Blurry fonts thunderbolt display on rmbp

I have a thunderbolt display 27" connected to a rmbp, the fonts on the thunderbolt display look awfully bad? What to do?
I tried switching smoothing on/off
I tried defaults via terminal with different smoothing settings
I tried the RGB fixed they have for other external displays
Nothing helps...

I've asked the Hosts to move your message to the Thunderbolt Display forum -> https://discussions.apple.com/community/peripherals/thunderbolt_display?view=dis cussions&start=0.
I didn't think that what you describe would work but there was a post there recently, answered by the most knowledgeable TB Display guru, that seemed to indicate that what you propose would work. Personally, I don't know as I've only one TB Display and no other displays save that on my MacBook Pro.
But doesn't your model have two TB ports? Couldn't you use one each for each display? Or am I missing something?
Good luck,
Clinton

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<Preran> For the benefit of moderators here, I used Google to translate your content into English:
Good day,
I have problems with blurry font in Dreamweaver CS3 after switching from Windows XP to Windows 7
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Best regards
Guten Tag,
ich habe Probleme mit verschwommener Schrift im Dreamweaver CS3 nach der Umstellung von Windows XP auf Windows 7.
Ich habe folgendes schon probiert:
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