AMD 7770 new build with a 47" 1080P Flat Panel

[ericlp]

I built a new Computer and I set it to run max resolution on my 1080P flat panel.

Anyway, my problem is, I after setting 1920x1080 and pop in the Motherboard drivers for MSI windows resets itself or somehow the MSI setup program was formatted for 1080x780 and it's SO HUGE I can not see anything, so I CONT-ALT-DEL and kill the process and the desktop even get's reverted to 1080x780 and of course it's a pain to try to get back to 1080P again.

Is there a way to always SET windows to ALWAYS display 1080P and never mess with the resolution? I've set max resolution and I sit 12' away from the TV so I blow up my screen to 150% so I can read and type without squinting.

I was thinking maybe CCC has something to do with this? I tried to funk around and disable to GPU to control application resolution but that didn't seem to help.

Any other things to try? Maybe I missed something? If I play games in Windows sometimes I have to go into comparability mode to make them display correctly but it's pain to keep mucking with the settings.

Thanks for any help!

 

[dave_the_nerd]

So, you install the MSI drivers, and then you're done and you never have to do that again.

So then you set the resolution to 1080p and you shouldn't ever have to do that again either.

Some (older) games might not support 16:9, but anything modern will.

There's no way to set it to be 100% 1080p all the time, no matter what - any fullscreen application can change the setting, and it will stay changed (and big, clunky, fuzzy) until you exit the app or set it to run in windowed mode.

But when you exit, it should toggle back...

 

[Tweak155]

Yeah I don't understand the problem that is occurring.

 

[ericlp]

well, a game like COD that I sometimes play will also do the same thing! And it doesn't toggle back it resets the entire system to 1286x786 ... Yeah it's an older game. I suspect that unreal will do the same as well. L4D2 doesn't do it at least. Hmmm. I was thinking other programs and apps might do it as well. MSI driver utility disk is new. So what I did in a work around is just set it to 1920x1080 and leave it that way, No scaling the Text or Icons to 150% (large) seems to be ok. I can just make the text as big as I want in Chrome.

I also tried to set the screen resolution to 1280x786... it's readable but what happens when I play a game at 1080 will it scale back down?

Anyway... yes... I just figured windows would scale the resolution size for whatever the application than return to that after wards. It's funny... when I had my laptop plugged in I never had a problem with resolution at all. Everything worked perfect ... I could see the laptop resize for older games and when I quit it would snap back to desktop original settings atomatically.

You're probably confused because you are not using HDMI 47" flat panel as your monitor ... If you were you'd know what I mean when windows resets your desktop to whatever app you just ran was set too. I've never had that problem before until now.

 

[Tweak155]

well, a game like COD that I sometimes play will also do the same thing! And it doesn't toggle back it resets the entire system to 1286x786 ... Yeah it's an older game. I suspect that unreal will do the same as well. L4D2 doesn't do it at least. Hmmm. I was thinking other programs and apps might do it as well. MSI driver utility disk is new. So what I did in a work around is just set it to 1920x1080 and leave it that way, No scaling the Text or Icons to 150% (large) seems to be ok. I can just make the text as big as I want in Chrome.

I also tried to set the screen resolution to 1280x786... it's readable but what happens when I play a game at 1080 will it scale back down?

Anyway... yes... I just figured windows would scale the resolution size for whatever the application than return to that after wards. It's funny... when I had my laptop plugged in I never had a problem with resolution at all. Everything worked perfect ... I could see the laptop resize for older games and when I quit it would snap back to desktop original settings atomatically.

You're probably confused because you are not using HDMI 47" flat panel as your monitor ... If you were you'd know what I mean when windows resets your desktop to whatever app you just ran was set too. I've never had that problem before until now.

I've had plenty of experience using a TV as a monitor but like your laptop, I had no issues.

Possibly there is a driver for your TV.

 

[Kenmitch]

Did you go into your TV settings and play around with anything?

There should be some kinda setting for zoom, wide, stretch, normal, etc. If you choose Normal then the TV will display what the video card outputs.

I'm using a 32" LED TV as my monitor running at 1080P and don't experience your issue at all. For example: I run a game at 1680 x 1050(full screen) the image is just a little smaller as in black border around it. When the game is closed I'm still at 1080P.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

If launching CoD switched your resolution to 1024x768, you need to tell CoD to run at the higher resolution. This is de rigeur for pretty much all games.