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ISighZ
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States270 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-26 21:03:43
July 26 2010 19:46 GMT
#1
I just installed window 7 on my Inspiron 1525 Dell Laptop. Whenever I start up Starcraft, there would be black boxes on the edge, so Starcraft is not full screen. I tried some solutions I got from Googling and none of it works. The right click make it compatible run it in 640 x 480. The right click and leave screen resolution on desktop. Just wondering if any of you have other solutions that I can try.
Thanks!
Edit: Still in need of help.Please. and ThankYou

There is no one to help you unless you help yourself
AcrossFiveJulys
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
United States3612 Posts
July 26 2010 19:51 GMT
#2
Just making sure: you want it to be stretched (i.e., distorted to take up the whole screen)?
ISighZ
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States270 Posts
July 26 2010 19:53 GMT
#3
Umm..If that's what it takes to make SC:BW run full screen. I think that's fine..
There is no one to help you unless you help yourself
-Valor-
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States283 Posts
July 26 2010 19:54 GMT
#4
I googled the same issue and you'll find that you have to change graphics card options. Try searching for games that have sides cut off with your graphics card.
Laerties
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States361 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-26 20:01:44
July 26 2010 20:01 GMT
#5
I believe you'll have to change the scaling from a fixed aspect ratio to "automatic" or w/e option your graphics card provides. If your using an nvidia I know this can be done in the control center. A word of warning however, Playing widescreen BW sucks, it sucks... After I got my comp I spent like 3 hours figuring out how to get those black boxes you hate there just because I couldn't stand playing widescreen.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
ISighZ
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States270 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-26 20:07:58
July 26 2010 20:01 GMT
#6
Yeah from my googling I found one of the solution was what you had mention but I couldn't find the automatic or fix scale or things related. I looked for it at hardware but no luck.
My graphic card is mobile Intel Express Chipset family

Hmmm maybe i'll stick with the black box but I want to see how it look if it's full screen.
There is no one to help you unless you help yourself
GenesisX
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada4267 Posts
July 26 2010 20:04 GMT
#7
I had the same problem. I can't remember how I fixed it... but I think I:
Set compatibility mode to XP
Opened Screen Resolution box before opening SC
Set SC Affinity to 1 Core.

Try those, but Idk if they will work ^_^
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ISighZ
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States270 Posts
July 26 2010 20:07 GMT
#8
On July 27 2010 05:04 GenesisX wrote:
I had the same problem. I can't remember how I fixed it... but I think I:
Set compatibility mode to XP
Opened Screen Resolution box before opening SC
Set SC Affinity to 1 Core.

Try those, but Idk if they will work ^_^


Yeah I tried those except the Set SC Affinity to 1 core. Care to explain how to do that one?
Thanks
There is no one to help you unless you help yourself
andiCR
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Costa Rica2273 Posts
July 26 2010 20:09 GMT
#9
On July 27 2010 05:04 GenesisX wrote:
I had the same problem. I can't remember how I fixed it... but I think I:
Set compatibility mode to XP
Opened Screen Resolution box before opening SC
Set SC Affinity to 1 Core.

Try those, but Idk if they will work ^_^

This solutions have nothing to do with the scaling -__-;

On the other hand, if the game is showing with the black bars at the side, its because your monitor is widescreen. Trust me, you want this. I had a tough time playin on widescreen for a huge amount of time, finally got the aspect ration fix (which shows these black bars).
Nightmare1795 wrote: I played a guy in bronze who said he was Japanese. That was the only game I ever dropped a nuke, which was purely coincidental.
andiCR
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Costa Rica2273 Posts
July 26 2010 20:10 GMT
#10
OP wait a sec, do you have black bars at the bottom and top too??
Nightmare1795 wrote: I played a guy in bronze who said he was Japanese. That was the only game I ever dropped a nuke, which was purely coincidental.
ISighZ
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States270 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-26 20:11:53
July 26 2010 20:11 GMT
#11
Lol it seem people don't like it playing on widescreen. I'll stick with the black boxes then.

THANkS FOR ALL THE HELP

Edit:
I only have black box on the edges, left and right. None on top and bottom.
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GenesisX
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada4267 Posts
July 26 2010 20:17 GMT
#12
Yes, I had the exact same problem. I STILL CAN'T REMEMBER what I did to solve the problem. Sorry T_T
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ISighZ
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States270 Posts
July 26 2010 20:21 GMT
#13
Lol it's okay Genesis. I'm just wondering since you are playing Starcraft on widescreen, do you like it?
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a176
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada6688 Posts
July 26 2010 20:28 GMT
#14
On July 27 2010 05:11 ISighZ wrote:
Lol it seem people don't like it playing on widescreen. I'll stick with the black boxes then.

THANkS FOR ALL THE HELP

Edit:
I only have black box on the edges, left and right. None on top and bottom.


why would you want to play it stretched?
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G_G
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada178 Posts
July 26 2010 20:37 GMT
#15
Keep in mind that the game would still be 4:3, and only displayed as widescreen. That means that your cursor will have higher sensitivity horizontally than vertically, and you would either have to constantly adjust mouse driver settings when going between BW and other things, (assuming yours support separate axis sensitivity) or get used to your cursor moving at a different angle than your physical mouse.

Also, the game looks really bad stretched. The black bars aren't noticeable after a while anyway. Just feel lucky it's like that by default for you. I had to fight with my monitor and graphics drivers for a few hours to figure out how to get 4:3.
ISighZ
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States270 Posts
July 26 2010 20:37 GMT
#16
Lol So i went to take a shower and i just realize that I BEEN PLAYING starcraft full screen for the past year.. My dell had vista and when I start starcraft it went full screen no problem. Now I have window 7 on it and it won't go full screen. And I would prefer it if I can play starcraft full screen again.. It looks fine the way it was.. So yeah.. Lol STUPID ME...
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