Widescreen Gaming Forum

Hello wsgf-community,
I have the problem that warcraft 3 won't run in 1400 x 1050. I have an 22inch TFT with a 1680 x 1050 native resolution. The TFT is set to fixed aspect-ratio scaling. Nevertheless Warcraft 3 isn't accepting 1400 x 1050 even when I change the registry strings "resheight" and "rewidth", warcraft 3 is just starting in 1280 x 1024 (with the black bars). I also tried to run it as admin or in xp compatibility mode, didn't help.
I'm also playing warcraft 3 on my 17inch laptop with 1200 x 900 perfectly fine (1440 x 900 native). I'm just curious why this isn't working on my desktop pc.

my system specs:
TFT: HP w2207h (driver+HP My Display installed)
GPU: MSI GTX280 1024MB (Forceware 178.13)
OS: Viste Home Premium 64-bit

First question what is popping in my mind, does windows have your 1400x1050 resolution? Mayne vista don't like that :wink:

You can create that resolution with nvidia control panel.

1400x1050 shouldn't need a registry edit. It's a 4:3 resolution, and as such was in the list of available resolutions when I last installed WC3. :)

Ok creating the resolution in vista made it visible in the warcraft 3 video menu, so far so good, but now it gets streched to fit the screen. When I switch to 1280x960 it's in aspect ratio? WTF I don't get that, it's also 4:3. Do I need to adjust something else in the nvidia control panel? I played a bit with the back-end parameters and changed the active horizontal pixels to 1400, which resulted in an aspect ratio in warcraft 3, but there's only a big black bar at the right :(

Hmmz, don't know this thing, you have to let nvidia do the scaling. So keeping those resolution things normal, and let the scaling do his work.

I can't select the Nvidia scaling... How can I fix this?

Are you using DVI as input? I know that there was some bugs about that in the past, but thought it was cleared up in vista :?

No, my display has a d-sub and a hdmi input only. I'm using a dvi to hdmi cable.

Hi all,
I had the same problem in Warcraft 3. I'm using a 28" HannsG HG281 monitor. My graphic is a very old ATI X1050. Thought it should be the graphic card, because I setted fit scaling in my catalyst control center, but nothing changed and all the registry hacks (you can find this solution everywhere) won't stop stretching in the game.
THEN I started to analyse my display!!! And I found in the menue an option: ASPECT RATIO: It has two modes: FIT or FULL. It was setted as FULL. I changed it to FIT and then I had my black bars on the left and right side!
Now the game is running properly on 1280 * 1024. I could make more, but my graphic card is too slow ^^.

I guess most of the widescreen displays should have this option...

Hope I could help.

Greetz

Too bad that isn't the case, that is internal scaling, so the monitor does the scaling. Most screens I know doesn't have that. But thanks that you shared that.

And yes, most monitor should get that option. :wink: