I almost put this in the software section but it does deal directly with my video card...
I wonder if this is just coincidence or if AMD actually listens. In most cases I don't mess a lot with updating device drivers as I'm a believer of not fixing what isn't broken but my AMD Sapphire R9 380 series 4GB Nito video card is an exception as they are constantly putting out driver and software updates to improve game and media compatibility. On an average these updates come through every week or so.
Anyway I play some old games that were put out before wide screen displays were common. I'm talking about games that were written in the days of Windows 2000 and XP so the games want to display square instead of wide screen.
The settings software for the card allows for scaling such games, or other software, to display as wide screen but I play a few that setting the display to "full Panel" (re-scale to use the entire display) for the game did nothing and they would still display as a square in the middle of the screen. This setting is app specific.
The software also has an option to report issues which I finally decided to use a while back. I reported the issue and two or three updates later the problem was solved and all these problem games now display taking the entire display per my settings for the game within Radeon's software.
I wonder if this is just coincidence or if they actually saw my issue report and acted. I'll probably never really know but I will still take full credit.
As a sort of funny side note there is still an issue with some of these games. Some of these games have a setting to use hardware acceleration but it does not work. This only affects some minor animation without affecting game play at all. The in-game settings will report back that the video card is not capable of doing the hardware acceleration which, of course, is silly. It is my belief that it is really just the simple fact that when the games were written there was no concept of today's video cards and the game just cannot 'read' what the card can do.
It's actually sort of funny. Regardless of the games in question being full panel or their native 'square' format they play the same but I don't. I guess it is a matter of perspective. 