I just picked up a 55" display because my old one had the back light burn out on it. Plugged it in, turned it on, and now WoW has this issue where the right hand side of the screen is basically off the field of view. Half my map is cut off and no access to my right action bars. Anyone know how to fix this?
Right now I’m forced to run in windowed mode which is frustrating because if I’m not careful, I end up resizing the window if i move over to the edges. >.<
Might have to change the UI scaling.
This is assuming there is no other issue like windows clock going off screen too
is the display a tv?
yeah, i did manage to figure it out though… required a combination of tweaking the windows drivers, then changing the aspect ratio, and then running a custom forced aspect for AMD. Was a headache.
TVs always seem to be problematic for me with PCs
Many TVs ship with some amount of overscan enabled. It’s an old thing meant for analogue signals as they don’t strictly have an “edge” to conform to, leading to some deviation in where the picture will start and stop both horizontally and vertically. Some 8-bit era console games even used this to hide the shortcuts they had to take in order to get scrolling speeds up or save some memory.
It’s an utterly superfluous setting on any content which remains digital the entire way through its life as these do have hard edges which are consistent top to bottom, side to side. It can even actively harm image quality by forcing a native resolution image to scale slightly, which isn’t necessarily noticeable on video content but can stand out on sharper PC and console graphics. Worse is that many TVs hide the setting for this in some kind of “service menu”, so it’s only accessible if you both know that it exists and can access said menu.
Both AMD and NVidia cards include facilities to attempt to combat this scaling should your TV have no option available. AMD has “HDMI Scaling” in the “Display” tab of their control panel (I’m not sure how it works for overscan), while NVidia hides it under the “Size” tab in “Adjust desktop size and position”. This of course doubles the potential image quality reduction as you’re now shrinking the picture before scaling it back up, but at least you’ll get to see all the way to the edges again.