I did, many, MANY times, also tried disabling it, and doing other things. there are two issues: 1) Windows 8 assumes CRTs won't ever be used with it, and takes

I did, many, MANY times, also tried disabling it, and doing other things. there are two issues: 1) Windows 8 assumes CRTs won't ever be used with it, and takes the liberty to do some LCD specific graphics stuff, that doesn't even work in LCDs that are organized differently (example: if the panel is "sideways" somehow). 2) the default system font of Windows 8 onwards is "Segoe", that renders poorly in CRTs, and even worse if you disable anti-aliasing of any kind.