Solved Windows 8 Metro bug (low def, blurry text) after crash

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[Fixed] Windows 8 Metro bug (low def, blurry text) after crash

First of all, I believe it ain't a hardware issue. Said that, let's proceed.

Hi!
I've been overclocking my GTX550 Ti for a while, and it never went like this. I always clocked my card to 1GHz proc and 2GHz memories (exactly 1000MHz and 2000MHz), but today I decided to go further and clock the memory to, precisely, 2174MHz. Fired up Driver: San Francisco and didn't notice any improvement to the previous 2000MHz, but I wanted to know how long it could run like this.

After what.. 10, 15 minutes, the ":(" face went right up. Reported WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR. Experience says it's a uncorrectable hardware issue -- Overclock failed, boo hoo. Nothing new, happened before but....
Metro never been like this:

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It ain't a low def image. It's exactly like that. I didn't edit a pixel of this image, the black metro apps happens when there's an animation (live metro app).

I thought "oh man, the card's fried!" but when I clicked on 'Desktop', everything was fine.
So I thought "it.. must be the 3D that's screwed up!", fired my game back and well... it's running great. No loss on FPS or whatsoever.

PSU is powerful enough for this card. Motherboard is fine for overclocking. Drivers are updated.
Can't count on fingers how many times I've restarted the PC. I didn't try to reinstall the drivers. I didn't try to reinstall Windows 8 (duh). Graphics Card is back to factory frequencies for troubleshooting.

I've googled a little for this blurry text, but my findings were inconclusive. Any thoughts?
 
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I went to nVidia Control Panel, Manage 3D Settings and clicked "restore". Restarted and it's fine now.
I'll consider fixed. If it goes nuts again, I'll be here crying again
 

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I'm glad you got it fixed, oh and welcome to Eight Forums! ;)

Since you have nVidia, you should have "beta" drivers right now.
8 isn't officially supported at a local Microsoft store due to the fact RTM is for business and personal geek use. :geek:
 

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I'm glad you got it fixed, oh and welcome to Eight Forums! ;)

Since you have nVidia, you should have "beta" drivers right now.
8 isn't officially supported at a local Microsoft store due to the fact RTM is for business and personal geek use. :geek:
Thanks!
It's funny, I thought when the O.S. is RTM'ed, it was "released", so it would mean proper support and drivers.
I've got this release from Dreamspark. Seems like finished, though.

That's the first "bug" I've encountered so far, anyway. Glad it was kinda easy to sort it out!
 

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I'm glad you got it fixed, oh and welcome to Eight Forums! ;)

Since you have nVidia, you should have "beta" drivers right now.
8 isn't officially supported at a local Microsoft store due to the fact RTM is for business and personal geek use. :geek:
Thanks!
It's funny, I thought when the O.S. is RTM'ed, it was "released", so it would mean proper support and drivers.
I've got this release from Dreamspark. Seems like finished, though.

That's the first "bug" I've encountered so far, anyway. Glad it was kinda easy to sort it out!

RTM'd does mean "released", but Windows might be working a little harder on SP1... :p
 

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I will apologize in advance for being critical.

But, again, this is another example of people crying Bug when there isn't any way to prove that a bug exists, or that this would not be a natural reaction to what it is, that you did.

Based on your OP, you over-clocked you card and caused an issue.

Glad you got it fixed, but please, using Bug as an adjective for anything that goes wrong with windows is old hyperbole. Especially when it is something that is not a good idea to begin with, such as Over-Clocking.

Please don't take this post the wrong way. It is just that people have a tendency to throw Bug around ad nauseam.
 

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I will apologize in advance for being critical.

But, again, this is another example of people crying Bug when there isn't any way to prove that a bug exists, or that this would not be a natural reaction to what it is, that you did.

Based on your OP, you over-clocked you card and caused an issue.

Glad you got it fixed, but please, using Bug as an adjective for anything that goes wrong with windows is old hyperbole. Especially when it is something that is not a good idea to begin with, such as Over-Clocking.

Please don't take this post the wrong way. It is just that people have a tendency to throw Bug around ad nauseam.
Nah, no problemo. Feel free to speak whatever you think and anyway you like =)

The thing is, it happened a while after a overclock crash, and it wasn't a broken card. Everything else was fine.
I'm running my card back to 1GHz and 2070MHz and my only issue now is overheating due to the amount of cables inside the case, but that's another story.
It looked like a bug because everything else was running smooth and nicely. 2D, 3D, overclock, video acceleration.. everything but Metro apps.
Luckily it wasn't a Windows bug (Actually.. I'm not so sure), but infact, it's a graphic driver bug. Something went nuts and restoring the driver settings back to factory default solved it. What precisely, I don't know, but I've heard about ClearType on some forums. Maybe some anti-aliasing effects from nVidia Control Panel?

I'm used with bluescreens and crashes. That's the price of pushing the machine to the limit. Finding the sweetspot is nice =) (1 hour ago, my netbook bluescreened with exactly the same error: WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR. Hehe, I'm trying to find the lowest voltage possible there)
But that's the first time ever that something went bad after a overclock failure. I was astonished. Glad it worked out right
 

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Good to hear it's ok now. Anyway a 1000/2000 MHz clock is quite good already.
 

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I'm glad you got it fixed, oh and welcome to Eight Forums! ;)

Since you have nVidia, you should have "beta" drivers right now.
8 isn't officially supported at a local Microsoft store due to the fact RTM is for business and personal geek use. :geek:
Thanks!
It's funny, I thought when the O.S. is RTM'ed, it was "released", so it would mean proper support and drivers.
I've got this release from Dreamspark. Seems like finished, though.

That's the first "bug" I've encountered so far, anyway. Glad it was kinda easy to sort it out!

RTM=Released to Manufacturer. This gives the hardware vendors time to use the final release to load their PC's and get the drivers working properly and the software vendors a test bed to tweak their software. On Oct 26 Windows 8 will be GA=General Availability and then us customers will get the support.

Jim :cool:
 

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THANK YOU so much!!!I did not know it was my Nvidia beta driver that mess up the UI screen. I was scratching my head all over trying to figure what program i install did this to my windows 8 xD I was about to reformat my computer today until i find this post. It is fixed!! xD

I did not overclock my gtx 670 but i did mess with the advanced setting. Probably one of the setting mess up the UI and made it blurry and random black box
 

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Everything should settle into place about mid-november for sure. :)
Drivers are being released everyday and themes are slowly evolving to fit the non-aero environment.
It renders "Aero"-built graphic cards useless for that field, unless you have a dual-boot PC/Laptop.
 

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Hey all, much like the other posters here, I'm experiencing this as well. I have a manually overclocked graphics card (EVGA NVIDIA GTX 470 Superclocked), clocked from 1025v/625 core/1250 shader/1701 mem to 1062/800/1601/1801. The only crash that's occurred was while I was initially messing with those values to ensure stability. After that crash, every Metro menu had black boxes and low def text. Since doing the fix described in this post, that stopped...though only for a short time. Now, the black boxes and fuzzy text happens without any crash occurring, predominantly in the PC Settings tab, for seemingly no reason.
I've attached the settings I've assigned under the NVIDIA Control Panel, maybe they're causing this? Whatever the case, any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Huh...ok, I guess I fixed this (possibly only temporarily) by updating to the 310.33 beta drivers. I'll update my post again if something goes awry.
 
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Hey fella, try disabling the Antialiasing settings and restarting. I think it has something to do with it.
Instead of using global settings, use a per-program setting

It ain't a driver bug, I think. After fiddling around, I noticed that some changes on nVidia COntrol Panel resulted in that.
Start with Anti-Aliasing and if it doesn't help, try Anisotropic filtering
 

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I will apologize in advance for being critical.

But, again, this is another example of people crying Bug when there isn't any way to prove that a bug exists, or that this would not be a natural reaction to what it is, that you did.

Based on your OP, you over-clocked you card and caused an issue.

Glad you got it fixed, but please, using Bug as an adjective for anything that goes wrong with windows is old hyperbole. Especially when it is something that is not a good idea to begin with, such as Over-Clocking.

Please don't take this post the wrong way. It is just that people have a tendency to throw Bug around ad nauseam.

No apologies whatsoever for being critical, but this is another example of someone on the internet being a complete asshole when they know nothing whatsoever about the problem. As a user who never overclocks their card, this certainly isn't the cause of the problem. Based upon your post, you're claiming that it isn't a bug when you have no way to prove your point of view.

I've found that it's the result of Windows 8 automatically updating drivers without my consent. By going into the device manager and rolling back my drivers, everything suddenly works fine, surprise, surprise. Maybe if they just checked with me before they pushed my NVIDIA drivers forward into a beta version, my desktop wouldn't be ****ing up.

But I'm sure your idea of it being someone else's fault for overclocking their card (of which the chances of causing this specific a problem from simple heat damage approximate zero) is totally legitimate. Asshole.
 

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I understand Tepid, it looked like a overclock problem, although a weird, uncommon, specific one. I've forgotten that I had modded the nVidia settings last week (within' the timeframe of when the problem occurred) and didn't restart the computer since then. Upon restarting on BSOD, settings were applied to the Metro Start menu, which caused the bug.

As the BSOD was caused by the overclock, and this bug happened just after it, I thought it was a broken card or something, heh.
Thank god it was just an AntiAlising problem
Surely Overclocking isn't a good idea... when you don't know what you're dealing with.

Problem caused by Over-Clocking: BSOD, nothing to worry about really. Card is running great 'till now, and there's a lot more of juice in it
Bug: Custom Antialiasing settings. Reproducing bug: Set a custom antialiasing setting and restart. Breaks something up there, dunno about the beta drivers, I'm running 306.97 here.
 

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But it does not mean a bug in Win8. More than likely it is the Video Card Drivers.
 

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I had the same problem, I looked all over for a fix. It wasn't until I remembered playing with the advanced 3d settings in the NVidia control panel that I had a brain fart.
I went back to the control panel and restored all the default settings then rebooted now it is back to normal. I thought I would add this info on this site but I see some one has already beaten me to it !.
I shall add a few tags to help the search engines!
black, start, font, windows 8, icons, blurry, blurred, metro, minesweeper (this is where I first noticed it)
 

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Not to rehash this old topic but I wanted to thank you all for the help. I just got a windows 8 laptop and have been blindly playing with settings when I noticed that the apps had black backgrounds or became blurry. I came across this topic in a google search and was able to correct my issue. So thanks again.
 

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