New AMD Catalyst driver supports Aspect Scaling

KayDat · Post by **KayDat** » 08 Mar 2008, 16:03

At long last, it appears that AMD/ATI support Aspect Scaling, with 8.3 coming out a couple of days ago. Quote Anandtech:

Digital Panel GPU image scaling: The option to enable image scaling for maintaining aspect ratio of a display has been added. Additionally, the GPU itself is now used to scale the image if the check box is ticked. NVIDIA has had this for a while and it's good to see AMD adding support for this.

So it appears that it only works with DVI, but this is an excelent move by AMD, and about damn time too!

I've installed the new Catalyst drivers, and I can say that it works excelent with my X1800XL =] Though, it appears that 1280x1024 doesn't work quite well (issues with 5:4?), all other 4:3 resolutions work well. 1:1 (i.e. centered timings) still appears to not work correctly.

Post by **Abram** » 10 Mar 2008, 03:40

About damned time, indeed!

The lack of it was a primary reason for switching back to Nvidia...

Maybe next upgrade.

!ZenJu · Post by **!ZenJu** » 15 Mar 2008, 14:50

FINALLY!!!! I've testet it and it works great for my X1950XTX with Samsung Syncmaster 226BW...

Really hit me by surprise...

Comazon · Post by **Comazon** » 16 Mar 2008, 21:09

I hope I'm doing something wrong, because I don't even see the option to maintain the aspect ratio. :cry:

I have an ATI Radeon X800 (bit antiquated I know) and a Samsung SyncMaster 216bw. I'm sure I'm using version 8.3 of CCC as well.

Any ideas? :?

Edit:

I just read elsewhere that the gpu scaling feature is only for X1xx0, X2x00 and 3xx0 type cards only.

*Sigh* :(

Mesh · Post by **Mesh** » 17 Mar 2008, 01:44

No idea if it'll work or even not cause a major mess, but you could always try to force a driver install by manually picking the video card type (like X1950 instead of X800). It might work since the drivers have become more or less identical regardless of card save for a few settings they set enabled/disabled and mostly use the same files.

As I said though, it could also make your system blue screen and all, though you should be able to recover by vga mode.

Comazon · Post by **Comazon** » 17 Mar 2008, 04:15

Pardon my newbie-ness, but how would I go about forcing the driver install?

As far as I can gather, the drivers package for the X800 card is the exact same for the X1xx0 cards. To be exact, it's "8-3_xp32_dd_ccc_wdm_enu_59746.exe" for the CC Suite and "8-3_xp32_dd_59746.exe" for just the display drivers (I'm using Win XP Pro).

Upon installation of the drivers, it seems to auto-detect what my card is exactly, and install the drivers for that specific card. Is there a way to trick the installation into thinking I have a different card, or perhaps some other method I'm unaware of?

Thanks for trying to help me btw.

Mesh · Post by **Mesh** » 17 Mar 2008, 22:48

well you can't use the installer as such, not unless you edit the .inf file and replace the profile associated with your X800 with one of the 19xx or such.

you can also do it by not using the installer at all and in device manager 'updating driver' and picking one manually instead of auto-detect.

probably more trouble then it's worth though.

Morgana · Post by **Morgana** » 21 Jul 2008, 12:17

I know, it's rather late, but:

I also have a x800, the driver version is 8.3 and it works.

You only have to take the option "use centered timings".

KayDat · Post by **KayDat** » 21 Jul 2008, 13:50

All ATI cards have always had centered timings but most of the time, it never works.

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