Fix Your PC's UltraWide Monitor Scaling and Display Issues In Seconds! 

exactly what I needed... Outstanding! Thank you!

I love you! Searched for 2 hours and this lead me to the right direction. Fiddle with the settings on your monitor peeps!!

Just got the G9 and thought I was toast. Your video showed up at the top and solved the issue in seconds. Thanks for taking the hassle out of setting this up!

You’re the man! I can’t believe that an issue like this doesn’t have more content. I spent hours trying to figure it out, and didn’t find anything through Samsung or online. Good job!

Nearly a year old video, but still saving lives in the present. This helped tremendously!

THANK YOU!!! I have PhD in Computer Science and still did not how to fix it.

just got my first ultra wide monitor i thought my games couldnt be played on them because of this issue. Simple and straight to the point thank you brother

Holy Cow! Amazing! This was short sweet and to the point. Most effective, fixed my issue quickly, thank you so very much for your content!

After many trials,,, looking around. Finally found this video and got my work laptop working just right on the 49 wide screen, Thank you !

omgggg still relevant 2 years later. struggled for HOURS scouring the internet and trying to connect my work computer to my Samsung monitor. Thank you so much for this savior of a video!

This is just excellent. I was about to return my ultrawide. I sucks that the manual does not make the difference clear between the hdmi-versions. Thanks a lot!

You are awesome! I went back to an old monitor (Samsung 49") after my new UW failed and I had this same problem. I got lucky and found your video after only 2.5 hours of troubleshooting (LOL). I just assumed it would work because it did before. Thank you!

Thank you. I've been trying to fix this same issue for ever. I was looking everywhere online too. Changing the mode from 1.2 to 1.1 worked for me. I'm in business and a happy camper thanks to your video.

Ah finally!! After finding nothing online, then replacing several cables, adapters and power blocks, it turns out that THIS was the answer all along!! WOW thank you sir. 🏆

I have a 34inch Odyssey G5 and I seriously cannot thank you enough!! I was going mad trying to find a solution for this on websites! The solution to my problem was to change the Input port version to 1.4 cause mode was already set to PC (default port version was 2.0).

Love you man, you solved a nightmare problem for me, couldn’t find the info anywhere, great much needed video 👌🏾

Serious life saver! I was about to go nuts and found this! Thank you so much!

Thank you sooo much!!! Spent quite a while googling and watching youtube videos on how to fix it, but to no avail. Your fix took care of it within minutes!!

This was very helpful! Was able to apply the same concepts to a new LG ultrawide...little bit of trial and error and its fixed! Thanks!

I can't even explain how happy I am to have found this video... THANK YOU

Holy crap. I was about to dismantle my monitor and start the return process with Amazon. You saved me so much hassle. Thank you so much!

Those roses must be sent from your subscribers. Spent hours trying to fix this…. THANK YOU!!!!

Finally someone showing and solving my exact problem. Thanks man!

Thank you so much. I could not get my older work laptop to show on screen. You tips (HDMI 1.4) saved the day. Cheers

Dude been suffering for 2 years. You are awesome!

Brother..... THANK YOU!!! Dang. I just did a PC refresh at work and when i got back to plug in my new laptop to my 59" curved Samsung I had the same issue. I just followed your setting switching from HDMI 2.0 to 1.4 and BOOM... Problem solved. Made the icons on my laptop bigger but i can manage that.... Thanks again!

Thanks, you just saved me hours of confusion and I cancelled the extra cables I ordered for my Odessey Neo

Thank you I have had my curved monitor for 2 yrs and kept trying to get it to work scale properly with my windows 10, Now after finding your video I'm able to get my monitor to show the whole screen. Again Thank you for this video.

This was great!!! Fixed MacBook Pro problem I was having. You did great!!! Best resolution I’ve gotten on the ultra wide than having to buy the cord to get the full resolution

Thanks man, I was trying to figure this out for a while now. You saved the day !

Thanks for posting! Problem solved right away! I wasted so much time and your video instantly helped.

Life saver! Nice monitor man. Thanks from Brazil.

Outstanding video, addressing the very issues I have. Very well explained. My menu is slightly different for the first step, though, so I will need my son to guide me through it. Thanks!

I don’t think a lot of the people here realize they are not the target audience for displays like the G9. I don’t even know how they internally justify the price without understanding the features and options.

AMAZING!!!! I've been trying to figure this out for days and you fixed it in seconds. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

Brooooo!!! You saved me hours of cussing... this was dong my head in each time I was using Premier Pro, the screen would go black. You are the BOMB!! Thank you!

Hi Olaf, thanks so much for this video. I am over here dying of laughter. I bought the exact same monitor and spent six hours last night without anyone on RU-vid having this simple answer. Thanks for saving me from a heart attack ;)

Thank you, great help, I’ve been figuring out for few hours, although mine is a Dell, found the similar thing on the menu to work on and it works😊

This just made my day. Spent hours trying to figure this out and found this solution. I have new machine with better gfx card coming but at least I can work until then. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

Changing the HDMI version worked for me. Thank you so much!

Hey this saved me!!! Thank you so much! I thought my laptop wouldn’t work with my new monitor and i was so sad but this did it!!!

I was about to return a USB-C to HDMI adapter when I found this video. THANKS SO MUCH!!

Love it!!! I was about to return this thing. Thank you for sharing.

Thanks Pal.. Superb. Saved my lot of time..

Thanks! I tried every other other suggestion but nothing worked, your method worked right away!

Wow I thought my laptop didn’t support the monitor and was going to sell it! You saved me! Thank you

BEST VIDEO EVER!!! I was seriously sitting there gonna cry cause I was like this is terrible I just spent so much money I was in every single setting trying to fix it and it was that simple mine was in hdmi compatibly!

Thank you, Thank You! I spent far too much time messing around in NVIDIA Control Panel. Everything worked out of the box with proper sizing. I went into NCP to modify some settings and was stuck with this issue and couldn't get it to revert. I'm not sure why NCP changes made the HDMI 2.0 setting on the monitor have issues but my old GPU doesn't support that and this was the fix!

Thank you! Was ripping my hair out. So odd though, had this monitor for 2 years and it randomly became an issue now

Hi sir. I have a ALIENWARE 38 CURVED GAMING MONITOR - AW3821DW and I am not able to find these settings. Please help.

I was having this issue with an LG SDQHD (2560 x 2880) monitor. This solved it. Thanks!

Thank you!! This helped me so much. I have an acer but the theory you put out there helped me figure out my monitor.

this was exactly what I needed to do, spent so much time configuring setttings

you just saved me so much time - thank you sir!!!!!

Thank you so much. I have been trying to fix this for sometime and your video helped resolve it.

you should be using the display port and cable not the hdmi cable to benefit from that 240hz, your eyes will thank you !

Amazing, worked first time - thanks a lot!

You're lacking in attention to detail... After u changed your HDMI settings from 2.0, 1.4 your 120hz automatically reverts to 60hz... It's on your screen I'm not making any of this up

Literally saved me a lot of anger, thanks so much you were 100% dead on!

Works thanks changed dp1 to 1.2

Thanks for the video. In my LG ultrawide 34 inch monitor, there is no PC/AV option, but when I changed the version to 1.4 from 2.0, the screen stretching issue got resolved.

Thxs Olaf. My LG does not have a PC mode. Still working on it. Thank you again.

This isn't really the best solution. You should go into your graphics card settings and ensure it's set to use the correct refresh rate and resolution (the samsung odyssey g9 is 5120X1440; you can change the monitor's refresh rate in the monitor settings from either 60, 120, or 240 - if you're not gaming, 60-120 is fine). You can do this usually through AMD or NVIDIA control panels. Then, go to Windows Display Settings and set the resolution to the same as your graphics card settings, and adjust scaling for larger image if you need it. Finally, in the display settings window still, click advanced, and ensure your refresh rate in windows matches your refresh rate on the monitor and graphics card settings. Additionally, if changing your HDMI version is altering your image, it's likely that you don't have the right cable. The samsung has an HDMI 2.0 port, and you should use an HDMI 2.0 cable (or 2.1 if on the neo g9). Otherwise you're limiting the data bandwidth to 60hz refresh rate which is likely causing the issue in the first place - HDMI versions less than 2.0 cannot support higher refresh rates at this monitor's native resolution.

I didn't think this would work because 3 years in technology is like same as dog years... but it did! OMG.

OMG thank you thank you! I had given up and all it took was going to the PC setting!

Dam that worked changing the port to 1.4 i had been trying for about 5 hours haha. Thanks man

Seems to me like a bandwidth issue. Hdmi 1.4 is 10.2gb (4k @ 24hz) Hdmi 2.0 is 18gb (4k @ 60hz) Displayport 1.4 offers 32gb 4k@120hz with 30 bit colour and hdr. Then there’s is hdmi 2.1 48 gb bandwidth And displayport 2.0 with 78gb bandwidth.

This is working because your graphic card cannot support the full resolution of the monitor (which HDMI 2.0 supports) so by switching it to HDMI 1.4 with lower bandwidth you are forcing the monitor and PC to use a lower resolution than the native resolution of the panel. So in essence it is like you running 720p on a 1080p monitor because your graphic card cant support it. You need a better GPU to suppory the amount of pixels the monitor has.

What worked for me was, simply unplugging and re-plugging the HDMI cable into the HDMI port on my PC. I felt so dumb but it did the trick lol!

It Worked after a looooooooooooot a other tries!! Thaks Bud! 👍

Dislike bcs you not say that HDMI 1.4 limit your frequency, you probably have proper resolution with 30Hz !. Many monitors can work with 1.4 as max 100Mhz max and DisplayPort can unlock 144/240hz. To important to ignore that in video

I've been searching around for info like this. I'm trying to decide on what to buy for a new monitor, replacing two older 27" and want to go with one larger monitor. I'm bouncing back and forth between a 38 to 40" flat 16:9 or a larger 45 to 49 curved. I don't game. I mostly use Word, standards apps, web browsing, RU-vid, etc. I do like the look of the widescreens, but I'm afraid they may not be good for what I do and text may not be as clear. Of course, all the local sales people say the large curved monitors will work just fine for me. This helps, although I'm still not sold on the widescreens.

OMG, thank you for sharing this. I did it and it worked perfectly.

You are the best. thank you so much ⭐️

This wasn't my issue but the issue with this monitor was the text size of everything at 5120 x1140... so i played with the text size settings, set them to 110 percent instead of 100 and now i can read everything much better..

Thanks, Olaf. This is super useful. I'm wondering though, if this display issue is happening to people who use work laptops/personal laptops/console setups? How are you all switching between the different setups? Surely you're not having to manually adjust the settings each time you want to game after work?

Yes saved me! This guy knows what he’s talking about👍

I cannot ding the setting you have there. I have a Samsung G95SC and I’ve got it to work toggling the screen ratio but now can’t get it to stop the stretched screen. Any suggestions?

I've tried everything. That setting doesn't exist on my monitor. I got a benq widescreen monitor. I've gone through every setting but nothing works. So annoyed!

so useful. thanks. saved me 4 hours. literally

Why are you using the HDMI port with Oddysey G9? It is like a waste of money. You never get a 240hz refresh rate.

I have a 35" Scepter Ultrawide Monitor and I have been looking for this fix for some time. The monitor looks great when connected to my regular PC, but when trying to connect my work laptop to it I experience the same resolution issues you show at the start. Unfortunately as far as I can tell this monitor does not have those settings you refer to in the video. Open to ideas, but guessing I'm out of luck...

Broooo....OMG...so obvious never thought of it. Thanks much

Thank you! Could NOT figure out what was wrong!

thank you for this, helped me with my Xiaomi UltraWide

None of you are having the issue where you can’t toggle through the menu settings?

This is great. Thank you!

Not sure why you had a problem. I hooked up my 49” ultra wide 21:9 monitor and it worked instantly.

It worked the way you explained❤

You said a couple of times "on any brand monitor", well, that's not so. Not all monitors have the settings that fixed your issue. My wide screen doesn't have the option to go from HDMI 2 to HDMI 1.4, so no go for me.

thank you this was helpful. exactly what I was looking for....

which model is that?

Life saver!!! A++

I can't thank you enough for this video!

Lifesaver!

When your monitor is twice the price of your PC. 😅

Hahahahahaha the first 10 seconds have me weak. Solved my issue immediately thank you.

Been struggling with this monster. Tha k you.

This worked!!! Thanks a million.

Thank you this was all fine and the monitor weirdly went black screen. Then when I finally got it back on it had stretched the screen. 1.2 works fine on mine as I have a 27"