Lg 42" 1080p Use As A Monitor

[Shadowfactor]

Hey guys,

been a while

 

I bought a 42" LG 1080P TV on black friday. It's model 42LG50

 

I'm trying to use this TV as a monitor.

 

I was using a 32" samsung 720P before I purchased this TV, so I have an idea of what i'm doing I just need some help with tweaking some things

 

I have the LG tv hooked up to my computer's top video card using a DVI-HDMI cable.

 

I have the newest Nvidia 180.48 Drivers installed.

 

Now under the Nvidia control panel

 

I have the Rez set for 1920x1080 At 50 Hz. ( This is where I'm confused the TV will do 60Hz from specs.) The issue is that If I set the TV to 60 HZ. All of a sudden the picture becomes really small like the aspect ratio isn't correct but the NVidia control panel claims that the rez is 1920 X 1080, which it's deff. Not

 

Other settings

Under video and Television

I have the signal set to 1080p24 HDTV. ( there's the option of just 1080p HDTV, but if I choose that one it makes the picture really small like I was talking about above but at any refresh rate.)

 

Any idea how to get the TV to do 1920X1080 at 60hz. Because I can kinda see the mouse trails just a tad at 50hz.

[Kingfisher]

Hmm, no idea other than I run my PC at my Olevia's native res of 1360x768 @ 60hz.

Maybe try it using VGA cable and see if there is a difference.

Good luck.

[IVIYTH0S]

did you try setting it to 60hz with windows instead of nvidia control center?

[mesh]

I've had that happen with the 180.48 drivers on a westinghouse lvm-42w2.

 

I've found it's related to the poor monitor ID implemented in the drivers and the lack of standard in the monitor itself for reporting it's specs.

 

In 1080p@60Hz the image is squished in, any other Hz is scaled fine.

 

I plugged the same pc/settings in a benq FP231W and it fixed it. Plugging it back to the lvm-42w2 fixed the scaling till the next resolution change, probably because it queried the monitor's id to do it.

 

For now I've settled on creating a custom res of any other Hz that didn't exist (oddly allowing me to define a 120hz res. on a 60hz panel) and it's fixed it.

 

It'd be nice if I found a way to clear out the windows/drivers cache of monitors ID. I found "Monitor Asset Manager" by EnTech that shows like 6 in the registry, but doesn't help me remove em.

[Shadowfactor]

well i did some digging on google and nvidia's website.

 

Set the Signal to 1080p HDTV at 1920 X 1080 with 60 hz. Let the image get small then go to the resize HDTV desktop and force the resize using Nvidia's little tool thing and it looks so much better

[IVIYTH0S]

well i did some digging on google and nvidia's website.

 

Set the Signal to 1080p HDTV at 1920 X 1080 with 60 hz. Let the image get small then go to the resize HDTV desktop and force the resize using Nvidia's little tool thing and it looks so much better

oh great, I was going to say you could settle for 59hz or something until the next drivers resolved that.