Always blurry chars - wrong aspect ratio?

[1988]

Hi,

i always got blurry chars in windows, just look at the screen:



The zeros in "A500/A2000" got different widths... the "D" in the title (AmigaDOS) and so on...

My current settings (tested many other variations but with no success):



I'm using a wide-screen tft (ACER AL2216W) with 1680 x 1050 pixels - maybe that's the problem?

Many thanks,
1988

[Supamax]

Originally Posted by 1988

I'm using a wide-screen tft (ACER AL2216W) with 1680 x 1050 pixels - maybe that's the problem?

Hmmm, definitely not.
The problem is not the monitor.

P.S. the chars are not blurry... they look scaled. There isn't a 1-to-1 pixels correspondence.

Try setting the Line Mode to Double, and removing the flags from both Horizontal and Vertical centering.

At least, that's my settings, and I can see all "the right way" .

[1988]

Played with Host -> Filter -> Aspect Ratio too... no success

I just wanna use a window with 800x600 which shows the workbench in original size (without blur and without stretches).

[Retro-Nerd]

If 1680 x 1050 is the native monitor resolution any other resolution looks bad, that's pretty normal.

[Supamax]

This is the default WinUAE configuration for a "Quickstart" A500:

- Windowed: 720 568 (and not 800 600 as you set)
- no flag to "Filtered low resolution"
- no flag to "Horizontal" Centering
- no flag to "Vertical" Centering
- Line Mode set to Double

try modifying your setting in order to reflect the above, and all should be nice .

Originally Posted by Retro-Nerd

If 1680 x 1050 is the native monitor resolution any other resolution looks bad, that's pretty normal.

He's not running WinUAE fullscreen, so his problem is not generated by the monitor's resolution.

[Retro-Nerd]

Do you use any filters, the letters looks like scaled?

[1988]

Originally Posted by Supamax

This is the default WinUAE configuration for a "Quickstart" A500:

- Windowed: 720 568 (and not 800 600 as you set)
- no flag to "Filtered low resolution"
- no flag to "Horizontal" Centering
- no flag to "Vertical" Centering
- Line Mode set to Double

try modifying your setting in order to reflect the above, and all should be nice .

This works in "Fullwindowed" perfectly, in "windowed" it still looks "ugly":



Really strange... perhaps it's impossible to get a clear result on the windowed version..

Originally Posted by Retro-Nerd

Do you use any filters, the letters looks like scaled?

No, all disabled.

[Retro-Nerd]

Strange, a 800x600 windowed resolution looks fine here on my 16:9 Display.

[Supamax]

Originally Posted by Retro-Nerd

Strange, a 800x600 windowed resolution looks fine here on my 16:9 Display.

I, too, have no issues on my two monitors (17" 4:3 and 26" 16:10) in windowed mode...

Do you have the same issue with every WinUAE release you tried?

Also, have you tried a Quickstart configuration?

[1988]

Maybe the small chars are the reason?

In your window the chars are bigger than mine...

I know this is changeable in the Prefs... "40/80 chars per line" or something like that.

Originally Posted by Supamax

Do you have the same issue with every WinUAE release you tried?

Also, have you tried a Quickstart configuration?

Perhaps it's the best way to download the latest release... looks like there is a mismatch config here.

[Supamax]

Originally Posted by 1988

Maybe the small chars are the reason?

In your window the chars are bigger than mine...

I know this is changeable in the Prefs... "40/80 chars per line" or something like that.

No no no, 1988.
Your problem is not related to small characters.

If Toni will read your thread he will surely find the solution.

Only a question: when getting the issue in windowed mode, how do you see the rest of the screen (your PC desktop, outside the WinUAE window)?
If it has no issues, then your monitor's resolution is NOT the problem (I never thought it was).

[e5frog]

In "Filter" - press "Reset to defaults" then change Horiz. and Vert. size to 1x, see if that helps.

Using horizontal and vertical centering under "Display" doesn't affect that kind of pixel width interference it only moves the graphics to the center of the screen.

In WB1.3 Windowed size 752 x 572 seemed to be the biggest before there's black around the WB screen.

[Lurch666]

under miscellaneous try changing the graphics api from direct 3d to directdraw.Worked for me.

[Mclane]

I see these types of messages a lot, it begs the question if there is a sort of default for 4:3 where the picture will be in ratio, fonts will look correct and it will conform to what an Amiga would boot up to by default (ie no WB) so it could be set as a preset or one of a set of presets that people new to Winuae could use.

To the new the Display screen is quite daunting and settings that seem to be obvious can have a bad effect of the look of the screen.

So, is there a / are there preset(s) which pretty much will be bang on for a new user with other possible presets that set the filter also to be spot on for new users?

Even user made presets that a new person could use easily..

[Toni Wilen]

Filter -> Reset to defaults and set "No scaling".

[Mclane]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Filter -> Reset to defaults and set "No scaling".

What about in Display Toni, there's going to be people looking at a lot of the options not knowing what is right or wrong, things like centring and double lines.

I know that if you use scaling then double lines isn't needed but people just looking at Winuae for the first time will wonder what is right for a basic out of the box start I guess.

Always made me wonder why you didn't do a beginners and an advance graphics setup so the new people didn't have all those sliders to play with

You may well have answered this over the years but I've missed the answer

[Toni Wilen]

Either you know what are you doing or you use frontends.

[Jgames]

For workbench screens of the Amiga 500 and 600, try using low res instead of hires or super hires, this is 99% the reason you have this issue.

You'll get the same issue in games, low res gives the best rendering.

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by Jgames

For workbench screens of the Amiga 500 and 600, try using low res instead of hires or super hires, this is 99% the reason you have this issue.

You'll get the same issue in games, low res gives the best rendering.

Huh? WB is always hires and problem has nothing to do with resolution setting. It is Filter panel scaling setting.

[Jgames]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Huh? WB is always hires and problem has nothing to do with resolution setting. It is Filter panel scaling setting.

Ok, so it must be that it's better the WB looks bad using low res, because, if the objective is to play games, i found that the best results are using low res.

Off topic, but i introduce it anyway, the automatic res swtiching is good, but for example, games like Apidya seems to have low res for in-game, and hires for hud, the automatic switching goes to hires, so what happens is that the in-game graphics are not good, and the hud is nice. In that case, i just revert to using low res, so i get a good in-game and a rubbish hud, but i like it better this way.

Correct me Tony if i am saying nonsense, i am not an expert on these subjects.