Curse

Zan Usi Quan · Jun 30, 2010, 05:06 PM // 17:06

Hi, thanks for reading this.

I've been trying to run GW fullscreen on my HDTV (which I now permanently use as a PC screen). But not one resolution gives me a crisp image, I know I'd need 1920x1080, the same resolution I use in other games + desktop, but it's not in the list ! It only goes to 1600x1200 but my screen goes "out of range" when I select that option.

Any ideas?

Big John Thomas · Jun 30, 2010, 05:40 PM // 17:40

Have a look in the drivers to see if theres an option to add 1080 to the display manager. In my ATI ones its under HDTV Support

Zan Usi Quan · Jun 30, 2010, 06:37 PM // 18:37

I've looked there - I have the nVidia control panel, I can select it there, but I don't think I can force GW to run at 1920x1080 with it...

moriz · Jun 30, 2010, 06:46 PM // 18:46

what kind of graphic card do you have?

the geforce 8400M GS on my laptop is limited to 1280x720p. yours might have a similar restriction.

Zan Usi Quan · Jun 30, 2010, 06:49 PM // 18:49

GeForce 9500 GT

+ a restriction to GW only? :/

Snograt · Jun 30, 2010, 06:59 PM // 18:59

Hmm, have you tried setting up a custom resolution, 1920x1080 60Hz?

Zan Usi Quan · Jun 30, 2010, 07:11 PM // 19:11

Thx for the replies, but the 1920x1080 is in the standard list, so I can't add it to custom...

Zan Usi Quan · Jun 30, 2010, 07:16 PM // 19:16

Oooh, maybe I should add my PC is connected to the TV with a simple PC cable (blue one...?) and not an HDMI one...

Snograt · Jun 30, 2010, 07:23 PM // 19:23

Er, is your HDTV 1080p capable?

...running outta ideas now ^_^

(edit) No, ignore that: you already said you run windows at 1080. Which is odd, cos GW takes its list of resolutions from the same list Windows does - doesn't it??

Zan Usi Quan · Jun 30, 2010, 07:26 PM // 19:26

Aye it is, it's a Full HD TV

Snograt · Jun 30, 2010, 07:29 PM // 19:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zan Usi Quan

Oooh, maybe I should add my PC is connected to the TV with a simple PC cable (blue one...?) and not an HDMI one...

Missed that - there you go. Get one

Zan Usi Quan · Jun 30, 2010, 07:35 PM // 19:35

Ok thanks hehe, I know what's up then

Snograt · Jun 30, 2010, 08:29 PM // 20:29

It's tricky, all this HDTV stuff, as my ignorant thread in the Hardware section proves ^_^

My reply above is assuming the "blue one" is a D-Sub cable, rather than a DVI cable which would allow the HD resolution. I wish an HD expert would pop in and put me out of my misery here :/

See, I know that ol' d-sub is capable of those resolutions, but isn't capable of carrying an HDCP signal (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection), so HDTV's won't play it. BUT - HDCP was designed to protect DVD/Blu-Ray copying, so why won't it work for non-HDCP sources, like games? Is it that HDTVs will ONLY accept HDCP signals at HD resolutions?

Sigh.

Zan Usi Quan · Jun 30, 2010, 08:45 PM // 20:45

Haha no idea, I just realized this GFX card doesn't have a HDMI slot though, maybe the video-out cable'll do...

Elder III · Jul 01, 2010, 12:58 AM // 00:58

it should have a DVI port on it - that ought to work for you

tijo · Jul 01, 2010, 01:24 AM // 01:24

If it has a DVI port, use a DVI-HDMI adapter as elder III suggested, this will give you the same quality as HDMI minus the sound output through HDMI.

Zan Usi Quan · Jul 01, 2010, 07:10 AM // 07:10

Yeah so I thought, 'good I have a DVI cable laying around!' I check my screen and it doesn't have a DVI Port !

But yeah, I'll look into that adapter, thanks all ! problem solved

Quaker · Jul 01, 2010, 04:15 PM // 16:15

Have you installed the proper nVidia graphics drivers?

I recently ran into a similar issue when I upgraded my HTPC. The desktop would run fine at 1920x1080, but GW would only let me run at 1280x1024. It then occured to me that I hadn't installed the full ATI driver suite - I was only running on the default ATI drivers built into Vista. I installed the drivers and everything worked.

Btw, I too was using the VGA connection to the HDTV since the HDMI connection would not display without a one inch border around the picture. That may have since been cured with an update, but the VGA connection works just fine. (It requires a separate audio connection of course.)

Zan Usi Quan · Jul 01, 2010, 05:29 PM // 17:29

Yup I had already downloaded the latest drivers, I messed around with the cables, but didn't come up with anything, so I just put the regular VGA cable back in, and suddenly 1920x1080 is in the list !

So I really didn't have to do anything lol... Don't know what happened but I'm happy ^^

Lord Sojar · Jul 01, 2010, 06:38 PM // 18:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quaker

Btw, I too was using the VGA connection to the HDTV since the HDMI connection would not display without a one inch border around the picture.

That black border is a scaling issue. You need to simply adjust scaling in the driver menu. Both ATi and nVidia have easy solutions for that. Set it to 0% scaling in most cases.