Kontakt 7 GUI looks blurry on Windows

anotherbreed

Hi,

I'm quite sure this has been discussed before, for other NI products, but I couldn't find any answer that actually helps with this issue or with my software. I'm running the latest Kontakt 7 version.

Problem is that Kontakt 7 gui looks blurry, when compared to Kontakt 6 (see screenshot). This happens inside Cubase (in HiDpi mode) but also when running the stand-alone version of Kontakt 7. I'm using a 175% scaling on Windows 10.

It has to be clear that all the other VST plugins I own (including NI products, eg. Kontakt 6) looks fine with all my Windows / Cubase settings, so I'd like to not just receive replies like "try disabling scaling" or similar.

I wish I could *at least* have the gui to look like Kontakt 6.

Any help appreciated.

anotherbreed

I'm sorry, for some reason the picture I attached has been resized by the forum, so it's basically useless.

Let's try again with a zoomed picture.

Jeremy_NI

@anotherbreed Kontakt 7 now scales to the OS DPI scaling of the monitor, but since most of Kontakt's interface is raster graphics not vector, this resamples the images, which can cause blurriness.

anotherbreed

Thanks for your reply, Jeremy.

I get it, but shouldn't fonts be vector based? How come all the texts look blurry as well?

I really hope there will be an option to disable scaling to the OS DPI scaling of the monitor in the next update, in order to have the same crispy look Kontakt 6 used to have, until NI decides to update graphics to a proper 2023 standard.

Jeremy_NI

Maybe @EvilDragon can share more about the topic?

EvilDragon

Fonts in Kontakt are old bitmap-based ones, just like in Reaktor. The only place where this is not the case is in the new browser in Kontakt 7, and in the new dropdown menus.