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 Member 98 Level 35.79 Mar 2006 
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Overscan on LCD HDTV: Need Help
So after experimenting with a lesser brand, I finally settled on the awesome Samsung 40" LCD with 1080p
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I have my PC (with newly installed graphics card that can go up to 1920x1080) hooked up to the TV with a DVI cable (and a newly acquired DVI/HDMI adaptor), as the quality wasn't very good with a VGA cable (ghost trails, or whatever you call them). The quality is great and it displays 1920x1080, but the desktop won't fit on the screen. I'm told this is a case of overscanning (taskbar isn't shown, top icons are missing). So someone pointed me to a program called Powerstrip , which I got off a torrent. It basically helps fitting the image and dealing with the overscan problem. The only thing is that this program is very precise, so I need some exact specifications in order to get the picture how I like it; basically it looks like I have to mess around with these two options , but playing around with the arrows will cause the screen to go blank, saying that there's "no signal". So, I could use your help in typing in the exact specifications to get all this working. Any ideas is appreciated. Jam it back in, in the dark. 
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Member 98 Level 35.79 Mar 2006
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I read that before, and the solution it gave was to use Powerstrip on a seperate monitor, tweak the arrows until you think it will fit on the HDTV, then plug it to the HDTV.
The problem with this is that the control center reads my PC monitor and HDTV as two seperate monitors. Therefore, the changes I make to one monitor won't be transferred to the other. If there is a way to carry over the changes, please let me know. There's nowhere I can't reach. |
Member 98 Level 35.79 Mar 2006
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I'm using a Radeon 9600 XT edition. I'm using the latest driver. And I was thinking of merely going back and forth between the TV and PC monitor, but I'll probably use the former more, especially with games and movies.
On VGA mode, the 1920x1080 resolution would fit, but I had switched to HDMI/DVI due to the bad ghost trails (or whatever you call them). Do you think a DVI to VGA adaptor would fix things? The problem with HDMI/DVI is that the TV does not provide the PC features that it does with VGA mode. This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. |
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