blurredvision
Lifer
A very good friend has left tonight on vacation for a week and a half, and is letting me "babysit" his comp he just recently put together. A 4600+ dual-core AMD, 2GB of RAM, 7800GTX, Asus SLI board, etc etc is par for the course here. While I had it downstairs, I figured I would go ahead and hook it up to the ol' HDTV and see what it would look like.
Luckily, the resolution was set good enough for me to not have any problems getting the picture up and running. However, now that I'm here, I have a couple of questions. Keep in mind that I do not have a top of the line DLP set, just a RPTV, capable of 1080i.
Running Forceware 77.72
1.) I'd like to have the resolution set at 1080i res, 1920x1080, but when I do, I'm getting horible overscan, and am unable to see the double-stacked task bar at the bottom of the screen. I'm currently running at a res of 1600x900, and the picture fits on the screen. The picture is flush to the left, however, about an inch of empty space is at the top and bottom, and about 3 inches at the right.
How can I run at the res I want, and have the picture fit in the screen? How can I work the overscan/underscan controls to my advantage?
2.) There is this annoying flickering going on wherever greatly contrasting colors appears. This window I type in now is a very light grey, but there is horrendous flickering at the black shadows around the buttons below, flickering on the black chain links above, flickering mainly in any windows I have open. There is no flickering on the black text on the grey taskbar at the bottom, for example. All flickering is occuring in windows. I brought up a couple of test pictures that were full of color, and those look great. Just contrasting colors, that's all.
EDIT: If I set the drivers to display 480p, the flickering goes away, so I'm assume the flickering is a result of the interlacing. Is there nothing at all that I can do about this, or is it just the nature of this pattern? It's odd, I've seen absolutely fantastic picture quality in 1080i, but it can't render thin lines and text well at all? I find it kind of odd.
3.) Am I limited to a 60hz refresh rate with a 1080i HDTV? I thought that may be my problem at first, but the drivers are limiting me to 60 only.
4.) Should 1080i on a RPTV be this blurry? I wasn't expecting LCD sharpness quality, but text in the middle reminds me of text on a cheap 17" CRT, and it gets more blurry as it gets to the corners. I know RPTV have a weakness in the corners, but someone without 20/20 vision wouldn't be able to read the time in the lower-right corner. I can read it, but you have distinguish the numbers first instead of just looking and knowing.
I'm going to fire up a CS:S bot game real quick and see what it looks like, but I'd appreciate anyone's help to clear up some of this flickering and what not. Hopefully someone here actually knows what they are doing. I only plan on having this downstairs til tomorrow night, so I hope to get everything looking great before moving it to my 2005fpw.
TIA
Luckily, the resolution was set good enough for me to not have any problems getting the picture up and running. However, now that I'm here, I have a couple of questions. Keep in mind that I do not have a top of the line DLP set, just a RPTV, capable of 1080i.
Running Forceware 77.72
1.) I'd like to have the resolution set at 1080i res, 1920x1080, but when I do, I'm getting horible overscan, and am unable to see the double-stacked task bar at the bottom of the screen. I'm currently running at a res of 1600x900, and the picture fits on the screen. The picture is flush to the left, however, about an inch of empty space is at the top and bottom, and about 3 inches at the right.
How can I run at the res I want, and have the picture fit in the screen? How can I work the overscan/underscan controls to my advantage?
2.) There is this annoying flickering going on wherever greatly contrasting colors appears. This window I type in now is a very light grey, but there is horrendous flickering at the black shadows around the buttons below, flickering on the black chain links above, flickering mainly in any windows I have open. There is no flickering on the black text on the grey taskbar at the bottom, for example. All flickering is occuring in windows. I brought up a couple of test pictures that were full of color, and those look great. Just contrasting colors, that's all.
EDIT: If I set the drivers to display 480p, the flickering goes away, so I'm assume the flickering is a result of the interlacing. Is there nothing at all that I can do about this, or is it just the nature of this pattern? It's odd, I've seen absolutely fantastic picture quality in 1080i, but it can't render thin lines and text well at all? I find it kind of odd.
3.) Am I limited to a 60hz refresh rate with a 1080i HDTV? I thought that may be my problem at first, but the drivers are limiting me to 60 only.
4.) Should 1080i on a RPTV be this blurry? I wasn't expecting LCD sharpness quality, but text in the middle reminds me of text on a cheap 17" CRT, and it gets more blurry as it gets to the corners. I know RPTV have a weakness in the corners, but someone without 20/20 vision wouldn't be able to read the time in the lower-right corner. I can read it, but you have distinguish the numbers first instead of just looking and knowing.
I'm going to fire up a CS:S bot game real quick and see what it looks like, but I'd appreciate anyone's help to clear up some of this flickering and what not. Hopefully someone here actually knows what they are doing. I only plan on having this downstairs til tomorrow night, so I hope to get everything looking great before moving it to my 2005fpw.
TIA
