TV & desktop both say 1080p, Nvidia Experience & screen look 720p.

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As per title, I am really confused atm. I was using a plain jane 32" LG TV for a very long time as a comp. monitor. I recently bought a much nicer 32" sony W650 tv to use as a monitor, and ever since i plugged it in, things have looked too big.

When I first plugged it in, I assumed the issue was due to my resolution being set wrong. At that time, and the entire time since, Windows 8 tells me it's set to 1920x1080 like it should be. Things still looked too big so I fiddled w/ the options and did the "make items smaller" option in the display settings, issue felt resolved.

However, today I tried to install FF14 and had some issues getting it to select 1080p in borderless window. This led me to look for the optimized settings via the Experience, and when I look at the "my rig" tab, the spot that has always said "1080x1920" is displaying the very unwanted "1280x720".

I've changed 2 things in my set up; my TV, and a new HDMI cable. My TV says it's currently in 1080p mode when I look at the display settings, and even when I change display settings between presets.

The HDMI cable was nicer than my old one, so it shouldn't be the issue AFAIK. I WILL say, it was an Audioquest cable I got for cheap (I work for Best Buy), and unlike any other cable I've ever looked at, has a designated "flow" of the "this end goes to device output, this end goes to TV input" variety. I have no idea why this would be the culprit, but then I have no idea what the cause of this is anyway.

I honestly haven't the slightest idea what would be going on here. Anyone got suggestions?
 
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If you have good settings for my w650 that'd be lovely, I've fiddled w/ it a lot & am pretty satisfied atm. But who knows?

The TV I had previously was the same size at 32", but it was an LG model CS560. They were both 1080p according to the spec sheets, which is why I am cornfused. (That and the fact that Windows & the TV are telling me 1080 while my eyes & Experience are telling me 720.)
 
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After I saw your 2nd post:

The reason I noticed it while fiddling w/ FF14 wasn't that it gave me a suggested resolution, it was that when I tried to set it to "borderless full screen" it spat out a bizarre resolution (apparently 720p blown up 25% due to my "make items on the desktop smaller" setting, ty google), which then led me into Experience and discovering that my eyes weren't crazy after all.

I have also noticed that when I try to play Shadowrun Returns, the splash screen initially fills more area than the screen holds, and is then re-sized to fit. That was something else that tipped me off.

Lastly, I'm almost positive that Experience used to say 1920x1080 on my old screen. I may hook it back up again to check it out. Cause I'm lost.
 
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I turned pretty much everything off except for Sharpness, cause when I put sharpness <50, everything is blurry enough to be barely readable.

The resolution thing is a sub-set of "Reality Creation", so if I turn that off it & several other things grey-out. Either way, changing the resolution setting is a "0-100" business and not a NxN thing, and seems to do nothing useful even when enabled and set to max.

I think I'm going to try putting my old cable back on real quick & see if that does anything in the Experience window. Might as well try something.
 
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Heh, there wasn't any "solution" about anything I've figured out so far, after I turned off the "make items smaller" setting, everything is back to looking enormous and Experience still says I'm kicking out 720p.

If changing the cable doesn't have any effect, my only remaining suspicions are something's wonky w/ my aging 570, or somehow Sony snuck something into this TV & it's not "true" 1080. (Apparently snuck isn't in spell check? How peculiar.)
 
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So... if anyone else ever discovers anything like this in Win 8, apparently you need to:

Go into Display (R-click desktop & select screen resolution is the easiest way)
Click "Make text and other items larger or smaller"
Send the slider all the way to the left.

I have no idea how this setting got changed originally, or if it was just something I didn't notice before.

But after I slid it all the way to the left, it finally says 1920x1080 and everything looks correct again.

Tooooootally bizarre.
 
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Heh, now that that issue's resolved, I've run into the issue that now that everything is back to the correct size, my icons are now uber tiny & I don't remember how I changed that. Google ahoy!
 
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