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    [Solved]Text off screen edges.

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      piercedfreak
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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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        mitu Global Moderator @piercedfreak
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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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          piercedfreak
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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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            mitu Global Moderator @piercedfreak
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            @piercedfreak Then revert your modification you've done to the configuration file.

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              piercedfreak
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              Then the text is off the screen. There is no inbetween?

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                dankcushions Global Moderator
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                please see https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Overscan

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                  piercedfreak @dankcushions
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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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                    dankcushions Global Moderator @piercedfreak
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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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                      piercedfreak @dankcushions
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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=1

                      Leaves 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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                        dankcushions Global Moderator @piercedfreak
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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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                          piercedfreak @dankcushions
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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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