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JukeBox360

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Hello everyone. I have a bit of an issue. And after about 3/4 hours of trying to fix this issue. I've changed my mind in trying to figure it out alone. So, I've come here. I'll get right to it.

I recently Upgraded my monitor from an RL2455HM to a VG278HE. In Short i wanted higher FPS. In the end. I did not like the monitor so i went back to my original one. ( RL2455HM )

Here's the issue. Windowes is now showing the monitor as the wrong monitor. In Fact. It isn't showing it as a monitor at all. Rather just my capture card. Which is an AVERMEDIA LIVE GAMER HD. http://gyazo.com/35edbb9badf72dcf9bf0c7f270fab2e7

I cannot seem to get windows to show the monitor back to what is was before i tried the new one. And the big reason why this is such an issue is due to what it is causing the monitor to look like.

The scaling is all off. Web pages look big as if i zoomed into all of them. Icons appear large. Everything is bigger and over blown as if it was a DPI issue. But I just can't seem to figure it out. Is there a way to get my monitor back to what it was before i tried the new one?

Using Windows 8.1
GTX 780

Thanks for the help!

PS. There is currently no capture card at all in my PC. I run a dual PC set up for streaming. The capture card is in my other PC.

Also, if you ever use the cap card video out. You get this same issue. i just don't know why I'm getting this error without the card even in the PC to begin with...
 
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kylewalker
Hi,

it seems your issue might be caused by DPI scaling. If you're dragging a window between displays with different DPI settings, then you'll experience the symptoms you described. Please have a look at this article http://www.anandtech.com/show/7939/scaling-windows-the-dpi-arms-race/5 and then this one for instructions on how to change DPI scaling on your displays: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/28310-dpi-scaling-size-change-displays-windows-8-1-a.html

you should probably use the same setting on both displays to avoid the issue you described

I hope this helps!
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Hi, some questions:

Have you uninstalled the capture card from that PC?
Also, have you tried clicking in the detect button to force the OS to detect the display?
Have you tried setting the display resolution to your current display’s recommended resolution?

Thank you!
 
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Have you uninstalled the capture card from that PC?

Yes. I even went ahead and re installed the software just to uninstall it again. in case the initial uninstall did something.

Also, have you tried clicking in the detect button to force the OS to detect the display?

I think I have. Although I am not sure. How do you do this? The only force check I've done was within nVidia control panel. I hit. "My display is not shown." Then hit "Rigorous display detection." But that doesn't seem to change anything. Monitor still shows as Aver media.

Have you tried setting the display resolution to your current display’s recommended resolution?

Yes. It isn't a resolution issue. The resolution is max of my monitors. 1080P. But everything is just completely screwed up.
 
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Here is what I mean by the scaling being all messed up. Both of the images were taken on the same PC. Screen capped with Gyazo. This 1st one if on a normal monitor that is plugged in now. http://gyazo.com/043ce6d39fc8a38150fc00a99e994ea7

This secnond one is the image taken the same exact way. Just on the monitor that's all messed up and shows the capture care as the monitor.

http://gyazo.com/cfc0d5a13e7bfb08af9d099913817cf6

As you can see. The second one has everything blown up and wrong.
 
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kylewalker

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Hi,

it seems your issue might be caused by DPI scaling. If you're dragging a window between displays with different DPI settings, then you'll experience the symptoms you described. Please have a look at this article http://www.anandtech.com/show/7939/scaling-windows-the-dpi-arms-race/5 and then this one for instructions on how to change DPI scaling on your displays: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/28310-dpi-scaling-size-change-displays-windows-8-1-a.html

you should probably use the same setting on both displays to avoid the issue you described

I hope this helps!
 
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