Hello guys, I recently installed Windows 8 from Windows 7 and immediately noticed something that continues to bother me. I may be splitting hairs by some people's definition, but I noticed that any image I set as my desktop background, whether higher resolution or matching the resolution of my display, I get a whole lot of little compression artifacts where there previously were none. I can take a pristine quality image, observe it in any viewing application as being pristine, and the instant I set it as the background, I get compression artifacts galore. Well, perhaps not "galore"... It's not quite like looking at a mosaic or anything, but detail all over are muddied and dulled. Colors don't pop and fine lines are all but entirely lost.
In some cases it is more noticeable than others, but when it's there, it's extremely noticeable and not so easy on the eyes. I have no idea why this would be. I have not yet been able to troubleshoot other windows 8 machines to identify if the problem is isolated to my PC or not, but I will asap and let you all know what I find. For now I am assuming this is a problem that perhaps other people are coming across, as I have no idea what could have changed since I upgraded to 8.
My computer had no such problems with 7, and I am a digital painter who unfortunately picks up on this stuff extremely easily. Ultimately, it looks in a lot of areas like somebody sporadically sharpened parts of the image, giving a slightly grainy effect, while blurring others. Anybody else noticing this? Google hasn't turned up any results on it, but it's a relatively new product for most people, so perhaps I am not alone. Like I said, I will cross check another computer within the next day and post my findings. For what it's worth, I am using an HP laptop equipped with 8 gigs of RAM, an i7 processor and an Intel 4000 graphics card.
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: I apologize, I see now that customization is probably where this thread fits best. If someone with administrator priveleges sees this, I would appreciate it if you could move it there.
In some cases it is more noticeable than others, but when it's there, it's extremely noticeable and not so easy on the eyes. I have no idea why this would be. I have not yet been able to troubleshoot other windows 8 machines to identify if the problem is isolated to my PC or not, but I will asap and let you all know what I find. For now I am assuming this is a problem that perhaps other people are coming across, as I have no idea what could have changed since I upgraded to 8.
My computer had no such problems with 7, and I am a digital painter who unfortunately picks up on this stuff extremely easily. Ultimately, it looks in a lot of areas like somebody sporadically sharpened parts of the image, giving a slightly grainy effect, while blurring others. Anybody else noticing this? Google hasn't turned up any results on it, but it's a relatively new product for most people, so perhaps I am not alone. Like I said, I will cross check another computer within the next day and post my findings. For what it's worth, I am using an HP laptop equipped with 8 gigs of RAM, an i7 processor and an Intel 4000 graphics card.
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: I apologize, I see now that customization is probably where this thread fits best. If someone with administrator priveleges sees this, I would appreciate it if you could move it there.
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