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Image not filling the screen...

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Spoooon

Lifer
Is there some setting that results in the picture below?

When I first start my computer, the image on the main monitor does not fill the screen. When I open up CCC, the resolution shows up correctly for both displays, and when I hit "okay," the image then fills up the screen.

Latest drivers with CCC: image doesn't fill the screen
Latest drivers without CCC: image doesn't fill the screen
Uninstall all the drivers: image fills the screen

So, if it's a driver deal, is there a CCC setting or something that can fix it or should I roll back to an older driver?

Brief system info:

Windows 7 Pro
ATI Radeon HD 5800, latest drivers


 
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There is a setting (I'm at work so I can't look at CCC) in there that allows you to specify overscan/underscan in one of the settings... Look around for it. More than likely you need to move the slider one way or another. I've seen alot of people have this issue with both ATI and NVidia, and the slider always fixes the issue with both brands.
 
brandonb said:
There is a setting (I'm at work so I can't look at CCC) in there that allows you to specify overscan/underscan in one of the settings... Look around for it. More than likely you need to move the slider one way or another. I've seen alot of people have this issue with both ATI and NVidia, and the slider always fixes the issue with both brands.
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I don't think that's the issue unfortunately. When I open up CCC and click OK on anything (like the Information Center page) the image snaps into place as it should. Before the latest driver, it worked fine without having to adjust any of the overscan/underscan options.

I can live with it I suppose, it's just a bummer having to do that everytime I turn on the computer.
 
at first thought, i was guessing overscan, underscan too. but does this occur right at startup, ie, at the display of cpu/ram etc?

try checking your monitors? there should be a display setting for aspect, fill, or 1:1. are both monitors running the same res and refresh rate? are both the same model?

and out of curiousity: does the picture come up on both monitors at the same time? or is 1 first, then the other?
 
I have a very similar thing. It started happening when I installed Catalyst 10.9. Though in my case the picture goes beyond the TV bounds. All I have to do after a restart is to enter CCC, nothing more. Just enter CCC and the picture automatically corrects itself (and the issue is solved until the next restart). I didn't find any way to fix it automatically. Too lazy to go back to 10.8s. And I almost never restart my PC (sleep for the most part). So not a big deal for me.
 
Check your flat panel scaling options, it looks like you have it set 1:1/center timings and are using a screen resolution less than your maximum. If I had to guess, I'd say your problem is there.
 
Qbah said:
I have a very similar thing. It started happening when I installed Catalyst 10.9. Though in my case the picture goes beyond the TV bounds. All I have to do after a restart is to enter CCC, nothing more. Just enter CCC and the picture automatically corrects itself (and the issue is solved until the next restart). I didn't find any way to fix it automatically. Too lazy to go back to 10.8s. And I almost never restart my PC (sleep for the most part). So not a big deal for me.
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Bah, that's what I was afraid of. 🙁

One is DVI, the primary is HDMI. It doesn't happen right at boot, just when it starts loading the desktop.
 
Spoooon said:
Bah, that's what I was afraid of. 🙁

One is DVI, the primary is HDMI. It doesn't happen right at boot, just when it starts loading the desktop.
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Exactly the same here. At boot it looks fine, only when Windows loads does the screen go beyond my TV borders. And my primary is the TV (through HDMI) and my secondary is a 24" LCD through DVI.

And again, just enter CCC and *poof*, problem solved. I am running the correct resolution, obviously... 1920x1080.

EDIT: If it bothers you, try uninstalling the current Catalyst drivers and CCC and install 10.8 or even 10.7. I didn't have this issue with 10.8s. For some it was introduced with 10.8s and they were fine with 10.7s.
 
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I have the same issue starting with 10.8 My monitor is OK but I need to start the CCC to correct the under scan on my HDTV. Both displays use HDMI.
 
Had this issue when installing a 5870 for a friend. Bug as far as I could tell, told him to deal with it and wait for a new driver release or go back to the 10.7's. He didn't seem to mind entereing CCC after bootup to fix the bug. Kind of annoying that every restart causes the same issue though.
 
Attic said:
Had this issue when installing a 5870 for a friend. Bug as far as I could tell, told him to deal with it and wait for a new driver release or go back to the 10.7's. He didn't seem to mind entereing CCC after bootup to fix the bug. Kind of annoying that every restart causes the same issue though.
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what about sleep mode? hibernate? he could just avoid restarting for as long as possible and use sleep / hibernate instead.
 
taltamir said:
what about sleep mode? hibernate? he could just avoid restarting for as long as possible and use sleep / hibernate instead.
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Too lazy to roll back. I generally just turn the computer on in the morning and leave it on until the end of the day, so not too big a deal. Will just deal until a real fix comes out. 🙂
 
Spoooon said:
Too lazy to roll back. I generally just turn the computer on in the morning and leave it on until the end of the day, so not too big a deal. Will just deal until a real fix comes out. 🙂
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i think you quoted the wrong post, I wasn't suggesting a rollback
 
because the OP said he tried the latest drivers (and that the bug wasn't in older drivers), I don't know about others, but I figured he was already using whatever hotfixes were out
 
taltamir said:
because the OP said he tried the latest drivers (and that the bug wasn't in older drivers), I don't know about others, but I figured he was already using whatever hotfixes were out
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Good point, however he did not mention anything about using the hotfix, only the latest drivers.

Let's find out;

OP - Have you tried the 10.8b hotfix?
 
Qbah said:
Those are not the latest ones. Those are 10.8 hotfix drivers. We now have 10.9 WHQL and 10.9 hotfix - both of them have this issue (running on the hotfix ones myself).
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I downloaded the 10.9 hotfix. During instalation, it flashed the screen on and of an inordinate number of time and finally gave me a blue screen of death on my Windows 7 64 system and rebooted.........

After getting back into a reduced screen size, I uninstalled all ATI software, rebooted, reinstalled 10.9, rebooted and I am back up now with the exact same issue I started with.

😡

Ill wait for the next driver version to do anymore changes to my system.
 
This is a known issue in the 10.8, 10.8b hotfix, and 10.9 Catalyst drivers. There are two solutions, one is to download the program at:
http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=279&threadid=138653
Just setup your Task Scheduler to automatically run the ATI Overscan Fix.exe file on startup.

The other option is to use the 10.9a hotfix Catalyst drivers. The overscan bug is fixed in those drivers. OR you could just wait for the 10.10 drivers as it is already October and they should be released at some point. The overscan bug is supposed to be fixed in the 10.10 drivers.
 
My bad, I didn't know 10.9 was out. I was on 10.8B and the hotfix worked for me. I recently moved to 10.9 and had the problem and the 10.9a hotfix cleared it right up.
 
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