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Today I updated to Chrome 37 stable (64-bit, but 32-bit has the same issue).

I am using 125% DPI mode in Windows 8.1, because I need larger fonts everywhere, since my eyes are not so good :)

The problem is that, after updating, the size of Chrome's interface has notably increased and both the interface and the fonts started to look blurry and horrible.

I tried the following things and none of them worked:

  1. Disabling DirectWrite in chrome://flags. Weirdly, not just that this does not work, but the font kerning (distance between letters) gets uneven.
  2. Enabling distance field text.
  3. Enabling the compatiblity option Disable display scaling on high DPI settings.
  4. Enabling the high DPI mode on Chrome by following this article.
  5. In the control panel, clicking on Make text and other items larger or smaller and toggling the option Let me choose one level for all my displays.
  6. Changing Chrome settings default page zoom and default font size.

Is there a solution to this problem which doesn't involve changing my Windows DPI to 100% or going back to Chrome 36?

Sathyajith Bhat
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Right click the shortcut icon, and add the following to the Target field under the Shortcut tab: /high-dpi-support=1 /force-device-scale-factor=1

So it looks like:

.../chrome.exe" /high-dpi-support=1 /force-device-scale-factor=1

Close out of Chrome and launch it using the updated shortcut. It should be back to normal. (You may need to delete and re-pin the icon to your taskbar for the change to take effect there as well.)

gronostaj
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