Gaming Resolution Issues (screen not fitting)

ukexplicit1984

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Hi, I have had an issue for a while now with a few games, not all games but a few it seems. Basically what happens is, when I put the game into 1080 or 720 it is still too large for the screen and the outer edges are off screen. So for example, if I am running a Steam game, the FPS counter in the top right is not visible at all and when I go to the Steam Overlay parts of that are offscreen too. Now I have checked my display settings and as far as I can tell everything is setup correctly. Text and Apps size in display settings is at 100% as I heard this could cause issues.

I have tried entering custom resolutions in config files but nothing seems to help, I can either keep notching the screen size down til I have black borders around the game or try to play certain games that allow it in borderless window mode (Fallout 4 works perfectly in this mode but is too big in proper fullscreen despite being set to 1920 x 1080)... If anyone has any suggestion of an option I may have missed or something I could have mistakenly enabled at some point then that would be great. The games it happens on are the following:

Fallout 4 (non borderless windowed mode)
Ark Survival Evolved (has to be played in borderless window mode)
Arma 3 (I have to run it at 1164 x 728 so it has borders around it)
Dying Light (Only gives me 1164 x 728 or 1280 x 768 options and the latter is too big for the screen)
Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham

System Specs are as follows:

i7 4790K 4.4ghz
8Gb Ram
Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X 3gb (Drivers totally up to date)
Asus Ranger Motherboard

Display is a 42" Sony Bravia TV connected via HDMI
 
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TVs are slightly different then PC monitors; most TVs have a dedicated HDMI slot nowadays for use with PCs that ensures proper scaling. In my case (an older Samsung UNC7000 series), I have to use HDMI 1, and set the name of the input to "PC" in order for my display to function properly. Might be the same thing for your model TV.

ukexplicit1984

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Nope, no luck, I have messed about with the gpu scaling and overscan options and it doesn't change anything in game I am afraid. Thank you though.
 

hi100040

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I am having the same problem with a different TV and my research has led me to believe that this is an AMD Crimson driver issue specifically for users who use TVs as monitors. Some people report using border-less full screen fixes the problems. On some of my games it does, on others it doesn't. Best of luck and please post any more complete solutions you may come across.
 
TVs are slightly different then PC monitors; most TVs have a dedicated HDMI slot nowadays for use with PCs that ensures proper scaling. In my case (an older Samsung UNC7000 series), I have to use HDMI 1, and set the name of the input to "PC" in order for my display to function properly. Might be the same thing for your model TV.
 
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