Windows 10 + Display Link Text Blurry

[MoltenTesseract]

Hi There,

Upgraded to W10 and installed the latest DisplayLink drivers. However the monitor appears almost blurry. Text is quite hard to read, It remands me of what it looks like when the old DisplayLink "Video Mode" was enabled. But I cannot find this feature in the W10 version. The monitor is running at its native resolution and DPI is not enabled. It only affects the DisplayLink adapter connected monitor.

Cheers,
Ben

[MoltenTesseract]

Does anyone have any suggestions?

[MoltenTesseract]

No response? No suggestions?

[SOFTEK]

I have the same issue. The texts appear very blurry, especially smallest

[JamesH]

Hi,

Can you check out this article and see if it helps?

http://www.howtogeek.com/175664/how-to-make-the-windows-desktop-work-well-on-high-dpi-displays-and-fix-blurry-fonts/

Thanks,
James

[MoltenTesseract]

Hi,

Can you check out this article and see if it helps?

http://www.howtogeek.com/175664/how-to-make-the-windows-desktop-work-well-on-high-dpi-displays-and-fix-blurry-fonts/

Thanks,
James

James,

As stated in my original post, I have confirmed that it is not DPI, all monitors are set to 100%. In fact, I have two monitors that are exactly the same model, whichever one I plug into the DisplayLink adapter has the blurry text. See photos from my phone for comparison (Zipped as the lower res pics don't show it well enough). Screenshots are useless as the issue is with the display, not the windows rendering of windows.

I have updated to the version released yesterday (27th Aug) and it has made no difference. Really disappoint in the lack of response and support on this.

Really happy to work with your team to get this resolved as it's often very had to use the monitor for anything with text on it.

[JamesH]

Hi,

I'm trying to repro this at the moment.

In the meantime can you try the following?
1. Hit the auto adjust button on your monitor
2. Try a lower resolution (do you still get a blurry output?)
3. If you have one a different monitor
4. If you have one a different USB adapter

Thanks,
James

[MoltenTesseract]

Hi,

I'm trying to repro this at the moment.

In the meantime can you try the following?
1. Hit the auto adjust button on your monitor
2. Try a lower resolution (do you still get a blurry output?)
3. If you have one a different monitor
4. If you have one a different USB adapter

Thanks,
James

1. No change with auto adjustments.
2. I've lowered it but makes it hard to see if it's still there because its then blurry for a different reason. But moving windows very slowly still has the same weird jutter effect. Its almost like every so often, two pixels have been merged into one.
3. Don't have another monitor to try it on, other than the identicle one.
4. I've tried another USB adapter, and it has the exact same issue.

[SOFTEK]

Hi.

In my case, the problem began to install the Windows 10 update.
I went back to Windows 8.1 and continued the problem until I returned to install the old application. I reinstalled Windows 10 and continued to have the problem of blurred fonts.

[JamesH]

@softek

Can you attach the output of this tool so I can try and replicate your setup?

http://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/533818-how-can-i-report-issues-to-displaylink

Thanks,
James

[rhawk]

My hdmi monitor is almost not usable now. It worked perfectly under Windows 8.1. I updated to 10 and installed your new driver and one of the 2 external monitors has horrible text now.
I notice that the screen resolution screen will not show the monitor into on it either BUT advanced properties does show the monitor info right.

[rhawk]

I was reading other problems in the form and this particular message helped me a lot...

Solved:

So after several hours of fiddling with wires and connections I found a solution:

1. Go to display properties in windows.
2. Go to advanced properties and select the display with the incorrect resolution
3. Go to display adapter properties and 'list all modes'
4. Manually select the correct resolution and click 'apply'.

For whatever reason the displaylink does not select the right mode when you select the resolution in the display setting panel...it scales the default mode. ....

This lead me to realize that the monitor was set to 50 Hertz refresh, but the display adapter to 60 Hertz. When I made them both 60 Hertz it greatly improved the display. I suggest the other two people on this message check the settings for that as well.

David

[MoltenTesseract]

I was reading other problems in the form and this particular message helped me a lot...



This lead me to realize that the monitor was set to 50 Hertz refresh, but the display adapter to 60 Hertz. When I made them both 60 Hertz it greatly improved the display. I suggest the other two people on this message check the settings for that as well.

David

Thanks for the info, sadly I only have one setting for this resolution, 60Herts. And interestingly enough, my other identical monitor that is running a direct connection to my laptop is showing as 60Hertz. So I don't think this one is my issue. :(

[MoltenTesseract]

Any updates on my issue here?

I've been away for a month, have just installed the latest version of the drivers and still no change in quality on the USB monitor...