I asked for help in choosing a GPU a while back, and out of many options from different sources I finally went for this one:
[URL="http://www.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/R9270XDC2T2GD5/"]ASUS R9270X-DC2T-2GD5 Radeon R9[/URL]
[sp]I could feed you thousands of additional details that are completely irrelevant to this question, not tech related[/sp]
I have an ASUS Computer with 16GB Removable RAM and [B]TWO[/B] [U]Quad Core Processors[/U]. This graphics card has 2GB of VRAM
My monitor is a RCA model, 1920x1080 LCD TV
My old NVidea GeForce 620GT (old piece .. ....!) did not have this problem at all!
The RAW data is perfect, but the way it's spread onto my screen is not!
On GIMP when lines are in specific horizontal or vertical positions they will either fade out or become bold.
In Half-Life 2, during the early levels (all I've paid attention to so far) when you look at metal sewer pipes from a distance there would be a distortion that looks like a grid on the rippled metal.
In-game I suppose it's a touch easier to describe it as such; it seems to pinch the columns or rows approximately every 50px. Imagine it as a trigonometric style of distortion, where its distorted more at the edges and less in the middle.
It's hard to explain without showing you first hand! Above I described it as best as I could. Here's a graphical approximation of the effect, black and white:
[IMG]http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/6006/edqb.png[/IMG]
[B]That's not a big problem! Why ask for tech support?[/B]
The only reason I bought this graphics card was in the effort for experiencing the best graphics quality I could on the games I currently own. This graphics card has the power, it works... but because of the screen stretching phenomenon described here it looks less quality, more bothersome.
In fact, seeing this little phenomenon will distract me from the game
Outside of gaming it interferes with the tools I use, be it Notepad++, Hammer, GIMP, etc.. I can still get the work done, but it consumes more time trying to work around this visual distortion
[highlight]THAT'S A LOT OF TEXT!!![/highlight]
[B]Alright, here's the gist.[/B]
That image above illustrates how my graphics card seems to be stretching pixels onto my screen, on a resolution exactly equivalent, 1920x1080 to 1920x1080...
Black and white, where black is the pinch. Visualize that overlaying your game! Your Developer tools!
I have messed with the screen scaling settings in so many different ways I lost count. Doing so has never fixed this problem!
[B]How can I fix this? Is it even possible?[/B]
[editline]4th January 2014[/editline]
I would shorten this post significantly, but I want to provide enough relevant data to accurately describe it.
Sounds like you need a different monitor.
Can you take a screenshot, or do screenshots appear normal?
[QUOTE=AtomicSans;43426651]Can you take a screenshot, or do screenshots appear normal?[/QUOTE]
My GPU has a scaling feature, but it doesn't affect the 'print screen' data. The RAW data is perfect! It's just the way it stretches onto my screen, which is weird considering my PC Resolution is 1920x1080, and my TV Resolution is 1920x1080...
[QUOTE=Naelstrom;43422327]Sounds like you need a different monitor.[/QUOTE]
...but because the graphics card has a scaling feature, that's most likely related. I've tried as many ways as possible to eliminate any and all scaling, though!
The NVidea card did NOT have this problem, so it couldn't possibly be the monitor's fault
I understand where you're coming from, but I didn't have this problem with my old card.
What interface are you using? HDMI? DVI?
I don't have a DVI cable. I have a transformer from VGA to DVI but I feel that would cost me either a delay between the computer and the monitor, or a loss in quality. At the very least that wouldn't give me audio, but I do have a double sided audio cable.
I'll try that and see if it changes anything.
I have had this problem on an old computer as well, but I don't think I ever used HDMI with it. That was years ago, and on a much less standard card
[editline]5th January 2014[/editline]
That fixed the problem, but it dimmed down the color saturation a tad.
Muchos Gracias, Señor!!!
Dōmo arigatō!!!
Merci beaucoup!
Many many thanks!
But if I may ask, what are the downfalls to this method?
[editline]5th January 2014[/editline]
I don't want to bother you any more than need be, I think I could google the difference
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