prophetik music Posted May 31, 2009 Share Posted May 31, 2009 i recently started playing diablo 2 again. fun game. the graphics are so painful, however, on a widescreen 1680x1050 monitor (soon to be a 27.5" 1920x1200 one), and alt-tabbing out of it to check emails and such is nigh impossible (old coding and all, i guess), so i've been playing it windowed. it's kind of small, though, in the standard window size, so i'd like to expand the size of the view slightly. d2, however doesn't support higher than 800x600 resolution, and you can't resize windowed games like you can other applications. i just want the next size up from 800x600 - 1024x768 would be ideal. does anyone know some windows-fu to augment the -window argument to allow for adjusted resolution? i'm assuming it's possible, i just have no idea how to do it. no one else on the intarwebz seems to know how to do it, either. edit: if this isn't possible, is it possible to assign the program to open (full-screen, not windowed) on a specific monitor other than my primary? i've got an HDTV that would work well, as well as a square 17" that doesn't amplify the glaring non-widescreen play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m68030 Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 Ghetto solution: Screen magnifier? Double ghetto solution: Run the window on Monitor 2 with that monitor's resolution set at 800x600. I've seen D2 at higher than 800x600 being called the 'holy grail' of widescreen gameing. Short of an Official blizzard fix, it probably isn't going to happen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetik music Posted June 1, 2009 Author Share Posted June 1, 2009 screen magnifier might actually work. the reason i don't just adjust the screen res on my secondary monitor is because the widgets on that screen are set up in a specific way, and i don't want to re-arrange them every time i decide to kill some demons. again, i don't want a hotfix, i want a windows-based file extension that'll allow me to adjust the windowed resolution to exactly what i want it to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitty Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 This is an okay solution: http://www.edgeofnowhere.cc/viewtopic.php?t=403628 (original ver: http://www.edgeofnowhere.cc/viewtopic.php?t=348984&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0) It looks safe for bnet. But it looks like the pots are coded to only appear in a certain position. Screen Magnifier might be your best bet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetik music Posted June 1, 2009 Author Share Posted June 1, 2009 oh, i heard about this, but it never quite clicked. thanks. i'll try it tomorrow at some point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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