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I am using a CRT monitor, for various reasons... But I am having a particular problem: some smaller text is being rendered in a very bizarre manner, for example the "C" on the first line of this text, is missing the bottommost pixels (thus it looks like a arc and a dot).

I tried disabling cleartype, enabling cleartype, tuning cleartype, nothing helps... I don't remember having this problems back in Windows 98 for example, so why font rendering is so bad on CRT and Win 8?

EDIT: the laptop rendering is not that great either. Also I tried disabling DPI and whatnot.

So far I saw a improvement in most apps by using "MacType" program, but the windows UI itself still look terrible, I've seen suggestions that it is because Windows up to XP used Tahoma, and now it uses Segoe, that was designed with high-res and cleartype and mind, thus looks terrible in low-res LCDs (like my laptop) and on CRTs.

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  • How many monitors are you using? It's might be a DPI scaling issue msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/…
    – g2mk
    Commented Dec 29, 2015 at 19:54
  • I am using two monitors (a laptop monitor, 1366x768 and a CRT as "main monitor" 1280x960, in "extend desktop" mode)
    – speeder
    Commented Dec 29, 2015 at 19:58
  • Windows 8 or 8.1? System DPI <> monitors DPI?
    – g2mk
    Commented Dec 29, 2015 at 20:00
  • windows 8.1 (it updated to 8.1 forcefully, it quite pissed me off when it did that)
    – speeder
    Commented Dec 29, 2015 at 20:03
  • do you refer to Desktop rendering or the new "metro" UI/apps rendering?
    – magicandre1981
    Commented Dec 30, 2015 at 6:30

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As you haven't provided your OS and monitors DPIs (CRT DPI) I guess that is DPI scaling issue for not DPI–aware and system–DPI aware applications.

If your OS DPI is other than monitor DPI:

  • Application windows are virtualized at OS DPI.
  • Application windows are scaled to monitor DPI before displaying on that monitor.

As scaling algorithm isn't ideal you probably lose a bottom text line.

You might try to match OS DPI to native CRT DPI [Windows 8.1 section] (which I guess is lower than laptop monitor DPI) but not DPI–aware and system–DPI aware applications will be scaled on your laptop monitor then.

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