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Zulli85 · 08-16-08

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Originally Posted by William151515

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

Glad to help you out!

I will be exercising this little guide when I get my 24" widescreen hopefully next month. It seems to me that all I have been doing on my PC for the past 6-7 years is playing War3. At this point all I'm doing is playing DotA with my friends and waiting for SCII and DIII.

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Originally Posted by Coma

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.

Then why are there so many people that have been praising this guide? I do believe that most people, myself included don't really know what you are talking about and this guide poses a quick fix.

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Originally Posted by DKK

Thank you for this tip Zulli85!

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

You're welcome.

I play a ridiculous amount of DotA with some friends of mine, you should join us. I play it probably around 15 hours every week for years now...Basically non-stop War3 since 2002, kinda crazy I know.

DKK · 08-20-08

Does anyone know what the normal registry settings were? My mouse hangs in dota games and I want to go back to regular settings to see if that will fix it.

Zulli85 · 08-20-08

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Originally Posted by DKK

Does anyone know what the normal registry settings were? My mouse hangs in dota games and I want to go back to regular settings to see if that will fix it.

There are a lot of different resolution settings in the game itself. After you load Warcraft 3, go to options and then video. Then select a lower resolution such as 1024x768 to see if that solves the problem that you are having. Hope this helps!

DKK · 08-20-08

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Originally Posted by Zulli85

There are a lot of different resolution settings in the game itself. After you load Warcraft 3, go to options and then video. Then select a lower resolution such as 1024x768 to see if that solves the problem that you are having. Hope this helps!

Awesome. THank you sir.

Zulli85 · 08-20-08

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Originally Posted by DKK

Awesome. THank you sir.

You're welcome.

Farmerjoe · 09-11-08

Didn't read about the fix here, but yes you are correct in saying that it's a quick fix to an annoying problem - except for the fact that I wouldn't really call it a fix. The game looks a lot worse when it's stretched and it's just extremely annoying playing in 1680x1050 (on a lcd) compared to playing in 1600x1200 (on a crt).

Personally I play a lot of ladder (was even rank 1 in ffa once) and I would much rather have black bars then a stretched image.

Another thing I noticed is that it feels like there's some kind of input lag (don't know how to describe it) when you run 1680x1050. Try setting the resolution in the game options to 1152x864 (or 1280x960/1024 or whatever) and I'd say the mouse movement feels a lot better.

Don't know about you guys but having played warcraft 3 for 6 years on a crt monitor I just can't adjust to playing it on a lcd, much less with a stretched image.

Zulli85 · 09-12-08

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Originally Posted by Farmerjoe

Didn't read about the fix here, but yes you are correct in saying that it's a quick fix to an annoying problem - except for the fact that I wouldn't really call it a fix. The game looks a lot worse when it's stretched and it's just extremely annoying playing in 1680x1050 (on a lcd) compared to playing in 1600x1200 (on a crt).

Personally I play a lot of ladder (was even rank 1 in ffa once) and I would much rather have black bars then a stretched image.

Another thing I noticed is that it feels like there's some kind of input lag (don't know how to describe it) when you run 1680x1050. Try setting the resolution in the game options to 1152x864 (or 1280x960/1024 or whatever) and I'd say the mouse movement feels a lot better.

Don't know about you guys but having played warcraft 3 for 6 years on a crt monitor I just can't adjust to playing it on a lcd, much less with a stretched image.

Some people such as yourself prefer to have the black bars, other people cannot stand it and would rather have a stretched image. Its really a matter of preference but this seems to be helping a lot of people out.

I played Warcraft III on my old CRT for a few years, and now I'm playing it on my current 19" LCD which I have had for about 3 years now. I really didn't notice any input lag or any other discernible difference whilst making the switch. Some monitors do indeed have input lag, but that will be noticeable regardless of the game that you are playing.

Do you still play? Maybe we can get a game going? Drop me a PM or stop by channel Clan RooF on the Azeroth server if you are interested.

Norman Bum · 10-12-08

Awesome! Works perfectly!

Zulli85 · 10-14-08

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Originally Posted by Norman Bum

Awesome! Works perfectly!

Glad to hear that!

EricM9104 · 11-15-08

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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.

It doesn't look stretched on mine.
1440x900, it looks a hell of a lot clearer now!!!

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