Hi,
I haven't posted on here for a while, but here goes.
I have an Alienware M17x R4 fitted with an Nvidia 680M... I've had issues with it for a number of months, but Dell don't want to know; always using excuses of "it's a bad port" and the like, even when my laptop cannot play games at certain setting and achieve the average, accepted framerate.
Anyway, I've had a recent problem, particularly that of resolution/rendering & displaying of the correct resolution.
When I have only my 680M running, on the desktop I only have four resolutions available; 1080p and three other resolutions which aren't the native 16x9 format..
This wouldn't be a problem, however, when running games on my laptop monitor in particular, even when I select '1080p' it DOES NOT look like true 1080p... It is extremely blurry and unfocused; as though I had set my GPU to apply 4x FXAA to the image.. It's console like in it's unfocusedness (I made that word up - hehehe).
I initially noticed this on Assassin's Creed - Revelations, it was really annoying and galling that my system SAID I had chosen 1080p, it was having framerate drops as though the GPU was struggling to render the game as 'max' settings at 1080p, yet, it definitely wasn't displaying at 1080p... I reset the computer and it went away.
Now, it happens on every, single game. Spec Ops: the Line, Assassin's Creed 3 (I know its a dog-awful port), Zen Pinball, Assassin's Creed 2 to name but a few. It seriously looks as though its roughly 720p being upscaled. I even restored my whole computer to factory settings (it was playing up, anyway) and it still hasn't gone away.
I can only link the lack of sharpness/clarity to the lack or resolutions on the desktop as these problems seem to have appeared simultaneously.
When the problem first appeared, I was using the latest BETA drivers; since reverting to factory state, I am on the latest WQLL drivers.
Thanks for any help, and, if anything, to let me know I'm not alone in this troublesome situation.
Any questions, ask and they shall be answered. :)
DJS
I haven't posted on here for a while, but here goes.
I have an Alienware M17x R4 fitted with an Nvidia 680M... I've had issues with it for a number of months, but Dell don't want to know; always using excuses of "it's a bad port" and the like, even when my laptop cannot play games at certain setting and achieve the average, accepted framerate.
Anyway, I've had a recent problem, particularly that of resolution/rendering & displaying of the correct resolution.
When I have only my 680M running, on the desktop I only have four resolutions available; 1080p and three other resolutions which aren't the native 16x9 format..
This wouldn't be a problem, however, when running games on my laptop monitor in particular, even when I select '1080p' it DOES NOT look like true 1080p... It is extremely blurry and unfocused; as though I had set my GPU to apply 4x FXAA to the image.. It's console like in it's unfocusedness (I made that word up - hehehe).
I initially noticed this on Assassin's Creed - Revelations, it was really annoying and galling that my system SAID I had chosen 1080p, it was having framerate drops as though the GPU was struggling to render the game as 'max' settings at 1080p, yet, it definitely wasn't displaying at 1080p... I reset the computer and it went away.
Now, it happens on every, single game. Spec Ops: the Line, Assassin's Creed 3 (I know its a dog-awful port), Zen Pinball, Assassin's Creed 2 to name but a few. It seriously looks as though its roughly 720p being upscaled. I even restored my whole computer to factory settings (it was playing up, anyway) and it still hasn't gone away.
I can only link the lack of sharpness/clarity to the lack or resolutions on the desktop as these problems seem to have appeared simultaneously.
When the problem first appeared, I was using the latest BETA drivers; since reverting to factory state, I am on the latest WQLL drivers.
Thanks for any help, and, if anything, to let me know I'm not alone in this troublesome situation.
Any questions, ask and they shall be answered. :)
DJS