🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 22:03:22 -0500, "Jim Vieira"
<WhiplashrAT@wiDOT.rrDOT.com> wrote:

>"Ham Pastrami" <nomail@dot.com> wrote in message 
>news:lA18i.11478$2v1.11119@newssvr14.news.prodigy.net...

>> 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.
>
>If something like that works, I can recommend a program called "CPU
>grabber" which is available on this page:
>
>http://www.geocities.com/kulhain/
>
>I've used it with some other games that required slow down in windows and
>it works very good. You just tell it how much percentage of the CPU to eat
>and it does it well.

Thanks for the suggestions, although I presume CPU slowdowns will just
make the WC3 graphics and controls unplayably jerky, not necessarily
affecting the actual gamespeed at all? That is my experience when
running most games on slower PCs, the game runs at the same speed, but
just more jerkily (ie. frameskip in action).

Anyway, I ended up using "allyourbasearebelongtous" cheat to skip that
final WC3 mission. I presume the WC3 expansion pack is just as bad,
ie. chaotic missions where the challenge comes primarily from the
player's inability to keep up with the pace of the game? I have no
idea why Blizzard made Warcraft 3 single-player campaign game speed
run so much faster than Starcraft or Warcraft 2. Apparently that was
the only way to make the game challenging enough.

I used to like RTS games but if the trend is speeding them up more and
more, I guess I need to pass them in the future. Maybe concentrate on
TBS games or something. Too bad, since I really liked e.g. Starcraft
and the Age of... series (albeit even the first AOE sometimes ran a
bit too fast for my taste, even in slowest gamespeed).

About the final mission (Twilight of the Gods): I read somewhere a
suggestion that you can try to kill the enemy acolytes and new
Necropolis structure right when the undead army moves to another base,
which seriously cripples their new base. However, if you try to target
the acolyte which is building the new base, the game says the target
(acolyte) is invulnerable. Was this something that was changed in some
WC3 update so that you could not try to win the final mission "the
wrong way"?