PC to TV Gaming not working for one specific game

[Alexander Caine]

I am using a Tv as my monitor hooked up with hdmi to dvi cable. It works for every game but dying light. when I start dying light, I get a blue tv screen with the works invalid format.

My graphics card is an Nvidia GTX 970, running windows 7 64 bit. It is a new build and had no problems with dying light on my old one same cord and tv.

Can anyone help? I finally have a pc that can play the game and it isn't working 🙁

 

[Pc6777]

try playing it on a different display to see if it is the display.

 

[Alexander Caine]

I have tried that one, it isn't the display. Same display even works for other games just not Dying Light. I am not sure what is different about it but it doesn't like the input.

 

[gamerk316]

It's possible the game is detecting the TV, and trying to go into blue ray mode (24Hz), and the TV can't display it due to HDCP issues (using DVI instead of HDMI). That's about the only thing I can think of.

 

[Alexander Caine]

Ok I was wrong. It was a VGA to VGA cable but the VGA end for the PC has a DVI converter as there are no VGA slots on the pc card.
I actually got a hdmi to hdmi cable which fixed the problem with Dying Light but made a new problem.

The desktop resolution doesn't look right, too small and stretched the borders are outside of the tv screen.
I go to the lower resolutions in settings but they show up as invalid format and give me a blue screen.
Is a new tv the only solution to this one? or is there something I can do to fix it?

 

[gamerk316]

Most TVs have one HDMI Input port labeled as "PC Input"; make sure that is the one you are using. For other TV's, you have to manually edit the name of the input to "PC Input" or something similar from the sources page on the TV. I have to do this with my Samsung TV, otherwise the picture coming from the TV is crap.

The technical reason is that PC and TV displays handle video signals differently, and TVs are always going to default to the TV based standard, not the PC one. I'm betting that's what the problem is on your display when using HDMI.

 

[Nikolay Savov]

I am using a Tv as my monitor hooked up with hdmi to dvi cable. It works for every game but dying light. when I start dying light, I get a blue tv screen with the works invalid format.

My graphics card is an Nvidia GTX 970, running windows 7 64 bit. It is a new build and had no problems with dying light on my old one same cord and tv.

Can anyone help? I finally have a pc that can play the game and it isn't working 🙁

Hi
Try this driver : GeForce 347.25 WHQL Driver: Game Ready For Dying Light

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/geforce-347-25-whql-driver-released

 

[Alexander Caine]

Most TVs have one HDMI Input port labeled as "PC Input"; make sure that is the one you are using. For other TV's, you have to manually edit the name of the input to "PC Input" or something similar from the sources page on the TV. I have to do this with my Samsung TV, otherwise the picture coming from the TV is crap.

The technical reason is that PC and TV displays handle video signals differently, and TVs are always going to default to the TV based standard, not the PC one. I'm betting that's what the problem is on your display when using HDMI.

The HDMI ports are labelled 1 2 and 3 on the tv, and I can't change labels on input for this tv, it has frighteningly few options. It is a pretty old lcd flatscreen tbh. I changed the desktop sizing with the nvidia control panel.
It still seems a little blurry but is great when playing games. Which is what I wanted anyway
Thnks for your help on this.

 

[gamerk316]

At least on my TV, what I have to do is set the label of whatever HDMI port I'm using for my PC as "PC Input", otherwise the TV renders everything blurry. Aside from checking the TVs reference manual, there isn't anything else i can recommend. I'd be surprised if the TV didn't have a PC mode though.