Hardware bad resolution after updating Windows 8.1

[Quadrotix]

I built a new PC and installed Windows 8.1 on it with a working 1080p resolution that worked perfectly fine and fit the screen size. After installing 29 updates by restarting, it turned back on and everything was really zoomed in and the screen quality was EXTREMELY bad. I have tried every resolution setting and tried reinstalling my graphics drivers. Is there any way to fix this?

 

[raystriker]

I built a new PC and installed Windows 8.1 on it with a working 1080p resolution that worked perfectly fine and fit the screen size. After installing 29 updates by restarting, it turned back on and everything was really zoomed in and the screen quality was EXTREMELY bad. I have tried every resolution setting and tried reinstalling my graphics drivers. Is there any way to fix this?

Windows 10 man, come on.

 

[Edgarska]

I built a new PC and installed Windows 8.1 on it with a working 1080p resolution that worked perfectly fine and fit the screen size. After installing 29 updates by restarting, it turned back on and everything was really zoomed in and the screen quality was EXTREMELY bad. I have tried every resolution setting and tried reinstalling my graphics drivers. Is there any way to fix this?

Depends on what you mean by resolution. Is it just a lower resolution or does it look like it's running at a lower bit depth?

 

[bi388]

If you havent yet, remove the drivers with DDU in safe mode and reinstall them from scratch, and then make sure your desktop resolution is set to 1080p (or whatever you use).

 

[Arecaidian Fox]

Windows 10 man, come on.

I actually have to run 8.1 on my older laptop with a GTX840m. A Windows 10 update early this year basically killed driver compatibility for it. People sometimes need older OSes still

I built a new PC and installed Windows 8.1 on it with a working 1080p resolution that worked perfectly fine and fit the screen size. After installing 29 updates by restarting, it turned back on and everything was really zoomed in and the screen quality was EXTREMELY bad. I have tried every resolution setting and tried reinstalling my graphics drivers. Is there any way to fix this?

Did you check the display scaling as well as the resolution? They're two different settings and display scaling will do everything from make the UI look blown up to crash lots of older games (especially DX9 and back).

 

[izy]

I actually have to run 8.1 on my older laptop with a GTX840m. A Windows 10 update early this year basically killed driver compatibility for it. People sometimes need older OSes still

Except the fact driver from vista still work all the way till 10 and the 840M came out 1 year before windows 10 final release,plus testing was out October the same year that gpu got released.

If your system had windows 8/8.1 Prior to the release of 10 its nowhere near incompatible or outdated.

 

[Arecaidian Fox]

Except the fact driver from vista still work all the way till 10 and the 840M came out 1 year before windows 10 final release,plus testing was out October the same year that gpu got released.

If your system had windows 8/8.1 Prior to the release of 10 its nowhere near incompatible or outdated.

Tell that to pretty much every game I tried to run on a fresh W10 install and hours wasted with DDU. The onboard Intel stuff was fine, but the minute I updated my drivers past what came on my support disc, anything trying to render with the 840m would crash. On Win8.1, up-to-date drivers with no problem.

 

[Pleng]

On Win8.1, up-to-date drivers with no problem.

Except you are having problems with 8.1, hence this thread. Have you tried rolling back to an earlier driver versio? Is it possible that the hardware itself has developed a fault?

 

[Arecaidian Fox]

Except you are having problems with 8.1, hence this thread. Have you tried rolling back to an earlier driver versio? Is it possible that the hardware itself has developed a fault?

What? No, I'm not the OP.

 

[Pleng]

What? No, I'm not the OP.

Ah. Apart from that tiny little detail, my post would have been very clever! As you were, thread; nothing to see here.

 

[Quadrotix]

Windows 10 man, come on.

Never in a million years

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Depends on what you mean by resolution. Is it just a lower resolution or does it look like it's running at a lower bit depth?

Well it definitely isn’t HD anymore and the screen size is bigger than it’s supposed to be. This was all perfectly fine before updating

 

[raystriker]

Never in a million years

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Well it definitely isn’t HD anymore and the screen size is bigger than it’s supposed to be. This was all perfectly fine before updating

What gpu are you running?

 

[Quadrotix]

What gpu are you running?

I’m not entirely sure of the model but I know it’s from gigabyte

 

[raystriker]

I’m not entirely sure of the model but I know it’s from gigabyte

are you even installing the correct gfx drivers? Do yourself a favour and install Cpuz and report back.

 

[Quadrotix]

are you even installing the correct gfx drivers? Do yourself a favour and install Cpuz and report back.

I installed the drivers that came on the disc with the GPU. It shouldn't be the drivers though since it was fine before the update

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Never in a million years

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Well it definitely isn’t HD anymore and the screen size is bigger than it’s supposed to be. This was all perfectly fine before updating

Make sure display scaling is set to 100%.

Also, can you explain what you mean by the quality being bad (maybe take a picture?)

 

[bbking67]

If you upgrade to Windows 10 using the online media creation tool you'll get Windows 10 license for free... it still works (I upgraded last night, Dec 11, 2018. Anyway it sounds like its just your resolution is low if the driver is okay. Right click somewhere on the desktop and click display propertiess and slide the resolution to the max.

The sooner you get off 8.1 the better. Its crap.

 

[Quadrotix]

Make sure display scaling is set to 100%.

Also, can you explain what you mean by the quality being bad (maybe take a picture?)

I can't access my PC right now so I won't be able to take a picture but what I mean by low quality is that it has gone blurry. similar to the way things look when you use an AV cable instead of HDMI (which I am using)

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If you upgrade to Windows 10 using the online media creation tool you'll get Windows 10 license for free... it still works (I upgraded last night, Dec 11, 2018. Anyway it sounds like its just your resolution is low if the driver is okay. Right click somewhere on the desktop and click display propertiess and slide the resolution to the max.

The sooner you get off 8.1 the better. Its crap.

okay then. I would have gone with windows 7 but I couldn't install it because the installer doesn't work with USB 3.0 and I have no disc drive

 

[Quadrotix]

If you upgrade to Windows 10 using the online media creation tool you'll get Windows 10 license for free... it still works (I upgraded last night, Dec 11, 2018. Anyway it sounds like its just your resolution is low if the driver is okay. Right click somewhere on the desktop and click display propertiess and slide the resolution to the max.

The sooner you get off 8.1 the better. Its crap.

so I upgraded to windows 10 and everything seemed to be working perfectly. However, I left my PC on for a bit and when I came back the resolution had gone bad again. Is this some kind of automatic setting? Does it have anything to do with the fact that my monitor turned itself off?

 

[Quadrotix]

so I upgraded to windows 10 and everything seemed to be working perfectly. However, I left my PC on for a bit and when I came back the resolution had gone bad again. Is this some kind of automatic setting? Does it have anything to do with the fact that my monitor turned itself off?

I found the solution: use an actual monitor instead of a TV