Need help!!! Windowed Full Screen vs Full Screen on a R9 380x

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I just purchased a new xfx r9 380x graphic card to replace a nvidia 460gtx. I uninstalled all nvidia drivers install the new card and installed all drivers. Reboot and start up a few games and for some reason they all run great in windowed full screen but when I switch to full screen not windowed the screen becomes solarized. All pink and blue colors almost looks like the colors are inverted. I tried new hdmi cable and uninstalled reinstalled again. Even tried to move the card to a different pci slot.

What is the difference of running windowed full screen and full screen besides on is in a border less window?

Also the screen does this if I switch gpu scaling on in the settings. Not sure why.

Any one expience this and know if it is a setting or maybe bad card. Looking to fix this or I might just send back and get a nvidia 960 gtx.
 

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Check the Pixel Format setting in Catalyst Control Center under My Digital Flat Panels. Games run better in RGB 4:4:4 PC Standard (Full RGB).

And your 280x beats a GTX 960 hands down.
 

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Ok thanks I will try that. I am thinking it has to be something in the settings I and just missing. Because how would it run great at desktop and windowed but full screen on any game it is unviewable. This is my first AMD video card so I am not to familiar with the control center.

 

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Ok I tried what you suggested and the screen went all crazy again. So no matter what pixel setting I change to except the one chosen by default wouldn't work.

So now I'm thinking it's something with the hdmi. I have a dvi - dvi cable I try it and bingo full screen and it's working nicely.
 

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Glad to here you got it worked out.

But HDMI should work too (unless you were running above 60Hz refresh without HDMI 2.0). How did you uninstall the Nvidia drivers? There is a great how-to here on Tom's about how to do a proper "Clean" graphics driver install in Windows 7, 8.1 or 10. The how-to also includes steps to do a thorough uninstall before installing new drivers. Could be some remnants of the Nvidia driver were still around affecting the HDMI port if that's how you had your old GeForce card connected to your monitor.

Or just leave well enough alone and enjoy if you don't feel like tinkering.
 

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Well I didn't use that utility. I am really curious as to why the HDMI doesn't work verse the DVI. I will play around with it and use the utility to see if any remnants of the nvidia drives exist. Thank you for your help.