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Broken font on SSMS?

GH 1 Reputation point
2020-11-02T22:07:09.193+00:00

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I am studying T-SQL and usually have Kindle and SSMS on my screen at the same time. Sometimes I run into these kind of broken fonts on SSMS, and SSMS only. You can see that on the picture I attached. As soon as I move my cursor to that row, it fixes my itself. My computer is only six months old and have i7 but only 8 gb of ram. I installed SSMS about 3 months ago. When I study, I only run these two programs. It seems like my memory runs at about 50% most times. I do not have this issue with any other programs so I don't think it is my computer. Does anyone know what's causing this and how to fix it?
Thank you,

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  1. Erland Sommarskog 110.3K Reputation points
    2020-11-02T22:49:31.117+00:00

    I am not sure that I see anything disturbing, but what you could try is Tools->Options->Environment->General and uncheck "Use hardware acceleration if available". I have it unchecked and I seem to recall it was to avoid some graphics problem I ran into.

  2. CathyJi-MSFT 21,866 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2020-11-03T03:39:47.273+00:00

    Hi @GH ,

    You can try to disable the "Automatically adjust visual experience" option, and then you can disable the "Use hardware graphics acceleration if available" option. SSMS> Tools > Options >Environment >General

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    By the way, are you using the latest version of SSMS 18.7.1? If not, suggest you using it, you can get it from here.

    Best regards,
    Cathy

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