EPTWondering if it was possible. It looks like that's what happened at 3:07 of this video. Anybody know how this shot was taken? I thought playing Starcraft at a higher resolution wasn't possible.
Playing Starcraft in Higher Resolution?
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jra64
United States104 Posts
Wondering if it was possible. It looks like that's what happened at 3:07 of this video. Anybody know how this shot was taken? I thought playing Starcraft at a higher resolution wasn't possible. | ||
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Jyvblamo
Canada13788 Posts
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PH
United States6173 Posts
To answer your question, no, SC can't be played at any resolution other than it's standard tiny size. | ||
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Highways
Australia6103 Posts
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IzzyCraft
United States4487 Posts
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Kentor
United States5784 Posts
On December 15 2008 12:14 Jyvblamo wrote: I think they spliced together 4 different shots in that video, and no, I'm pretty sure it's impossible to play SC in a higher resolution, or everyone would know about it. =P awesome idea | ||
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distant_voice
Germany2521 Posts
the effect in the video is awesome. must've been a lot of work to put that together. | ||
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zobz
Canada2175 Posts
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jra64
United States104 Posts
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Zoler
Sweden6339 Posts
its like this one at 0:34 Boxer ftw btw | ||
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Shadowfury333
Canada314 Posts
On December 15 2008 23:45 jra64 wrote: Woah, it's probably way harder to take tons of screenshots of a replay at the exact same moment in time as opposed to taking them with video and just syncing the frames. Replays can be paused, so I doubt it would be too hard. | ||
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niteReloaded
Croatia5281 Posts
On December 15 2008 23:52 Zoler wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuSOvG-eGmU its like this one at 0:34 Boxer ftw btw whoooooaa this one is goood | ||
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R3condite
Korea (South)1541 Posts
On December 15 2008 19:21 distant_voice wrote: what would be interesting is if someone could modify the windowed mode plugin for chaoslauncher so that the window has a 800x600 or a 1024x768 solution. the effect in the video is awesome. must've been a lot of work to put that together. it's hard to make resolution better.. because u r creating pixels that were never there... so u don't noe where and wat to add there i don't think it's possible unless blizzard does it... if some1 else does it it'll be their depiction of wat high resolution of a dark templar or something like should look like... | ||
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DeathByMonkeys
United States742 Posts
On December 15 2008 23:52 Zoler wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuSOvG-eGmU its like this one at 0:34 Boxer ftw btw Little off-topic... but that Boxer vid is so damn epic. God damn he was so innovative, with the skills to back it up. | ||
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Shadowfury333
Canada314 Posts
On December 16 2008 08:22 R3condite wrote: it's hard to make resolution better.. because u r creating pixels that were never there... so u don't noe where and wat to add there i don't think it's possible unless blizzard does it... if some1 else does it it'll be their depiction of wat high resolution of a dark templar or something like should look like... Doing it would involve pulling more map and sprite data from the RAM to the main screen. While 2D games don't quite work like 3D games, in that they don't have a camera so free movement around the place isn't possible, they do have the map data buffered in RAM, where the visible sections are taken from RAM and drawn on the screen. I imagine a 3rd-party tool to make it work would be similar to a maphack, but instead of changing visibility information, it changes how many pixels of the map are drawn at a time. TL;DR version: The data is all there, it is just a matter of drawing it to the screen. | ||
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capek
United States585 Posts
On December 15 2008 23:52 Zoler wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuSOvG-eGmU its like this one at 0:34 Boxer ftw btw Probably one of the best boxer videos ever. Possibly the greatest SC:BW highlight video ever. | ||
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yoshtodd
United States418 Posts
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Phyre
United States1288 Posts
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Boblion
France8043 Posts
On December 16 2008 14:18 Phyre wrote: They made Street Fighter HD, I wish SC would get similar treatment one day. This + a good map editor + some unit AI corrections and a bit better pathfiding would be better than SC2 imo. edit: oh and custom hotkeys + apm live and lan latency. | ||
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thunk
United States6233 Posts
On December 15 2008 18:37 PH wrote: That's a pretty awesome effect, though. That would make observing at offline events sooo much cooler if they threw in shots like that every now and then... To answer your question, no, SC can't be played at any resolution other than it's standard tiny size. They can't, because it requires 4 different streams or so and really good synchronization of those 4 (or so streams). It'd be impossible to setup before the action is gone. | ||
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InfeSteD
United States4658 Posts
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Tropics
United Kingdom1132 Posts
On December 16 2008 14:33 thunk wrote: They can't, because it requires 4 different streams or so and really good synchronization of those 4 (or so streams). It'd be impossible to setup before the action is gone. the real challenge is the fact that having 4 different angles requires 4 different observers | ||
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tec27
United States3701 Posts
On December 16 2008 08:22 R3condite wrote: it's hard to make resolution better.. because u r creating pixels that were never there... so u don't noe where and wat to add there i don't think it's possible unless blizzard does it... if some1 else does it it'll be their depiction of wat high resolution of a dark templar or something like should look like... You would use the in-game drawing function. All the functionality is there, its a matter of modifying it so that its alright drawing at higher resolutions (drawing more pixels at a time). Unfortunately, so much in SC is based on the 640x480 being a constant that its a *lot* to mess around with. Easiest way with windowed mode (I think) would be to take the output from the game and scale it using some scaling algorithm (a lot of emulators and such have that) but thats fairly cpu intensive and can result in some graphical glitches. | ||
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-orb-
United States5770 Posts
On December 16 2008 14:29 Boblion wrote: This + a good map editor + some unit AI corrections and a bit better pathfiding would be better than SC2 imo. edit: oh and custom hotkeys + apm live and lan latency. | ||
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PH
United States6173 Posts
On December 16 2008 14:33 thunk wrote: They can't, because it requires 4 different streams or so and really good synchronization of those 4 (or so streams). It'd be impossible to setup before the action is gone. ): It would still be indescribably cool, though. haha. | ||
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fearus
China2164 Posts
I guess no one felt like updating it... So if anyone is good at coding/hacking........ | ||
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
You can easily work around by yourself though to play it in higher resolution. You need: 5 internet connections, 5 computers, programming skills. 1) Connect the computers to bnet with different accounts. 2) start a 1on1 (obs) game from one of the computers. 3) make sure the other 4 computers gets the 4 observer slots. 4) Write a program that tracks where the screen is for the main computer, and make the four observing computers to view each one square of a 2 by 2 box. 5) send the image from the 4 observing computers to the main computer and have some other progrma paste them togheter to show them side by side. You should now be able to see 4 times normal resolution. 6) write another program to track your mouseclicks and to send them correctly, trough the main computers starcraft game, to control yuor army. Piece of cake. 5-10 minutes maybe. | ||
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Tets
Australia20 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b39/tetsrox/Screenshot.jpg) | ||
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jimminy_kriket
Canada5509 Posts
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InKline
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No legal way available | ||
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-orb-
United States5770 Posts
where? Jeez the advantage that would give would be unreal | ||
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NotJumperer
United States1371 Posts
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mIsUZu
New Zealand528 Posts
Supposedly you can change the resolution of the game into 1280x1080 etc but I heard it's buggy and hard to use.. | ||
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gravity
Australia1872 Posts
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gravity
Australia1872 Posts
On December 20 2008 20:21 Cascade wrote: Piece of cake. 5-10 minutes maybe. right... | ||
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niteReloaded
Croatia5281 Posts
Whoever makes this gets instant fame, and possibly $$ if they manage to sell it to MBC/OGN/GOM. | ||
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infinity2k9
United Kingdom2397 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i43.tinypic.com/2gwvzgi.jpg) Its not so good for playing in but it certainly has potential just for spectating. | ||
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[X]Ken_D
United States4650 Posts
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infinity2k9
United Kingdom2397 Posts
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[X]Ken_D
United States4650 Posts
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funkie
Venezuela9376 Posts
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obesechicken13
United States10467 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + no lol, but msconfig has screen res changers, dunno if itd work | ||
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infinity2k9
United Kingdom2397 Posts
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StormsInJuly
Sweden165 Posts
http://se.youtube.com/watch?v=Soxt36oWeUE | ||
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Narrator
United States868 Posts
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Mannequin
Canada131 Posts
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ninjafetus
United States231 Posts
http://www.starcraftresolutionhack.de.vu/ If you're getting errors, try installing Microsoft C runtime libraries and .NET framework; that got it to work for me. After that, well... yeah, it's not really playable. Your inputs (and mouse movements!) lag pretty bad pretty quickly. However, watching replays "zoomed out" to 4x the viewing window is pretty amazing. You will probably need to turn your mouse speed up to navigate the replays, and the dragging on the minimap makes it flicker out until you stop dragging, but other than that, it's pretty cool to watch battles that way. | ||
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infinity2k9
United Kingdom2397 Posts
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TheNikeYork
United States389 Posts
On January 25 2009 09:09 infinity2k9 wrote: Personally i didn't notice any lag? Its only the bugs like minimap that caused a problem for me. Anyway least it has potential for observing, maybe when its less buggy id like to see some vod's with this maybe. No lag here. Was pretty cool. Love it for watching reps. | ||
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PobTheCad
Australia893 Posts
On January 25 2009 02:39 Narrator wrote: Ah, I was testing out that resolution hack. It's still too laggy to even be labeled playable. I hope there are more improvements in the future... sure , SC needs higher resolution but this hack should be implemented into chaoslauncher and be like #ll so that only players with higher resolution hack can play against each other otherwise it is unfair for people with lower resolutions (to play against people with resolution hack) | ||
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niteReloaded
Croatia5281 Posts
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SWPIGWANG
Canada482 Posts
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Abydos1
United States832 Posts
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Disarray
United States1164 Posts
On January 25 2009 10:44 Abydos1 wrote: This is awesome for watching replays; here's a test video I made at 1440x900 resolution. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKJrk7Y0yZs thats awesome | ||
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liger13
United States1060 Posts
agreed  ...*leaves to go watch a replay* | ||
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Racenilatr
United States2756 Posts
On December 15 2008 12:14 Jyvblamo wrote: I think they spliced together 4 different shots in that video, and no, I'm pretty sure it's impossible to play SC in a higher resolution, or everyone would know about it. =P How exactly do you do taht? Also Resolution hack keeps crashing on me  for no reason. I do everything it says, run it with sc.exeright click res.exe and run as admin but it crashes | ||
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Ellis
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CorsairHero
Canada9491 Posts
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-orb-
United States5770 Posts
On January 25 2009 10:44 Abydos1 wrote: This is awesome for watching replays; here's a test video I made at 1440x900 resolution. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKJrk7Y0yZs That's so cool, it'd be neat if kespa switched to a shot of this once in a while. On a side note what the fuck was the terran thinking lol | ||
Xeofreestyler
Belgium6771 Posts
after 10 secs it cant keep up with my mouse and it just starts making selectboxes on random parts of the screen and I cant control -anything- oh and sometimes it fucks up my colors reaaaally hard | ||
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Abydos1
United States832 Posts
On January 25 2009 14:06 Xeofreestyler wrote: it works fine for replays but dont count on actually playing with this lol after 10 secs it cant keep up with my mouse and it just starts making selectboxes on random parts of the screen and I cant control -anything- oh and sometimes it fucks up my colors reaaaally hard Yeah, the selections and sound don't always work correctly and if you're dragging the minimap the display lags behind because of the drawing method; its great for replays though On January 25 2009 12:20 -orb- wrote: That's so cool, it'd be neat if kespa switched to a shot of this once in a while. On a side note what the fuck was the terran thinking lol Yeah it would be cool if we could see a zoomed out view of some of the big battles. I have no idea what that terran was thinking; I was just happy when I saw his entire army unsiege and move into the middle :D | ||
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XHD2560x1600
United States2 Posts
http://i42.tinypic.com/5ze7b9.jpg 209 FPS but actually my crossfire kicks in better at the higher resolutions :D | ||
IntoTheWow
is awesome32274 Posts
On January 26 2009 08:34 XHD2560x1600 wrote: Ummm , I can play Starcraft all the way upto 2560x1600 but I think it looks best at 1440x900 http://i42.tinypic.com/5ze7b9.jpg 209 FPS but actually my crossfire kicks in better at the higher resolutions :Dhahaa your whole account name and signature are just for this? | ||
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ninjafetus
United States231 Posts
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XHD2560x1600
United States2 Posts
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cgrinker
United States3824 Posts
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niteReloaded
Croatia5281 Posts
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Shadowfury333
Canada314 Posts
On January 26 2009 22:40 niteReloaded wrote: I hope this gets refined into a solid plugin and we get to watch some VODs with this used to obs! Indeed. I'm guessing that would make it easier to manipulate the drawbuffer to create true high-res, instead of just quad-screen high-res that this hack does. | ||
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Polyphasic
United States841 Posts
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MuR)Ernu
Finland768 Posts
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grom
Australia1 Post
Instead of increasing the amount you see, what about using upscaling algorithms (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_art_scaling_algorithms) . hq3x is used by some SNES emulators and it performs anti-aliasing so it looks very nice IMO. I have tried using dxwnd (see http://www.nynaeve.net/?p=52) but the starcraft profile doesn't let you do scaling, and when I used the generic one to stretch I have issues with the cursor. | ||
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Tets
Australia20 Posts
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~tetsrox/ResolutionHack.rar try it if u dont believe me. i did not make this nor take credit for it. say thanks after so the mods dont cry that its a virus. | ||
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CDRdude
United States5625 Posts
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GTR
51470 Posts
we closed it because it was a slack opening post and there was already this thread relating to this particular topic. there was no mention of 'virus' anywhere by hot_bid/zatic. also, get rid of the smug attitude or else you'll be out of here as fast as you came. | ||
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Centric
United States1989 Posts
On January 25 2009 12:20 -orb- wrote: That's so cool, it'd be neat if kespa switched to a shot of this once in a while. On a side note what the fuck was the terran thinking lol Yeah it's crazy cause then you're able to see troop movements and see exactly how the player is micro-ing. I'd love to see progaming take advantage of this. | ||
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Tets
Australia20 Posts
On February 18 2009 17:32 GTR-2-Go wrote: did we even say it was a virus? we closed it because it was a slack opening post and there was already this thread relating to this particular topic. there was no mention of 'virus' anywhere by hot_bid/zatic. also, get rid of the smug attitude or else you'll be out of here as fast as you came. mate i just dont have all day to type/explain every post. i inform the public and get to the point. ive been a registered member of this forum for longer then u have, so infact if u where to get rid of me as fast as i came would be pretty hard, taking into account your a more recent member then i am. | ||
JWD
United States12607 Posts
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MasterOfChaos
Germany2896 Posts
On February 18 2009 17:30 CDRdude wrote: The question was previously raised; how does it work? Starcraft only has so many pixels for the units. I think it moves the screem and takes a screenshot each time. Then it displays the combination of those screens. Of course a few additional fixes are necessary to display the interface and the selection rect correctly. On the minimap you can see how the screen jumps. | ||
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Blind
United States2528 Posts
On February 18 2009 17:27 Tets wrote: The fact that you keep saying this file has no virus, despite no one accusing it of such, makes it all the more suspicious. I think at least 4 of your posts about this file in it somewhere said it's not a virus. No one said it was.i really gotta say the mods in here are such a sook keeps on Del treads because they think everything is a virus etc. http://members.optusnet.com.au/~tetsrox/ResolutionHack.rar try it if u dont believe me. i did not make this nor take credit for it. say thanks after so the mods dont cry that its a virus. And if you're going to introduce a new program, you should post more about it. That's probably why your original OP got closed. | ||
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Tets
Australia20 Posts
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Sanity.
United States704 Posts
On January 26 2009 08:48 IntoTheWow wrote: rofl didn't realize that even looked at the pic lololhahaa your whole account name and signature are just for this? | ||
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Solidus_315
213 Posts
i tried it but the colors are inverse or something. probably because of vista. anyone know how to fix mi problem | ||
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Xeofreestyler
Belgium6771 Posts
sounds ridiculous but it sometimes work when I have the problem | ||
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Shadowfury333
Canada314 Posts
EDIT: NM, it is back. | ||
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