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AMD driver bug - screen zooming in and out with alt tab [And Fix]

Mussels

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So recently i noticed my screen was zooming in and out rapidly during alt tabbing from games - roughly 10% or so. Text in a web browser was pretty obvious as it would be fuzzy, then rapidly move a little on screen and be clear again within 2-3 seconds of the alt-tab

Finally found the cause after realizing it was affecting multiple games - a setting in the new 'Radeon Settings' program.

Scaling mode on the right was on 'center' - but that slider down the bottom was invisible and set to 8%.
Changing the scaling mode to any other option caused the slider to appear, and setting it to 0% solved the problem.
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TL;DR: AMD driver bug. Possibly from upgrading from older versions.

edit: 'exclusive fullscreen mode' in madVR also triggered this, which was annoying as hell - so fullscreen media players could trigger it as well.
 
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Not had that issue but glad you made this post as i updated drivers lastnight and after checking some of the settings i noticed a few had changed to other things and also noticed an odd like flashing on a few sites, was almost as if the screen went black then came back on very fast.

Going to set things back to normal and see if this random flashing stops.
 
y u no ddu?!?

:p

i have had a few niggling issues with this new family of driver too, but ddu to the rescue :D
 
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