.4 (123908) Jun 11 2009 15:16:56 (Second Life Release) Built with MSVC version 1400 CPU: Intel Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon (0.25 micron process) with external L2 cache (2992 MHz) libcurl Version: libcurl/7.18.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8j zlib/1.2.3 hi, same thing with me with the 1.23.4 viewer, choppy font with more distortion at the bottom on the text, cant seem to update my drivers as not compatible with new ones on ATI web page.
Second Life 1.23.4 (123908) Jun 11 2009 15:16:56 (Second Life Release) Built with MSVC version 1400 You are at 262500.5, 256352.5, 301.1 in Brauer located at sim5041.agni.lindenlab.com (216.82.48.42:13001) CPU: AMD (Unknown model) (1838 MHz) libcurl Version: libcurl/7.18.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8j zlib/1.2.3 There are several different issues here: one is blurry/squashed letters like 1.23.jpg
 , and another is more like the bottoms of letters are randomly cut off (see Please try to keep these separate so we might be able to sort out who's having which problem and what's in common among those seeing each different symptom (in particular, peoples' drivers and graphics cards). dena dana: It's possible that you need this hotfix for AMD 2xxx and 3xxx cards to get rid of that error message: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/CatalystAGPHotfix.aspx
I have more data on this as to the issue I posted about the text being out of proportion. I don't have the fuzzy/blurry problem. In the photos I posted I am running sl in a window. If I run sl in full screen mode text displays properly. This did not appear until 1.23.n. 1.22.n displayed text in proper proportion running sl in a window.
Hotfix for 9.6 driver fixed the OUT OF PROPORTION text problem but gave a rendering issue that for me made sl unusable.
Searched and found 8.8 drivers here http://www2.ati.com/misc/hotfi...hotfix_xp32_67246.exe seemed to fix the issue of text and more stable on sl for me. Second Life 1.23.4 (123908) Jun 11 2009 15:16:56 (Second Life Release) Built with MSVC version 1400 You are at 262052.3, 254237.9, 72.6 in Sutherland located at sim4987.agni.lindenlab.com (216.82.27.198:13002) CPU: AMD (Unknown model) (1838 MHz) libcurl Version: libcurl/7.18.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8j zlib/1.2.3 Heh, dena's link seems to be broken... The hotfix is here for Windows XP 32-bit
. Hotfixes for others (Vista and XP 64-bit) exist here. Same issue
CPU: Intel Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon (0.25 micron process) with external L2 cache (2260 MHz) libcurl Version: libcurl/7.16.4 OpenSSL/0.9.7c zlib/1.2.3 Weird, I experience this issue with The Sims 3 when I have it in windowed mode (full screen is absolutely fine). However, I don't experience it with 1.23 of SL. Weird!
Anyone notice a similarity in screen resolution and windowed mode for the people saying they have this issue? Unfortunately all the details people have given omits this. And I just noticed the hot-fix people have been posting - anyone find this fixes it? By the way, I am using Nvidia Geforce 8800 GT, not ATI, so those hot-fixes don't apply to me (I was curious to see if it'd clear up my Sims 3 issue, thinking they were general Windows hot-fixes, not graphics drivers). For me, the oddest part about my new blurry-fonts problem, is the fact that it's only my Friends List that is blurry now, and it's only the bold-faced ones who are online that appear less legible.
I'm on a (very old) Mac, and I will try to grab a snapshot and enviro infos next time I get on. Does anyone care about this issue ... there is no feedback.... and Linden only seem to want to close issues not feedback... Is the experience getting better NO>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I have the same problem and it is very annoying. I would like to see it resolved.
I have this problem on Linux (with the downloaded client, not built by me), but I've never seen this on Windows (in downloaded or custom clients).
This is Ubuntu Linux 8.04, Gnome 2.22.3, FWIW: Second Life 1.23.4 (123908) Jun 11 2009 15:37:14 (Second Life Release) Built with GCC version 40102 You are at 291634.0, 279583.0, 421.0 in Sentry located at sim5297.agni.lindenlab.com (216.82.49.44:13001) CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4450e libcurl Version: libcurl/7.16.4 OpenSSL/0.9.7c zlib/1.2.3.3 c-ares/1.4.0 |
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Meta Issue
Reopened
Normal
Font readability in 1.23
I tried it in fullscreenmode and windowed mode.
It also happens with the default skin
Second Life 1.23.1 (119104) May 4 2009 17:53:10 (Second Life Release Candidate)
Release Notes
Built with MSVC version 1400
You are at 261798.1, 260754.4, 24.8 in Here located at sim7594.agni.lindenlab.com (216.82.36.202:13002)
Second Life Server 1.26.3.118673
Release Notes
CPU: Intel Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon (0.25 micron process) with external L2 cache (2520 MHz)
Memory: 2048 MB
OS Version: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 (Build 2600)
Graphics Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 3850
OpenGL Version: 2.0.7055 Release
libcurl Version: libcurl/7.18.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8j zlib/1.2.3
J2C Decoder Version: KDU
Audio Driver Version: FMOD version 3.740000
LLMozLib Version: [LLMediaImplLLMozLib] - 2.01.23891 (Mozilla GRE version 1.8.1.21_0000000000)
Packets Lost: 355/36026 (1.0%)
PS/UPDATE: Changing the UI Size does not help, it just draws bigger "boxes" with bigger font size, but still the same distortion