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Advice on monitor settings for Sony KV-HR36M31

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buttersoft:
man, it's been so long since i adjusted it i'm not sure. I do remember having to go to the right spot, and then click enter again to actually adjust that spot? Does that sound right? And i wanted to switch to my own grid pattern for each spot as well. So you memorise how to adjust, then go to a spot, enter it, then switch patterns, adjust things blind, and switch back.

b0nz0beavis:
I could select a spot, but I couldn’t make any adjustments. Added a query to prev post about HDFury2, curious about how it compares to the HDFuryX3 I tried out.

buttersoft:
The convergence doesn't move fast. you have to adjust things a long way, IIRC before the change becomes obvious. At least, until you get used to what you should be seeing happen.


--- Quote ---The HDfury3 also features 4 customizable EDID® banks, two of which may be used to limit the output resolution to 1080i out of the box (again via DIP switches).
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I don't think the HDFury2 has the above feature, it's just a passthrough conversion. It seems like the HDFury3 should be able to do that too, but not if your newer GPU won't output it of course. I'm using a 980ti, which outputs 1080i fine via HDMI.

Could you put an even smaller card in there, like a 930 or something else with no external power, and get 1080i with less power use?

b0nz0beavis:
EDIT: all mentions of HDFury X3 are incorrect. I had the X4, only realised the error when jumping on their site just now.
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The main problem is the cards are only a few cm apart, so the warm air coming out of the 970 is going straight into the intake fans on the 3080 ti. No doubt a smaller card would help a bit, but it has the potential to introduce performance issues. The 970 runs at 30-40% utilisation when just downscaling 4K >> 1080i. There’s another issue with 4K >> 1080i compared to 2560 >> 720, with the higher resolutions somehow ending up with added aliasing artifacts in some scenarios (rendering things like power lines, lane markings on roads, wire fences, etc). Unsure if due to the rendering/downscaling or the display itself. So it was another tiny issue that made 720p the better option for me. I did consider looking for motherboards with more distance between PCIE slots or a third or fourth slot, but thats overkill even for me and by this stage I’d spent a solid four weeks messing with SM settings and sourcing solutions and I just wanted to play some games.

I contacted the HDFury support team and they said the X3 was more of an “out of the box solution”, and couldn’t offer any remedy to the issues I raised about image quality and so I got a refund instead. The X3 product page states the device has lag free scaling, which is incorrect per my testing, which I pointed out to HDFury and I think also contributed to the ease of refunding the product. The support team were excellent and I rate the company highly on that basis.

 
--- Quote from: buttersoft on October 29, 2022, 11:36:49 pm ---The convergence doesn't move fast. you have to adjust things a long way, IIRC before the change becomes obvious. At least, until you get used to what you should be seeing happen.

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Good to know. Might go have a play with it later today.

 
--- Quote from: buttersoft on October 29, 2022, 02:15:56 am ---man, it's been so long since i adjusted it i'm not sure. I do remember having to go to the right spot, and then click enter again to actually adjust that spot? Does that sound right? And i wanted to switch to my own grid pattern for each spot as well. So you memorise how to adjust, then go to a spot, enter it, then switch patterns, adjust things blind, and switch back.

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This sounds like it could be right. I don’t recall trying multiple presses or putting much effort into figuring it out, just sort of giving up quickly.

Cheers for all the info, haven’t come across many other owners that have done a deep dive into the SM. It’s more owners of NA HD sets in the various forms and Discord channel.

buttersoft:
Well, TBH i got most of it from a guy who goes by Thumptech, who was a huge help. He actually owns the HDFury2 i use, it's been on permanent loan since he got his HDFuryX3 (which seems to work fine). I don't believe it is a scaler, obviously, and was confused by your post :)

Cheers for the info you've provided as well, i'm keen to give it all a go at some point :)

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