Too far zoomed in - Page 2

HellGreen

Denmark1146 Posts

December 09 2011 04:03 GMT

#21

This has nothing to do with zoom. It's about a resolution's aspect ratio.
It's not a bug or error - it's a setting.

On December 09 2011 12:29 Sundy wrote:
I have this exact same problem m3deman... Has anyone found out how to fix it?
[...]2560x1600 resolution
[...]friends house
[...]other monitor (other resolution)
[...]Upon returning home and launching the game, everything is way too zoomed in
[...]I'm practically a first person drone.

It's a mind thing. You (probably) got used to look at SC2 at your friends resolution, and now it looks different at home.
Your resolution is of the 16 : 10 aspect ratio (which is the one that gives the second largest perspective) and your friend probably have a 16 : 9 monitor?

"Fix": Change your Windows Desktop resolution to a 16 : 9. Mandatory: Expect a stretched image or black bars to appear (look up GPU scaling for your graphics card).

It's not a bug. Starcraft just looks different on different aspect ratios.

Edit:
I need to comment on this:

On November 30 2011 13:51 andrea20 wrote:
Starcraft 2 doesn't render aspect ratios other than 16 : 9 well at all.

Rubbish. It renders all aspect ratios the same way.

On November 30 2011 13:51 andrea20 wrote:
It's rather pathetic that 1920x1200 has less viewing area than 1920x1080.

Maybe, but when it comes to gaming, aspect ratio > resolution. Source.

Sundy

Australia6 Posts

December 09 2011 04:31 GMT

#22

I really can't imagine that being true HellGreen, it really is zoomed in, when I launched the game at a friends house, it looked exactly the same as it did at home on 2560x1600, I could see the same amount of screen. I didn't have to get used to anything or notice any change because it was exactly the same.

But now at home, I know everything is off because when I go split drones my sensitivity is WAY off and I end up moving my mouse past the mineral line, really don't understand it. And I did set my sens at his house to be the same % as I had it at home, we also have the exact same mouse.

At the moment I'm re-installing the game, when it's done I'll try what you've suggested and post an update and/or screenshot.

Cheers for the reply though

Hydra`

Hong Kong42 Posts

December 09 2011 06:20 GMT

#23

On December 09 2011 13:31 Sundy wrote:
I really can't imagine that being true HellGreen, it really is zoomed in, when I launched the game at a friends house, it looked exactly the same as it did at home on 2560x1600, I could see the same amount of screen. I didn't have to get used to anything or notice any change because it was exactly the same.

But now at home, I know everything is off because when I go split drones my sensitivity is WAY off and I end up moving my mouse past the mineral line, really don't understand it. And I did set my sens at his house to be the same % as I had it at home, we also have the exact same mouse.

At the moment I'm re-installing the game, when it's done I'll try what you've suggested and post an update and/or screenshot.

Cheers for the reply though

Isn't that the point? you arent supposed to see "more of the map" by having a larger resolution, always been like this for competitive games.

Mouse sens is probably down to your dpi setting, cursor accel, mousepad.

HellGreen

Denmark1146 Posts

December 09 2011 07:02 GMT

#24

Do you know the resolution of your friend's monitor? Could you maybe get a screenshot sent from your friend too? I'm curious to compare them

. Also, don't forget to take the viewing distance into account (30" vs 24" is notable).

On December 09 2011 15:20 Hydra` wrote:
Mouse sens is probably down to your dpi setting, cursor accel, mousepad.

I believe resolution plays a role on sens too: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Mouse_settings which could explain the difference?

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