I have a self built gaming PC and use a 55" HDTV instead of a monitor.
I have used this setup with an AMD HD7850 for the past 3 years and it's worked like a dream.
Yesterday I got my new GPU, an Nvidia Geforce GTX970 4Gb.
Removed the AMD Drivers and installed Nvidia.
It all seems to work fine, but now my windows desktop seems to be too large for the screen and goes off the edge - I cannot see my windows button properly etc.
It is still running at the same resolution 1920x1080.
If this was a monitor I could adjust it easily with the buttons, but on a TV I'm not so sure.
I did manage to make it fit by reducing the resolution by just a few % to something like 1862x989 but I know this is not a proper solution and did seem to encounter some issues in games(that run at 1080p)
Any idea how to fix this? Is it likely to be an adjustment on the TV or something on the computer?
Many thanks
Check the display control panel on your computer and ensure output is led lcd display, it might be set as default monitor which will use a different resolution.
Posting to let you know that this is now SOLVED and in case anyone else suffers the same problem.
I used DDU, reinstalled etc - Problem persisted.
After a bit of digging around I discovered that this is quite common when using an HDTV rather than a monitor and is called overscan.
The solution is nothing whatsoever to do with the computer or configuration of the GPU.
The issue is 100% related to the TV, and was solved using the TV remote.
Apparently a standard HDTV's image is stretched slightly, to correct it I found a setting on the TV to display the input directly - This is called different things for different manufacturers, and it actually took me 2 hours trying every single button on the remote before I found it.
No, I'm absolutely certain that this could not be done on the cards control panel. I went through it extensively, the only scaling I found was adjusting the screen resolution.
I found the solution online, and while fiddling with the cards control panel there was a hyperlink along the lines of 'how to get the best view' which I followed and got Nvidia help article describing the exact solution that I found.
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