5870 HDTV issue. Black borders 1080p

[boglwe]

I just upgraded to the 5870 and now I have black borders and the text is a tad blurry at 1080p on a 1080p monitor. I have searched the web for any fix and have yet to find either a fix or others with this issue. Furthermore, The catalyst software that I get when I install the drivers, seems to be a scaled down version or something. It is all very weird. It seemed I had this problem before. I mean, can this card, really not display 1900x1080 border to border and crisp? I have used a GTX 295 with ZERO issues. I am willing to accept user error, but I am not sure. I have tried 4 different HDTV's, 2 different sharp 32inchers, a Sharp 37 incher and a Sony 52 incher. Black borders on everything and no options to fix the issue.

Please help, I hate to have to return this card. I want to play.

I have also tried, different cabling situations, yet I will not use basic VGA. So if that is the fix, then ATI is like light years behind Nvidia.

Oh yea, Windows 7 64 bit is my OS. Possibly install 32 bit version?

 

[Itchrelief]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=333172&highlight=overscan

Not sure, but this might be similar to your issue. At least give it a try.

 

[MarkLuvsCS]

I had a similiar issue with my 4890 and i believe its just a driver setting that is off. After hunting through the drivers, I found an interesting option "Scaling Options". It was set to scale at like 95% or something. It drove me NUTS my new hanspree hf257 displayed a 1" black border all around. For whatever reason on more recent drivers i think it was setting scaling down for 1080 resolution. My monitor also had problem under vista 64 and win7 64.

I'm using the latest drivers atm so if your using older ones settings MIGHT be slightly different (doubtful for this setting). Follow these steps to get to the part where scaling is set.

In Advance mode
1. choose "Desktop and Displays"

2. Click on your monitor number on the bottom 1/4 of the window where there is a little down arrow in the top right of the monitor icon. Click "Configure" in the menu that pops up from your monitor.

3. Choose "Scaling Options" its the third tab which should be set all the way to the right @ 0%

*EDIT* Itchrelief beat me to the punch, great job!

 

[boglwe]

Yes, thank you.....tons.

I finally figured it out after deciding that ATI cannot be that naive. I pressed every single little thing in the CCC and finally found it. Came back here to report and you fine folks already did. Thanks again.

 

[cusideabelincoln]

You shouldn't install drivers from the CD. Always get the latest drivers from AMD's website.

 

[tommo123]

i hate this option in ATis drivers. last time it took me ages to find the option to change the scaling back to normal