Windows desktop looks crap in full HD but 1680x1050 is fine..

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huberthoeve

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Hey there,

So I bought a new monitor (samsung synchmaster T220HD) so I could enjoy my full HD gaming experience.
When I connected the HDMI from my videocard to my monitor it was all fine (I have a second LG monitor with a max res of 1680x1050) but I didn't realise that the screen res. on my Samsung now was also 1680x1050 since I have them set as extending eachother.
So I wanted to use the full HD and set the resolution to 1920x1080, by doing this all the sudden the windows desktop got kinda pixelated... like it was even a very lower res.
By switching back to 1680x1050 it all looked fine, also in games, when using the full hd settings (in my case mw2) the weapons and maps look far worse than using the 1680x1050 which in that case look far more "high res

Now another problem is:
When I use my ps3 on that monitor it also gives this crappy output.. but this time I am not able to switch to 1680x1050 since the ps3 doesn't allow you this further personalisation...

So my question is:
Has anyone had this problem before and/or knows a fix for this?

Kind regards,
Hubert.
 
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huberthoeve

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oh, I'm sorry I forgot to tell you that I am pretty unexperienced when talking about monitors....

So could you perhaps tell me what that would mean?
And could you also perhaps tell me how I can succesfully use my full HD so that when I'm playing on my ps3 I also get a good quality?

Thanks in advanced,
Hubert.
 
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You will always get the best picture quality with the native resolution of 1680*1050 on this monitor. A full HD will always be down-scaled to this and look like crap.
 
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huberthoeve

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Okay,
so this is fine for my pc games because I can manually select 1680x1050 but for my ps3 I only got 1080,1080i,720 and something like 564....
I tried switching to 1080i to see if that increased the quality of my gameplay but it didn't work out....

Do you perhaps have any solution for this? So I can make my ps3 (almost, I know it is not possible to get the equal quality of my videocard) like my pc?
Because I believe that this is not the difference between pc and ps3 but just crap quality, well atleast I believe the ps3 should be able to give my guns some nice shine/texture...
 
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huberthoeve

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aha,

Well I tried 1080i but that also didn't work out....
but you said something about disabling scaling and playing with a black border?

Could you give some further information?
 
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As I said, your monitor doesn't do 1080, forget 1080. Choose the highest available resolution provided by the connected device that is LESS than 1080. Most monitors have a setting that will scale a lower resolution image to full screen. This can usually be turned off. Consult the monitor's documentation.
 
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