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JIJIyO
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada1957 Posts
January 22 2009 20:55 GMT
#1
Hey guys, I was just wondering is there a way to make Starcraft fit the entire screen of my laptop even though there is no resolution option for it? I tried to change the computer resolution, and it would not work. I either have to play Starcraft in a stretched ugly mode, or a 'normal' picture with gigantic black bars on the side. My laptop is a 15" if that matters.

And for a reference pic, I'm going to steal one of Superiorwolf's pics because it is the only picture I remember of SC on a laptop. Like so

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mahnini
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
United States6862 Posts
January 22 2009 20:57 GMT
#2
no, unless your laptop screen is just 800x600 scaled up you have to deal with stretchiness or black bars
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freelander
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
Hungary4707 Posts
January 22 2009 20:59 GMT
#3
personally I play with black bars. I used to stretch it, but it was very strange..
And all is illuminated.
jimminy_kriket
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Canada5536 Posts
January 22 2009 21:01 GMT
#4
yeah black bars here as well, but most of the time i use an external monitor
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caelym
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States6429 Posts
January 22 2009 21:01 GMT
#5
you can use the w-mode plugin on chaoslauncher. imo stretchiness isn't that bad; it's the keyboard that sucks. you can't bash down on the keys
MasterZilla
Profile Blog Joined November 2003
Sweden234 Posts
January 22 2009 21:01 GMT
#6
I don't play on a laptop, but I have a 24" TFT monitor for my computer, and it has the same effect. Personally, I kind of like it, not sure why

But like mahnini said, there is no way to get around having to use one of those options.
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JIJIyO
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada1957 Posts
January 22 2009 21:05 GMT
#7
Alright, thanks guys. I guess I'll be playing with black bars because stretched mode is really weird. If only laptops had some sort of autoresizing option like my monitor does. And yeah, I agree with you caelym. Playing on a laptop makes me much worse. My macro on a pc is so much better probably because of the keyboard.
KT_Violet
Zapdos_Smithh
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Canada2620 Posts
January 22 2009 21:06 GMT
#8
Is the pic of Superiorwolf's laptop in stretched mode?

Scorch
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Austria3371 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-22 21:07:32
January 22 2009 21:06 GMT
#9
I play Starcraft on an ancient 800MHz laptop. I used to have huge black bars, which annoyed me to no end because the actual game was about as large as a gameboy display. I was able to change to the screen stretching behavior in BIOS, maybe that works for you too.
Equinox_kr
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States7395 Posts
January 22 2009 21:07 GMT
#10
Just play with the black bars, stretched is so fucking ugly and there's no other alternative
^-^
IPS.ZeRo
Profile Joined April 2003
Germany1142 Posts
January 22 2009 21:11 GMT
#11
Well what do you mean with autoresizing? The problem is not that it is a laptop but that it is widescreen. So If you would be able to get another resolution thats "wider" you would see more than anyone who doesn't have a wide screen. Thats probably what will happen with sc2, since its supposed to support widescreen.

And with the keyboard, i have to partly agree. I can't play with my laptop keyboard because it has FN instead of CTRL in the lower left corner. So i always mess i grouping, which is a big deal in starcraft. Besides that i can type very fast on a flat keyboard, so i don't think its too bad.
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Ancestral
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States3230 Posts
January 22 2009 21:13 GMT
#12
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.
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hunter3
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States155 Posts
January 22 2009 21:15 GMT
#13
I LOVE those black bars. The stretch mode is a monstrosity. There was a time ATI and NVIDIA weren't releasing drivers that supported the black bars and we were forced to play stretched all the time. When we finally got the black bars, I was ecstatic.
Try
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States1293 Posts
January 22 2009 21:21 GMT
#14
How do you get the black bars instead of stretch?
Zapdos_Smithh
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Canada2620 Posts
January 22 2009 21:23 GMT
#15
On January 23 2009 06:21 Try wrote:
How do you get the black bars instead of stretch?


Yeah same question here.
Raithed
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
China7078 Posts
January 22 2009 21:34 GMT
#16
sc is just IN YOUR FACE when youre playing/viewing reps on a laptop. its so god damn annoying imo.
IPS.ZeRo
Profile Joined April 2003
Germany1142 Posts
January 22 2009 21:36 GMT
#17
go to the advanced options of your graphic card and search for something like fixed aspect-ratio. I don't really know if thats a correct translation though, may be called otherwise.
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JIJIyO
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada1957 Posts
January 22 2009 21:38 GMT
#18
On January 23 2009 06:06 Resonance wrote:
Is the pic of Superiorwolf's laptop in stretched mode?


Hm........maybe it isn't now that you bring that up. I'm not quite sure now.......

And to get black bars this is what I did for my laptop, but I'm not sure if it will apply to everyone.


Display settings->Intel graphics accelerator drive for mobile->graphics properties->display settings->aspect ratio options->choose maintain aspect ratio

KT_Violet
freelander
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
Hungary4707 Posts
January 22 2009 21:39 GMT
#19
On January 23 2009 06:23 Resonance wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 23 2009 06:21 Try wrote:
How do you get the black bars instead of stretch?


Yeah same question here.


well i have an acer aspire laptop with windows xp.

right click on desktop, properties menu.
here you have to go on the options tab, there the special options button.
after that intel graphics accelerator options, here graphical properties
then display options --> set ratio

Most likely you have to look for it in the options of your graphics card driver.
And all is illuminated.
freelander
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
Hungary4707 Posts
January 22 2009 21:40 GMT
#20
On January 23 2009 06:34 Raithed wrote:
sc is just IN YOUR FACE when youre playing/viewing reps on a laptop. its so god damn annoying imo.


well, i use external keyboard
it's okay that way
And all is illuminated.
sperY
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Serbia444 Posts
January 22 2009 21:46 GMT
#21
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
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
9071 Posts
January 22 2009 22:44 GMT
#22
I'm playing on 12" ASUS
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Deleted User 31996
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
843 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
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
Hungary4707 Posts
January 22 2009 23:43 GMT
#24
On January 23 2009 08:29 liosama wrote:
Show nested quote +
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


but 800x600 is the same ratio as 640x480
And all is illuminated.
Jonoman92
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States9110 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
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
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
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2802 Posts
January 23 2009 00:29 GMT
#27
Why don't you just simply connect an external monitor or something?
Deleted User 31996
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
843 Posts
January 23 2009 10:08 GMT
#28
On January 23 2009 08:43 freelander wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 23 2009 08:29 liosama wrote:
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


but 800x600 is the same ratio as 640x480



ohh is that what he meant kk
GHOSTCLAW
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
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.
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Funnytoss
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
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".
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freelander
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
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!
And all is illuminated.
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-09-30 18:34:13
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.
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