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R3DT1D3
Profile Joined January 2012
285 Posts
April 07 2012 20:37 GMT
#1
So my friend recently just got Starcraft and Broodwar but he plays on a widescreen monitor. I've been searching for the custom resolution tweaks but so far all my results have yielded downloads that are no longer hosted.

Can someone link me to a currently working widescreen fix?
Catchafire2000
Profile Joined August 2010
United States227 Posts
April 07 2012 21:09 GMT
#2
There is none. As there are no tweaks for D2/D1 widescreen as well.
jabooty
fabiano
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Brazil4644 Posts
April 07 2012 21:24 GMT
#3
if you want to keep the aspect ratio then there are 2 options:

1. Play on windowed mode with iCCup Launcher, with the size of the window 2x. If the window becomes too big to the point the it is cropped, try to adjust your desktop resolution higher (with the same native aspect ratio of your monitor). If you have a VGA software installed (such as nVidia Control Panel), try to create your own resolution to make it fit.

2. Whenever you go play BW, change your monitor aspect ratio to 4:3 on OSD.
"When the geyser died, a probe came out" - SirJolt
L3gendary
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada1470 Posts
April 07 2012 22:37 GMT
#4
You can change ur gfx card driver settings to switch to 4:3 whenever bw is played.
Watching Jaedong play purifies my eyes. -Coach Ju Hoon
snigor
Profile Joined October 2010
Norway129 Posts
April 07 2012 23:01 GMT
#5
On April 08 2012 06:09 Catchafire2000 wrote:
There is none. As there are no tweaks for D2/D1 widescreen as well.

A little off topic, but d2 is pixel based and there is a hack to run it highres/widescreen.
Wouldn't try to play on bnet, but it works.
http://widescreengamingforum.com/dr/diablo-ii
R3DT1D3
Profile Joined January 2012
285 Posts
April 07 2012 23:19 GMT
#6
On April 08 2012 07:37 L3gendary wrote:
You can change ur gfx card driver settings to switch to 4:3 whenever bw is played.


I have an AMD card and I do not see any feature to adjust aspect ratio for specific profiles.
Pezsmapatkany
Profile Joined January 2009
Hungary25 Posts
April 07 2012 23:31 GMT
#7
if u want normal resolution with correct aspect read this: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/UnableToSetGPUScaling.aspx
LasTLiE
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States428 Posts
April 08 2012 00:54 GMT
#8
Someone made a Resolution Expander hack for BW. Although the original DL link is dead for it, I found it on my harddrive.
DL linku: http://www.mediafire.com/?dteslfhkl6odszk

Extract it, open the ResSettings.ini file and change ScreenWidth and ScreenHight values to whatever you want and then run it. Should work fine.

Although I should say that if you plan on playing on iccup, I don't think you can use this and chaos launcher at the same time. Also it'd probably set off any anti-hack you'd have to use.
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L3gendary
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada1470 Posts
April 08 2012 01:13 GMT
#9
On April 08 2012 08:19 R3DT1D3 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 08 2012 07:37 L3gendary wrote:
You can change ur gfx card driver settings to switch to 4:3 whenever bw is played.


I have an AMD card and I do not see any feature to adjust aspect ratio for specific profiles.


For ati cards go to the Catalyst CC > Digital Panel > Attributes > Maintain Aspect Ratio
Watching Jaedong play purifies my eyes. -Coach Ju Hoon
VTArlock
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States1763 Posts
April 08 2012 16:40 GMT
#10
Shouldn't this be in tech support?

Meh

Quick and easy fix... Take a pair of some really sharp scissors and simply cut the monitor to the correct size. It shouldn't need more than an inch or two from the left and right before it is a perfect square.
Why?
NimoStar
Profile Joined July 2025
1 Post
Last Edited: 2025-07-14 21:04:00
July 14 2025 21:03 GMT
#11
While I wasn't able to generate widescreen imaging in windows 11 with the old methods, I was able to set "keep aspect ratio" in my AMD graphics card control panel, allowing the image to not stretch horizontally (even in fullscreen) while keeping the 16: 9 desktop aspect ratio.

The graphics suite also came with a control to set real-time resolution upscaling, which to my eyes looks better than the gaudy and oversaturated "remaster" (note, that Blizzards had gotten SC:BW to work in 16: 9 but snubbed the feature on purpose to sell remastered graphics).

Although, the real reason is how SC:BW 1.61.1 supports modding much better than SC:R.
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