I had a similar problem with my HD 4850 when switching from vista to win7. I actually found a fix inside the ATI Catalyst Control Center. Open CCC and somewhere in the display configuration for your monitor ensure that there is no over/underscan. For some reason my CCC had a small degree of underscan turned on which led to the black bars you mentioned. A word of caution, when you start your games up and pick the native resolution the underscan may show up again. Just turn on any options for windowed mode and/or full screen and then turn off windowed mode again and the black bars should go away. Hope that helps!
I have a Acer monitor H213h. I'm using windows 7. My resolution is at 1920x1080. But for some reason it does not fill in the whole screen on my monitor. Theres black side bars on each corner of the screen. Is that a way that I can fill the whole screen without losing any resolution?
This is the third thread today about this... use the search feature here or google for the overscan/underscan fix.
Yes, this does indeed work. If you go to CCC and hit "FORCE" and then select 1920 x 1080 i get a full clean image. Thanks for the help. I'll post other things related to this issue here if I discover them.
Hi Zephyr,
have you looked for monitor drivers? I know some other users have had similar issues and installing the monitor driver did the trick.. Why not the monitors manufacturers web site?