John, are you running windowed mode or fullscreen ?. I assume windowed but it's worth asking. How big is your monitor ?
The Magnifier can show the 5th ( maximum ) zoom in level as a *bit* blocky( but it is naturally ) but 4th level.....which is the standard....., does not.
Another reason the graphics and/or text can get distorted is if the magnifier is set to increase less than 100% increments. Setting to 50 % increments WILL distort some things like this.....
which is
why I recomended only using 100% increments as that does not distort the graphics in that link that Scorpio posted
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2/ Click on the OPTIONS Icon and set the "how much the view changes" slider to 100%. This is important to maintain a clear font"
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When set up correctly for use with the games the magnifier should only increase 100%, 200%. 300% etc
NOT 50%, 100%, 150% etc
That said the ONLY time I use the magnifier is when I'm explaining to people how to use the magnifier and I turn it on to check that what I'm describing is correct.
But we don't know the reason for sure this like most complaints like this end up "drive bys"....a complaint is made we respond then nothing. I'd love actual screen shots so we could see the issue but Andy and I have gone over this and over this. Both of us need glasses to work on the computer and when we wear them neither of us has
ANY problem reading text or viewing the graphics in windowed Desktop which, not surprisingly leaves us puzzeled when we get complaints like -- I can't read the text on the screen anymore and/or the Graphics are to small
Don
Edit.......I'm forced to use low res JPG's here which increases distortion. Under normal circumstances that 200 % example is razor sharp but that low res jpg is a touch "soft" but I agree the graphics and text in the game CAN appear blocky when using non 100% increments of magnification.......as does this forum when 50% or 150% is used........the SOLUTION is use only 100% increments
FURTHER EDIT....when I say "actual screenshots" I mean a screenshot saved as a BMP or a PNG as an attachment. There is little point posting a full screenshot to this forum in the post as a JPG when trying to demonstrate a graphics issue