Rhino 8 System Text Issues

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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A while back (not exactly sure when, maybe SR6?) I noticed a weird issue where some of the system text in Rhino started becoming off center or missing completely:

System_Text_01C
System_Text_01C1920×1080 185 KB

System_Text_02C
System_Text_02C1920×1080 455 KB

System_Text_03C
System_Text_03C1920×1080 330 KB

System Info:
Rhino 8 SR20 2025-6-6 (Rhino 8, 8.20.25157.13001, Git hash:master @ 73b00899cf43922900a763212f167c03dc6f27cc)
License type: Commercial, build 2025-06-06
License details: Cloud Zoo

Windows 11 (10.0.26100 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 64GB)
.NET 8.0.14

Computer platform: DESKTOP

Standard graphics configuration.
Primary display and OpenGL: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER (NVidia) Memory: 16GB, Driver date: 6-12-2025 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 576.80
> Accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Windows Main Display attached to adapter port #0

OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
GPU Tessellation is: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On
Graphics level being used: OpenGL 4.6 (primary GPU’s maximum)

Anti-alias mode: 8x
Mip Map Filtering: Linear
Anisotropic Filtering Mode: High

Vendor Name: NVIDIA Corporation
Render version: 4.6
Shading Language: 4.60 NVIDIA
Driver Date: 6-12-2025
Driver Version: 32.0.15.7680
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 16376 MB

Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
C:\Users\dchem\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\8.0\Plug-ins\XNurbs (80be33b0-13b2-4ac4-9c77-03829214f9e9)\7.0.0.9\XNurbsRhino8.rhp “XNurbs”
C:\ProgramData\McNeel\Rhinoceros\8.0\Plug-ins\Datasmith Rhino Exporter (d1fdc795-b334-4933-b680-088119cdc6bb)\DatasmithRhino8.rhp “Datasmith Exporter” 5.6.0.0

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 8.20.25157.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoScript.rhp “RhinoScript”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\AnimationTools.rhp “AnimationTools”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 8.20.25157.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 8.20.25157.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\MeshCommands.rhp “MeshCommands” 8.20.25157.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 8.20.25157.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 8.20.25157.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\SectionTools.rhp “SectionTools”

3

This morning I was using Mp3tag to fix some tags in my music and I noticed some text was cut off there as well, exactly like what’s happening in Rhino. So I realized it’s probably a Windows thing, went to check Text size, and I had it set at 150% which helps a lot on my 24" 1080 display.

I changed it back to 100% and now everything everywhere works/displays as it should, but I’m back to squinting because of how small the text is. I’ll do some more research on this, but at least now I know the cause of the problem.