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It's easy to rate them, both have their limitations.

But we should be glad that a solution exists. What I can say personally is that I was overjoyed when I've found these two programs.
And I had other probelms as well, couldn't install any of these games on Vista for some reason ...

Actually, there is a program you can use to play StarCraft in a window AND stretch the image to a custom resolution.

I have a very basic page set up for the files and instructions:

http://diabloonvista.uw.hu/

here is my review of these programs.
1.) starcraft-in-a-window.rar
pros ...

What monitor do you have?

If it has hardware scaling, use that. If not, I'm afraid you're out of luck - ATi has never done Fixed Aspect Ratio Scaling very well (if at all) and while nVidia used to, they broke it in the 90 series drivers, and it's remained broken ever since. :(

thanks for ...

Actually, there is a program you can use to play StarCraft in a window AND stretch the image to a custom resolution.

I have a very basic page set up for the files and instructions:

http://diabloonvista.uw.hu/

This works like wonders for me. reply to this post if the link doesn't work ...

when i play starcraft in the scaled aspect ratio mode for ati it destroys starcraft. so here is my complaint, the first part can be found in the forums, the second part i have yet to find anywhere.
part I
the game w/o scaling stretches out, and something in the code makes the game lag when ...