I need some help on gettting warcraft III to work properly. When I start the game up the graphics acceleration is really slow (around 1 frame per 12 sec.). i have the lastest driver installed for my nvidia geforce fx 5200. here is my XF86Config-4:

# File generated by XFdrake.

# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **********************************************************************

Section "Files"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:-1"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work
#DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
#DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx" # 3D layer
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "Keyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "en_US"
Option "XkbOptions" ""
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "monitor1"
VendorName "Plug'n Play"
HorizSync 30-70
VertRefresh 50-160

# Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)?
# 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync
ModeLine "1024x480" 65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync

# TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.
# 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync
ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630

# 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync
ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName "NVidia"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "screen1"
Device "device1"
Monitor "monitor1"
DefaultColorDepth 24

Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Virtual 1152 864
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 15
Virtual 1152 864
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Virtual 1152 864
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Virtual 1152 864
EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "layout1"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
Screen "screen1"
EndSection

Also how do I get warcraft III to open in a new window instead opening full screen?

Have you been here? - I am assuming you are using WineX...?

if youre using wine (or winex), try this:
wine(x3, maybe) "War3.exe" -- -opengl

im using wine and i tried -opengl before and it doesnt work. i keep getting this message in the konsole:

err:wave:wodUpdatePlayedTotal ioctl(/dev/dsp, SNDCTL_DSP_GETOSPACE) failed (Broken pipe)

what does this mean?

/dev/dsp is sound related. This is a sound problem. Don't know how to fix, though.

Ok my dad and I got so far as to make it recognize it but it seems to be unable to find the CD drive, then we got it to do that, and it'll start up for about 1 second then quit and says it still can't find the CD drive....does this mean I need graphics config or something? Help, please!

you have to find a nocd crack. its not hard to find.

check out this tutorial:
http://frankscorner.org/modules.php?...tid=118&page=1

if you don't have the frozen throne, then all you need to do is install RoC, download a nocd patch for RoC from www.megagames.com (you don't have to update if you don't want) and then run the program with wine war3.exe -- -opengl

as for sound problems, make sure nothing else is blocking the use of sound and make sure /dev/dsp has 777 permissions (chmod 777 /dev/dsp)

warcraft 3 works great for me; if it is still slow, post what the average fps's are from the command glxgears

i tend to find the geforce fx 5200 cards trash; if possible, find a geforce 4 ti, it is defintely a superior card

uh-oh... what about a geforce fx 5700 ultra? is that crap? i hope not...

honestly, i don't know a whole lot about the 5700's, but afaik, it cannot be worse than the 5200's

nvidia definitely goofed with its latest series, though it has been able to make amends with the fx 5900

the 5600 is a powerful card, but very loud; 5900 is extremely powerful and fairly quiet; i guess that the 5700 is somewhere in between?

well, as soon as i get a better monitor, ill let you know, since xfree wont let my monitor go above 1024x768. i can, however, run the ut2004demo in onslaught with 15 minimum fps with all detail on, so i guess im good