I have an sapphire 6970 reference card and a samsung 2443BWPLUS monitor which is a 16:10 monitor. I am running windows 7 64 bit.

when I set my resolution to 1080p from 1920x1200, I would like to set centered timings so that black bars appear at the top and bottom of my screen to correct the aspect ratio. When I do this however, the options under the "enable gpu scaling" box are still greyed out and the resolution is simply stretched across the entire screen. this appears to be only for 1080p, other resolutions scale fine. I also don't have any image scaling options in my monitor that cause this. I've had this problem since 11.11. I used to be able to revert to 11.10 to fix the problem, however that doesn't work anymore and I'd like to keep my drivers up to date anyway.

Is there a fix for this?

1. Change your resolution to anything lower than native.

2. Set GPU scaling options in CCC.

3. Apply settings.

4. Set resolution back to native.

Note: If 1080p is still grayed out (shouldn't be), use something lower, like 640x480 or anything. It's a global setting for all resolutions below native.

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CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 810 @ 3250MHz | RAM: Kingmax 2x2GB DDR2 800 @ 833MHz| MoBo: MSI K9A2 CF v1.0 (BIOS: 1.D)| GPU: Asus HD 6850 1024MB (DirectCu) @ 850/1100MHz | Display: Chili Green Vision L24FHD | PSU: PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad | OS: MS Windows 95 x64 Edition

CPU: Pentium 4 Northwood S478 @ 3200MHz | RAM: 1,5GB DDR 400| MoBo: Gigabyte GA-8S661FXMP-RZ | GPU: Abit Geforce Ti 4200 | Display: Dimarson 19" CRT | PSU: Noname 400W | OS: MS Windows XP Pro, Fedora 18

As I'vementioned, none of this works, including setting the resolution to something lower, setting centered timings and then setting to 1080p. the options are still greyed out. It's as if the driver thinks that 1080p is native when its not

I suggest you make a new partition and install a temp windows to test if your OS is borked. The fact that reverting doesn't work anymore suggests this.

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CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 810 @ 3250MHz | RAM: Kingmax 2x2GB DDR2 800 @ 833MHz| MoBo: MSI K9A2 CF v1.0 (BIOS: 1.D)| GPU: Asus HD 6850 1024MB (DirectCu) @ 850/1100MHz | Display: Chili Green Vision L24FHD | PSU: PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad | OS: MS Windows 95 x64 Edition

CPU: Pentium 4 Northwood S478 @ 3200MHz | RAM: 1,5GB DDR 400| MoBo: Gigabyte GA-8S661FXMP-RZ | GPU: Abit Geforce Ti 4200 | Display: Dimarson 19" CRT | PSU: Noname 400W | OS: MS Windows XP Pro, Fedora 18

That may be worth a try, but reinstalling an OS and running a driver more than year old is hardly a decent solution.

Reinstalling an OS and installing a temp OS is two very different things.

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CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 810 @ 3250MHz | RAM: Kingmax 2x2GB DDR2 800 @ 833MHz| MoBo: MSI K9A2 CF v1.0 (BIOS: 1.D)| GPU: Asus HD 6850 1024MB (DirectCu) @ 850/1100MHz | Display: Chili Green Vision L24FHD | PSU: PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad | OS: MS Windows 95 x64 Edition

CPU: Pentium 4 Northwood S478 @ 3200MHz | RAM: 1,5GB DDR 400| MoBo: Gigabyte GA-8S661FXMP-RZ | GPU: Abit Geforce Ti 4200 | Display: Dimarson 19" CRT | PSU: Noname 400W | OS: MS Windows XP Pro, Fedora 18

Also using an older driver for a 2 year old card and a...10 year old game are completely acceptable solutions.

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I've just installed windows 8 and catalyst and the problem is still there. Obviously a driver bug then.