Hey TL, I found a way to have SC 2 run at 640 x 480 if you have a crap computer like I do.
In your variables.txt file, change the resolution to windowwidth and windowheight to 800and 600 respectively. Also change width and height to 800 and 600. Then run SC II in compatibility mode at 640 x 480. You can then change your screen resolution via control panel or Nvidia(I only have an nvidia card) to 800 x 600 or whatever.

Note: If you try and put the resolution in resolutions to 640x480, it won't work. At least for me.

Hope this is helpful to everyone barely running SCII

Wolf

Korea (South)3290 Posts

January 14 2011 10:19 GMT

Whoa, going to try this.

Edit: Any idea how to modify those files on a Mac ?

frozenclaw

Canada409 Posts

January 14 2011 10:20 GMT

Nope sorry, should be in my documents or equivalent

rift

1819 Posts

January 14 2011 10:34 GMT

What about widescreen (16

) resolutions lower than 1280x720?

Paradice

New Zealand431 Posts

January 14 2011 10:41 GMT

Strange - running an app in Compatibility Mode makes Windows load a whole lot of extra junk into the app's environment, which technically slows down the execution... I'm very surprised you've got a video card bad enough that the diff between 800x600 and 640x480 is enough to compensate for that!

p.s. screenshot? Would love to see how mangled it looks

Darren1337

Ireland73 Posts

January 14 2011 10:50 GMT

I don't know if I'd enjoy playing the game when it looks like a lot of blocky crap. A screenshot would be great.

iPlaY.NettleS

Australia4329 Posts

January 14 2011 10:58 GMT

this would be great for those SC2>BW conversion custom maps , really give that feeling of nostalgia ROFL

Puosu

6985 Posts

January 14 2011 11:12 GMT

Running SC2 on 800/600 or 640/480 will make mice like the LMO usable, like in BW. Assuming tournaments allow you to play around with the settings like this the trick might be of use to some progamers.

Can you force low resolutions that have 16:10 or 16

aspect ratios?

Wolf

Korea (South)3290 Posts

January 14 2011 11:16 GMT

Ahhhh it drives me nuts that ": 9" makes that face.

frozenclaw

Canada409 Posts

January 14 2011 11:36 GMT

#10

On January 14 2011 19:34 rift wrote:
What about widescreen (16

) resolutions lower than 1280x720?

Probably try putting your own values into your variables.txt
Or deal with the black bars

frozenclaw

Canada409 Posts

January 14 2011 12:10 GMT

#11

rift

1819 Posts

January 14 2011 12:11 GMT

#12

I actually tried 640 480 and 800x600 using windowed mode. Since the mouse cursor is a sprite and not 3D, the "tip" of the pointer will remain within the cursor and not at the end of the sprite (the sprite will be larger). This makes it very hard to click on things at these resolutions.

MisterD

Germany1338 Posts

January 14 2011 12:30 GMT

#13

what happens if you simply turn down your windows resolution to 640x480 and then run in "Windowed (Fullscreen)"? does that not work? Because that would be the easiest solution to achieve that resolution when you can't select it directly from the options.

red_b

United States1267 Posts

January 14 2011 12:30 GMT

#14

that's unfortunate rift, Id love to play sc2 on a crt.

frozenclaw

Canada409 Posts

January 14 2011 12:48 GMT

#15

On January 14 2011 21:30 MisterD wrote:
what happens if you simply turn down your windows resolution to 640x480 and then run in "Windowed (Fullscreen)"? does that not work? Because that would be the easiest solution to achieve that resolution when you can't select it directly from the options.

I don't have that setting

frozenclaw

Canada409 Posts

January 14 2011 12:49 GMT

#16

On January 14 2011 21:11 rift wrote:
I actually tried 640 480 and 800x600 using windowed mode. Since the mouse cursor is a sprite and not 3D, the "tip" of the pointer will remain within the cursor and not at the end of the sprite (the sprite will be larger). This makes it very hard to click on things at these resolutions.

Ahhhh it drives me nuts that ": 9" makes that face.

You probably click fast enough to not even pay attention to the cursor

airen

Sweden82 Posts

January 27 2011 22:53 GMT

#17

Wow this is awesome. The difference in performance is so significant, I can now play 2v2! Thank you so much.
For those who have problems with the mouse cursor and using window mode: make sure you don't resize the window after starting the game. Even though the graphics change when resizing, the "aiming" does not and that's just garbage. (At least my old computer behaves this way.)

KaluGOSU

United States171 Posts

March 13 2011 04:03 GMT

#18

You explain this so poorly, please tell me how to run in compatibility mode?

Slago

Canada726 Posts

March 13 2011 04:12 GMT

#19

On January 14 2011 21:10 frozenclaw wrote:
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doesnt look too bad good option for people with bad computers

infinity2k9

United Kingdom2397 Posts

March 13 2011 04:24 GMT

#20

Does it actually run any better like this though?

Keitzer

United States2509 Posts

March 13 2011 04:25 GMT

#21

very interesting... i wonder how many people will actually utilize this

Emporio

United States3069 Posts

March 13 2011 04:30 GMT

#22

I have a video card that is not sufficient to play SC2 (it has massive lag just from the very beginning when the workers are mining) and changing my resolution this way makes it completely playable though there is still some lag at relatively large confrontations.

stormchaser

Canada1009 Posts

March 13 2011 04:39 GMT

#23

Many thanks to the OP for finding this, maybe I could get sc2 running on my laptop now! xD

EDIT: On second thought, i tried it out, and it doesn't seem to be working. Maybe its my laptop's monitor that doesn't allow it? Or perhaps i did something wrong.
1. I went to the variables.txt file and edited the width into windowwidth and the height into windowheight.
2. I then changed the number for windowwidth to 800 and the windowheight to 600.
3.I went to the starcraft.exe file and clicked on properties. I went to the compatibility tab and selected 640x480 resolution.
4.Launched the game. I checked the options menu and under the resolutions tab, it seemed to be blank so that made me think it worked...partially? Well either way it still seems to be stubborn and not go into 640x480 res. >

Mangemongen

Sweden125 Posts

March 13 2011 21:31 GMT

#24

Anyone tested 16

lower than 1280x720? I wanna know because I have to run in 4:3 on a 16

to get 75 hz.

Sabre

United Kingdom1086 Posts

September 30 2011 17:06 GMT

#25

sorry for the bump but is there any update on workarounds for this? My computer really lags severely in sc2 and I do want some form of playability out of the game before i inevitably upgrade my computer ^.^

jodogohoo

Canada2533 Posts

February 09 2012 09:15 GMT

#26

im trying to do this right now but when i set my resolution to a small resolution, it pops back up to a bigger one, there is like a limit of how small i can make the resolution in sc2 windowmode D= how do i work around this

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