On January 23 2009 06:13 Ancestral wrote:
I have an HP 17" laptop, and it has a full sized keyboard ^.^

I play with black bars, stretched feels awkward. And as people have said, the problem is StarCraft, not the laptop.

Same here.
Black bars rule~

disciple

9070 Posts

January 22 2009 22:44 GMT

#22

I'm playing on 12" ASUS

liosama

Australia843 Posts

January 22 2009 23:29 GMT

#23

On January 23 2009 05:57 mahnini wrote:
no, unless your laptop screen is just 800x600 scaled up you have to deal with stretchiness or black bars

SC is 640x480

freelander

Hungary4707 Posts

January 22 2009 23:43 GMT

#24

On January 23 2009 08:29 liosama wrote:

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SC is 640x480

but 800x600 is the same ratio as 640x480

Jonoman92

United States9103 Posts

January 22 2009 23:54 GMT

#25

I have a 22" widescreen monitor and I like the black bars on the sides (I had to change the vid card settings to get it that way). Other wise it filled the whole screen but it was distorted a bit. I don't think there is a way to get it full screen on a widescreen monitor without distorting it.

AcrossFiveJulys

United States3612 Posts

January 23 2009 00:01 GMT

#26

So you know that you have the option of 1) stretched to fit the screen or 2) fit 800x600 into the screen but black everywhere else.... and you are asking if there's anything else? Wtf man? Are you expecting the computer gods to stretch your laptop screen's height to make the scale correct?

EsX_Raptor

United States2801 Posts

January 23 2009 00:29 GMT

#27

Why don't you just simply connect an external monitor or something?

liosama

Australia843 Posts

January 23 2009 10:08 GMT

#28

On January 23 2009 08:43 freelander wrote:

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but 800x600 is the same ratio as 640x480

ohh is that what he meant kk

GHOSTCLAW

United States17042 Posts

January 23 2009 10:13 GMT

#29

On January 23 2009 09:01 AcrossFiveJulys wrote:
So you know that you have the option of 1) stretched to fit the screen or 2) fit 800x600 into the screen but black everywhere else.... and you are asking if there's anything else? Wtf man? Are you expecting the computer gods to stretch your laptop screen's height to make the scale correct?

apparently anyway. I guess he's looking for some sort of super secret hidden widescreen option on a ten year old game.

Funnytoss

Taiwan1471 Posts

January 25 2009 10:04 GMT

#30

Ironically, I'm so used to the stretching on my laptop monitor that I have a hard time playing when using other monitors - it just seems so "thin".

freelander

Hungary4707 Posts

January 25 2009 17:14 GMT

#31

On January 25 2009 19:04 Funnytoss wrote:
Ironically, I'm so used to the stretching on my laptop monitor that I have a hard time playing when using other monitors - it just seems so "thin".

lol
fat zerglings!

EtherealDeath

United States8366 Posts

September 30 2009 18:20 GMT

#32

Anyone know how to get fixed aspect ratio using a Radeon 3100 (laptop)? I don't see the option anywhere in Catalyst for fixed aspect ratio. I'd use my desktop monitor to work around it, except it's too big for comfortable starcrafting.

eidt: Forgot to mention that the instructions provided in the help index can only be accessed when using multiple monitors.