OK, i am an idiot. I found someone had changed the image sharpening setting and it worked. For anyone else who has this problem, here is how i fixed it:
- If you have an NVIDIA video card, load up Geforce Experience (which you should already have installed)
- Click on the drivers tab, see the three dots next to DOWNLOAD? Click that.
- Download the NVIDIA studio drivers instead of the game ones. Dont worry, it has the exact same game performance.
- Once you have them installed, right click on the desktop and choose NVIDIA CONTROL PANEL.
- Click on MANAGE 3D SETTINGS.
- Turn off image sharpening (which appears to be on by default)
That should fix the problem. I am relieved. Now i just have to learn cubase by watching 900 hours of videos. No problem.