Awhile back, i was able to do this. I had an nvidia card (forgot which one).
I had a 24" Dell LCD running at 1920 x 1200 (DVI). I cloned to an HDTV which is 1920 x 1080 (DVI to HDMI adapter).
On the HDTV, I would have to "scroll" up down by moving the mouse to the top and bottom of the screen, so it was running at the higher native resolution of the Dell LCD.
Then I upgraded to a new nVidia video card, which meant new drivers and all of a sudden, I wasn't able to do this anymore.
Cloning forced the Dell to run at the lower resolution, which meant everything was distorted (running 16:9 on a 16:10 screen), and took far too many steps to setup cloning.
Is it the driver or the card?
Does this happen with AMD?
If you're curious, the reason I liked the old setup was for simplicity. All I had to do was turn on my HDTV and it would automatically display what's on my PC desktop. I did not even have change a setting; just turn the TV on.
Ever since the new video card, I would have to go into the nVidia control panel, select multiple monitors, configure cloning, screen flickers, 'can you see the screen, are you sure you want to keep this new setting', Yes.
Too many little steps to do something so trivial.
I had a 24" Dell LCD running at 1920 x 1200 (DVI). I cloned to an HDTV which is 1920 x 1080 (DVI to HDMI adapter).
On the HDTV, I would have to "scroll" up down by moving the mouse to the top and bottom of the screen, so it was running at the higher native resolution of the Dell LCD.
Then I upgraded to a new nVidia video card, which meant new drivers and all of a sudden, I wasn't able to do this anymore.
Cloning forced the Dell to run at the lower resolution, which meant everything was distorted (running 16:9 on a 16:10 screen), and took far too many steps to setup cloning.
Is it the driver or the card?
Does this happen with AMD?
If you're curious, the reason I liked the old setup was for simplicity. All I had to do was turn on my HDTV and it would automatically display what's on my PC desktop. I did not even have change a setting; just turn the TV on.
Ever since the new video card, I would have to go into the nVidia control panel, select multiple monitors, configure cloning, screen flickers, 'can you see the screen, are you sure you want to keep this new setting', Yes.
Too many little steps to do something so trivial.
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