All the sudden fonts look messed up in Chrome?

[futurefields]

All the sudden my fonts in Chrome look weird. Everything was normal, then I went and played some Arkham City, came back to desktop and fonts in Chrome look weird (only chrome, all other fonts in the OS appear fine)

 

[Spacehead]

Check out this thread in OT.

 

[futurefields]

great! thanks for the link

 

[code65536]

Wait, why is there a thread in OT about this? It's obviously a technical issue and should be in a technical forum.

Anyway, you should consult this thread instead:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2397348

It has more details on the actual cause of the problem.

 

[xgsound]

Here is a quote from the off topic thread that fixed the font problem for me.

"Originally Posted by Kaido View Post
OK, comments to the rescue:
1. Open a new tab and type in "chrome:flags" (without quotes) in the search bar
2. Do a Find (CTRL+F) for "DirectWrite" (Disable DirectWrite Windows) & Enable it
3. Close all of your Chrome browser (restart Chrome)

My forum fonts are back to normal now"

I did not see this in the other thread. Note that you are enabling "disable direct write".


Jim