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Zulli85 · 06-13-08

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Originally Posted by Xecuter2

Sorry to bump and old thread but I want to thank you for this registry point that I did not know existed until this thread. Wc3 looks 100% better when you run it at the monitors native res. Text is now clear and everything looks cleaner and not blurry. It was blurry and all text was hard to read before because the resolutions that are available are very bad and are no where near native.

You're welcome! Glad that I helped you out.

Pawn-Shop · 07-21-08

This post has changed my life. Your a god among men.

Zulli85 · 07-21-08

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Originally Posted by Pawn-Shop

This post has changed my life. Your a god among men.

Thanks! Sounds like you play War3 a lot, enjoy it in all of its glory!

1spinosaurus · 08-09-08

Hey, this is great, if you enjoy looking at a stretched image.

You are the same people who stretch your 4x3 movies to fill your widescreen TV's, then wonder why Johnny Depp looks like George Costanza.

The game designers created graphics to be viewed in 4x3 aspect ratio, all this does is distort that image.

I want the black bars and I don't know how to do it.

FrEaK™ · 08-09-08

couldn't you pull the whole BF2 idea and simply put
+fullscreen 1 +szx 1440 +szy 900
in the shortcut?

Xecuter2 · 08-09-08

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Originally Posted by 1spinosaurus

Hey, this is great, if you enjoy looking at a stretched image.

You are the same people who stretch your 4x3 movies to fill your widescreen TV's, then wonder why Johnny Depp looks like George Costanza.

The game designers created graphics to be viewed in 4x3 aspect ratio, all this does is distort that image.

I want the black bars and I don't know how to do it.

I do believe you are wrong.. when I run non native on my wide screen, that would be called "stretched", and honestly, it looks like garbage and you can barely read the text. Setting this image to native in registry, I am then able to read all text in the game, and everything is crystal clear and definitely does not look stretched. I also never use black bars, but use nvidia or my monitors built in scaling. A "stretched" game of wc3 is still in the correct aspect ratio so even though it may be stretched from say 1440 x 900 to 1680 x 1050, it still looks great.

Zulli85 · 08-10-08

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Originally Posted by Xecuter2

I do believe you are wrong.. when I run non native on my wide screen, that would be called "stretched", and honestly, it looks like garbage and you can barely read the text. Setting this image to native in registry, I am then able to read all text in the game, and everything is crystal clear and definitely does not look stretched. I also never use black bars, but use nvidia or my monitors built in scaling. A "stretched" game of wc3 is still in the correct aspect ratio so even though it may be stretched from say 1440 x 900 to 1680 x 1050, it still looks great.

Thanks for clarifying.

William151515 · 08-16-08

thanks, will be useful when i get a larger 24in lcd, havnt played this game for over a year though, used to play it 24/7 it was all i did on the pc, play warcraft 3 TFT XD
might start playing again

Coma · 08-16-08

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xecuter2

I do believe you are wrong.. when I run non native on my wide screen, that would be called "stretched", and honestly, it looks like garbage and you can barely read the text. Setting this image to native in registry, I am then able to read all text in the game, and everything is crystal clear and definitely does not look stretched. I also never use black bars, but use nvidia or my monitors built in scaling. A "stretched" game of wc3 is still in the correct aspect ratio so even though it may be stretched from say 1440 x 900 to 1680 x 1050, it still looks great.

All this means is your screen's or graphic card's (whichever is set to do the resizing) has a crappy resizer.

Let me demonstrate (the one doing your resizer must be much worse if you can't even read text):
640x480 source
The images below were resized to 1680x1050:
(sharp but blocky) Point resizing (the same method used for pixel censorship)
(blurry) Bilinear resizing
(blurry but slightly sharper/blockier) Bicubic resizing
(sharp but with ringing) Lanczos (sinc) resizing
(blurrier, but clean looking) Spline resizing with anti aliasing

So you should go to the NVIDIA control panel and set it so your graphic card does the resizing, not your screen.
The only difference here is the game is doing the resizing, so it looks better because your screen has a horrible resizer.

You know DVD players that are marketed as upscalers? What they do is denoising, sharpening, and use a high quality resizer to do the resizing. Otherwise it would look horrible.

DKK · 08-16-08

Thank you for this tip Zulli85!

I love DOTA so playing it in my native resolution makes the graphics so much better. +1 rep

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1spinosaurus New to Overclock.net Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1 Rep: 0 Unique Rep: 0 Trader Rating: 0	Hey, this is great, if you enjoy looking at a stretched image. You are the same people who stretch your 4x3 movies to fill your widescreen TV's, then wonder why Johnny Depp looks like George Costanza. The game designers created graphics to be viewed in 4x3 aspect ratio, all this does is distort that image. I want the black bars and I don't know how to do it.

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William151515 PC Gamer Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 1,685 Rep: 77 Unique Rep: 66 Trader Rating: 0	thanks, will be useful when i get a larger 24in lcd, havnt played this game for over a year though, used to play it 24/7 it was all i did on the pc, play warcraft 3 TFT XD might start playing again

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