Thanks for the advice! Warcraft 3 is up and running and my son seems pleased. At the lowest resolution and graphic display settings it's still a bit slow for my tastes. At the highest settings rendering and animation is beautiful, but game play becomes jerky and the cursor jumps. The game hasn't crashed no matter how complex the battle scene.
I updated the PCI display card with a Radeon 7000 (32 Meg) Mac edition and put in additional memory totaling 320 MB. The slowest element seems to be the original 16x CD rom which stalls a bit during the full screen cinematics. It runs well enough for my son, so I'm happy. Bugdom 2 works well also. Many thanks, -Bob ----original message---- My wife got Warcraft 3 for my son for Christmas. Does anyone have experience using WC3 on a Powercomputing machine? I have a Newertech Maxpowr 500/250 G3 card in my PCP. I'm concerned about the video card. I think it's a Voodoo 1 display card. Apple System Profiler says: Card name: ATY, mach64_3D_pcc. I honestly don't remember when I got it--maybe 3 years ago-- or how many megs it has. WC3 wants at least 8 megs in the display card. I can always just try it, but if it doesn't work my son will be very grumpy on Christmas morning. -Bob ----original message---- Good luck. There is a possibility that it will work by tweaking the video to use Software rendering (for older video hardware) in the WC3 prefs as opposed to Rave, Glide, or OpenGL. I have a G4/400 with a GeForce2MX and WC3 has moments where it gets really, really slow in OS X. In OS 9 it seems to fare a lot better. But even with a GeForce2MX I have to turn the video way down. May I suggest that as a contingency plan you pick up Warcraft II: BattleNet Edition for $10. It's still my all-time favorite game. James ----original message---- Warcraft 3 will probably require the newest type of graphics card. Most of the older cards do not have the correct GLIDE or RAVE hardware. My PowerWave G3/400 with old IxMicro Ultimate 3D card (8Meg) will play tomb Raider I and II, but not III or later. Bugdom barely runs on it. If you have any sluggishness, its probably due to the video card and not the cpu. Try a new Radeon 7500 PCI for about $100. Orange Micro Grappler 940UW users: This will work with some of the Adaptec 2930/2940 cards as well. Orange Micro does not support OS X, but I just came across a driver that will make it work in OS X (boot as well) while still being able to use it in os9. http://www.advansys.com/drivers/Advansys/u2w/AdvanSys%20UW_U2W_9-X.hqx GTO -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
