I just upgraded from 1.8.x to 2.3.8, and the main menu (and its submenus) is barely readable.
Here’s a screen cap of the Arduino IDE in the foreground, and two other applications behind it. The other applications’ main menus are clear and sharp, while Arduino’s is faint and blurry.
As you can see, I also have the Preferences text setting at 200%, to see if that would at least give me more-readable main menu, but apparently that doesn’t affect the menu.
This is on Windows 10, with recent updates. Windows scaling set to 100%. I don’t know if this is a recent problem with this IDE, or has applied to the 2.x series and I just had not tried it yet.
Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks.
Edit: After posting, it looks like this forum shows the screen cap with higher contrast than I see in person looking at the UI. Regardless the screen cap certainly shows that the main menu is much less clear than those of the other applications.
As a separate note, the screen cap was taken with the IDE’s theme set to Light High Contrast, as opposed to default Light, but this doesn’t seem to affect the main menu.
If you're using a GeForce video card, Blurry Arduino IDE 2.0.4 problem might be of interest. Some people seems to have solved the issue.
Search results on the forum: Search results for '#development-tools:ide-2-x blur order:latest_topic' - Arduino Forum
… and here’s another case of the strangely poor rendering:
… still in Light High Contrast mode. If I select the window of a different application, then this Arduino window suddenly decides to sharpen up! But if I change the window in some way, like drag it (not even resize) it goes back to blurry…. until I again select a different application.
For what it’s worth, my PC is running an nvidia RTX 3060, and has no other apparent graphics problems as I use a variety of MCAD, ECAD and other graphical products day-in, day-out.
@sterretje Oh, our messages crossed.. I will check out the articles you mentioned. Thanks!
… and it turns out that the advice from the thread you suggested, disabling FXAA, does fix the problem.
That setting is “Antialiasing - FXAA” in 3D Settings > Manage 3D settings in the Nvidia control panel.
Thanks for your speedy and on-target answer!
