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Hello,

I just got a new GTX 460 video card (love it!!!). I tried it at a friends house as I was helping him build his new desktop and upgrading my own.

I tried the 1080p since that's the only thing that was really available at the time (or I was too lazy to get another available option).

The SCREEN seems awfully pixelated, or at least, that's what I think. The text is very small and the icons and text look pixelated.
When I used my DVI to VGA adapter, and my tv with a VGA port, the 1360 x 768 resolution looks fine (a little blurry, but nothing MAJOR).

Would this be a setting and/or driver issue? I tried a game (Oblivion) and it looks great, full HD, little to no lag whatsoever, renders everything nicely, but as soon as I go to that windows desktop, the icons look sharp and ugly, text is hard to read, and most things are small (as in barely able to read it small).

It's the same if I boot into Kubuntu (although I don't really play games on Kubuntu, I do use it as my main OS, so it needs to look good on both OSes).

I went back to my VGA output at home, but I really like that 1080p output for my games (I have an HD TV), ESPECIALLY since my new card can handle it quite well, so I'd like to know if this is completely normal or if there's something I can do to make my desktop as good looking as the games.

Just wondering if anyone has an answer.

Thanks!Quote from: trevorpe on May 20, 2011, 07:17:28 PM

...The screen seems awfully pixelated, or at least, that's what I think. The text is very small and the icons and text look pixelated.
When I used my DVI to VGA adapter, and my tv with a VGA port, the 1360 x 768 resolution looks fine (a little blurry, but nothing major)...
1360 x 768 is not the native resolution of your TV.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_resolution1360 x 768 is the only (highest) resolution available on VGA output through my TV, although it's capable of 1080p.

Does that mean it's just offering me a smaller resolution and SCALING it?

I'd really like to use 1080p since it looks so good, but the text seems so small.
Thanks for the reply!1360 x 768 is not 1080p, it is WXGA.
My 32" Toshiba HDTV is the same for VGA, HDMI has much higher resolution. HD RESOLUTIONS are not available on VGA.
Look in TV's Owner's Manual Appendix for supported resolutions. 1920x1080p is the highest.
Does the TV have an HDMI input? Does the graphics card have an HDMI output?I might not have been clear. I know 1360 x 768 isn't the same as 1080p (it's right in the numbers).

My card has two DVI ports. I have a DVI to HDMI cable and a DVI to HDMI adapter that came with the card.

So is the "pixelated" effect just that I'm so used to the smaller resolution, maybe to me it looks way too sharp?

It just seems that in Oblivion, it looks great, but on the desktop it looks sharp and not as rounded as I'm used to. It could be, like I said, just the fact that I've been using 1360 x 768 for so long it stuck in my head.Quote from: trevorpe on May 21, 2011, 02:24:35 PM
...My card has two DVI ports. I have a DVI to HDMI cable and a DVI to HDMI adapter that came with the card...
You didn't say what the TV has, but I assume it has at least 1 HDMI port.
Use the DVI to HDMI cable for 1080p.Well, I feel quite stupid now.

Turns out my TV's native resolution (according to the specs page) is 768p, so I was using native resolution all along.
No wonder it looked like crap.

For some reason I clicked 1080p in Oblivion and had my resolution at 1080p, it went back to 768p automatically I think (both resolutions look the same in Oblivion, but the difference is obvious when not in Oblivion).

I might just have to try it out on the TV in the family room to notice a difference (this one I'm sure can handle 1080p).

Thanks for your help.You're not paying attention. Use the TV's HDMI input.I am using the HDMI input, but outputting 1360 x 768 and it looks fine (slightly better than VGA).


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