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Re: Hack to slow down Warcraft 3 game speed?

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From: Jim Vieira
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 03:03
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"Ham Pastrami" <nomail@dot.com> wrote in message 
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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.

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.
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