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    warcraft 3 and x3100

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by phomanny, Oct 12, 2009.

  1. phomanny

    phomanny Notebook Consultant

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    hello i have the common warcraft3 and x3100 problem

    ive tried pretty much every single driver that matches up to my os (winxp) from http://www.opendrivers.com and chipset

    i was wondering if anyone has a link for the download to the drivers that work with warcraft 3 for my chipset

    my system is a lenovo t61
    Graphics Controller: Intel GMA X3100 DDR2 SDRAM Shared PCI Express

    thank you kind sirs
     
    phomanny, Oct 12, 2009
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  2. Aerows

    Aerows Notebook Evangelist

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    Best of luck, but I don't know what to tell you other than reviewers lie. It isn't much better with the latest chip, the x4500. The only advice I can offer is don't believe it when they claim an intel graphics chip can do -anything-. They can't play ancient games because of drivers, they can't do video acceleration without artifacts. Once you own one machine with an Intel graphics chip, you aren't interested in owning another.

    That said, swiftshader may help. It is a CPU renderer that is pure software. Do a google, I've heard people can even get fallout 3 running using it with integrated chipsets. It's much easier to game wtih real hardware, but the folks at swiftshader are doing their best to make even Intel hardware functional at 800x600.
     
    Aerows, Oct 12, 2009
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  3. insanechinaman

    insanechinaman Notebook Evangelist

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    Okay, this is what you do. Right click on the Warcraft III shortcut on your desktop and go to properties. In the "Target:" line, type -swtnl after the path, so it looks something like this
    => "C:\Program Files\Warcraft III\Frozen Throne.exe" -swtnl <=

    Unless you have another problem, this is the most common x3100 problem that I've ever seen though.
     
    insanechinaman, Oct 12, 2009
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  4. dukka

    dukka Notebook Consultant

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    @Aerows it isn't a problem with Intel hardware, it's a problem with the driver, before version 14.xx (I don't remember), the games still run on highest setting, after that version, whenever u get past the main menu screen, the computer will hang up.
    @phomanny: Insanchinaman's solution is the best one, I think now it'd be impossible to find the link to the working driver with Warcraft III.
     
    dukka, Oct 14, 2009
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  5. melthd

    melthd Notebook Evangelist

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    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=128777&page=192

    right from the forums itself :)

    and besides, why can't you run W3? i played W3 on a 915 chipset and it works without lagging at all.

    EDIT: for better performance (at the cost of a bit of discoloring) add <space>-opengl to the shortcut end.
    like this :

    D:\Games\Warcraft 3\war3.exe -opengl

    this tells the program to run in OpenGL mode, but as i said, it may cause discoloring.
     
    melthd, Oct 14, 2009
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