how to make 720p gaming fill my 1080p monitor?

[futurefields]

Some games do it automatically but when I try to run GTA4 at 720p it only fills a portion of the screen instead of the whole thing.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Check whether or not the graphics driver is set to do driver-based scaling vs. monitor-based scaling. You might need to change the setting from one to the other.

 

[JumBie]

I would like to know as well. When I played 720p on a native 720p tv screen, the games look normal. Now if i try to use 720p on a 1080p screen of the same size the game looks stretched and distorted, does not make a single ounce of sense.

 

[shortylickens]

what monitor do you have?

 

[futurefields]

i figured it out, all i had to do was go into amd catalyst and go to my flat panel display and enable gpu scaling.

 

[Stuka87]

I would like to know as well. When I played 720p on a native 720p tv screen, the games look normal. Now if i try to use 720p on a 1080p screen of the same size the game looks stretched and distorted, does not make a single ounce of sense.

If you are rendering at 720P on a 1080P display, it looks stretched because it *IS* stretched. Change the resolution to 1080P and things will look as they should.

 

[JumBie]

Here is what I am saying:

Screen A 24" Monitor Native resolution of 1280x720
Screen B 24" Monitor Native resolution of 1920x1080

Why is it that screen B makes 1280x720 resolutions look completely retarded, when it should just look exactly as it looks on screen A? If I want to play a game on a 1080p monitor @720p to achieve a higher fps then why does it look completely disgusting when playing on a 1080p screen?

 

[rga]

Here is what I am saying:

Screen A 24" Monitor Native resolution of 1280x720
Screen B 24" Monitor Native resolution of 1920x1080

Why is it that screen B makes 1280x720 resolutions look completely retarded, when it should just look exactly as it looks on screen A? If I want to play a game on a 1080p monitor @720p to achieve a higher fps then why does it look completely disgusting when playing on a 1080p screen?

Because you're stretching 1280 horizontal pixels to fit it in an area that fits 1920 and 720 vertical pixels to fit in an area that fits 1080. The aspect ratios are the same; the resolutions are different.

 

[Merad]

Here is what I am saying:

Screen A 24" Monitor Native resolution of 1280x720
Screen B 24" Monitor Native resolution of 1920x1080

Why is it that screen B makes 1280x720 resolutions look completely retarded, when it should just look exactly as it looks on screen A? If I want to play a game on a 1080p monitor @720p to achieve a higher fps then why does it look completely disgusting when playing on a 1080p screen?

Go to google image search and search for whatever you want, just look for a low resolution image. Now zoom in until it fills your screen. Notice how it looks bad?

You're literally asking the higher resolution monitor to "zoom in" on the 720p image rendered by the game so that it fills the 1080p panel.

 

[Schfifty Five]

Here is what I am saying:

Screen A 24" Monitor Native resolution of 1280x720
Screen B 24" Monitor Native resolution of 1920x1080

Why is it that screen B makes 1280x720 resolutions look completely retarded, when it should just look exactly as it looks on screen A? If I want to play a game on a 1080p monitor @720p to achieve a higher fps then why does it look completely disgusting when playing on a 1080p screen?

You're answering your own question really. What happens when you take a small jpg that's like 120x120 pixels and stretch it out so it fits a 1600x1600 screen? It's going to look like shit right? Apply that same logic to your own example.

If playing at 720p setting on a 1080p monitor looks exactly like a 1080p setting on a 1080p monitor, what is the point of having 1080p setting then?

How do you think your FPS is increasing when you lower your resolution to 720p? It's b/c there are less pixels to render at 720p than there are at 1080p.

Now, if you want to play 720p on a 1080p monitor and have it NOT look like crap, then you need to turn on 1:1 scaling. By doing so, you'll have your 720p resolution look normal on the monitor, but it won't fill up the entire screen (i.e. you'll see black bars around the game).