Anyone running warcraft 3 on a s3 savage 4?

[Johnbear007]

My wifes pc has a 32MB s3 savage 4 PCI 3d accelerator, and the blizzard site doesnt say if it supports this card or not, will it work? I dont want to buy the game if we cant both play it.............

 

[ZeBorgCollective]

It'll work........................very slowly, but it will work.

Last time I checked Savage4 supported D3D, so, yeah.

 

[Johnbear007]

hmmmm..... very slowly? that sux. Games these days require system requirements that are just too high


of course, I think around here, slow means anything lower than 1000000 billion to the n-th power / FPS, hehe

But seriously, will it be playable?

 

[kami]

640x480, 16bit, all low details...should be fine

 

[Johnbear007]

if I upgrade to a radeon 7000 32 mb PCI, how much better will it perform?

 

[spanky]

radeon 7000 is crappy.... but better then the s3 card. how about a voodoo5 pci?

 

[dawks]

My PII 400 with 256megs RAM and 64meg DDR Radeon 7500 runs WarCraft III rather well at 800x600x32bit color..

It can do 1024x768, but the CPU becomes a limiting factor big time..

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: spankyOO7
radeon 7000 is crappy.... but better then the s3 card. how about a voodoo5 pci?

I know that it is crappy compared to the standards of most anandtech memebers, however it is nearly my only option. I do not want a voodoo card, I dont want a card from a company that no longer exists. at least with the radeon I will still get support and driver updates, and I sincerly doubt the v5 performs all that much better than the radeon anyway

 

[spanky]

the last 3dfx driver for 9x/me is actually pretty good. i posted a link to some benchmarks in ur other thread in the video forum. i would stay away from the 7000 and go for a radeon sdr (the one that ppl mentioned was on sale for $30 at compusa last week).

 

[Nefrodite]

Originally posted by: Johnbear007
hmmmm..... very slowly? that sux. Games these days require system requirements that are just too high


of course, I think around here, slow means anything lower than 1000000 billion to the n-th power / FPS, hehe

But seriously, will it be playable?

eh, the requirements aren't that high, esp if you play single player. my other pc with a geforce 1 ddr runs it smoothly

 

[Johnbear007]

Well, now that I look at the official requirements, they are actually really, really low..... 400mhz proc, 8mb 3d card... now im wondering why so many people around here think that one needs such a high end machine torun it

 

[spanky]

Originally posted by: Nefrodite
eh, the requirements aren't that high, esp if you play single player. my other pc with a geforce 1 ddr runs it smoothly

gf256 (especially ddr) SOOOOOOOOOOO dropkicks a savage4.... espcially since the gf256 is agp.

 

[spanky]

Originally posted by: Johnbear007
Well, now that I look at the official requirements, they are actually really, really low..... 400mhz proc, 8mb 3d card... now im wondering why so many people around here think that one needs such a high end machine torun it

becuz a lot of AT'ers like to pump up the resolution and jack up the details in which case... more powerful video cars would be necessary.

 

[BD2003]

The radeon 7000 would probably cut it, but pretty much forget about it with the savage 4. Thats practically unplayable.