Verification image and spoken letters on this forum is appaling

I have never used a forum where the letters for verification are so badly obscured (to the point where I have real trouble identifying them most of the time. The spoken word is even worse. The X sounds like an F.

Time to sort it out me thinks!!

It works fine and the captcha is only there the first three posts.

Well its not fine for me (or wasn’t) but I don’t care now as I’ve had the requisite number of posts not to be annoyed by it again. I am using 125% DPI settings on my desktop and that could be the problem (although it should have been tested for that as its a common setting).

Thanks Eddy, it’s good to know that the catcha is only there for the first three posts. But it doesn’t work fine. Let’s see if I can do this image in fewer than five tries.