[Solved]Text off screen edges.
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I use OSMC, and used RetrOSMC to install RetroPie. The display is fine when using OSMC, but once I launch RetroPie the text is off the edge of the screen. I have 'disable_overscan=1' in my config.txt, are there any other suggestions to get this fixed?
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@piercedfreak Please give more details about your system - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.
Can you show a screenshot of the problem ? -
Raspberry PI 3B
Official Power Supply from Raspberry PI(no under volt indications)
RetroPie Version Used: 4.4.2
Built From: RetrOSMC(https://github.com/mcobit/retrosmc)
USB Devices connected: Flirc remote sensor, 4TB Seagate external HD, 32Gb thumb drive(/home)
Controller used: DualShock 4I can not get anything to work for screenshots. I have tried raspi2png(says it needs libpng12, but libpng16 is all I can manage to get), the hotkeys do not bring up the menu. The menu at the bottom (options, menu, random, back, launch...) is cut in half, I only see the top half of the words. The text on the screen, such as in the RetroPie menu (audio, bluetooth, config editor....), is missing about the first left half of the first letter, and so on.
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@piercedfreak This looks like an overscan issue still. Try increasing the overscan values the bottom - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Overscan/.
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This issue is only present in RetroPie though, not in OSMC which is what is on most of the time, RetroPie is launched from within OSMC from the programs menu when I want to play my games, changing those will also affect my OSMC will it not?
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@piercedfreak said in Text off screen edges.:
changing those will also affect my OSMC will it not?
Probably yes, you can test and find out.
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Now I have a black border around my screen, even after playing with the overscan_left, top, bottom, right values.
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@piercedfreak Then revert your modification you've done to the configuration file.
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Then the text is off the screen. There is no inbetween?
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@dankcushions said in Text off screen edges.:
please see https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Overscan
I have already tried this, even with overscan_left=1 there is .5 inch/6.35mm gap, if I enable overscan the text is cut off, there seems to be no inbetween.
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@piercedfreak please read carefully:
Note that the line disable_overscan=0 is not strictly necessary -- what is necessary is to avoid disable_overscan=1 being set.
overscan_left=1 etc only come into play when you have overscan enabled. after you enable it, you then need to experiment with larger numbers until you get the right image. the example numbers in the guide are a good start.
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@dankcushions said in Text off screen edges.:
@piercedfreak please read carefully:
Note that the line disable_overscan=0 is not strictly necessary -- what is necessary is to avoid disable_overscan=1 being set.
overscan_left=1 etc only come into play when you have overscan enabled. after you enable it, you then need to experiment with larger numbers until you get the right image. the example numbers in the guide are a good start.
disable_overscan=0
overscan_left=1
overscan_right=1
overscan_top=1
overscan_bottom=1Leaves the gap of .5 inch/6.35mm on the left/right side of the screen, and larger on the top, and bottom. I do not have disable=overscan=1 anywhere in my config.txt file.
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@piercedfreak ok, so now you try with negative numbers, i think. or larger positive numbers. it's measured in pixels
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@dankcushions said in Text off screen edges.:
@piercedfreak ok, so now you try with negative numbers, i think. or larger positive numbers. it's measured in pixels
I had tried negative numbers with no effect, but just tried again, and they worked, and fixed it. Thanks.
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