Help with Zooming Camera view

I've started a project of a local multiplayer shooter, where the cameras will work like this:
- 1 player : the camera will only focus the player , without zoom
- 2-4 player: the camera will calculate a zoom and it will add to the camera size

but i have a problem, when the camera add the zoom out the sprites stretch, losing the aspect ratio

#macros
GAMEWIDTH = 640;
GAMEHEIGHT = 360;


heres the code:

Game object -> i use to control the game in general
//create
GML:
windowscale = 2;

window_set_size(GAMEWIDTH*windowscale,GAMEHEIGHT*windowscale);
display_set_gui_size(GAMEWIDTH*windowscale,GAMEHEIGHT*windowscale);
alarm[0] = 1;

surface_resize(application_surface,GAMEWIDTH*windowscale,GAMEHEIGHT*windowscale);
oCAMERA object
//Create
GML:
following = oparPlayer;
zoom = 2;
spd = 0.1; //the speed of interpolation
//Step
GML:
gameW = GAMEWIDTH / 2 * zoom;
gameH = GAMEHEIGHT / 2 * zoom;

camera_set_view_size(CAM, gameW, gameH);

var player_num = instance_number(oparPlayer);
var players = ds_grid_create(1,1);
ds_grid_resize(players,1,player_num);

var i = 0;
with(oparPlayer){
    players[# 0,i] = id;
    i++
}



switch(player_num){
   case 1 : //single player
        if(instance_exists(following)){
            var xx = clamp(following.x - gameW/2, 0, room_width - gameW);
            var yy = clamp(following.y - gameH/2, 0, room_height - gameH);

            var cx = camera_get_view_x(CAM);
            var cy = camera_get_view_y(CAM);       

            camera_set_view_pos(CAM,
                             lerp(cx,xx,spd),
                             lerp(cy,yy,spd) );
                        

        }
    
    break;

    case 2: //2 players
  
       var multi_xx = mean(players[# 0,0].x,players[# 0,1].x);
       var multi_yy = mean(players[# 0,0].y,players[# 0,1].y);
  
  
       var xx1 = clamp(multi_xx - gameW/2, 0, room_width - gameW);
       var yy1 = clamp(multi_yy - gameH/2, 0, room_height - gameH);
  
       var distance_x = abs(players[# 0,0].x - players[# 0,1].x);
       var distance_y = abs(players[# 0,0].y - players[# 0,1].y);
  
       zoom = clamp(lerp(zoom, sqrt(sqr(distance_x) + sqr(distance_y) ) / 100, spd- 0.05), 3, 4)
  
  
        var cx = camera_get_view_x(CAM);
        var cy = camera_get_view_y(CAM);


        camera_set_view_pos(CAM,
                            lerp(cx,xx1,spd),
                            lerp(cy,yy1,spd) );

    break;

    case 3:
           var multi_xx = mean(players[# 0,0].x,players[# 0,1].x,players[# 0,2].x);
           var multi_yy = mean(players[# 0,0].y,players[# 0,1].y,players[# 0,2].y);
  
  
           var xx1 = clamp(multi_xx - gameW/2, 0, room_width - gameW);
           var yy1 = clamp(multi_yy - gameH/2, 0, room_height - gameH);
  
           var distance_x1 = abs(players[# 0,0].x - players[# 0,1].x);
           var distance_y1 = abs(players[# 0,0].y - players[# 0,1].y);
           var zoom1 = sqrt(sqr(distance_x1) + sqr(distance_y1));
      
           var distance_x2 = abs(players[# 0,1].x - players[# 0,2].x);
           var distance_y2 = abs(players[# 0,1].y - players[# 0,2].y);
           var zoom2 = sqrt(sqr(distance_x2) + sqr(distance_y2));
      
           var distance_x3 = abs(players[# 0,2].x - players[# 0,0].x);
           var distance_y3 = abs(players[# 0,2].y - players[# 0,0].y);
           var zoom3 = sqrt(sqr(distance_x3) + sqr(distance_y3));

           zoom = clamp(mean(zoom1,zoom2,zoom3)/100,3,4);
          
            var cx = camera_get_view_x(CAM);
            var cy = camera_get_view_y(CAM);

            camera_set_view_pos(CAM,
                                lerp(cx,xx1,spd),
                                lerp(cy,yy1,spd) );
            break;
        
            case 4:
           var multi_xx = mean(players[# 0,0].x,players[# 0,1].x,players[# 0,2].x,players[# 0,3].x);
           var multi_yy = mean(players[# 0,0].y,players[# 0,1].y,players[# 0,2].y,players[# 0,3].y);
  
  
           var xx1 = clamp(multi_xx - gameW/2, 0, room_width - gameW);
           var yy1 = clamp(multi_yy - gameH/2, 0, room_height - gameH);
  
           var distance_x1 = abs(players[# 0,0].x - players[# 0,1].x);
           var distance_y1 = abs(players[# 0,0].y - players[# 0,1].y);
           var zoom1 = sqrt(sqr(distance_x1) + sqr(distance_y1));
      
           var distance_x2 = abs(players[# 0,1].x - players[# 0,2].x);
           var distance_y2 = abs(players[# 0,1].y - players[# 0,2].y);
           var zoom2 = sqrt(sqr(distance_x2) + sqr(distance_y2));
      
           var distance_x3 = abs(players[# 0,2].x - players[# 0,3].x);
           var distance_y3 = abs(players[# 0,2].y - players[# 0,3].y);
           var zoom3 = sqrt(sqr(distance_x3) + sqr(distance_y3));
      
           var distance_x4 = abs(players[# 0,3].x - players[# 0,0].x);
           var distance_y4 = abs(players[# 0,3].y - players[# 0,0].y);
           var zoom4 = sqrt(sqr(distance_x4) + sqr(distance_y4));
  
           zoom = clamp(mean(zoom1,zoom2,zoom3,zoom4)/100,3,4);
          
            var cx = camera_get_view_x(CAM);
            var cy = camera_get_view_y(CAM);


            camera_set_view_pos(CAM,
                                lerp(cx,xx1,spd),
                                lerp(cy,yy1,spd) );
            break;
    }
My inspiration to the camera code was the camera of the duck game.
 
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robproctor83

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What is GAMEWIDTH and GAMEHEIGHT ? Usually the camera size would be set to the size of ones resolution, or some multiple of it.
 
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