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    Resolutions other than 1080p have black bar on the right?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by awaizy, Sep 29, 2011.

  1. awaizy

    awaizy Notebook Geek

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    Does anyone else have this problem? It applies to all games for me. If I select 1366x768 or 1360x768, I get this annoying black bar on the right side of the screen. Scaling options in CCC are nonexistent and the Intel scaling options do nothing.

    Help?
     
    awaizy, Sep 29, 2011
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  2. geekboy

    geekboy Notebook Consultant

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    Does your laptop have graphics switching mode set to dynamic? Do you get good FPS in games? I hope your GPU is switched correctly to Radeon 6770M when you play games. I hope you are running the latest drivers from HP.

    I have a dv6-60xx laptop (which had fixed graphics switching) whose mainboard failed. Then HP replaced it with a new mainboard but that mainboard had the newer GPU which does dynamic switching. And it would never switch to the 6770M while playing games. I would get low FPS and I would get the black bar at the right. The game resolution was set to 1366x768 and screen res was also 1366x768.
    Then I got the correct mainboard and now I have manual switching and the game runs perfectly on 6770M at 1366 x 768. No more low FPS and no black bar too.
    Just wanted to share this. I dont know if yours is the same case.
     
    geekboy, Oct 1, 2011
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