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Hendrik:

--- Quote from: Awesome Donkey on August 09, 2017, 07:07:03 am ---As for fonts, yeah, they're pretty bad and jaggy when using non-Retina. The second you enable Retina mode for a supported skin, fonts look AMAZING. If it's possible to get the way the fonts look in Retina mode to look like that in non-Retina, that'd be absolutely great and much appreciated.

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I've been poking font rendering for a bit to see if there is a simple reason it draws like this, but it appears to be that Mac Cocoa Font APIs just dumb when it goes about rendering into bitmaps.
What I did wonder though, when would you ever not use Retina mode? Even with an external screen, which is not in any way high enough resolution to be considered retina (24" 1080p), Retina mode works and looks just fine.

Another thing I noticed, the jaggyness of the fonts is greatly exaggerated if you look on it on a Retina screen without Retina mode, presumably because of the way OSX upscales the image.

JimH:
We should probably switch to Retina as the default.

Awesome Donkey:
The reason I don't use Retina mode is because its scrolling performance is much worse than in non-Retina mode. It's way more laggy - if those issue(s) could be solved then I'll happily use it.

Hendrik:
I may have found the reason for the slow UI rendering, but fixing it is another matter entirely, since it goes pretty deep.

Awesome Donkey:
Oh, what is it? I'm curious! I assume it's specific to the Mac and nothing that could benefit MC on Windows and Linux too?

It *might* be worth considering, especially if Retina is going to be the default. I can see how the slow UI performance could be a turnoff to some potential users.

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