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    widescreen Aspect Ratio problem in WC3

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Sir_Gawain, Nov 11, 2010.

  1. Sir_Gawain

    Sir_Gawain Notebook Consultant

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    Anyway I can get rid of black bars in warcraft 3 and get full screen? I have 1440x900 (tried so hard to get my R2 exchanged equipped with RGB LED but dell would not do it :mad: ).
     
    Sir_Gawain, Nov 11, 2010
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    Have you tried fiddling with the screen scale?
     
    Harryboiyeye, Nov 11, 2010
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    Ya I have, no luck. Maybe its just because it an older game? I would just assume there to be a setting somwehre I could tweak...
     
    Sir_Gawain, Nov 11, 2010
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    Yeah, I have fixed this before, it requires you to manually do it in regedit.

    1. Click start button and search for regedit.exe, open it.
    2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> SOFTWARE -> Blizzard Entertainment -> Warcraft 3 -> Video
    3. In video there are two settings you need to change, reswidth and resheight
    4. Double click on reswidth, click the decimal setting and type in 1440.
    5. Double click on resheight, click the decimal setting and type in 900.

    It's an older game so it isn't a built in setting to the game.
     
    ndudsz, Nov 11, 2010
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    Thank you!
     
    Sir_Gawain, Nov 12, 2010
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    The game doesn't support widescreen. Even if you do all those "widescreen fixes" they just stretch the image to fit your resolution, which makes it look stupid.
     
    Corthalis, Nov 12, 2010
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