My Asus Zenbook (UX32VD) has a weird problem with some graphics. It is a 13 inch laptop with 1920 x 1080 resolution running Windows 8. Some graphics are very blurry and some are not. I find it very strange and have tried to upgrade my graphics card driver (NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M version 9.18.13.2018) with no luck.
The images below shows how the graphics are blurry:
Why are my computer doing this and how can I fix it? It looks like it only happens to some graphic elements, as you can see with the Explore icon in the taskbar looks sharp where the Jottacloud setup icon and the Hangouts icon looks blurry.
Best Answer
It appears as though you've changed the font scaling on your system from the default DPI (see How to Adjust Windows 8 Display Settings for High DPI/PPI Screens for details on adjusting this manually). The side effect of modifying this value is that it will scale everything displayed on your screen, including images and icons.
Unless a high-resolution/high-DPI icon at the proper resolution is available, Windows will scale any provided icon to the correct size, which introduces the artifacts appearing in your attached screenshot. This is a well documented side-effect (and also occurs under Windows 7 and some other OS'es), and is a natural conclusion for displaying content at a non-native scale.