How to play WarCraft 3 in Open GL

[The Helper]

Helpful user zspirit gives the following tip - I have not tested it so I do not know if it works.

http://forums.battle.net/opensupport/posts/uu/24876.shtml

Subject: Re: open gl
From: zspirit
Date: Sat Jul 6 08:37:28

Hi

You just type -opengl after war3 when you start it:

"H:\Warcraft III\Warcraft III.exe" -opengl

/Nicholas

On Sat Jul 6 07:16:00, zlix50 wrote:
> how can i play warcraft 3 with open gl

 

[SwizzleStick]

I just tested it and it does work.

I would not recommend it at all unless you need it to play. It blurs the terrain towards the edges of the screen a lot. Like in fps's things that are far ahead are blurred. It made WC3 look bad and seemed to run the same as if you played without opengl.

 

[NoNameRequired]

That depends on your video card.

 

[SwizzleStick]

I tested it with a friend's gf3 and it is the same thing

 

[Bobaroo330]

You can do the same for Direct3d and software transform and lighting.

Add -d3d or -swtnl

 

[Unregistered]

when i use opengl the game gets very slow is there anyway to avoid that?

 

[Rapmaster]

No... it will be slower and have weird problems like distortion.

It wasn't fully tested and I guess they just left it in for troubleshooting...