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    Problem with screen size on TV connected via HDMI in Windows 10 [SOLVED]

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Spartan@HIDevolution, Aug 9, 2015.

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    Not only did Micro$h4ft mess up the DPI scaling as now you cannot have one scaling level across all connected displays which in turn makes text looks blurry in some places like services.msc and GPEDIT so I am not doing any DPI scaling anymore and living with a 100% scaling......

    but now I have a problem, my SONY TV has a 1920x1080 resolution while my monitor has a 2560x1440 resolution so when I connect the HDMI display my monitor switched back to a 1920x1080 resolution as the default option is to duplicate the display on both screens.

    So what I'd do then is set it to Extend These displays that way I can have a 1440p resolution on my monitor whilst keeping the TV on the right hand portion of the screen @ 1080p

    This worked great in Windows 7 but in Windows 10 the screen on the monitor only appears in a small portion of the screen (say about 25%) and the rest is black borders as if it was not using the full size.

    I tried everything I can but couldn't figure a way to make it full size so for the sake of watching the movie I just set the HDMI to Duplicate These Displays that way everything is full size but my monitor runs @ a 1080p non-native resolution and thus everything is blurry on it.

    Can someone suggest any idea to help me fix this?
     
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    Found the solution accidentally!!

    It seems the image was appearing as a much smaller size on the TV with black borders all around because for some weird and stupid reason, when I connected the HDMI cable to the TV it kept my DPI scaling on the monitor at 100% as it was before, but I don't know who the heck told Windows 10 to set the DPI scaling to 150% which shouldn't really decrease the total area of the screen but that's what was happening.

    So I move the DPI scaling on screen two (which is the TV) back to 100% scaling and now the image on my TV appears as a full sized image covering the entire area :)

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    I was just about getting fed up and going back to Windows 8.1 Pro this time but luckily I found the trick before I waste another day of hard work formatting.
     
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