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Warcraft 3 Patch v1.22 Released

Post by trog @ 10:48am 02/07/08 | 16 Comments

A new patch for Warcraft 3 has been released, bringing both the base game and the expansion up to version 1.22, adding a few new features and tweaking the balance. The new features are

- There is now a replay auto-save feature in the options menu. Replays are automatically saved to the "replay" folder.
- The game is now automatically saved in the event of a potential disconnect. These saved games are placed in the "save" folder.
- Player color selection can now be limited by the number of players in the game using an option in the "Advanced Options" screen during game
creation.
- Added an option to always show unit and building health bars.
- You can now enable and disable the display of minimap signals from players and other observers using chat commands:
/showminimapsignals and /hideminimapsignals.
- Added a new in-game cheat "maxfps" to limit the maximum frame rate to the given number. Example: "maxfps 30" will set the maximum frame rate to 30 FPS.

You can check out the balance changes on the official patch page.

The manual patches aren't yet available but we'll have them mirrored as soon as they are; in the meantime you can update automatically in-game.

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Haklin
Posted 01:32pm 02/7/08

hrmm im going to start playing this again during uni break...old times sake. the collectors edition box is probably one of the best gaming related purchases ive made.

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JakeG
Posted 01:47pm 02/7/08

Great game to get into and get competitive (melee that is.. dota = fail).

I got the wc3 battlechest (RoC + TFT) for $50 gametraders.. its the only game i play these days in my spare time..

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psych0
Posted 01:54pm 02/7/08

hey, i like the features but as soon as i dl this patch my bnet wouldnt open, when ever i click the 'Battle.net' icon on the main menu it says that i can;t connect, iv tried resetting com and uninstalling but they both didnt work so now im on v1.07 and it still wont work... any ideas?

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Twisted
Posted 02:14pm 02/7/08

Looks terrible and stretched on WS monitors :(

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Dogmatix Man
Posted 02:57pm 02/7/08

Twisted, if you go and do some registry editing, you can set the resolution to whatever you like. Take a look in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Blizzard Entertainment\Warcraft III\Video and change resheight and reswidth.

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Any
Posted 03:06pm 02/7/08

cant you just tell your monitor to keep aspect?

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Le Infidel
Posted 04:51am 03/7/08

cheers for that dogmatix, worked a treat

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nbk
Posted 07:38pm 08/8/08

hey any knows how this warcraft 1.22 patch works??...last time when we played we cudn't see any saved game in save folder..

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Twisted
Posted 01:02am 09/8/08

Twisted, if you go and do some registry editing, you can set the resolution to whatever you like. Take a look in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Blizzard Entertainment\Warcraft III\Video and change resheight and reswidth.

It's already set to what I want it to be. But it stretches the image out still.

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step
Posted 01:45am 09/8/08

It's already set to what I want it to be. But it stretches the image out still.

Sadly that's all that can be done.

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Articuz"
Posted 11:03am 09/8/08

does that change the cinematics?
or is it just in game resolution?

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Thundercracker
Posted 01:21pm 10/8/08

Looks terrible and stretched on WS monitors :(

Nvidia drivers and/or monitor settings should be able to fix this up.

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step
Posted 02:25pm 10/8/08

or is it just in game resolution?

In game resolution, sort of.

Blizzard decided to limit the resolutions the game will run in, deeming anything larger will be unfair in competitions (so they supposedly said ages ago). The registry edit will just stretch it to native resolution, something desperately needed for LCD monitors.

You also have to remember that the game was released in 2002.

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dais
Posted 06:27pm 10/8/08

Yeah there is a solution to the widescreen problem.

Run Window Mouse Capturer.
Then run WC3.exe or Frozen Throne.exe with -window/-windowed. Resize the window to your liking and hit the bind in WMC to keep the mouse inside. Voila.

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