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Pixelated lines and look. Archicad 19 - Nvida graphics

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 09:05:54 GMT

I've bought a brand new Asus with a Nvida GTX 960m videocard. Many programs work well but when using archicad the interface and the lines that i draw looks pixelated. The whole interface looks alot worse than what it did on my 6 year old Macbook pro.

The resolution is set to 3840x2160.

Does anybody know how i could get a better looking archicad?

/Orrepova

Re: Pixelated lines and look. Archicad 19 - Nvida graphics

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 16:48:50 GMT

orrepova wrote:
Does anybody know how i could get a better looking archicad?

/Orrepova

ARCHICAD will always look better on Mac due to how Mac OS handles antialiasing (jagged lines).

Windows interface does not have any antialiasing options by default. There are settings in the system that you can turn on to force antialiasing in the interface, but that will slow Windows down dramatically.

Unless Microsoft does something to Windows, the best option to have nice looking ARCHICAD interface is still Mac OS.

No high-resolution screen on Windows can be even remotely compared to Mac's Retina displays because of the operating system differences.
If you load Windows on any Mac machine (Bootcamp) this all goes away and Retina displays start to look like regular hi-resolution Windows screens.

It is all in the OS.

Re: Pixelated lines and look. Archicad 19 - Nvida graphics

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 17:46:48 GMT

Thank you for your reply! Im puzzled..
This is how it looks on my screen. Surely there must be a way to improve this look?

Re: Pixelated lines and look. Archicad 19 - Nvida graphics

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 19:24:28 GMT

orrepova wrote:
Surely there must be a way to improve this look?

I don't think any Windows user would find anything wrong with this picture.

You can only feel the difference in how things look moving from Mac to Windows.

To my knowledge, there is nothing you can do to make Windows look like Mac in this regard (antialiasing).

Anyone?

p.s. I live in a cross-platform environment, but any Windows user gasps when they see any application running on my MacBook Pro.

Re: Pixelated lines and look. Archicad 19 - Nvida graphics

Richard Morrison — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 20:33:03 GMT

If you are using Windows 10, and/or a resolution that is not the native resolution of your monitor, then you are out of luck. See http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=257403&highlight=monitor#257403

Re: Pixelated lines and look. Archicad 19 - Nvida graphics

Jacques Toerien — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 19:47:21 GMT

Out of interest, have you tried to force anti-aliasing to 'on' in the nvidia control panel?

Re: Pixelated lines and look. Archicad 19 - Nvida graphics

mikas — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 11:18:42 GMT

I suppose your monitor is 3840x2160 natively (4K), and you have already checked the:
Working Environment - redraw options - 2D antialiasing ON.

That might, or might not, help a little.

(Screencapture in Finnish language).