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Warcraft III on mac + TV
Mar 2 2010, 4:00 am
By: omginbd  

Mar 2 2010, 4:00 am omginbd Post #1



Okay, so I have my mac mini hooked up to a tv via hdmi, and as a secondary monitor, a DVI to regular monitor. Now, I wouldn't have the secondary monitor, however this is the only way that I have been able to get the picture to show up on my tv. So my problem is, when I start warcraft, my tv goes into "DETECTING INPUT" mode, and my monitor goes black. I get the sound, so I know that it has started, but I can't, for the life of me get it to show. Halp.



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Mar 2 2010, 8:39 am Kow Post #2



You should be able to associate a certain program with a certain display if they're hooked up. With older games like WC and SC, it'll probably black out all of the screens attached besides the one chosen for the game.



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Mar 2 2010, 10:08 am NudeRaider Post #3

We can't explain the universe, just describe it; and we don't know whether our theories are true, we just know they're not wrong. >Harald Lesch

I'm not an expert on the new digital way of transferring TV/monitor signals, but the way it used to be was that TVs can only process interlaced signals while monitors can only process progressive signals so you had to configure your graphics card to output an interlaced signal.

Wait... that's probably not it, but it's related. Warcraft, being a fullscreen application, changes your screen resolution, refresh rate and stuff. Apparently to something your TV cannot process.
Playing windowed would be the obvious solution, but maybe there's also a way to configure WC3 / your graphics card to keep the screen resolution and stuff within boundaries of your TV.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Mar 3 2010, 2:26 pm by NudeRaider. Reason: sound card? really? :P




Mar 3 2010, 1:21 am omginbd Post #4



Okay, that make sense, going into windowed mode, however, I am unable to find a tutorial for something like that for mac. All the guides I find are for Windows. Anyone know how?

[EDIT] Nvm, got it Apple+M in case someone wants to know. [/EDIT]

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Mar 3 2010, 2:30 am by omginbd.



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