This is Serious!!

[crazy.wingman]

Hi Friends,

I have Purchased new, HD7950 GPU for my Rig. The problem is after installing the card and drivers all my desktop icons and text started appearing blurry. Some how I solved this problem, but my desktop color and clarity is still lacking.

I used to use a GTX 460 Hawk GPU before which was amazing, I don't know what's wrong with My HD7950. the graphics and whole of desktop just appear washed off.......Is this the quality AMD offers???

Please help me!!

 

[sxr7171]

Probably overscan and/or other settings like gamma. You will need to adjust settings after getting any new card NV or AMD.

 

[motsm]

Is your monitor set to it's native resolution?

If it's color and brightness, use the setting in your monitor to adjust them to your preference, not the settings in Windows. If you can't get them to your liking, you could look for a way to revert your monitor to it's factory defaults, and start adjusting from there.

 

[RussianSensation]

If you are using HDMI, you just have to adjust the Overscan/Fit to Screen and restart.

 

[crazy.wingman]

Is your monitor set to it's native resolution?

If it's color and brightness, use the setting in your monitor to adjust them to your preference, not the settings in Windows. If you can't get them to your liking, you could look for a way to revert your monitor to it's factory defaults, and start adjusting from there.

Yes, I have already reset the over-scan settings of my monitor, also usually I keep over-scan OFF. (using LG27EA63 IPS LED monitor)

I have managed to fix the blurry text and desktop issue, but the quality of videos and games is very poor. All 1080P videos appear blurry and the lighting (black levels are very black). It appears as if you have tuned you gamma to the max. I tried all possible things to make my desktop look as good as my previous GPU but failed.

 

[crazy.wingman]

If you are using HDMI, you just have to adjust the Overscan/Fit to Screen and restart.

I am using HDMI which came with my sapphire card.

 

[crazy.wingman]

Is your monitor set to it's native resolution?

If it's color and brightness, use the setting in your monitor to adjust them to your preference, not the settings in Windows. If you can't get them to your liking, you could look for a way to revert your monitor to it's factory defaults, and start adjusting from there.

Yes, My monitor is on recommended settings Resolution 1080P.

 

[NTMBK]

You might want to change your title to something more descriptive, totally thought this was going to be spam.

 

[DigDog]

have the NVidia drivers been uninstalled properly?? (or at all?)

 

[Dankk]

You said you fixed the overscan settings on your monitor. However, you didn't say you fixed them in your video card drivers.

I've always had to go into Catalyst Control Center and adjust the overscan to 0%. Have you done that yet?

 

[Stuka87]

Ditto going into the control panel to adjust the overscan settings.

 

[Blue_Max]

...especially if you have a black border around your screen - then you know it's not running at the right scaling! I hate that about HDMI on the computer...

 

[crazy.wingman]

have the NVidia drivers been uninstalled properly?? (or at all?)

Yes, I have uninstalled all Nvidia Driver and its traces withdriver uninstaller.

 

[crazy.wingman]

You said you fixed the overscan settings on your monitor. However, you didn't say you fixed them in your video card drivers.

I've always had to go into Catalyst Control Center and adjust the overscan to 0%. Have you done that yet?

I have kept the overscaning CC at 10 (Max) as its required to fill my monitor screen, otherwise the screen has 1.5" black stripe from all four sides.

 

[crazy.wingman]

...especially if you have a black border around your screen - then you know it's not running at the right scaling! I hate that about HDMI on the computer...

Yep, me too, this problem was not with my Nvidia GTX 460, it was an amazing card just to plug and start playing.

 

[crazy.wingman]

You might want to change your title to something more descriptive, totally thought this was going to be spam.

I tried, also let me know how do I change this thread title.

 

[Dankk]

I have kept the overscaning CC at 10 (Max) as its required to fill my monitor screen, otherwise the screen has 1.5" black stripe from all four sides.

I think you have it the wrong way around. Set it to 0... you want to have zero overscan, not max. You might need to reset the settings on your monitor if you've messed with those too.

 

[Hitman928]

I think you have it the wrong way around. Set it to 0... you want to have zero overscan, not max. You might need to reset the settings on your monitor if you've messed with those too.

Yeah, it sounds like something is off between your video card and monitor settings. It sounds like you're getting a less than full portrait from the card and then using the monitor to compensate, which could very well explain your issue.

 

[Stuka87]

Yep, me too, this problem was not with my Nvidia GTX 460, it was an amazing card just to plug and start playing.

Were you using HDMI with the GTX, or DVI/VGA? I get this same issue with my nVidia card using HDMI, its fine with VGA/DVI. But when I use HDMI, I always have to screw with the overscan settings.

 

[crazy.wingman]

I think you have it the wrong way around. Set it to 0... you want to have zero overscan, not max. You might need to reset the settings on your monitor if you've messed with those too.

I get 2 inch border around my display if I scale to "0". Monitor settings also does not help when overscan ON or OFF. TO get rid of that black border and text clarity I need to scale to "10"

 

[crazy.wingman]

Were you using HDMI with the GTX, or DVI/VGA? I get this same issue with my nVidia card using HDMI, its fine with VGA/DVI. But when I use HDMI, I always have to screw with the overscan settings.

I always prefer HDMI as they are slim and easy to plug-unplug and also helpful when playing high definition content and music over them.

I used to use HDMI always, even now I found that the desktop scalling issue gets fixed if I use VGA or DVI cable and also my desktop greyscale improves.

 

[crazy.wingman]

This is really pissing me off , nothing seems to help solve the scaling issue with my GPU and HDMI display.

The only problem here is my new HD7950, HDMI display with this card sucks. All I get is improper greyscale and indirect illumination. I can't even get the colors balanced, everything on my desktop seems to have pale yellowish tint.

 

[Hitman928]

I get 2 inch border around my display if I scale to "0". Monitor settings also does not help when overscan ON or OFF. TO get rid of that black border and text clarity I need to scale to "10"

Seems like somethings wrong, the behavior you are describing is opposite of what should be happening. Setting it to 0 should give you the borderless image. A setting higher than 0 is for "underscan" meaning it will "shrink" the image to fit the actual native resolution of the monitor (really meant for TV's, but works the same either way).

I'm guessing that either a left over from your Nvidia drivers is causing the issue or a bad AMD driver install. I would run sweepers for both companies to make sure everything is being removed and start from scratch. Could also be Windows getting in the way if it installed some display drivers/software between the time you uninstalled the Nvidia card and installed the AMD card.

 

[KingFatty]

Please go to device manager, and look for "Monitors" category. What is your display listed as?

Try to upgrade the monitor drivers, by properties, update.

 

[Stuka87]

This is really pissing me off , nothing seems to help solve the scaling issue with my GPU and HDMI display.

The only problem here is my new HD7950, HDMI display with this card sucks. All I get is improper greyscale and indirect illumination. I can't even get the colors balanced, everything on my desktop seems to have pale yellowish tint.

The cable used has no effect on the back lighting of the display, so not sure what you mean by indirect illumination.

Ar you playing audio through the monitor speakers or something? I am not understanding why it is easier to use HDMI than DVI. Once plugged in, why would you need to unplug it?