Well, let's see. For better or worse, it seems like I only ever buy AMD cards. Maybe because they are consistently less expensive for the bang. I dunno. But the drivers have this legacy issue which, every once in a while, I have to deal with.
That issue is "scaling options". Out of the box, this is set to "10% underscan", which means the desktop is blurry with pixel-imperfection and has a big black border. There is no doubt in my mind that this imbecilic default setting has resulted in literally years of cumulative lost time across all of AMD's customers. But the fix is straightforward enough: Change it to 0%. Done.
The problem, though, is that every once in a while, CCC will ignore this setting and swap back to default. Just temporarily, and often seemingly randomly. *Shrug* Back to 0% you go, CCC you rascal.
So what do you do if you've got a game which, upon switching to fullscreen mode, for whatever reason triggers CCC's propensity for ignoring your specifically-adjusted setting? You go to fullscreen, and bam, everything's blurry and there's a black border. You exit the game, and you're back to normal.
This means that CCC is making the game unplayable. And I don't have a clue what to do about it.
Would definitely appreciate suggestions. What I would really love is a hack of CCC that defaults to ZERO DAMN UNDERSCAN. Or maybe somebody can pull an AMD developer away from their doubtless fascinating Mantle work and point out that for some reason most people seem to have stopped using CRT monitors? Well, that might be a shock to the poor fellow's system so we'll skip it.
That issue is "scaling options". Out of the box, this is set to "10% underscan", which means the desktop is blurry with pixel-imperfection and has a big black border. There is no doubt in my mind that this imbecilic default setting has resulted in literally years of cumulative lost time across all of AMD's customers. But the fix is straightforward enough: Change it to 0%. Done.
The problem, though, is that every once in a while, CCC will ignore this setting and swap back to default. Just temporarily, and often seemingly randomly. *Shrug* Back to 0% you go, CCC you rascal.
So what do you do if you've got a game which, upon switching to fullscreen mode, for whatever reason triggers CCC's propensity for ignoring your specifically-adjusted setting? You go to fullscreen, and bam, everything's blurry and there's a black border. You exit the game, and you're back to normal.
This means that CCC is making the game unplayable. And I don't have a clue what to do about it.
Would definitely appreciate suggestions. What I would really love is a hack of CCC that defaults to ZERO DAMN UNDERSCAN. Or maybe somebody can pull an AMD developer away from their doubtless fascinating Mantle work and point out that for some reason most people seem to have stopped using CRT monitors? Well, that might be a shock to the poor fellow's system so we'll skip it.
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