Question Regarding upscaling a 1366x768 laptop onto a 1080p monitor?

[Kolbe Howard]

I am currently building a new PC and I am waiting for the rest of the parts arrive. I already have the monitor and tested it out by plugging in my laptop which runs at the native resolution listed in the title.

The problem is the picure quality looks terrible, I'm guessing it's because I'm stretching the image through HDMI which never seems to look as good as native. But is there any settings I can use to make the picure look better until I get the rest of the parts in.

[Zoid Bacon]

Well, it's never going to look like 1080p, but you might be able to get it to look a little better at least.

Go into your video card control center and look at the display settings. You want to find a setting that the monitor likes. If it's a PC monitor then it should support a wide range of resolutions, but it still might look better in some than others. If it's a TV then you'll want to stick with TV formats. Often times you can set up dual-display preferences for plugging in an external monitor, and in there you can change options about the secondary display.

Play around with those until you find something that looks right. You might have to go down slightly in resolution to get a better picture as weird as that might sound.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Are you connecting a 1080p Display on the Laptop?
If that is the case then u can just run at 1080p on that screen. I don't see what the issue is.

[Revelene]

Change the resolution under the control panel to 1080p.

[Zoid Bacon]

I've sometimes found it to be the case that laptop video cards are unable to output video beyond the inbuilt screen's native resolution. I had this happen with an old laptop of mine, even though it's video card should have been able to handle 1080p resolutions just fine.