Game is running at 1080i instead of 1080p

[shockdudeX]

I have a Lenovo Y510P laptop connected to an Asus VE228H monitor via HDMI.
For whatever reason, on my monitor, in fullscreen the game always launches in 1080i. It launches at 1080p on my laptop screen.
I've tried different fullscreen resolutions and refresh rates using the config, and even tried switching between the Intel & Nvidia graphics, to no avail.
Does anyone have any ideas?

[Zyddie]

Hey Shock.

I´ve just contacted our Q&A guys and forwarded your question. Hopefully you will get an answer relatively soon.

//BFG Zyddie.

[Zyddie]

Hey Shock.

So after talking with the Q&A guys and doing some reasearch online, there is nothing we can do from our side as devs, it is purely a question about screens/cables really and nothing we can do to change it.

To quote our Q&A guys - In 99% the case when you have such kind of issue the TV / monitor not support the P mode via some connections. Or maybe some settings on graphic-driver or monitor side are not correct set.

e.g i know when you connect a TV to your graphic-card you have lots of options in the driver setting where you can setup such kind of things.

But normally it's easy to verifiy... Test 3 or 4 other games and see if it's the same here. And i'm sure he would have the same behvior here (except the graphic-card driver have already some profiles setups for this game that can prevent such kind of behavior -> As i know Nvidia / AMD/ATI have some "optimization profiles" integrated for some games.) -

So please do test it with a few other games and let us know, I will continue to reasearch into the subject, but I´m not so sure we can help you.

//BFG Zyddie.

[shockdudeX]

My current desktop resolution for this monitor is 1920x1080 60p. Nearly all* of my games run at 1920x1080 60p. Giana Sisters is the only game that runs at 1920x1080 60i.
This is a PC monitor, not a TV. I've connected my laptop to the monitor via HDMI, as my laptop's only other monitor output is VGA.

Here are some scenarios where Giana Sisters will run at 1080p:
Using VGA, but VGA's image quality and latency is awful.
Windowed instead of fullscreen, but then I have to deal with the window borders.
DirectX 9 instead of DirectX 10/11, but then I lose some fancy graphics.

*Interestingly, Sleeping Dogs starts up at 1080i, but if I change the resolution settings in-game, I can get it back to 1080p. Maybe it's a refresh rate detection issue?

At 1920x1080, these are the supported refresh rates of my monitor, as indicated by Windows / Intel Control Panel:
60 Hertz / 60p Hz - my current refresh rate, which is what should be selected and what most games select.
59 Hertz / 59p Hz - this is also fine I guess.
50 Hertz / 50p Hz
30 Hertz, Interlaced / 60i Hz
29 Hertz, Interlaced / 59i Hz - what Giana Sisters and Sleeping Dogs are selecting.
25 Hertz, Interlaced / 50i Hz

The refresh rate selector in the Giana Sisters settings dialog does nothing; the game will always run at 29 Hertz Interlaced / 59i Hz.