Windows 8.1 messed up screen resolution

Windbrand1

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After making the terrible mistake of upgrading to 8.1, the resolution of almost all my programs are messed up. They look very blurry, as if they're being stretched or something. I'm using a Lenovo Ideapad Y510P with screen resolution 1920x1080. The only method to correct this, that I found so far, is to go to every single .exe's properties and disable "disable display scaling on high DPI settings". Yes I know I can go to control panel and set a resolution for all programs at 100%, but that will make the text on the programs way too tiny (including Windows UI, like icons, start menu, etc) that they're barely readable, way smaller than Windows 8.0's size. The correct size for the UI is supposed to be about 125% scaling, comparing to Windows 8.0, which is a size I'm comfortable with. But if I set the scaling in display options to 125%, then all my programs will be blurred again.
Does anyone know how I can fix this? It's getting really frustrating.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win 8.1
Who moved this to graphics card section? Windows 8.1 OS and screen resolution has nothing to do with graphics cards.. -__-
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win 8.1
It was moved by one of the admin people probably Shawn or John. If they moved it, it was where they as owners of the site felt it would get better exposure, hence giving your problem a better chance of getting solved. If it has nothing to do with the graphics card then where would you think we should start looking in order to help you?????.

BTW "Welcome to the Eight Fourms". . .:thumbsup:
 
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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win 8, (VM win7, XP, Vista)
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP Pavilion p1423w
    CPU
    Intel Core i5 3330 Ivy Bridge
    Motherboard
    Foxconn - 2ADA Ivy Brige
    Memory
    16 GB 1066MHz DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD 5450
    Sound Card
    HD Realteck (Onboard)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Mitsubishi LED TV/Montior HD, Dell 23 HD, Hanspree 25" HD
    Screen Resolution
    Mit. 1980-1080, Dell 2048-115, Hanspree 1920-10802
    Hard Drives
    1 SanDisk 240Gig SSD, 2 Samsung 512Gig SSDs
    Case
    Tower
    Cooling
    Original (Fans)
    Keyboard
    Microsoft Keyboard 2000
    Mouse
    Microsoft Optical Mouse 5000
    Internet Speed
    1.3 (350 to 1024 if lucky)
    Browser
    Firefox 19.1
    Antivirus
    MSE-Defender
It's clearly a software problem, as Windows 8.0 did not have this problem.
Graphics card = hardware.
I don't see the connection between "Windows 8 OS problem" and "graphics cards". If it's in the wrong forum then wouldn't that get less exposure to help?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win 8.1
It's clearly a software problem, as Windows 8.0 did not have this problem.
Graphics card = hardware.
I don't see the connection between "Windows 8 OS problem" and "graphics cards". If it's in the wrong forum then wouldn't that get less exposure to help?
Then what software do you think is causing your problem. Have you even taken time to see if your graphics card manufacture has put out an update. . .just a question.
 
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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win 8, (VM win7, XP, Vista)
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP Pavilion p1423w
    CPU
    Intel Core i5 3330 Ivy Bridge
    Motherboard
    Foxconn - 2ADA Ivy Brige
    Memory
    16 GB 1066MHz DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD 5450
    Sound Card
    HD Realteck (Onboard)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Mitsubishi LED TV/Montior HD, Dell 23 HD, Hanspree 25" HD
    Screen Resolution
    Mit. 1980-1080, Dell 2048-115, Hanspree 1920-10802
    Hard Drives
    1 SanDisk 240Gig SSD, 2 Samsung 512Gig SSDs
    Case
    Tower
    Cooling
    Original (Fans)
    Keyboard
    Microsoft Keyboard 2000
    Mouse
    Microsoft Optical Mouse 5000
    Internet Speed
    1.3 (350 to 1024 if lucky)
    Browser
    Firefox 19.1
    Antivirus
    MSE-Defender
Scaling level

Late to the game here but I had the same problem. It seems as though Windows has attempted to make different DPI displays work better together. However not all software has implemented all the "fixes" for windows 8 yet. You can disable the independent DPI scaling by following this technet:
Some desktop applications may appear blurred on high-DPI displays
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Dell
    CPU
    i5
    Motherboard
    -
    Memory
    16GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    HD4400
    Browser
    IE, Chrome, FF
    Antivirus
    McAfee
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