NEW dv6t-61XXSwitchable Graphics Problem

Hi, so i was very happy about the new BIOS release so we could manually change gpus. But then i realized i didnt use opengl that often so i switched back to dynamic for everyday use.

The thing is when i switched back i noticed a couple of very annoying things.

When in dynamic switching mode, youtube (plugin-container.exe) and google earth (googleearth.exe) were both set on high performance. That is OK with me but the thing is that when i play youtube videos in fullscreen, the right-most part of the screen is useless, it doesnt display the video.

On google earth the problem is similar. Here are some screen caps i took.

High performance mode:





Notice 2 things:

1. The space of the screen that is wasted.

2. The cursor has an offset from where its pointing to its actual position on youtube see where the pointer is an where the time tag tells us its actually pointing and on google earth i am actually pointing to the plus sign but the cursosr is way to the right.

Now the same examples with Power saving gpu mode for those processes:





Notice everything is in its place in this case.

Also, if i restart and change to fixed mode everything works as it should with no problems on either gpu.

If anyone else is experiencing this please let me know so i know im not the only one.

 

What driver version are you running?

 

I have the same problem when i play Crysis 2 on my external 1080p monitor. It works fine on the laptop 1366*768 monitor and also other games. The right part of the screen isn't used just like in your pics.

 

I'm using the latest drivers from HP website, the ones ending in .2000

 

OK, I've tried different resolutions and it happens only in 1366x768 and 1360x768

 

Update: I restored everything to factory settings and I'm still getting the same issues!

The only thing i couldn't roll back to an earlier version is the BIOS (F1A).

Come on people nobody else is having this issue (aside from qfn123) ?

 

i have the same problem, only with my laptop monitor (1366x720)

it goes away in windowed mode, so i've been playing bf2 windowed, which is annoying but workable.

i read somewhere else that this only happens with dx11. i just got deus ex, and the black bar combined with mouse offset makes it basically unplayable.


any workarounds would be appreciated; a fix even more so.

 

Try right clicking the youtube video and going into settings and disabling hardware acceleration.

 

As hockeymass stated, right click on a youtube video, click on settings. Uncheck the "Enable hardware acceleration" and refresh the page. See if the problem still occurs.

 

these are all workarounds that disable the graphics on my machine though, and the whole reason i bought a good graphics card was so i could use it.

 

It disables problematic hardware acceleration in Flash only. Performance doesn't suffer. If unchecking that box bothers you deeply, don't watch youtube videos.

 

Oh god! My dv6t was such a pain. Ended up returning it

 

This issue has nothing to do with dv6ts and everything to do with Flash being crappy.

 

I have had nothing but issues with mine and I have had it only 1 Month. I have terrible screen tearing with any driver or any format. Counter strike, minecraft deus ex doesn't matter and I can't seem to find anyone that can help

 

That's a totally different issue and one that I have no experience with. I played through the entirety of Deus Ex with no screen tearing once I turned on Vsync.

 

Did you do this in the game or the driver settings? Also what driver are you running?

 

Game settings. And I'm running the drivers that shipped with the PC. I usually don't update notebook video drivers unless I'm having a problem (I think the last time I upgraded my drivers was when WoW Cataclysm water was causing my M1530 to crash). I can check on the version when I get home.

 

where you able to find out?

 

I totally forgot. I will check tonight.

Edit: Looks like 11.3.

 

sorry, i'm not having the flash problem, just the screen-shift problem. games like battlefield bad co 2 and anno 1440 are all shifted to one side of the screen.

the only way i've found to correct this is to run in windowed mode, so i know it probably has something to do with the newfangled graphics pipeline that it's using for the seamless, albeit flawed, graphics switches.