Laptop issue with video...

[tinpanalley]

I have the GTX 660M on my Lenovo Y580 and every time I output via HDMI to my television, it crops way too far into the image. The overscan is ridiculous.
The problem that's driving me nuts is that the nvidia Control Panel only has "3D Settings" and nothing else at all. I know that I also have intel display settings installed which makes things even more confusing. I have the laptop connected via HDMI to my TV, with my TV in 1080i or 720p mode, the laptop never gives me overscan settings. I can't understand why my awesome nvidia GPU in the laptop has absolutely no settings and where this intel graphics software came from that seems to control all the things I want to control with my nvidia GPU like the scaling. So frustrating.

The games I'm playing are running off the nvidia so video properties set through the intel don't affect the games. Completely confused and lost on how to do something so simple like scaling down my desktop so it looks good on my TV.

Any help dragging me out of this confused world would be awesome.Thank you!!!

 

[Ken g6]

Normally, the settings would be on your TV, not your computer. Is there something like "computer mode" on the TV?

 

[tinpanalley]

Normally, the settings would be on your TV, not your computer. Is there something like "computer mode" on the TV?

No, there are no settings whatsoever on my TV that dictate the scaling of input sources

 

[HOSED]

Have you tried reinstalling the NVidia graphic drivers, or updating them? Also out of curiosity what brand and model of TV you are using?

 

[tinpanalley]

Have you tried reinstalling the NVidia graphic drivers, or updating them? Also out of curiosity what brand and model of TV you are using?

They've always updated on their own whenever necessary. I'm on a Samsung HD-CRT. My boxee, my game consoles, and every other device I hook up to it via HDMI doesn't create this problem and I'm sure the TV itself doesn't have some crazy overscan because I've gotten into the service menu to shrink the projected display enough to see almost a 100% image.

 

[tinpanalley]

So, nvidia told me that the driver on their site isn't good enough because Lenovo has modified their own version of the driver and has it on their site. So, I try THEIR driver and I still don't get anything but 3D settings for my nvidia control panel.

The problem here is that I want to be able to scale the display to fit my TV better but I can't. And even if I use the intel settings to scale the screen, when a game loads which uses the nvidia card for processing, I lose the scaling anyway.