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unable to change "windowed" resolution in sc2

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DusTerr
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
2520 Posts
March 07 2011 12:44 GMT
#1
Not sure if this should be tech support or SC2 general forum.

Is there a way to change the resolution of SC2 except in Fullscreen [or windowed(fullscreen) - by changing desktop res.].

I'd like to run windowed mode (be able to watch streams or follow a chat etc) without it being stuck on 1024*768 (4 : 3). Anyone have a way to make that work?

(before everyone posts about a 2nd monitor - I'll probably do that at some point, but I'd like to maximize what I can do with my single monitor first.)
jcr2001
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Singapore53 Posts
March 07 2011 12:47 GMT
#2
Menu > Options > Gameplay > Confine Mouse Cursor OFF, then your cursor is not bound by the window and you can resize the window.
Chicken Chaser
Profile Joined July 2010
United States533 Posts
March 07 2011 12:49 GMT
#3
go to My Documents\StarCraft II and open your Variables.txt

Look for windowheight and windowwidth and set those accordingly.
Allard
Profile Joined November 2010
Netherlands11 Posts
March 07 2011 12:50 GMT
#4
1024*768 is the minimum Sc2 will run at, otherwise you can just drag the edges of the window to enlarge to your needs. The sc2 window must not be maximized for that to work though. Also it gets tricky when you have your mouse cursor confined to the sc2 window, so you might want to turn that off.
DusTerr
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
2520 Posts
March 07 2011 12:58 GMT
#5
thanks / dragging the window edges worked (even though it didn't give the normal directional drag cursor arrows)

didn't try changing the variables.txt yet, but ty for the tip..


/thread.
Chicken Chaser
Profile Joined July 2010
United States533 Posts
March 07 2011 13:07 GMT
#6
On March 07 2011 21:50 Allard wrote:
1024*768 is the minimum Sc2 will run at, otherwise you can just drag the edges of the window to enlarge to your needs. The sc2 window must not be maximized for that to work though. Also it gets tricky when you have your mouse cursor confined to the sc2 window, so you might want to turn that off.


You can move the window and drag the window size with the cursor confined if you alt-tab to something else while having the SC2 window still visible. Once you're "out of screen" you can click the top bar or the corner to drag. /shrug lol
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