Anyone using 5870 HDMI output to a 1080P?

[Ashen Shugar]

Hook up the TV using the ATI HDMI Adapter that came with your video card with an HDMI Cable and try these 2 steps:

1> Open CCC and go to Desktops and Displays - Once there, look below at "Please select a display" and click on the little inverted triangle above the TV icon and hit Configure. Once there, go to "Scaling Options" and change the overscan/underscan to 0%. Then, go to the "Pixel Format" option, change that to RGB 4:4:4 Pixel Format Studio (Limited RGB).

2> As others have mentioned, go into the Samsung TV Options and make sure that the TV isn't processing the signal by trying the renaming the input trick.

Hopefully this should give you a clear image with true black levels.

 

[Hauk]

Edit: Yes! It worked! I can't believe it, thanks Adam and Ashen.

Man, I spent an hour scouring over CCC trying to find those options. On the Desktops & Displays screen, I was clicking on the big triangle. I thought the small LCD at the bottom was just a pic. They buried these important HDTV options here, just in case anyone's trying to find them.

Thanks for the help. May good fortune come your way. Cheers... :beer:

 

[plonk420]

yes, overscan was a bitch to find in 9.9 upgrading from 9.4 or 9.1... and that pixel format was something i haven't had to deal with before, either

 

[postmortemIA]

Originally posted by: Hauk
Edit: Yes! It worked! I can't believe it, thanks Adam and Ashen.

Man, I spent an hour scouring over CCC trying to find those options. On the Desktops & Displays screen, I was clicking on the big triangle. I thought the small LCD at the bottom was just a pic. They buried these important HDTV options here, just in case anyone's trying to find them.

Thanks for the help. May good fortune come your way. Cheers... :beer:

cool, now be careful with games, sometimes they decide to use some weird overscan resolutions

 

[plonk420]

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
cool, now be careful with games, sometimes they decide to use some weird overscan resolutions

uhm, what?

 

[thilanliyan]

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
cool, now be careful with games, sometimes they decide to use some weird overscan resolutions

Games overscan?

 

[postmortemIA]

Originally posted by: thilan29

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
cool, now be careful with games, sometimes they decide to use some weird overscan resolutions

Games overscan?

they don't, they simply don't use 1080P but some lower resolution such as 1780x980

yeah, sounds crazy, but I have ran two games, crysis and and empire: total war via HDMI and they both were showing such resolutions.

your mileage may vary ...

 

[plonk420]

sounds like the videocard is just compensating for overscan. can be fixed in their bloatware control panel. nothing specific to games, just the resolution the game is trying to run at. i can vouch that ATI cards like to do that in the 4000/5000 generation :S it's annoying as hell.

 

[AdamK47]

Originally posted by: postmortemIA

Originally posted by: thilan29

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
cool, now be careful with games, sometimes they decide to use some weird overscan resolutions

Games overscan?

they don't, they simply don't use 1080P but some lower resolution such as 1780x980

yeah, sounds crazy, but I have ran two games, crysis and and empire: total war via HDMI and they both were showing such resolutions.

your mileage may vary ...

You can always pick whatever resolution you want for a game. The problem I had with games over HDMI with an HDTV is that some games will default to 24hz. Which is an HDTV specific refresh rate, so you get overscan and whatever else post procesing the TV likes to do to images. I got around that by adding a custom resolution of 1920x1080 @ 60hz. This way it automatically uses the custom resolution with 60hz over the odd 24hz resolution.