Weirdest bug with font colors in IE

takopus · Mar 29, 2008, 08:36 PM

Hello, all.

My videocard died, so i bought a cheap replacement for now - Gigabyte Radeon HD 2400. Win XP SP2, Omega 7.12, and i got one of the weirdest bugs i've ever seen.

In the Internet Explorer 6 and all applications which use it's engine colors of antialiased fonts shows wrong - red and blue components of it are swapped. I mean, if it must be, for example, #114488, it will be shown as #884411. When, if i selecting this wrong texts, their color revert to normal.

I know it is hard to believe, so here is the small screenshots: http://takopus.ru/images/wtf_colors.gif. Text here meant to be blue - #000080 - but appears to be #800000 until i select it.

Some friend of mine told he have exactly the same bug, but i can't verify now if he have same videocard and/or drivers.

I tried to google it, but found nothing (which is kinda obvious: too common words to search and not too usual bug). So i was led here from Omega site in search for help or maybe understanding. =)

I hope it is not a wrong place to write all this strange things - forgive me if it is.

IEMC · Mar 29, 2008, 10:30 PM

Looks like a Windows theme problem, if anything.

First issue I saw, though, is the use of IE. :P

mkk · Mar 29, 2008, 11:56 PM

I remember this bug from a little while ago and I believe it was related to cleartype (aka: blurtype), and seems to be fixed in driver 8.2 if not earlier. I don't see it happen right now using 8.2 at least.

takopus · Mar 30, 2008, 05:46 PM

mkk, actually cleartype (of Win XP Powertoys) removes this glitch, but i don't like it since i have CRT-monitor. I'd rather go through this color swaps than have all the fonts antialiased that way.

As for driver 8.2 - installed 8.3 and yes, it solves the problem! Thank you thank you! There's another one, though: this drivers do not support 1400x1050 resolution i was using before, but i think i'll just have to get used to new one (1360x1024).

Thank you again!

takopus · Mar 30, 2008, 06:10 PM

IEMC, just in case: i'm not using IE for myself, but some other applications use it's engine, and that's there i meet (or, actually, "met" already) those glitches. Also i'm kinda web-developer, so i have to check my work on different browsers and IE is one of them.

IvanV · Mar 30, 2008, 06:32 PM

In order to get a resolution not supported by the drivers, I recommend using PowerStrip.

takopus · Apr 1, 2008, 05:50 PM

IvanV, thank you. I know this tool from years ago, but i'd rather not to mess more than it is messed already. There's another bug here, for example: it monitors are turning off cause of long idle, they never turn on back, and the only way to reanimate them - put PC to sleep with keyboard hotkey and wake it up back. I'm not asking for help with this one actually - i'm just disabled this idle turning off feature. After all, this video card is a replacement until i get over my lazyness and buy something real. =)

And thank you again, all!

Mar 29, 2008, 10:30 PM	#2
IEMC Neighborhood screw up. Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: MI, US Posts: 710 Rep Power: 35 System Specs	Looks like a Windows theme problem, if anything. First issue I saw, though, is the use of IE. :P __________________

Mar 30, 2008, 06:32 PM	#6
IvanV DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 3,077 Rep Power: 63 System Specs	In order to get a resolution not supported by the drivers, I recommend using PowerStrip. __________________ Feed the porkers and don't touch the buttons!

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Mar 29, 2008, 08:36 PM	#1
takopus DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	Weirdest bug with font colors in IE Hello, all. My videocard died, so i bought a cheap replacement for now - Gigabyte Radeon HD 2400. Win XP SP2, Omega 7.12, and i got one of the weirdest bugs i've ever seen. In the Internet Explorer 6 and all applications which use it's engine colors of antialiased fonts shows wrong - red and blue components of it are swapped. I mean, if it must be, for example, #114488, it will be shown as #884411. When, if i selecting this wrong texts, their color revert to normal. I know it is hard to believe, so here is the small screenshots: http://takopus.ru/images/wtf_colors.gif. Text here meant to be blue - #000080 - but appears to be #800000 until i select it. Some friend of mine told he have exactly the same bug, but i can't verify now if he have same videocard and/or drivers. I tried to google it, but found nothing (which is kinda obvious: too common words to search and not too usual bug). So i was led here from Omega site in search for help or maybe understanding. =) I hope it is not a wrong place to write all this strange things - forgive me if it is.

Mar 29, 2008, 11:56 PM	#3
mkk cheap philanthropist Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Gefle, Sweden Posts: 3,682 Rep Power: 67 System Specs	I remember this bug from a little while ago and I believe it was related to cleartype (aka: blurtype), and seems to be fixed in driver 8.2 if not earlier. I don't see it happen right now using 8.2 at least.

Mar 30, 2008, 05:46 PM	#4
takopus DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	mkk, actually cleartype (of Win XP Powertoys) removes this glitch, but i don't like it since i have CRT-monitor. I'd rather go through this color swaps than have all the fonts antialiased that way. As for driver 8.2 - installed 8.3 and yes, it solves the problem! Thank you thank you! There's another one, though: this drivers do not support 1400x1050 resolution i was using before, but i think i'll just have to get used to new one (1360x1024). Thank you again!

Mar 30, 2008, 06:10 PM	#5
takopus DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	IEMC, just in case: i'm not using IE for myself, but some other applications use it's engine, and that's there i meet (or, actually, "met" already) those glitches. Also i'm kinda web-developer, so i have to check my work on different browsers and IE is one of them.

Apr 1, 2008, 05:50 PM	#7
takopus DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	IvanV, thank you. I know this tool from years ago, but i'd rather not to mess more than it is messed already. There's another bug here, for example: it monitors are turning off cause of long idle, they never turn on back, and the only way to reanimate them - put PC to sleep with keyboard hotkey and wake it up back. I'm not asking for help with this one actually - i'm just disabled this idle turning off feature. After all, this video card is a replacement until i get over my lazyness and buy something real. =) And thank you again, all!