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    Wc3 no widescreen support?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by torvok, Jan 9, 2007.

  1. torvok

    torvok Notebook Geek

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    I noticed some games like warcraft III doesnt give me any options for widescreen resolutions so it gets a bit stretched out and fuzzy. Is their any way to force window to open to open programs in a certain resolution or a hack of fix
    out their to enable wc3 in widescreen resolution?
     
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    chrisyano Hall Monitor NBR Reviewer

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  3. Kilamanjaro

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    I have had this issue with my notebook. If you go into display properties look for the following settings. Select A.

    A Maintain Aspect Ratio (Also Called Display Adapter Scaling)
    B Full Screen (No Border)
    C Center Desktop (Fixed Aspect Ratio)

    Most games will have this setting available in the options; however, WC3 does not. Hope this helps.
     
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  4. Gator

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    Ok first, the easy way: update your drivers to Omega or whatever is the latest release is from your video card's manufacturer. This will stop the game from being stretched, and put black bars on both sides of the screen.

    Now the harder way:

    Go into the registry, find this key:
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Blizzard Entertainment\Warcraft III\Video

    Change the reswidth and resheight values to whatever your native resolution is, be sure you enter the value in decimal unless you like to do hexadecimal calculations in your head.

    You may get a headache though, just my experience.
     
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  5. torvok

    torvok Notebook Geek

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    works great! cept everytime i go to options screen it gets reset but thats no problems.
    thx!
     
    torvok, Jan 9, 2007
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