StarCraft Resolution Hack

Do NOT play in Battle.Net while using this hack. You might get banned. You have been warned!


This is ment to work on EuropeBattle.Net


First, you will probably need Brood War installed - I don't think this works if you only have vanilla Starcraft. Make sure you have the latest version of the game. Connecting to Battle.Net should auto-patch your installation if it isn't already at the latest version.


Download this:
Res Expander 6

Mirror 1: http://www.filefront.com/13986957/Resolution-Expander---5.1.zip/

Mirror 2: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4ZL12G2D



Extract it anywhere you please. Now, edit the file "ResSettings.ini."

Probably the simplest thing to do is to just change these lines:
ScreenWidth0=640
ScreenHight0=480

to your preferred resolution. If you do this, I would not recommend anything higher than 1440x900 - the bigger the resolution, the smaller everything is.

But if you want to get fancy, you could try setting multiple incrementing resolutions through this config file. That way, you can have sort of a zoom in/out functionality. If you do this, you can switch resolutions by pressing the + or - keys.

After setting your resolutions, run "InsectLoader.exe" to play Starcraft with the hack.

For me, doing this threw an error message - that Starcraft was installed improperly. Re-installation didn't help. So I did a bit of regmoning and found a solution in case this happens to anyone else.

If you get such an error, go to the directory where Starcraft.exe is located. Create a file there, and call it "scfix.vbs".

Copy and paste this text into it. Note - I've only tested this in Windows XP 32-bit.

Code:

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
set svc=GetObject("winmgmts:root\default:StdRegProv")
Wscript.Quit(svc.setStringValue(&H80000002,  "SOFTWARE\Blizzard Entertainment\Starcraft", "Program",  WshShell.currentDirectory & "\Starcraft.exe"))

Double-click it. After you do this, InsectLoader should agree the game is installed properly.

If you're using a 64-bit OS and this doesn't work, try pasting this text into the file instead:

Code:

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
set svc=GetObject("winmgmts:root\default:StdRegProv")
Wscript.Quit(svc.setStringValue(&H80000002,  "SOFTWARE\wow6432node\Blizzard Entertainment\Starcraft", "Program",  WshShell.currentDirectory & "\Starcraft.exe"))

I can't promise this will work any better, but try it - clear the vbs file, paste the above text into it, and run it again. See if InsectLoader works after that.



640x480


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1920x698 (Ben-Hur mode)
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Windows 8.1 has been discontinued long time ago and it was always problematic for games, especially old ones. Try setting up compatibility as XP SP2 or Vista SP2. You could also try google and find a different starcraft loader such as Chaos Launcher which I personally used couple months ago during a starcraft game with my friends and works great.

 

Should work, make sure the game is patched correctly and you're using compatibility mode.