Applications like Chrome look blurry in Windows 8.1

windows-8.1

Fix: You should disable scaling by opening properties of the application/short cut.

Disable scaling

Even better is to disable the DPI scaling by the custom sizing option:

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The blurry text is caused by the new DPI scaling which is added in 8.1.

Set the size back to 100% and this fixes the issue.

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