WarCraft III

[August Borms]

Can it be played with a 3dfx card?

[Unknown soldier]

Originally posted by August Borms
Can it be played with a 3dfx card?

Yes sure... I tried it with my voodoo 4 card, and it works perfectly

[War4ever]

so far it hasn't blown me away..then again i have only the beta version......

perhaps i will like the "real edition" better ?

[August Borms]

Originally posted by Unknown soldier


Yes sure... I tried it with my voodoo 4 card, and it works perfectly

It's unplayable on my Voodoo Banshee

[Unknown soldier]

What kind of problem do you have? I got a problem when I installed it... It didn't support 32bits color, so I had to change it 16, and it worked perfectly... If your problem is a black screen when you play it, then it's the same problem as me... Just go in the main menu and change the screen resolution and the color

If that's something else, I can't tell you what the solution is though...

[General Ludd]

Does a voodoo banshee even meet the minimum requirements?

[August Borms]

My problem is that many textures, parts of the menu and even the mouse cursor are white squares

Oh well, I guess I'll just have to buy a new gfx card

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by August Borms
My problem is that many textures, parts of the menu and even the mouse cursor are white squares

Oh well, I guess I'll just have to buy a new gfx card

Yeah, that means that it doesn't have enough memory.

(If I remember correctly, the voodoo banshee is only a 4mb video card, when 8mb is the minimum requirement for WC3)

[August Borms]

Originally posted by Osweld


Yeah, that means that it doesn't have enough memory.

(If I remember correctly, the voodoo banshee is only a 4mb video card, when 8mb is the minimum requirement for WC3)

The VoodooBanshee has 16MB

And the readme mentions that there are graphical glitches with Voodoo 4 and 5. They don't even mention VoodooBanshee so I guess I'll just have to wait until I have an nvidia card..

[tniem]

I have been looking to WarCraft III for a while now. But I think I willl wait to purchase it to see the game in action at a friend's house and read the reveiews carefully. Lessons I have learned.

[Asher]

My first impressions:

I'm kinda disappointed by WC3. The scope is too narrow, IMO. I miss the bigger battles of Starcraft, as well as features like mobile Terran bases. The battles in WC3 are hectic still, which seems to be what they were going for. I can't really tell what the hell's going on combat, just lots of units all over the place attacking. Very flashy.

I can't use my heroes nearly as effectively as the computer players, too.

The camera is too zoomed in, I feel so constrained.

I dunno, I'm kinda disappointed I guess. I expected much more. Hopefully Starcraft 2 is in control. So far, I believe Starcraft is a far better game than WC3.

[Jon Miller]

I thought it kicked ass

I just finished the single player campaign

I am definitely going to purchase this game

I have gotten pretty good with the units

One thing to remember is that this is a smaller scale game, it is much better to have an attack group which you can direct all at one time with support and base defense rather than use all the troops for fighting (even though sometimes you have to)

Jon Miller

[CygnusZ]

Yep, always listen to the cynics. That's the Civ3 lesson

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Asher
My first impressions:

I'm kinda disappointed by WC3. The scope is too narrow, IMO. I miss the bigger battles of Starcraft, as well as features like mobile Terran bases. The battles in WC3 are hectic still, which seems to be what they were going for. I can't really tell what the hell's going on combat, just lots of units all over the place attacking. Very flashy.

I can't use my heroes nearly as effectively as the computer players, too.

The camera is too zoomed in, I feel so constrained.

I dunno, I'm kinda disappointed I guess. I expected much more. Hopefully Starcraft 2 is in control. So far, I believe Starcraft is a far better game than WC3.

I told ya so.

[Asher]

I was hoping they'd salvage the single player. I can see why WC3 is less suited for MP than Starcraft was, or even Diablo II, so I wasn't expecting much from the multiplayer.

But the single player is simply a typical RTS-type campaign. You are almost always restricted in what you can build (that annoys me to no end), and your heroes also have level caps per level and max out at L10. If that's not enough, there are numerous occasions where your hero is reset back to Level 1 and he loses all of his inventory.

And I love it when the campaign-script kills off a perfectly good hero you spent a couple missions developing just for the sake of plot. It doesn't even let you control it.