How can i improve my games on my tv via hdmi

[Zeee530]

I'm gaming on a GTX 940MX, i was previously a console gamer so a 15" laptop screen was too small so i've been hooking it up to my 50" LG LCD Smart TV. When comparing both, the laptop clearly has a smoother crisp to the frames as opposed to the TV, is there any sort of setting i can change either on my TV or in the Nvidia control panel to improve things on the TV? Thanks.

 

[Grubbernaught]

Just to clarify, is the frame rate choppy or the image distorted in some way?

Unfortunately a 940mx is unlikely to have the grunt for satisfactory 1080p gaming at reasonable settings.

If frame rate is the issue you may try lowering resolution to 720p, however it will have scaling issues on a 1080p tv (appear fuzzy) and is quite a low resolution to game at in general.

It will likely be difficult to get a pleasing gaming experience on that gpu

 

[happy medium]

See if your tv has a game setting, that might help.

 

[Zeee530]

Just to clarify, is the frame rate choppy or the image distorted in some way?

Unfortunately a 940mx is unlikely to have the grunt for satisfactory 1080p gaming at reasonable settings.

If frame rate is the issue you may try lowering resolution to 720p, however it will have scaling issues on a 1080p tv (appear fuzzy) and is quite a low resolution to game at in general.

It will likely be difficult to get a pleasing gaming experience on that gpu

There is no framerate issue, actually without gaming on the laptop i would not have even opened this thread cause it was quite satisfactory, its just that the laptop has a certain smoothness and fluidity to how movement is than the TV.

See if your tv has a game setting, that might help.

There is a game setting but that's mostly for adjusting picture details such as brightness, contrast, etc, don't think it has anything to do with frames.

 

[EXCellR8]

what's the refresh rate on the TV? 60hz or 120hz?

the HDMI port might not be for the NVIDIA GPU either. some laptops have HDMI but they're actually connected to the Intel CPU device and not the dedicated GPU. I ran into something similar with a colleague's laptop and any external displays were not actually linked to the more powerful video chipset.

 

[Zeee530]

Hi, apologies for the late reply, couldn't find the refresh rate but this is the TV
http://www.lg.com/za/tvs/lg-50LB652T

 

[happy medium]

I found the refresh rate, its 60 Hz.
I downloaded the manual.
Hope that helps you.

The HDMI laptop output more than likely uses your cpu integrated graphics.

 

[bystander36]

This could all just come down to PPI. A large TV will not be as crisp, as there are fewer pixels per inch. Any imperfections are also a lot easier to see.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Does the laptop implement VRR? I don't know if it would be branded G-Sync, but modern laptop panels probably have VRR features, like VESA ones, and I wouldn't put it past NV to integrate support for them on laptops, even if they still steadfastly refuse to support VESA Adaptive Sync on their Desktop GPUs.

 

[wilds]

OP, you are referring to input lag? I rarely have had good experiences with low input lag, especially on smart TV's.

Try to find a PC mode or something. Even that will not do much.

Here is an older article about reducing input lag:
https://itechscotland.wordpress.com...ly-reduce-input-lag-on-the-lg-42lw650t-3d-tv/

 

[Zeee530]

Apologies guys but i was not actually making use of the TVs game mode which might have been what was causing my issue, the reason i wasn't using it was that the picture settings such as brightness, contrast, etc, that were the default for game mode were horrible so whenever i switched to it, i always assumed it was default picture setting rather than a mode, so after reading through the articles for input lag and the TVs official page i understood it wasn't, and a quick snoop around the picture settings i found that i could adjust the brightness, backlight, etc for game mode so now my games look stunning on the TV.

Now as for whether or not this fixes my issue of framerate i'm not entirely sure, i could say that there is this very slight improvement to the framerate but not that much but it certainly still looks better on the laptop screen, regardless though i suppose i can live with the way things are right now.

I found the refresh rate, its 60 Hz.
I downloaded the manual.
Hope that helps you.

The HDMI laptop output more than likely uses your cpu integrated graphics.

This could all just come down to PPI. A large TV will not be as crisp, as there are fewer pixels per inch. Any imperfections are also a lot easier to see.

If you say so then, like i said i can live with things as they are now.

Does the laptop implement VRR? I don't know if it would be branded G-Sync, but modern laptop panels probably have VRR features, like VESA ones, and I wouldn't put it past NV to integrate support for them on laptops, even if they still steadfastly refuse to support VESA Adaptive Sync on their Desktop GPUs.

snooping around a bit it seems the 940mx does not support g-sync, no idea on the others.
https://www.geforce.com/hardware/notebook-gpus/geforce-940mx

OP, you are referring to input lag? I rarely have had good experiences with low input lag, especially on smart TV's.

Try to find a PC mode or something. Even that will not do much.

Here is an older article about reducing input lag:
https://itechscotland.wordpress.com...ly-reduce-input-lag-on-the-lg-42lw650t-3d-tv/

Isn't really input lag, but this article helped a lot.

 

[wilds]

Glad to hear! Sorry, totally misread your OP.