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    Starcraft Screen Resolution Problem!

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Casual864, Nov 12, 2009.

  1. Casual864

    Casual864 Notebook Consultant

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    Does anyone know how to make starcraft full screen? I have my resolution set to 1920x1080 and whenever I run starcraft it has two black bars on each side with starcraft running at 4:3 resolution full screen. When I had Vista it ran fullscreen without the black bars being stretched using 1920x1080 resolution, but now when I have windows 7 it gives me the widescreen black bars.
     
    Casual864, Nov 12, 2009
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  2. JohnnyFlash

    JohnnyFlash Notebook Virtuoso

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    Did you check your driver scaling setting?
     
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  3. Casual864

    Casual864 Notebook Consultant

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    It's defaulted on full screen not able to change it to centered.
     
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    Check your monitor as well. Some monitors have built-in scaling, and maybe it is reset for some reason.
     
    HTWingNut, Nov 12, 2009
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  5. Casual864

    Casual864 Notebook Consultant

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    Where do I find that feature at?
     
    Casual864, Nov 13, 2009
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    HTWingNut Potato

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    It would be on your monitor's on-screen display (OSD) - buttons on your monitor.
     
    HTWingNut, Nov 13, 2009
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  7. InfectedSonic

    InfectedSonic Notebook Evangelist

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    you have to modify the game to support higher resolutions. im pretty sure the was a good mod for it at widescreen gaming forum ill look for a link for yah in a sec
     
    InfectedSonic, Nov 13, 2009
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  8. ViciousXUSMC

    ViciousXUSMC Master Viking NBR Reviewer

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    Starcraft by design is a 4:3 game there is no way for it to nativly fill a wide screen display.

    The only way for it to happen is via distortion and get stretched, most probably by your video card drivers. Most drivers default to stretch to fill, I always put mine on aspect stretch as to not distort anything.

    Its possible the monitor was scaling it up also, but usually the video card will produce the full display resolution and letter box anything for you so the monitor never gets anything lower than native sent to it unless you set your desktop resolution lower than native.

    All that said if you want to enjoy wide screen it is possible with a hack but you cant use this online, only for single player.

    http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=164297&highlight=starcraft#164297
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Nov 13, 2009
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  9. InfectedSonic

    InfectedSonic Notebook Evangelist

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    ah snap you beat me to it by a few mins lol
     
    InfectedSonic, Nov 13, 2009
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  10. ViciousXUSMC

    ViciousXUSMC Master Viking NBR Reviewer

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    Im a wiki admin @ WSGF I know a lot of our posts :D

    Been a while since I have actually done any wiki work though, so guess I'll add a new detailed report to the forums.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Nov 13, 2009
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  11. Signal2Noise

    Signal2Noise Über-geek.

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    Whoa! For a minute here I thought I was reading a thread from 1998.
     
    Signal2Noise, Nov 13, 2009
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  12. ViciousXUSMC

    ViciousXUSMC Master Viking NBR Reviewer

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    nope no necro posting, just necro gaming :D

    I had starcraft installed on my computer till just this week when I put win 7 on it, never actually went back and played it though.

    Cant wait for Starcraft 2 to finally come out and I really hope it supports widescreen I think its more standard than 4:3 is now.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Nov 13, 2009
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  13. HTWingNut

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    I sure hope it supports widescreen. I don't know why it wouldn't. I thought main reason for original Starcraft had one resolution was because it was a 2D sprite game. Pretty common for the time.

    I thought how it was cool that they had "3D" line of sight at the time. LOL.
     
    HTWingNut, Nov 13, 2009
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  14. Casual864

    Casual864 Notebook Consultant

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    Hm, but explain to me why starcraft doesn't stretch to full screen like it did in Vista? Also I don't have osd buttons on my monitor, it's a laptop.
     
    Casual864, Nov 13, 2009
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