ATI Drivers - CCC & overscaling

CCC is an optional install unless you download the complete package.  8.821 is catalyst 11.2

Unistall ati Driver and download a catalyst version thats not bugged to death.  

The Full download contains the following graphics drivers

The current 13.1 drivers blue screen crash 0x000000000CA.

There is NO ONE SIZE FITS ALL FOR ALL OS ALL VERSIONS.

32 bit or 64 bit matters as does XP vs Vista / 7 / 8

DirectX June 2010 is HIGHLY Recommended for ALL Versions of windows including 8.

DirectX End-User Runtimes (June 2010) - Microsoft

I am having Issues however with Catalyst 12.10 and up.  13.10 crashes on 64 bit windows vista or 7 or 8

never installing.  12.8 seems fine.  12.1 is 12.01   not 12.10  I do NOT recommend using higher than 12.08 because the 12.10 and 13.XX drivers seem to be hoplessly bugged and unuseable let alone installable.

Previous Catalyst™ Drivers

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/previous/Pages/radeonaiw_xp.aspx

Thank you for your response.  Actually, I was hoping to be able to do this scaling without the Catalyst control center. What happened was I kept getting driver not responding errors and dell changed my drivers twice with no resolve.  Then they installed a new video card and when they were trying to fix the drivers my computer crashed and windows crashed and I had to completely reinstall windows.  I never had that catalyst before and did find the scaling option somewhere and now I can't find it.  I REALLY do not want to mess with the drivers after the hassle I just went through.

I just need to find where that was.

Its in catalyst Control center.

Speed Step.............As I stated in the first request, I don't have a Catalyst Control center.

Speed Step.............As I stated in the first request, I don't have a Catalyst Control center.

Correct and you will not EVER until you download and install the full package after uninstalling what you have and installing the Directx patch and then the Catalyst 12.08 drivers.

GPU-68: How to Configure GPU Scaling Option in AMD Catalyst ...

support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/UnableToSetGPUScaling.aspx

Instructions for configuring GPU Scaling:

1. In AMD Catalyst Control Center click on the My Digital Flat Panels menu and select Properties (digital flat panel)
   For Windows XP users, expand Digital Panel Properties and highlight the Attributes tab
2. Check the Enable GPU Scaling box
3. Choose the GPU Scaling method desired and click on Apply.
   
4. There are three different GPU scaling modes that can be selected. Choose the mode that best fits your needs (see below):

1. Maintain Aspect Ratio
2. Scale Image to Full Panel Size
3. Use Centered Timings

I just went through a complete reinstall of windows and am still trying to get everything back the way it was.  The windows failure was due to messing around with the ati drivers.  I do not want to risk that again.  Also, if you look at the drivers at the Dell website, they specifically state that if you use drivers from the manufacturer's website, they do not support them.

I was able to enable scaling before without the catalyst center, I just can't figure out how I did it as that was 2 years ago.

you can't any more ... you need ccc to adjust scaling with AMD cards ... you can't do it from windows 7 ... which is what speedtest was telling you.  Scaling options are not built into the drivers any more for AMD ... they are controlled by CCC now.

When I bought this computer I was able to scale without the CCC and I had windows 7.  However, I called Dell and they uninstalled and reinstalled drivers for me today and now I have the CCC.  So problem solved.  This way if something went wrong it was on them and not me, LOL.