Is it possible to display a 1080p signal on a 900p monitor?

[Gabewil]

I have a PSVR which can be hooked up to my PC. The only problem is my PC has to be outputting 1080p to my monitor or there is issues. Is there a way to somehow make my monitor accept the 1080p signal?

 

[Darkbreeze]

No, there is not. Not a true 1080p signal. Some display drivers/graphics utilities can simulate an upscaled image, but it will not be a 1080p HD image. There is just not way to automagically add or use pixels that just are not there and part of the panel.

 

[Gabewil]

No, there is not. Not a true 1080p signal. Some display drivers/graphics utilities can simulate an upscaled image, but it will not be a 1080p HD image. There is just not way to automagically add or use pixels that just are not there and part of the panel.

Yeah, that's what I wanted. The display in the PSVR is 1080p, so the monitor also has to be set at the same resolution. How would I go about doing that?

 

[Solandri]

Some monitors can downscale if the input resolution exceeds the screen resolution. The result is usually not very pleasant though. Even in the best cases, it tends to look blurry (blurrier than 1600x900) and text difficult to read. Your question implies you've tried it and it doesn't work? In that case there's not much you can do other than get a different monitor.

Back in the Windows XP days, Microsoft let you manually set the desktop resolution independent of screen resolution. So you could set the desktop to 1920x1080, but display it on a 1600x900 monitor at native resolution. The monitor would display only a 1600x900 subsection of the 1920x1080 screen. When you moved the mouse to the edges or corners, the portion of the desktop being displayed would slide over. But unfortunately they got rid of the feature in later versions of Windows. A pity since I rather liked it (made 1366x768 screens tolerable).

If you've got a second PC, you could simulate it by having the second PC output to the monitor at 1600x900. Then have the second PC display the primary PC's screen using VNC (kinda like remote desktop except it doesn't log you out). But even with Gigabit Ethernet the franerate will not be that great. Something like Splashtop (which compresses the desktop into a h.264 video stream) may work better at preserving framerate.

 

[Darkbreeze]

What is the model of your monitor?

Model of your graphics card?

 

[Gabewil]

What is the model of your monitor?

Model of your graphics card?

The monitor is a acer x193w, and the graphics card is a MSI GTX 1060 3GB (GT OC).

 

[Darkbreeze]

The biggest issue I see with your current monitor is that it is a 16:10 aspect ratio, not 16:9 like most modern monitors. It is also only capable of a maximum resolution of 1680x1050, so it cannot do 1920x1080 and even if it could it would look completely wrong since the aspect ratio is incorrect.

Of course, your graphics card is capable of doing pretty much any resolution you want with it. You will need a different monitor that is capable of 1920 by 1080 or higher.