My daughter is having a halloween gaming party tomorrow night so I have hooked up our mini portable pc ( Pentium G2030, 128gb SSD, 4gb ram, GTX460 and win 8.1 pro)to my lounge tv. Games run fine but I have two issues I'd like to resolve. The screen size isn't correct and I have to go into Nvidia control panel to shrink the screen down to fit but then I lose the full 1080p, any way to fix this. As we sit far away I have enlarged the icons and text to be visible but some games icons haven't enlarged to match, I have downloaded larger icon images but they still remain small albeit in a larger box. Any ideas?
You probably need to set the input mode of the TV, for that input, to 'Just Scan', PC Mode, 1:1 or something similar
Just had a flick through the menu's I have and can't find anything similar. I have it connected via HDMI if that makes any difference.
As Jinq says, On my mates TV it's called overscan, I had to set "game mode" on mine. Edit: it should be a setting on the input you're using, if that helps narrow it down.
Panasonic TXL37EYB to be exact. Damn mini pc won't stay asleep now, think another thread might be popping up
Aha found it, it was in an advanced menu option. No 1 in the list sorted, thanks guys. Any idea on the sleep issue rather than me firing up a new thread, looked for options like wake on lan but couldn't see anything. Plus I still have the large icon issue which isn't massively important but I really would like it to go to sleep properly.
The sleep issue may be a CEC/anynet type thing on the HDMI port (looking for input from the connected device for control?) I am not sure to be honest - have you checked the S1/S3 type sleep settings in the BIOS?
I can't find the usual S1/S3 option only an S4 enable option. As for the overscan thing it seems it's either on or off for all inputs and not per input so affects my sat and blu ray inputs, not a big deal really as it's pretty easy to turn it on and off. When you say "looking for input from the connected device for control?" do you mean say in nvidia control panel or in device manager t the gpu itself?
What happens if you enable S4? The anynet thing I meant might be a TV feature - it may be worth disabling it for that input? The HDMI on the tv may be polling the HDMI on the gpu, causing the wake-up?
