Full screen mode crops sides at every resolution

[guitardave]

I have an Nvidia 9600GT, Windows7 x64. 1920x1080 native resolution LCD TV. I've updated the video drivers, but the problem persists. The sides are cropped so bad at every resolution, that I can't see about 20% on each side. I've tried 1024x768, but the sides are cropped off at this resolution too. Windowed mode (no full screen) is not as bad, but it is not playable either...

[jens]

This is an actual TV you are trying to play it on? If it is a monitor then there usually is a auto button that will make sure the view is taken up by the entire screen. You should make sure to use a resolution that has the correct ratio compared to the screen (16:9 in this case I think).

But if this is a TV then my personal experience is that they often do not display the input from a computer correctly by default. But in the Nvidia control panel there is a setting where you can adjust the view to be more precise when using a TV as the output. Maybe you can use that?

[katazo]

i have the same problem i was about the start a new thread but found this one. I downloaded the demo today and i am getting crops sides in afull screen mode even at the lowest resolution, i am running it on a ASUS MS226 LCD monitor (full hd), VGA ati hd 5770.

i tried almost every resolution and still getting crops sides...

edit:

i found the solution or at least worked for me( on windows 7 professional)
i had display (icons,windows, and text) set to larger size (150%), changed it to medium (120%) and the full screen mode is working now=D no more crops sides.

now i can finally test the game.

[guitardave]

Thanks Katazo,
You are the man! The support I got from Frictional and Valve was worthless. Guess us users have to look out for one another...
Cheers mate!

[SHODANFreeman]

The support I got from Frictional and Valve was worthless.

That's a little uncalled for.

[jens]

Aw, I did my best *sniff*

[Zanderat]

The support I got from Frictional and Valve was worthless.

Really?