Warcraft III on a Widescreen: Working

[JakeCake]

Only for people with Widescreen monitors, But if you are bored you can read it anyway.

Hello and welcome to my first and only Tutorial. I hope it can help you in some way, it would realy help me two days ago.

I, have a 1366x768 monitor and everything looks really good on it, but I dislike it when i play Warcraft III because the max resolution is 1024x768 and it stretches out and makes it look like ****

Untill a few days ago i thought that Warcraft III did not support wide screens, but I was wrong, it is just a little hard to enable.

I, searched the internet for a long time without finding any working tutorials, so i tried to figure this out by myself, And after a few minutes looking in the Registry editor i found a "Working" way to do this without just stretching the image..

The solution:
I guess i can explain it here, but its much easier to download my homemade guide, it will auto-open any 3-party program needed and tell you what to do in 3 VERY easy steps. Even if you have no experience with the Registry Editor you will still be able to figure this out.
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This is tested on both Windows XP and Vista.
-Jake

 

[HappyTauren]

Awesome tutorial, read this already on wc3c. Remove the signature from post, and fix grammar. I think this should be approved.

 

[madcat2]

Here i fixed most of you're major grammar.

Only for people with Widescreen monitors, But if you are bored you can read it anyway.

Hello and welcome to my first Tutorial. Give me +rep or stop reading, or else its a crime.

Thank you for the +rep.
Okay lets start now. I, have a 1366x768 LG monitor and i really love it, but I, dislike it when i play WarCraft III because the max resolution is 1024x768 + it stretches out and makes it looks like a 800x600 or something.

Untill a few days ago i thought that Warcraft III did not support Wide Screens, "But" I was wrong, its just a little harder to enable then i thought.

I, searched the internet for a long time without finding any working tutorials, so i started to figure this out by myself, And after a few minutes looking in the Registry editor i found a "Working" way to do it. With "No" stretches.

Solution:
I guess i can explain it here, but its just easier to download my homemade application guide, it will auto-open any program needed and tell you exactly what to do in 3 easy steps. Even if you have no experience with the Registry Editor or the Windows system you will be able to figure this out. [170 Kb]

Note: Sorry Mac users, you must find a way to do this yourself.
Note2: Tested on XP & Vista, both working perfectly!

Note3: I wrote this a little fast, I will update the grammar when i get some time.

 

[JakeCake]

Awesome tutorial

Thank you

Read this already on wc3c.

What!! Damn, searched google, hive and Wc3C, for any Toturial about this for like an hour.

Remove the signature from post, and fix grammar.

Done. Thanks madcat2

 

[Raigoura]

Thanks for sharing! I needed this.

 

[Elfsilver Lord]

Give me +rep or stop reading.

Never, never ask for rep. Even worse that your demanding it.

 

[madcat2]

Never, never ask for rep. Even worse that your demanding it.

I Think he was joking but yeah silver is right be careful demanding rep.

 

[JakeCake]

Can someone move this Tutorial to "Miscellaneous Tutorials" it will fit better there!

 

[Dr Super Good]

What the hell are you on about?!

I ran WC3 on a 1980*1280 laptop and it had NO PROBLEMS seeing and letting me use that resolution in the game options without requiring me to use any programs or change any external settings.

It sounds like your dirvers are very shacky as you should not need to do anything to make it work wide screened next to go to WC3's options.

Please give more details on your drivers ECT and also please explain it in more detail on this page and not in the file (although the file can be used as an additional help source).

 

[JakeCake]

Yeah i got some friends who can play wc3 on a wide screen monitor using the in-game options, but i and two other frinds can't.

My graphic card + Driver is about 2 month old: AMD HD 2600 XT i think, with driver version 1.22 or something(newest).
I "think" that some computers can, and some can't. Can you tell me what computer you have, is it one you builded yourself or one you buyed from a shop without modifactions, and is it an new/old computer.

 

[Los_Tacos]

Thanks for posting this, I didn't think it was possible to make it widescreen.

 

[PurgeandFire]

I think DSG is correct, I have a widescreen. Works fine. :\

 

[~Void~]

I have a widescreen monitor, and a GeForce 8700M graphics card, it works fine for me.
Maybe ATI and nVidea cards respond differently.

 

[JakeCake]

Okay, you can now download the 10 time easyer "run and done application" Click me!

 

[Dr Super Good]

Its a bug with the nvidia drivers. It fails to display the resolutions available past 1280*1024. ATI drivers seem to display them properly.

 

[JakeCake]

Its a bug with the nvidia drivers. It fails to display the resolutions available past 1280*1024. ATI drivers seem to display them properly.

Thats fun since I got ATI HD 2600XT and the Max Res in the Wc3 options is 1024x768, and my screen can show up to 1360x768, so it can't just be nvidia

 

[Dr Super Good]

Ok then, it seems certain visual devices have problems with certain resolutions not showing.