vscode: Broken rendering after updated to 1.66.0
Issue Type: Bug
Not sure how to reproduce, but my VS Code instance becomes broken after updated to 1.66.0.
Texts are rendered in strange way. All of the menu, side bar, text editor, issue reporter and other components are affected.
VS Code version: Code 1.66.0 (e18005f0f1b33c29e81d732535d8c0e47cafb0b5, 2022-03-30T05:50:14.623Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19044 Restricted Mode: No
System Info
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| CPUs | Intel® Core™ i5-9400F CPU @ 2.90GHz (6 x 2904) |
| GPU Status | 2d_canvas: enabled canvas_oop_rasterization: disabled_off direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on oop_rasterization: enabled opengl: enabled_on rasterization: enabled raw_draw: disabled_off_ok skia_renderer: enabled_on video_decode: enabled video_encode: enabled vulkan: disabled_off webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled |
| Load (avg) | undefined |
| Memory (System) | 31.93GB (19.24GB free) |
| Process Argv | –crash-reporter-id c37a94d8-788e-4c0d-b2a8-ce3c14d630e9 |
| Screen Reader | no |
| VM | 0% |
Extensions (16)
| Extension | Author (truncated) | Version |
|---|---|---|
| project-manager | ale | 12.5.0 |
| gitignore | cod | 0.7.0 |
| vscode-eslint | dba | 2.2.2 |
| git-extension-pack | don | 0.1.3 |
| githistory | don | 0.6.19 |
| xml | Dot | 2.5.1 |
| gitlens | eam | 12.0.5 |
| vscode-favorites | how | 1.10.2 |
| rest-client | hum | 0.24.6 |
| plantuml | jeb | 2.17.2 |
| svn-scm | joh | 2.15.3 |
| solidity | Jua | 0.0.137 |
| vscode-language-pack-zh-hans | MS- | 1.66.1 |
| vetur | oct | 0.35.0 |
| scala | sca | 0.5.5 |
| vscode-open-in-github | ziy | 1.3.6 |
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About this issue
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- State: closed
- Created 2 years ago
- Reactions: 1
- Comments: 20 (3 by maintainers)
I think I solved my issue. Since this only happens when enabling GPU acceleration, I thought it might be related to NVIDIA control panel settings I changed. Turns out, long time ago I followed some Youtube video to enable Multi-Frame Sampled Antialiasing (MFAA). Once restore to the default
Off, the issue is gone. Those who still has this problem could try restoring NVIDIA settings to default.I can confirm that this was exactly the culprit here too. Also followed a “tutorial” to turn the MFAA setting on globally 😅. For me, this broke font rendering not only in VS Code but all Electron applications universally, e.g. MS Teams, Joplin, etc. With MFAA off in the NVIDIA Control Panel, all is back to normal.
Continuing the merged https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/147982, here:
Still the same fog.
Appending
--disable-gpuin the shortcut’s “Target” field fixes it.Can you see if it still reproduces when disabling the GPU support in VSCode? You can do that by running VSCode from the command line like this:
code --disable-gpuIf that helps, you can permanently configure this option via:
disable-hardware-acceleration: trueI rollback to 1.65.2 and seems everything back to normal.