PC to TV Display Resolutions not in 1080p

QwerkyPengwen

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Ok. So I have an ASUS G72GX with an nVidia GeForce GTX 260M CUDA 1G and I have it connected to my HDTV that supports 1080i and 1080p with an HDMI that supports all outputs including 3D. I have my display set to only screen 2 which is my TV so that I can push the resolution up to 1920x1080 instead of the laptop's 1600x900. The problem is that in my PC settings under resolutions on Windows 8.1 I have it set to 1920x1080 however the TV is displaying it at 1280x720 and it's not just the TV. The computer itself (although I have the resolution set otherwise) is outputing 1280x720. Making it so that my games only go up to 720p in resolution. My graphics card fully supports an output up to that rediculous 4 thousand something resolution. I am wondering what I should do to rectify this. I have a few ideas/questions that I will state. If what I need to do is not of these then respond in kind.

--Do I need to set the output custom using the Control Panel?

--Is it an issue with refresh rate? Do I need to go into the advanced settings of the resolutions and change it to a refresh rate of 30 due to the whole 1080i/p thing with Progressive and Fields?

--Or is it something entirely else? Please, I await anyones response and help. In the meantime I will just set my display to duplicate and run at 1600x900 on the TV.

Just in case people absolutely need to know the rest of my PC's hardware here it is:

ASUS G72GX Gaming Laptop.
-Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 2.53 GHz (2.52 GHz)
-nVidia GeForce GTX 260M 1G CUDA Processor with shared memory pool of 4067 MB
-6144 MB of RAM (DDR3 I think. But probably DDR2)
-Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit (6.3, Build 9600)
 

Invictus321

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If you right click your desktop background and click "Screen resolution", what options do you get for the 2nd Monitor? Do you have "Extend these displays" set, and is the 2nd monitor set to 1920x1080?
 

QwerkyPengwen

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The attatched picture is of my setup.
on the right is my screen resolution settings and it is set to 1920x1080 but my Rainmeter module is recogniziing that the TV output is of 1280x720

on the left is a list of all the modes I can put my display into found under advanced settings link on the screen resolution page. and under that is what directx diagnostics is recognizing.

as you can see, I have my rez set to 1920x1080 and with certain things it appears that way such as the task bar and desktop icons. but windows such as my web browser and what you see in the pic are of a 1280x720 configuration. as well as my video games that recognize up to 1920x1080 rez are only registering the 1280x720.
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sunny_dr84

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Heloo, i was expriencing the same problem with my bravia tv, even videos were running at 1280x720p on my full hd display, after playing around i solved this issue ..... to solve this right ckick on desktop, goto screen resolution , click on "make text and other items larger or smaller" and change the size of all items to smallest , i.e pull the slider all way to left, then select the desired resolution and frame rate once again . now go check in km player or any other way, it shall be displaying in 1920x1080
 

validng

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TY TY TY, it worked
was looking for an solution for hours