Identical monitors, but different resolutions

Shaahed Hijol

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Dec 27, 2014
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I have two identical monitors - DELL S2240L, backed by a VGA card - Sapphire Radeon HD 5450 2GB DDR3. Monitor 1 is supported with a HDMI cable, and Monitor 2 is with VGA cable. Both of the monitors support 1920 X 1080 resolutions, I also prefer so. Problem is when I go for "Extend these displays" from Screen resolution, Monitor 1 (with HDMI cable) shows smaller resolution vertically as well as horizontally (around 85% of the total screen). The bad news is when I go for "Duplicate these displays" same result happens. I want both of my monitors to be displayed 1920 X 1080. I have three ports in my VGA Card: HDMI, DVI & VGA. I am using Windows 7 as Operating System. Please help me in this regard. I will be obliged.
 
Solution
You need to go into the CCC and look at the display properties. When using HDMI, AMD generally defaults you to a scaled image. You want to remove the scaling.