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Offline whabangTopic starter

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Disabling the Windows 2000 font cache?
« on: June 21, 2005, 08:50:06 PM »
Is it possible? Or is it possible to make Windows 2000 anti-alias the fonts in the font cache?
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Re: Disabling the Windows 2000 font cache?
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2005, 06:51:00 PM »
Well, I don't notice any performance hit when increasing the text size in Works, and thereby using non-cached, anti-aliased fonts. The CPU-usage increases a bit when scrolling, but that's something I can live with.
Removing fntcache.dat would only lead to the file being recreated at the next bootup anyway...

The problem is that even though Win2k has an excellent anti-aliasing function, it caches some font sizes at startup. The cached font sizes won't be anti aliased, thus half the text on a page can be anti-aliased, whereas the other half isn't.
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Re: Disabling the Windows 2000 font cache?
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2005, 07:45:38 PM »

Windows 2000 SP4. Font smoothing activated.
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