First post, by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman
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I've been an almost exclusively nVidia user because of this (full version here), but I already knew GPU Scaling has been disappeared from Catalyst Control Center. As such, all 4:3 games are stretched. The last time I seen GPU Scaling in Catalyst Control Center is around 2010, where I installed the on-board GPU driver, an AMD 760G (Radeon HD 3000), for Biostar A780L3G motherboard. I installed it from the motherboard installation CD, and the Catalyst driver on the CD indeed has GPU scaling. However, I have lost the CD ever since, and when I reinstalled the Biostar A780L3G motherboard last year, I had to download the driver from Biostar website (the GPU driver is part of the chipset driver). Guess what? The bundled Catalyst Control Center doesn't have GPU scaling either.
I have never really cared all the time, because I haven't been using Radeon GPU's for games for quite a long time. However, lately I've been interested to test old games on Radeon HD 7770. Of course,the inability to keep a game's aspect ratio is annoying. When playing 4:3 games, I want to play them with vertical black bars instead of the game being stretched. With GPU scaling, aspect ratio is kept automatically, ie 16:9 will automatically fill the monitor as it should, while 4:3 will automatically have vertical black bars.
I don't know why did AMD remove GPU scaling from Catalyst Control Center. Perhaps some Armani-clad yuppies in the GPU division just hate to see people happily playing old 4:3 games, I don't know. GPU Scaling disappeared before Lisa Su era anyway, so it isn't surprising.
...but the help file STILL mentions GPU Scaling!
However, from the screenshot above, GPU Scaling is still mentioned in the Catalyst Control Center's help file. So is there any chance GPU Scaling could be restored, by hack or otherwise?
By the way, I'm using Radon HD 7770, Catalyst 13.1, and Windows XP SP2.
Never thought this thread would be that long, but now, for something different.....
Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman.