World of Warcraft in Widescreen

[Sean P. Thomas]

I am currently running WoW on Vista Beta 2 (has been confirmed in the 5456
build also), everything is running fine (I can and am able to get past the
loading screen and play the game, unlike some others have posted). The
issue that I'm having is that I am unable to adjust the resolution of the
game to the provided widescreen setting. It seems that the game does not
think it has those resolutions available to it. Another issue is that there
are no refresh rates available to choose from under settings (in WoW).

As a side note, Blizzard had commented that they believe it is a DX10 issue
since WoW was developed for DX9. (See this thread:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-tech-support&t=917227&tmp=1 )

Cheers!

 

[Paul Smith]

Thanks for posting

There are definitly some problems with a lot of games and how they pick up
available resolutions, so it probaly is an issue with the current builds.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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[Guest]

I am having a similar problem. World of Warcraft works fine in Vista. I
played for a few hours with no issues. However I could not change the
resolution. It is stuck on 800x600.

Dell 1505 Laptop
ATI x1400 Mobile video card
1280X800 resolution

The forums on the warcraft site believe that is a problem with DirectX 10
talking to a DX9 application.
Can we expect a patch soon so I can install and continue testing Vista?

 

[Guest]

I am having a similar problem. World of Warcraft works fine in Vista. I
played for a few hours with no issues. However I could not change the
resolution. It is stuck on 800x600.

Dell 1505 Laptop
ATI x1400 Mobile video card
1280X800 resolution

The forums on the warcraft site believe that is a problem with DirectX 10
talking to a DX9 application.
Can we expect a patch soon so I can install and continue testing Vista?

 

[Guest]

**SOLUTION**
I got pass this problem by installing the xp drivers for my video card via
device manager. Now I can play WoW in 1440x900 just like in xp and I seem to
get a boost of about 10 fps with vista.

Hope this helps

asus p4deluxe 478chipset
ati x700 256mb agp
onboard sound/lan
p4 2.8ghz HT processor