Some cursor icons are not very visible

[matt.baker]

There's a cross-hair cursor below if you look really carefully.

 

How the cursors appear on my PC:

4K display,  150% scaling, Windows Version 10.0.18356 Build 18356 (also happens on mainstream release).

 

 

Please can you fix these. It's been like this for a long time now.

Previous thread:

[Chris B]

Hey Matt,

What size screen are you using? We have a 24" 4k screen and a 27" 4k screen and both screens are sharp.

Are you running any compatibility settings from the exe? More specifically the DPI settings.

 

[matt.baker]

It's a 32" screen, but I've just verified that it also occurs on my work PC with a HD monitor when setting the display scaling to 125, 150 etc.% from the in-built Windows Display Settings dialogue.

Just to clarify, as the gif and video may be reducing fidelity, it only seems to be ones that use the cross-hairs such as the shape tools and text.

Compatibility options are off:

[Chris B]

Thanks for clarifying. 

We're going to have to try some tests with different setups. I assume you're running both screens at their native resolution too?

I've just tried my 4k and 1440p and 1080p with 125, 150 and 200% scaling and the cursors remain sharp and crisp, albeit a tad small at some settings.

I also assume that you don't experience this with any other apps?

I'll get back once I've had chance to test this on some different setups. 

[matt.baker]

Displays are running at their native resolution in both instances.

4 minutes ago, Chris B said:

I've just tried my 4k and 1440p and 1080p with 125, 150 and 200% scaling and the cursors remain sharp and crisp, albeit a tad small at some settings.

How strange. No wonder it's never been picked up.

 

Display drivers are different on both machines as well: one is Intel and one is AMD.

[Chris B]

Hi Matt,

I've had another look at this today with a few other hardware configs and I'm still unable to reproduce the issues seen in your video. I'm at a bit of a loss as to what might be happening to be honest.

The only thing I can't get access to is a 32" screen like you said you were using, but saying that, you did mention it happens on your HD screen on a 2nd computer...

[matt.baker]

Thanks Chris

So the cursor for the shape icon always looks like video 1, regardless of the the scaling when you tested it?

 

Video 1 - Good

 

 

Video 2 - Bad

 

Yes, this still happens on a standard HD monitor if the scaling is not a multiple of 100.

200% seems to be better and shows more white around the edges. Still not as crisp as the 100%, although that may be by design.

From the original thread:

On 11/8/2016 at 8:52 PM, Mark Ingram said:

Anything under 200% will just use the 100% cursor. I wonder if Windows has some issue with opacity < 50%? At least we have a method to reproduce it, so we should be able to tweak the cursor until it's right :).

 

Both setups are dual/triple monitor, but I've just tried disabling the extra displays and it still happens on either of the displays individually.

 

On a side note, is there any way to limit the embedded video width in these posts?