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    Warcraft 3 on widescreen

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by chocobo1104, Apr 24, 2007.

  1. chocobo1104

    chocobo1104 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a problem with warcraft 3 running on my laptop. Most of the time im using external LCD monitor to play warcraft 3 when I am at home, however when I go to my friend's house I have no choice but to use my widescreen laptop monitor. In that case, wacraft 3 stretches horizontally and it makes my playing time very uncomfortable. Is that a way to not make it stretch horizontally, and instead have black bars on the sides?
     
    chocobo1104, Apr 24, 2007
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  2. coriolis

    coriolis Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    WC3 does not work on widescreen, there has yet to be a patch or driver which enables widescreen. You can, however, edit the registry to make it non-widescreen.
     
    coriolis, Apr 24, 2007
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    gohanssjn Notebook Evangelist

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    Ok, post edited. Maybe I just didn't notice before. Weird, I usually hat stretched stuff.
     
    gohanssjn, Apr 24, 2007
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  4. iza

    iza Notebook Evangelist

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    http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=452

    It lets you put it in a widescreen resolution, but it's not actually widescreen; it just stretches the display. There is currently no way to run WCIII in true widescreen. At least this fix lets you keep it in your native resolution, so it's a bit quicker to alt-tab and looks a little crisper.
     
    iza, Apr 24, 2007
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  5. Gator

    Gator Go Gators!

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    I tried the WideScreenGaming forum workarounds for WC3 a few months ago. It did not work well, and the stretched res gave me headaches.
     
    Gator, Apr 24, 2007
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