Some fonts are like that, and you can't make them very small. Best thing is to use a different one i think.
if the resolution thing doesn't work, you could always get the font how you want on a separate document and decrease the image size, and paste it on the other document
Try using the search feature of the forum next time, sometimes questions have already been answered before: http://www.gamerenders.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=245220 Snipe.
go2 Control Panel, Display, then Appearance and at the bottom you can edit font size. This will help ya. ~DFN