Forums Bug Reports Fuzzy font when larger dpi

Hi. Just bought an used laptop with 15.1" screen with 1650x etc resolution. I can read that small typing ok. But it is easier to read when it is a bit bigger. When I raised font size from 125 to 150 (100 is orginal at win7) windows own texts are okay but mIRC's is fuzzy. Why and could this be fixed somehow ?

Win 7 x64
mIRC 7.22

Yes, switch your font to one that supports higher DPIs. mIRC's default font does not.

This is happening because mIRC is not marked as a DPI aware application. In order for applications to be DPI aware, they need to make sure that all interface elements are correctly scaled (positioned and sized) when non-standard DPI settings are used.

As far as I can tell, mIRC seems to display just fine when marked as DPI aware when non-standard DPI settings are used, although there a few minor display issues. I will look into marking mIRC as DPI aware by default for the next version.

For now, you can prevent the fuzzy font using this method: right-click on the mIRC icon on your Windows desktop, select Properties, Compatibility, and check the "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" option. This will make Windows 7 display mIRC without any scaling, which will result in a clearer font in all windows and dialogs.

This results same as not change dpi at all. As it should. So far it is same do I increase dpi or not. I decreased it to 125 which was native from windows itself and wait for possible fix as you mentioned earlier.

When you enable this option, mIRC fonts, windows and dialogs will not be scaled for your selected DPI. Also, icons will not be scaled. These are more difficult to resolve as they will require the creation of new sets of toolbar and other icons at various sizes to cater for different DPI settings. I will add this to my to-do list for a future version.