which bare minimum Vid card can play Warcraft III?

[gwlam12]

mine ran on my radeon 32mb ddr

 

[duuuma]

Originally posted by: chizow

Originally posted by: duuuma
maybe if i oc his p3 without him knowing......hmmm....anyone know about oc'ing on a Dell Optiplex GX110 with a pentium 3 665mhz processor?

Not possible. Locked mobo FSB + Locked CPU multis = No Overclocking.

Chiz

darn...well i just played WC on single player mode and it ran fine. I ran it at 800x600 16-bit with Medium for everything. I'll test out multiplayer tomorrow and report back.

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: duuuma
my roommate's got a Dell Optiplex Gx110, the onboard vid of 4mb just isn't going to cut it, so which cheapo old card can I get that'll run Warcraft III?

And I mean run it somewhat well at least. I know the recommended is 32mb 3d card with dx8.1 support...so what cards in particular? If you have any for sale, please pm too!

my cousin ran it with a tnt2 16mb , kinda pokey but it worked.


i ran it before on a p4 1.6 with sis 650 integrated video thats about gf2mx200 speed and it was very playable even online.


at work we have a gx110 actually with a celeron 700 and 192mb ram, running winxp. we popped in a pci gf2mx 32mb my boss had laying around and its playable. not the same as playing on my desktop but its better than nothing .


a dx8.1 card is recommended since they are generally faster. war3 is a pretty old game engine graphics wise, doesnt use pixel shaders, and doesnt really use transforms even that much. i'd say dx7 based cards would be fine.