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Hey guys,
I'm having a problem with the aspect ratio of my Macbook Pro with Broodwar. When I launch Broodwar, the screen has black bars on the sides and doesn't go fullscreen. Changing the resolution of the Mac didn't help so far as it seems..
Do all Macbook Pro Users encounter this problem? It's the mid 2010 model with 2,4 ghz.
Is there any program for mac that lets you chose the resolution for every program your running, or something like a compatiblity mode in windows?
Help would be greatly appreciated!! 
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get windows, problem solved. I tried playing brood war on a mac once and it failed miserably and I spent 4 hours searching through stuff online and everything and gave up. Thankfully I don't own a mac anymore.
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i don't use mac but i have heard of these emulators that you can use called wine? idk, i think bw is just a windows application so that could be your problem. i'm not sure but this is just a thought
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Do you have the patches? When I installed BW on my Mac it wouldn't go full screen until I patched the installation. After I patched it, everything worked fine.
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Hey, yes I patched it...still the same problem though 
"Wine" looks extremly complicated...isn't there an easier way to manually adjust the aspect ratio? Setting the resolution to 640x480 before launching Broodwar doesn't help either.
Can't believe nobody is playing Broodwar with a MacBook!
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You're playing a 4:3 game on a 16 screen. Broodwar doesn't always account for that. Maybe there's something in your graphics options to change it, but if not I don't think there's anything you can do about it.
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i'm sure you could find an emulator that works for you, but i don't know of one.
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My friend runs a program called bootcamp or something on her mac that allows her to play. It's like a windows emulation for mac. Hope this hopes.
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yeah, I guess BootCamp is the only solution then...you can't go deeper in the graphics settings on Mac OSX as it seems.
Thanks guys!
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I have an older macbook pro and I never had a problem running broodwar. The resolution worked normally etc. Of course there are issues playing on iccup and all that, but as far as the game goes, it works fine. Btw, bootcamp isn't an emulator, it's just a program built into the os that helps you set up a partition on your hard drive and install windows. You have to have a full copy of windows to do that.
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On January 22 2011 02:34 darmousseh wrote:
get windows, problem solved. I tried playing brood war on a mac once and it failed miserably and I spent 4 hours searching through stuff online and everything and gave up. Thankfully I don't own a mac anymore.
Actually, I've run into the same problem with on of our windows 7 desktop computers- maybe it's the wide screen? I've never figured it out.
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On January 22 2011 04:13 Falling wrote:Show nested quote +On January 22 2011 02:34 darmousseh wrote:
get windows, problem solved. I tried playing brood war on a mac once and it failed miserably and I spent 4 hours searching through stuff online and everything and gave up. Thankfully I don't own a mac anymore. Actually, I've run into the same problem with on of our windows 7 desktop computers- maybe it's the wide screen? I've never figured it out.
In windows, you can fix it by going to the nvidia control panel and checking off the option for forced aspect ratio. Haven't found a way to fix that on OSX. I wouldn't play BW on OSX though, the mouse acceleration is really annoying, and of course, no iccup launcher.
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i play broodwar on my regular macbook just fine
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I played from a macbook (not pro but doesn't matter). I had no problems playing, I installed the game with the online installer, patched it with the osx patch, and had no problems whatsoever.
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I play BW on my MBP just fine, didn't have any problems once everything was all patched. Not sure why you're having problems with it
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Hey, thanks for all your replies You're really helping me out!!
I'll try to download the anthrology, so far I had my original copy installed. Your replies gave me some hope...maybe it does the trick.
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Anthropology works perfect on the newest 15 inch macbook pro for me. I do remember SC: BW having problems on my 13 inch macbook though, it may be Anthropology is needed.
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Thanks alot holynorth! 40 minutes left, getting excited
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wtf...it wants me to enter a cd-key with 26 numbers...but mine only has 13 and worked for the original mac version what is wrong here? any ideas?
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Check your battle net account and click on Starcraft anthology. Your CD key is located there
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