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i am yujin · Nov 22, 2002, 05:12 PM

i'm just wondering, for those who play WC3 on their (new) iMacs:
what video settings, resolution, texture quality, etc. do you guys play with?

i play with everything on low 640x480x16 and medium on text. quality yet it still goes slow in battles.
i only have 128 mb of RAM..could RAM be the problem with this or can the GF2 not handle it?

juanvaldes · Nov 22, 2002, 05:45 PM

Yes RAM is a issue. I assume your using OS X and that will eat up that 128 leaving very little for WC3 so you will have lots of pagin.

I have not tried this yet but people are saying it runs much better in OS 9 so you might want to give that a try.

i am yujin · Nov 22, 2002, 06:07 PM

Originally posted by juanvaldes:
Yes RAM is a issue. I assume your using OS X and that will eat up that 128 leaving very little for WC3 so you will have lots of pagin.

I have not tried this yet but people are saying it runs much better in OS 9 so you might want to give that a try.

i go to info on wc3 and run it in classic and it opens but when i press anything it just quits on me..

Jansar · Nov 23, 2002, 12:05 AM

It does run better in OS 9. I use the same iMac at home, and if you don't find it easy to play in X it helps to get more RAM.

juanvaldes · Nov 23, 2002, 12:31 AM

Originally posted by i am yujin:

i go to info on wc3 and run it in classic and it opens but when i press anything it just quits on me..

no no no no, not classic. IN OS 9.

Classic has overhead to it so it will run better in native 9.

asmodeus · Nov 23, 2002, 10:25 AM

Yep, performance was much worse in OS X - apparently it's getting better though, I haven't tried it with the latest patch yet.

xyber233 · Nov 23, 2002, 01:34 PM

It is unplayable in X. If you boot into OS 9, it will be much, much better.

bOOzo · Nov 23, 2002, 02:01 PM

Originally posted by xyber233:
It is unplayable in X. If you boot into OS 9, it will be much, much better.

Yes, this is a sad fact. It's probably due to bad NVIDIA drivers.. I'm hoping with every update of OS X/War3 that it will be playable in OS X..

xyber233 · Nov 23, 2002, 03:21 PM

How do ATi cards play wc3 in X? I'm curious to know what the wc3 performance is like on an iBook.

nforcer · Nov 23, 2002, 04:34 PM

Under Mac OS X 10.2.2 on an iMac G4/700 512 MB RAM GeForce 2MX I use 1024x768x32 and high quality textures, low quality everything else. I have not noticed much a speed difference in battles between this and the 640x480x16 medium setting you describe. Upgrading to WC 3 1.0.4 will help if you have no done so, but the game is still unplayable in major battles of even 2v2 games.

Back to SCBW for me...

villalobos · Nov 23, 2002, 09:49 PM

Originally posted by xyber233:
How do ATi cards play wc3 in X? I'm curious to know what the wc3 performance is like on an iBook.

Sucks. Sorry.

Villa

Gul Banana · Nov 24, 2002, 03:35 AM

Actually, it runs great on my iBook - 800 MHz, 32 MB Radeon 7500, 640 MB RAM. Better than on my tower, which has a Radeon 8500 but only 420 MB of RAM and a 400 MHz G4. On the tower it's playable in single player but not really multi; on the iBook it rocks.

xyber233 · Nov 24, 2002, 11:42 AM

Originally posted by Gul Banana:
Actually, it runs great on my iBook - 800 MHz, 32 MB Radeon 7500, 640 MB RAM. Better than on my tower, which has a Radeon 8500 but only 420 MB of RAM and a 400 MHz G4. On the tower it's playable in single player but not really multi; on the iBook it rocks.

What settings are you using on the iBook? This is in X right?

shiff · Nov 25, 2002, 12:21 PM

I also play Warcraft III on a tibook 667 w/half gig of memory. I put about 20 hours a week multiplayer time in and it does slow down briefly in huge battles, but is definitely playable.

I have all the latest Warcraft III patches installed and the newest Ati Drivers. My video settings are as follows. I am going straight down the line if you were to hit the video button in options

640x480x16
High
Medium
High
Medium
Medium
Off
Off

Some of these I probably do not need to turn down, but did it once and all worked well and just decided to leave it. I play side by side to a guy on a pc and it runs pretty much on par. Maybe I am just lucky.

Gul Banana · Nov 27, 2002, 05:55 AM

Originally posted by xyber233:

What settings are you using on the iBook? This is in X right?

It's in X, yes.. settings:
1024x768x32
Medium
Medium
Medium
Medium
Medium
Off
Off

In single player, I can max everything out (since the iBook can only do 1024*768 anyway, it doesn't make all that much of a difference). Strangely enough, Civ III runs worse

xyber233 · Nov 27, 2002, 03:42 PM

Wow. Thats great to hear. Is there a noticable difference in quality between 800*600 and 1024*768 on a 12.1 in screen?

juanvaldes · Nov 27, 2002, 06:35 PM

Originally posted by Gul Banana:

Strangely enough, Civ III runs worse

have you turned Quortz AA off? Civ 3 runs pretty good on a 400G3 until end game with it off.

redJag · Dec 11, 2002, 08:40 PM

Originally posted by xyber233:
How do ATi cards play wc3 in X?

On my 733 G4 I've had the "stock" nVidia 2MX and swapped it with the Radeon 8500 (w/ TV OUT

) Sadly, they both do fine in OS X until a battle. Then it slows to 2-4 frames while your opponent micros and destroys you. OS 9 is good.