Configuring Warcraft III for Vista

I feel bad for the people who can't play on vista, i just got this vista laptop and wc3 worked for me (THANK GOD) I do a minor video/resolution problem, I soon as I installed the game and turnd it on I noticed the screen was very small. This concerned me greatly so being that its a new laptop, I just threw the resolution all the way up. Even so there are still black borders on either side of the gaming screen, battle.net, single player, not matter where I go they follow! Can you help me make the evil black borders go away nice people?? I would really like to play it full-screen...

Not that bad at all...

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wet_water, its caused by your graphic driver settings. It is set to not scale the graphics up and WC3 is not the same resolution as your screen.
To make it full screen simply modify the settings via the registry editor and set it to the same resolution as your screen is.

forzamoto do not spam.

Seriously why do you get Vista? Its impracticable. . . Simply get Windows XP. Vista does nothing but crash PC users.

Archimondus. . . You have no idea. . .
My vista PC works perfectly. WC3 loads in like 5 seconds with no problems and looks amazing ingame. D2 works perfectly with 1 setting change. TES oblivion works completly flawlessly. Supreme commanders does not crash unlike on this XP machine where it crashes in 1 min of game play.

Really, Vista is under ratted. It works better than most people say it does. Just do not upgrade a slow PC to vista and you will have no problems.

Hi ace992 thanx to u very much it helps me now can play warcraft3 on vista but i have a little problem here
that resolution in options>video of warcraft does not support 1600x900 which fit my 16.4inch screen so the warcraft screen is so narrow,the highest is 1024x768
can u help me
thaxn u

Yes, like I said in another thread, it is caused with a problem with new drivers not telling the game the resoution is supported.

You have to manually edit the options with registry editor and set the resolution to your screen's maximum.

Under your nvidia control panel options, you can enable scalling. This means the image is streched (usually not by billinar filtering so it does not look that good) but should then fill your whole screen.

Yeah prob hat dr super good said but you can try this =/


Get latest warcraft 3 tft update MAKE sure you have warcraft 3 tft
get latest graphics card update still no luck try above :)



or! reinstall prob wont help but you never know ^^

Laters^^

Sorry for extra post but hey :)

Originally Posted by Dr Super Good

Archimondus. . . You have no idea. . .
My vista PC works perfectly. WC3 loads in like 5 seconds with no problems and looks amazing ingame. D2 works perfectly with 1 setting change. TES oblivion works completly flawlessly. Supreme commanders does not crash unlike on this XP machine where it crashes in 1 min of game play.

Really, Vista is under ratted. It works better than most people say it does. Just do not upgrade a slow PC to vista and you will have no problems.

legend! rep

Originally Posted by Dr Super Good

Yes, like I said in another thread, it is caused with a problem with new drivers not telling the game the resoution is supported.

You have to manually edit the options with registry editor and set the resolution to your screen's maximum.

Under your nvidia control panel options, you can enable scalling. This means the image is streched (usually not by billinar filtering so it does not look that good) but should then fill your whole screen.

Can u pls explain in more details or show how to do it
i dont understand,i could not find nvidia in control panel as u said or so on
thanx alots

I said use your nvidia controle panel (your graphic drivers), unless your ATI which I can not help you if you are. With advanced options enabled you can edit digital screen scaling (which you have I think as analogue ones do not suffer from not filling the screen usually) and enable it. It is called something like Desktop scaling and can easilly cause that problem with games like Diablo II and maybe WC3 if left off (do not scale).

However run "regedit" to open up the registry editor. Then manually find the WC3 options (searching can speed this up) and then edit the fields for screen resolution. Remember to make sure you set them to display as decimal and not hex and then enter your screen's resolution into the 2 fields (1 dimension each). Apply the changes (pressing ok) and then run up WC3 and it should be now at the resolution of your screen and full screen.

Worked for me and now I have WC3 at 1680*1050 on my vista machine.

Originally Posted by Dr Super Good

I said use your nvidia controle panel (your graphic drivers), unless your ATI which I can not help you if you are. With advanced options enabled you can edit digital screen scaling (which you have I think as analogue ones do not suffer from not filling the screen usually) and enable it. It is called something like Desktop scaling and can easilly cause that problem with games like Diablo II and maybe WC3 if left off (do not scale).

However run "regedit" to open up the registry editor. Then manually find the WC3 options (searching can speed this up) and then edit the fields for screen resolution. Remember to make sure you set them to display as decimal and not hex and then enter your screen's resolution into the 2 fields (1 dimension each). Apply the changes (pressing ok) and then run up WC3 and it should be now at the resolution of your screen and full screen.

Worked for me and now I have WC3 at 1680*1050 on my vista machine.

Hey make a Tutorial for it with picture for the people who dnt know much computer stuff =/ and link it to this ect :)

Discovered a major registry fuckup when upgrading form xp sp2 to vista business. Apparently, registry gets jumbled badly. The programs you had installed before work just fine until they change their registry entries(reinstall, update, whatever). Then, something goes wrong and you can't get them to run again unless you clean your entire registry and appdata. If this is your case, try cleaning your registry using regedit(just open 'run' and write regedit in) and deleting any program files inside appdata folder(find using search on user's documents). Even then, this did not work for my warcraft(must have missed something) so i had to make a dualboot vista/xp but did fine for other programs. Hope this helps.

gj man

When I am playing wc3 in this vista laptop. All of a sudden the screen will go black and back again to the normal view at random times.
An error will pop-up
It says: "Intel graphics media accelerator is not responding and has recovered"

Can I do something to fix that?