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Re: Hack to slow down Warcraft 3 game speed?

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From: Ham Pastrami
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 23:02
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"riku" <riku@none.invalid.com> wrote in message
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> So my question is, is there any "speed hack" for Warcraft 3
> single-player campaigns that would slow the game speed down even
> further? I'd say something like half the speed of the current "lowest
> game speed" would be fine (to me it seems then it would run maybe
> about the same as Starcraft in lowest game speed).

You can use a CPU slower like Mo'Slo. Apparently other people have had
success using Fraps vidcapping to choke the system, though this probably
requires that you have a lot of free disk space to hold the dummy video,
since the Fraps codec is not very efficient.

> Yes I realize it is kind of a cheat,

That's ok, it's single-player. You don't have to justify anything. Play it
however the hell you want, and if someone has a problem with it, then cheat
against them in multi too.

> I would like to play this first and foremost as a
> tactical game, not an action game.

You and me both. But I've come to accept that Warcraft 3 is just not that
game, and moved on.

> Also, does anyone know if there are replay files showing how people
> have completed "Twilight of the Gods" and other maps on hard? I have
> seen a couple of WC3 replay sites, but they seem to carry only
> competitive online multiplayer replay files, not single-player
> campaign files.

I don't recall if the game saves campaign replays. If such replays exist,
you'll probably find them as movie files at places like YouTube. There used
to be several good sites for War3 replays, but it seems like all of them
have either closed or been reappropriated for WoW vids. You might try file
hosts like FilePlanet or FileFront.
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