Black Borders around my Desktops

CurlySturly · 31 Dec 2013 at 13:19

When I first set up my computer I noticed that there were no black borders around my desktop, but then out of nowhere a black border came! I tried to solve this problem by 1. turning up the resolution to 1920x1080 which is supported but then I also tried 2.looking through the options on the monitor with the buttons on it and only managed to reduce the black borders ever so slightly. But how do I get rid of these borders all together as this issue is bugging me quite a lot, thank you.

P.S. Happy new year to all those who see this

Steampunk · 31 Dec 2013 at 13:21

What's your graphics card and monitor?

Assuming you are running in the native resolution of your monitor, you should look for overscan settings on your monitor or graphics card software.

CurlySturly · 31 Dec 2013 at 13:24

My GPU is the XFX HD 7870 and my Monitor is a LG Flatron IPS224. Ive also tried the overscan settings on my monitor and that was what reduced the black border

Glacius · 31 Dec 2013 at 13:32

Curious to see how you fix this as I got to new 27" monitors to go with my R290 X about a week ago and I am having the same problem, black borders and no matter what I do I can't get rid of this almost half an inch black border. Good luck with yours and elts hope someone with some knowhow comes along

CurlySturly · 31 Dec 2013 at 13:35

Guys don't worry about it! It was the overscan option on the GPU driver! Thanks guys for pointing me in the right direction everything is fine now

CurlySturly · 31 Dec 2013 at 13:38

Glacious said:
Curious to see how you fix this as I got to new 27" monitors to go with my R290 X about a week ago and I am having the same problem, black borders and no matter what I do I can't get rid of this almost half an inch black border. Good luck with yours and elts hope someone with some knowhow comes along

Have you downloaded the GPU drivers, the AMD Catalyst thing. Because if you go into that and search up scaling properties you can find how to do it

Uncle Petey · 31 Dec 2013 at 14:00

Glacius · 31 Dec 2013 at 14:13

Ahhhhhh, that would be the problem then, as the 2 screens where working fine with my Nvidia card and issue only happened upon changing to the 290x, Cheers guys will have a look at that when I get home then.

Guessing by default then its set wrong or?

Orcvader · 31 Dec 2013 at 16:17

Glacious said:
Ahhhhhh, that would be the problem then, as the 2 screens where working fine with my Nvidia card and issue only happened upon changing to the 290x, Cheers guys will have a look at that when I get home then.

Guessing by default then its set wrong or?

Sadly overscan is actually "normal". Here's a good article on why it's usually on: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hd-101-overscan-and-why-all-tvs-do-it/

Basically to compensate the possibility the TV may chop bits of the picture off, the GPU will add the black border so that gets chopped off instead. Of course now that newer TVs don't do this anymore, and with people connecting PCs to TVs, this makes overscan more of a problem instead of a "fix" from the old broadcasting days. Luckily you can fix this with CCC (and the Nvidia equivalent, it happened to my brother's old PC) and/or setting the HDMI option on the TV to 1:1 pixel mapping/game mode.

My TV is one of those TVs that still overscans sadly... so I do need the black border to compensate

. Although, using the VGA port on the TV works just as well.