720p Games Look Bad on 1080p Monitor

[Kybz]

I have a 1080p DVI Monitor, (Viseo 243D) but when I play games in 720p it looks very blurry and not so good quality. I know that the pixels are stretched and I'm not running at a native resolution, but how come when I watch YouTube videos at 720p fullscreen, it looks really nice?

If this is a problem how do I fix it?
if not, then why is this happening?

 

[cemerian]

go into drivers and disable scaling

 

[maddogfargo]

Play at native resolution: 1080p

That's the only way you're going to have a nice sharp picture that fills the screen.

Disable scaling = black borders

Enable Scaling = fuzzy upscaled image

 

[Kybz]

Play at native resolution: 1080p

That's the only way you're going to have a nice sharp picture that fills the screen.

Disable scaling = black borders

Enable Scaling = fuzzy upscaled image

Cant run most games at 1080p

 

[Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163]

You can't stretch pixels. Not the way you described it, anyways. It's still 16:9 format, but you lose 1:1 pixel mapping. The result is blurry pictures and lost fine detail. If a game looks bad, to the point you do actually notice the blur, then increase your graphics settings. YouTube looks great because it's (at a somewhat high bitrate) not a game. YouTube don't have texture/AA/etc options.

 

[Kybz]

go into drivers and disable scaling

You can't stretch pixels. Not the way you described it, anyways. It's still 16:9 format, but you lose 1:1 pixel mapping. The result is blurry pictures and lost fine detail. If a game looks bad, to the point you do actually notice the blur, then increase your graphics settings. YouTube looks great because it's (at a somewhat high bitrate) not a game. YouTube don't have texture/AA/etc options.

It's only blurry from the edges - like REALLY blurry. How do you disable scaling? like the other guy suggested but im not sure how...