Monitor

[ESchomberg]

I bought a new(bigger) monitor and if my line work is not due north and south or east and west the lines show up as kind of jagged looking on the screen. Is this normal? or is there a way to adjust a monitor? Or did I just buy a cheap one?

[Pointdump]

Hey Erik,

Hit us with a Screeny of your Graphics Settings. (_GRAPHICSCONFIG)

Dave

[ESchomberg]

I am using 2017, best I remember this was on the list of accepted graphics cards. I see that it does the samething on my laptop monitor and my smaller AOC monitor. I just never really noticed it till now. I noticed that it does not do it with thick poly lines, and it is not really jagged but rather multiple (individual) diagonal lines all the way down the line instead of a solid looking line. I see that my check mark that says " prevent jagged edges" is grayed out.

[ESchomberg]

Man this is bad, I just drew some lines and they don't look like solid lines at all.

[Pointdump]

Erik,

Dang! How do they print?

Dave

[ESchomberg]

They print fine, it is just annoying to look at. Looks like lines drawn by a kindergardener with a color pencil.

[ESchomberg · Accepted solution]

Whew, having to learn some of this stuff from the school of hard knocks. After spending lots of time on phone with Autodesk and Hewlett Packard. I was finally informed that having 2 spare monitors without a docking station was causing one of my monitors to not even use my graphics card. so instead of spending the money, I just plugged the newer monitor directly in to my laptop.

It still did not appear great, so I turned my hardware accelerator off and it looks much better. It was also recommended that a desktop may better run autocad vs my laptop.

Also HP changed my bios settings to turn off Intel graphics, so that only the nvidia graphics card is operating.