i’ve recently been without a decent computer game, so i reinstalled my copy of “WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne.” (i’d like to state for the record that doing so would have been impossible had Blizzard enforced an utterly useless DRM like EA has.)
unfortunately, my HP Pavilion dv2000 series utilizes an NVIDIA GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M card, which, i think, gives the game problems running in a widescreen environment. the problem was that there was a delay between my mouse and the game, causing the mouse to feel slow and difficult to control. i searched for solutions via the net and found a few suggestions:
1. open up 3D settings on the NVidia control panel, open WarCraft III on the programs tab, and force off the Vertical Sync option.
2. set your desktop to a lower resolution
3. create a shortcut, and in the target field, attach “-opengl” to the field (without the quotes.)
option number three is the only option i found to actually work. doing so will lower the video quality of the game, but at least you’ll be able to play again. and on another note, i had problems on a previous laptop where the game would randomly crash mid-game. using the -opengl tag in the target field also fixed that problem as well.
and to close, here are some other things i discovered while searching for a fix. how to run the game in window mode, and how to set the game to widescreen resolutions.
running in widescreen
run regedit and find: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Blizzard Entertainment\Warcraft III\Video
(make sure to edit as a decimal values!)
modify resheight to the desired value
modify reswidth to the desired value
running in windowed mode
create a shortcut another shortcut of the program.
open up the properties, find the target field, and attach “-window” so that it looks something like this:
“C:\Program Files\Warcraft III\Frozen Throne.exe” -window
