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Hello there,
I play Starcraft 2 on my Vaio Laptop, which is a widescreen laptop. Now i can choose between two resolutions, 1024*768 and 1600*900.
I am really wondering why there is no support for a lower widescreen resolution, as i could play smooth at 1280*720 without any slowdowns.
Hopefully, more resolutions will be available on release.
At the moment, the game runs still good on medium settings, but i recognize slowdowns here and there (a radeon hd 4650 with 1gb is my graphic card).
A lower 16 : 9 resolution would be nice and the best way to play smooth without lowering details.
Is it the same for you guys playing on widescreen with so little options to set the resolution?
Or perhaps there might be a way to set the resolution in an *.ini file until they made it appear in the options.
thanks for your time reading this
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I have 8 billion resolutions to choose from, dunno why you don't
You can try going into my documents\sc2 beta and open variables.txt and changing height to 720 and width to 1280
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Go to options, graphics change your settings from fullscreen to Windowed (fullscreen).
It'll play like fullscreen but its really windowed so alt-tabbing is absolutely fine. At the same time, StarCraft 2's resolution will match your desktop resolution rather then a preset resolution. So you can set your desktop reso to 1280*720 and hit windowed fullscreen and BAM.
did I mention you don't have to edit your setting.ini or whatever?
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thanks for your quick answer
strange there is no width entry in my variables..txt so i added it manually and set both width and height to 1280 and 720.
Now everything looks a bit washed out, which i think is not the lower res fault.
At least the game runs smoother now 
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tried it out teddy but then the height is larger then my monitor meaning i cant see the menu tab at the bottom etc, which is pretty strange as well :D
i think i wait for newer drivers and set the res in the variable, at least the game fits the screen then.
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i have some problems with resolution too =( i use a laptop like you, but have it linked with a widescreen monitor during playing. i dont see supplys etc, but i am too lazy to fix it =(
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Is that even allowed ?
![[image loading]](http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/6249/sanstitresi.jpg)
A day or 2 ago i saw chill's stream and was amazed at how he could get such a wide resolution. Turn out it was because he had a 16: 9 screen. However i tried to change some little things in order to get a somewhat 16: 9 dual screen and eventually i think i managed to get it wider... Is that even allowed ? >_<
Pretty sure we can even get a simple 17" screen with a larger height... 
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Could it be that your card only works on certain resolutions? The resolutions that I see in game are the resolutions that my card can support (but then again w/ nvidia control panel I can add custom resolutions)
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No but what i mean is that i think we can even get a larger ingame screen (read unfair advantage compared to the classic 4:3 or 16: 9 screen, hell even the 16 has already an advantage against 4:3...). What i don't understand is no matter how big your resolution is, i don't think it's possible to see for example on my screen the gas and ramp without scrolling.
Unless it's actually possible and i should get a newer screen ?
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It's not that 16 resolutions aren't there; it's just that they are not the *expected* 16 resolutions (at the lower end). While 1680x1050 and 1920x1080 are there, 1280x720 is missing (instead, there's 1360x800). 1360x800 should be playable on a modern (that is, within the past year) laptop with AMD MR 4xxx graphics (especially since my HD3450 has no problem).
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Are you sure your laptop isn't 16:10 I have options for both but more for 16:10 because that is the native on my laptop.
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On April 09 2010 15:03 RaiZ wrote:Is that even allowed ? A day or 2 ago i saw chill's stream and was amazed at how he could get such a wide resolution. Turn out it was because he had a 16: 9 screen. However i tried to change some little things in order to get a somewhat 16: 9 dual screen and eventually i think i managed to get it wider... Is that even allowed ? >_< Pretty sure we can even get a simple 17" screen with a larger height...
that is freakin AWESOME
you have to learn to mouse3 scroll though because side scrolling on that would be a complete pain.
Should be fixed though, would be way too OP
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On April 09 2010 15:03 RaiZ wrote:Is that even allowed ? A day or 2 ago i saw chill's stream and was amazed at how he could get such a wide resolution. Turn out it was because he had a 16: 9 screen. However i tried to change some little things in order to get a somewhat 16: 9 dual screen and eventually i think i managed to get it wider... Is that even allowed ? >_< Pretty sure we can even get a simple 17" screen with a larger height...
I'd love to see someone with Eyefinity like This.
That would be sick
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of course that won't be possible/acceptable when game comes out.. really unfair.
btw, dunno if thats actually being penalized.. don't think so.
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Is blizzard going to fix the resolution issues? Or do I really have to set my x1200 monitor to x1080 so I can get more SCREEN SPACE in sc2?
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On April 09 2010 15:03 RaiZ wrote:Is that even allowed ? A day or 2 ago i saw chill's stream and was amazed at how he could get such a wide resolution. Turn out it was because he had a 16: 9 screen. However i tried to change some little things in order to get a somewhat 16: 9 dual screen and eventually i think i managed to get it wider... Is that even allowed ? >_< Pretty sure we can even get a simple 17" screen with a larger height...
im totally doing this
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the best way is setting the resolution in the variables if there are not enough to choose from in the graphics setting
and yes i am sure that i have 16 : 9 aspect ratio (vaio vgn-fw4 is a pretty good laptop for sc2)
btw crazy widescreen screenshot cant imagine this will be allowed :D
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That screenshot is nuts. Just realized my display 1440x900 is 16 : 10 and not 16 : 9
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Alright ... so I'm not sure I understand all of this.
What is the best way to get a 16 game resolution out of a 16:10 monitor in windowed mode?
- will the game be stretched/distorted or will there be black bars?
The reason i want to do this, of course, is because I've heard that you can see more of the map by doing so. I don't believe I have the option for 16 resolutions in the regular SC2 graphics options.
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