Not knowing what brand of displayed adapter you have this may not help you.
I have an Intel Graphics on my computer. I went to Intel and downloaded a
utility that auto detects the graphics and tell you what the latest driver
is and I downloaded it. Now in the sys tray I choose the Intel graphics
icon and the graphics options, then select an option to scale to full
screen.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher-Mark Gilland via Talk" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2015 10:47 AM
Subject: And yet, another thing about Windows 8.1 which is driving me
bonkers!
Great! Now I'm having video display issues!
So, I have a little bit of usable vision. Not much, but enough. No I
don't use ZoomText, so don't go there, please. I said a little. Not that
much. I've therefore hooked my laptop via HDMI up to my external flat
screen 22 inch television. All works fantastically except for one
incredibly incredibly annoying problem. No matter how high I said the
screen resolution, even on 1368 I think it is by 700 something odd pixils,
sorry, don't have the exact number in front of me, the screen is just fine
on my built in laptop screen, but on the television, it's smishing the
image toward the center of the screen. It's not terrible, but it's enough
to be absolutely downright annoying! You're looking at probably now a 2
to 2 and a half inch border of just black blank nothing all the way around
the perimeter of the screen on all 4 quadrants. I looked on Google, and
apparently, this is a very common issue with 8.1. From what I keep seeing
in all the pages, and all the forums that
I have read, there is a utility I have to download called the Catalyst
Control Center. In there, I have to disable overscanning on my external
monitors. The issue is, try as I may, I can't find the darn download
anywhere. I find tons of references to it, but no direct download. I
thought I'd found it at one point, but all it wound up being was the
Catalyst Omega drivers, but not the full Control Center software. I found
several references as well where I can fix this manually through regedit,
but I really! really! don't wanna go hackin' around the registry by hand.
I'm not scared to do it, but I'm more just thinking what a pain in the A
double crookid letter it'll be to do. You ask how this relates to
Window-Eyes. Well, I dono if W E is anything like the Fish, but if so,
there is its own video mirror driver that gets installed. I'd hate to do
something with the display that then would cause W E to stop working
correctly.
Even though this issue could be worse admittedly, it's definitely going to
have me quite irritated, that's for sure! There's gotta be a way to fix
this, and I'm not taking no for an answer! We looked through the settings
of the TV, so before you come back saying, this is a setting that's off on
your TV, go to another tech list that is more general discussion, let me
say that probably wouldn't help. All settings on the television are
correct, and believe you me, a sighted family member and I were incredibly
thorough at looking.
So the million and one dollar question:... what to do?
Chris.
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