Overscan problem

[bbig119]

I recently got a new 60 inch panasonic plasma TV and also upgrade to an ATI 6570 video card. I’m having a problem with overscan settings. I have the overscan set fine within catalyst control (ver 12.6), such that the desktop look fine and fills the screen with the resolution set to 1080p and overscan set to 0%. However I’ve found that for certain applications that use a full screen exclusive setting, the display does not fill the entire panel and appears as if the overscan is set to what was the default in catalys (middle between 15% and 0%) leaving black bars around the entire image.

I first noticed this when I setup google photo screen saver and saw the same problem with microsoft’s equivalent. I gave up on those and found a third party screen saver that works fine, but today I set SageTV to full screen exclusive, and this caused Sage to have the same effect; a black bar that doesn’t fill the entire screen. I can’t seem to find any setting that differentiates the overscan setting for apps that use full screen exclusive and those that don’t. Anyone know how to fix this?

Incidently, and on a somewhat related note, I was trying full screen exclusive with SageTV because I hate having the few pixel high white/grey taskbar is always visible in SageTV and in Cyberlink DVD.

I haven’t tried different versiions of catalyst yet.

[Aaron Ledger]

Try a newer Catalyst driver. Perhaps they screwed something up.

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[quote=Aaron Ledger]

Try a newer Catalyst driver. Perhaps they screwed something up.

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The lastest version came out a few days ago. I tried it yesterday without any luck. Strange. I might see what happens when I connect my HTPC to my TV using my AVR– which I’m not currently doing because it doesn’t support HDMI 1.4a. I might also try connecting to my TV directly with DVI instead of HDMI. Someone at AVS suggested that it might be the TV and not the computer, but I don’t see how. It works fine when I’m at the desktop, or using applications that are maximized, but still within the desktop (ie I can still see the few pixels of the ‘hidden’ taskbar). I only have the problem when an application tries to take exclusive control– much the way a video game might.

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