Irrlicht Engine

It looks like the quality of loaded images (.jpg, .gif) degrades SEVERELY when rendered with DirextX but it's perfect with OpenGL. OpenGL hates fonts though! What's a guy to do?

Software rendering runs these 2d elements fine, though...

I'm having the exact same problem. The texture quality doesn't change when I switch the video mode from 16 to 32 bit.

Any help would be appreciated.