Forcing scaling on Catalyst 10.2

Hi. I have a 3 year-old laptop with a mobility radeon x1700 GPU and I'm running windows 7 (x86). The problem is that, since the x1700 is now considered "legacy" by ATI, I can only use some older vista drivers under 7. The most recent I can use is 10.2, but it has a problem: scaling doesn't work!!!!

So, if I play a game in 800x600, it will only fill a small portion of the screen. Normally there would be a scaling option in the CCC, but it isn't the case with 10.2.

From what I understand, it is because win7 uses WDDM 1.1, and older (vista) drivers WDDM 1.0.

The newest driver I can use that doesn't have this problem is 8.12, but, since it's so old, gives me problems like artefacting in some newer games.

Is there any way to force scaling in the 10.2 driver? I imagine that it shouldn't be that complicated. Please help.

Thank you in advance.

PS: and please don't laugh at my laptop for being so old and running win7

 

+1 to that question .... I really wanna know if there is a solution to the annoying letter boxing too

 

Anyone? There must be someone else with an old GPU that is experiencing this problem...

 

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