blurred text while using Remote desktop

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When I connect to my windows EC2 instance from linux or windows (RDP) - the text looks very blurred. I tried almost all the tricks that I could find from google. The text is still not clear.

  • Hi Shantanu, can you share more details about your configuration? What's the resolution of the source machine, and the machine you're viewing the remote desktop on? What's your internet/network bandwidth?

  • Hi Tushar, The problem got partially resolved (90% better display) when I changed the server type from t2.small to m5.large. I guess that the problem is with t2 and t3 series because even 8 GB / 16 GB servers from that type show blurred text. I had used t2.small for several months last year without any problem. Was there any hardware upgrade recently? Or do you use different display hardware for t2/ t3?

asked 2 years ago1137 views
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Hello,

Since I am not sure which specific solutions you have tried, I will provide all possible solutions as you can skip or attempt as needed.

  1. If your graphics card is onboard (Intel CPU's typically have on-board graphics cards), turn off anti-aliasing through your graphics control panel. Right click on your desktop, click "Graphics Properties". Select 3D from the options menu and check "Turn off" in the "Conservative Morphological Anti-Aliasing' section and click apply.

  2. Set the font scale on the RDP to match your host's default settings.

  3. Open the remote desktop through normal windows RDP, right click the top window bar, then uncheck 'smart sizing'

  4. Navigate to Display settings and uncheck "Inherit from parent" in the properties of the .rdg file. Click "Okay" then go back to the properties and re-check the same checkbox. Then also check "scale docked remote desktop to fit window".

  5. Try updating all the drivers on the computer you are connected to.

answered 2 years ago
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