Hardware & Technical Issue with display

[omega9380]

Gots a strange one for all ya'll. I just installed a Radeon R9 290X vid card (bought it for playing Elite with 3 monitors -- awesome!). I on occasion like to play on my 40" LCD television, due to my computer chair being about as comfortable for extended play as the rack was for a bad back. When I was running my Radeon 6870s, I could hook my pc up to my reciever (Onkyo HT-S3500) and play in 40" of 1080p full screen goodness. Since I recieved the R9, whenever I try to play at 1920x1080, I get a one-inch black border around my screen for some reason. Ive tried messing with overscan (completly greyed out in CCC) and enabling VSR in CCC. When I enable VSR and run at the next res up from 1920 (not sure what it is right now), I can play at true full screen on my TV, but with a decided performance hit. The wierd part is, my desktop res is 1920x1080, but no black border. Any help? The TV is about 4 yrs old, its a Philips brand. This only started happening since I installed the R9 card. I did a complete wipe and reinstall of Windows (8.1 if you are wondering), which I always do when installing something as major as a new graphics card.

I havent yet tried directly connecting to the TV, only thru the reciever, I will try that next and update the post. Thanks!!!

PS - I've been working on PCs for ~15 years and was a level 3 network/computer tech for almost 10 of those, so let the technospeak commence!!!

 

[norcus]

Gots a strange one for all ya'll. I just installed a Radeon R9 290X vid card (bought it for playing Elite with 3 monitors -- awesome!). I on occasion like to play on my 40" LCD television, due to my computer chair being about as comfortable for extended play as the rack was for a bad back. When I was running my Radeon 6870s, I could hook my pc up to my reciever (Onkyo HT-S3500) and play in 40" of 1080p full screen goodness. Since I recieved the R9, whenever I try to play at 1920x1080, I get a one-inch black border around my screen for some reason. Ive tried messing with overscan (completly greyed out in CCC) and enabling VSR in CCC. When I enable VSR and run at the next res up from 1920 (not sure what it is right now), I can play at true full screen on my TV, but with a decided performance hit. The wierd part is, my desktop res is 1920x1080, but no black border. Any help? The TV is about 4 yrs old, its a Philips brand. This only started happening since I installed the R9 card. I did a complete wipe and reinstall of Windows (8.1 if you are wondering), which I always do when installing something as major as a new graphics card.

I havent yet tried directly connecting to the TV, only thru the reciever, I will try that next and update the post. Thanks!!!

PS - I've been working on PCs for ~15 years and was a level 3 network/computer tech for almost 10 of those, so let the technospeak commence!!!

What is the format of the TV? 16:9?

1. Cycle through your TV zoom settings
2. Make sure input settings on your Onkyo is correct for the HDMI port you use (presumably)
3. Check desktop resolution settings and aspect ratio

 

[omega9380]

Ya know what? I hooked my PC back up to the Onkyo and now everything is fine. No black borders, I'm running ED at 1920x1080. Ain't computers just grand?

 

[Psyke45]

I'm actually having this problem just running it on my laptop, but trying to run at 720p. I have a Yoga 3 14" with an HD5500 Vid card and native resolution is 1080p. as the laptop is nowhere close to being a gaming laptop, I've been dropping the Res to 720p instead. So far, ED is the only one that's giving me issues in that it just shrinks the screen size down to 720p with a border. my graphics settings are set to scale and I've had no problems with others games such as FFXIV, Sins of a Solar Empire, Homeworld Remastered, etc.... any idea's as to what else I might be able to try?

Cheers!