Connecting Computer to Screen TV

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Would anyone happen to know just how to connect a desktop computer to a big screen TV?

I have a large T.V. for my room and a bigger one downstairs ... big enough to watch some good football games on :)

But, I heard that you can connect your computer to the screen of your tv and play games off of your tv then use a regular monitor screen.

Could someone tell me what I would need to buy to actually apply this and play a large version of Day of Defeat: Source on my TV?

Thanks.
 
Well i have a feeling its gonna be laggy if you don't have a good laptop graphics card like a GTX 260m or something like that.

Im guessing your t.v. runs at 1920x1080 resolution which is HD so you will need an HDMI connector i believe or a DVI connector. Some laptops have DVI out's and t.v.'s have DVI in's so all you would need is a DVI cable.

They also sell DVI to HDMI connectors if your t.v only has HDMI and no DVI or something.

We ultimately need to know wat ports your laptop and t.v have to assess this more thoroughly. Your laptop graphics card also needs to support up to your t.v resolution and unless its a good laptop GPU, its not gonna run the games too well.
 
PewPewBangBang said:
We ultimately need to know wat ports your laptop and t.v have to assess this more thoroughly. Your laptop graphics card also needs to support up to your t.v resolution and unless its a good laptop GPU, its not gonna run the games too well.
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PewPewBangBang said:
Well i have a feeling its gonna be laggy if you don't have a good laptop graphics card like a GTX 260m or something like that.

Im guessing your t.v. runs at 1920x1080 resolution which is HD so you will need an HDMI connector i believe or a DVI connector. Some laptops have DVI out's and t.v.'s have DVI in's so all you would need is a DVI cable.

They also sell DVI to HDMI connectors if your t.v only has HDMI and no DVI or something.

We ultimately need to know wat ports your laptop and t.v have to assess this more thoroughly. Your laptop graphics card also needs to support up to your t.v resolution and unless its a good laptop GPU, its not gonna run the games too well.
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Hmm ... I don't run it off my laptop. Although, my laptop is the one I use for forums mostly. I run it off my desktop computer. I dual box.

But what your saying is that I need to know what graphics card will support my TV, two I need to get an HDMI cable, and ... is there anything else in that?
 
You need to have a video card good enough to 1: support your tv's resolution 2: be able to handle putting reasonable fps at that resolution

Then you need to make sure you have a cable that can make the connection between your video card and your tv. Normally HDMI or HDMI/DVI will suffice.
 
Putty said:
You need to have a video card good enough to 1: support your tv's resolution 2: be able to handle putting reasonable fps at that resolution

Then you need to make sure you have a cable that can make the connection between your video card and your tv. Normally HDMI or HDMI/DVI will suffice.
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yes basically that.....you desktop GPU just needs to be sufficient to play the game at your t.v's resolution and support the resolution first of all. If you have a fairly new/high end GPU you will probably be able to support 1920x1080 resolution.

Yes you will need an HDMI cable, and probably a DVI to HDMI connector because im guessing your GPU doesn't have an HDMI port, only DVI
 
(If you get cables, get them from monoprice.com . That's where I get all of my cables, really cheap).
 
Hmm ... I am currently ordering my cables ... I think I know exactaly what I am getting. Now I should be able to play the games I play with yall on my big screen! :)
 
lcpldavis said:
Hmm ... I am currently ordering my cables ... I think I know exactaly what I am getting. Now I should be able to play the games I play with yall on my big screen! :)
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Do be aware if you connect your desktop to your TV via DVI you will have no sound though your TV's sound system if you connect it though HDMI then you can get sound though your TV's sound system. You can also do S-video which is okay but i'd rather do DVI or HDMI.
 
It is highly recommended to go through HDMI only, I have ready many incompatabilities and issues with DVI setups... I personally want to get a HDTV hooked up to my laptop and make it a mobile media center with a HDTV slingbox deal too... Gaming would be awesome on it as well. Again, like everyone has been saying, be sure to have a powerful enough video card that will both push native resolution and push games at that native resolution. It may be a wise decision to consider even running an extended monitor, the TV will push either the game or movie, and the monitor itself can be used for regular PC use. Thats what I do at least...
 
Unless you have a sweet hot gfx card it's going to be laggy as all get out. I did this myself using an S-Video cable. I'm running two GeForce 9500's in SLI and normally get 50-60 FPS on the 2Fort bridge. I had a hard time getting my PC to shove TF2 onto the alternate monitor (the TV) and ended up using UltraMon to mirror my primary onto my alternate. That may have caused some problems as my gfx card(s) had to push TF2 out to both monitors. But my FPS dropped to barely 20 with me hiding in a corner in the respawn. When I tried to play it was so jumpy I could barely build an SG, much less play a class that has to fire & manuever.

I may go back a try to push TF2 onto the TV only instead of mirroring to see what that does. But so far the results are far less cool that I had hoped.
 
I currently run my computer with a 32 inch HDTV at 1920x1080, 60 Hz. With my one 4870, I got well over 100 FPS in all games except Crysis (only 70 there), which is not needed at all since it only supports 60 (I ran all these games at medium settings). Now, I have 2 4870s in Crossfire, and I get like 250 FPS on Full settings. I actually had to enable Vsync so that I don't put unnecessary load on my GPUs
 
Artinz said:
I currently run my computer with a 32 inch HDTV at 1920x1080, 60 Hz. With my one 4870, I got well over 100 FPS in all games except Crysis (only 70 there), which is not needed at all since it only supports 60 (I ran all these games at medium settings). Now, I have 2 4870s in Crossfire, and I get like 250 FPS on Full settings. I actually had to enable Vsync so that I don't put unnecessary load on my GPUs
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It doesn't really matter the size of your t.v. your still running only 1920x1080....there are thousand dollar monitors out there that do like 2560x1200 or something and thats where its impossible to get good FPS in all games almost.

Vsync doesn't put less load on your GPU......it just fixes tearing and stuff so everything runs smoothly on your screen, you don't see like black streaks going down when theres action scenes and stuff. If anything, i think it puts more strain on it...when i run Vsync, i sometimes see the screen lag and the FPS dip around 50is but when i turn it off i keep a consistent like 100 or a below that maybe but always above 70 and it runs smooth. I run Vsync in games i need to so theres no tearing.
 
PewPewBangBang said:
It doesn't really matter the size of your t.v. your still running only 1920x1080....there are thousand dollar monitors out there that do like 2560x1200 or something and thats where its impossible to get good FPS in all games almost.

Vsync doesn't put less load on your GPU......it just fixes tearing and stuff so everything runs smoothly on your screen, you don't see like black streaks going down when theres action scenes and stuff. If anything, i think it puts more strain on it...when i run Vsync, i sometimes see the screen lag and the FPS dip around 50is but when i turn it off i keep a consistent like 100 or a below that maybe but always above 70 and it runs smooth. I run Vsync in games i need to so theres no tearing.
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I know it doesn't matter the size, they just want it to be on an HDTV, so I'm telling them what I have.

Anyways, for me, Vsync does put less load on my GPUs. I saw no tearing before, but after Vsync was enabled, my GPUs took 30% less load.
 
Artinz said:
I know it doesn't matter the size, they just want it to be on an HDTV, so I'm telling them what I have.

Anyways, for me, Vsync does put less load on my GPUs. I saw no tearing before, but after Vsync was enabled, my GPUs took 30% less load.
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hmm interesting.........crossfire 4870 is beast anyway, wont need to upgrade till next generation ATI 6 series
 
Yeah. I usually only go for the 870s anyways, so I'll have to wait for that to come out. Although, I love my 4870s, but Direct x 11 looks amazing.
 
Artinz said:
Yeah. I usually only go for the 870s anyways, so I'll have to wait for that to come out. Although, I love my 4870s, but Direct x 11 looks amazing.
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true that.....i hope to get a 5970 next year when prices drop to the $300's hopefully like the 4870x2
 
Yeah, but I felt like an idiot after I bought my first 4870. Bought it for $240, then a week later it dropped to $190...
 
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