[Warcraft 3] Increase your DotA FPS by 10 frames for FREE!

[Cp6uja]

If you want to increase your FPS (frames per second), or easier said, your DotA will go faster, do this "unknown" thing. I increased at least 10-15 FPS without doing anything. Now I have about 50, and I used to have about 35-40.

I tested this and its working correctly at 90% cases! Possible side effects are in the Q&A.

1. Press START (windows)

2. Press RUN

3. Type REGEDIT and press enter.

4. When you enter REGEDIT, follow the picture and change the value in lockfb from 1 to 0.




Q: Is this illegal / hack?

A: No! NO! This it 100% legal thing. It doesn't have anything to do with cheating. This will only and only increase your FPS and nothing else. Imagine this as you bought a new and fast PC

Q: I have from 50 to 64 FPS and this didn't help me.

A: There is no point doing this if you already have MAX fps which is 64. Warcraft 3 is capped to 64fps no matter how strong your PC is.

Q: My mouse seems slower now.

A: If you know how to go to NVIDIA or ATI control panel and disable VSYNC, it will gone away (maybe).

Q: It didn't help me at all, I still have the same FPS.

A: If you are playing with -opengl mode, it will not work.

Q: Does this work with Garena / RGC / Dotaleague and others?

A: Yes! It works no matter where you play. This thing has nothing to do with DotA in general, it only changes Warcraft 3 registry which increases FPS, no matter what Map you play or where you play.

Q: Is this going to change my DotA in any way? Are graphic going to be bad? Will this crash my game?

A: No, no, no and no. This will not change anything! It only has to do with system stuff. I repeat, this has no side effects at all!

Q: I'm a MAC user and how to do this?

A: It doesn't work, as MACs use Opengl. Thanks to View Profile: DotA-Lawlstars.

Thanks to View Profile: MeTheRebel for sharing this registry speedup!

[-IncoGnitO]

I tried it and it worked but it didn't have the same results with you.

It increased mine from 65 to 68 but it's an improvement after all.

Anyway thx, i will post it in mine signature if you have no objection so more people can be helped.

[Teeth]

Amazing.. Do you have any clue why this actually works?

[Cp6uja]

Originally Posted by kalaman.

I tried it and it worked but it didn't have the same results with you.

It increased mine from 65 to 68 but it's an improvement after all.

Anyway thx, i will post it in mine signature if you have no objection so more people can be helped.

Warcraft 3 is capped at 64-68 FPS, so it won't help you at all. And yes, you can put it in your signature.

Originally Posted by Teeth

Amazing.. Do you have any clue why this actually works?

No. I searched google, and I only found out that some guy told its because it only works on Direct3D mode, so blizzard made some cap to prevent something. If you are playing in -opengl mode, it will not work.

Anyway, 99% of players play without -opengl mode, so it will work for everyone.

[Hev]

What the fuck. That's just...what the fuck.
Change your status to Beyond Awesome plz.

[Cp6uja]

Originally Posted by Hev

What the fuck. That's just...what the fuck.
Change your status to Beyond Awesome plz.

How much did you get?

[Hev]

Originally Posted by Cp6uja_

How much did you get?

About 10 fps, from 55 to 65.
Quite a bit smoother now.

[Redeemed A.I.]

How do I check my fps? :>

[Cp6uja]

Originally Posted by Kasad

How do I check my fps? :>

In chat type /fps and press enter.

[crisgon]

u are the man!

[green.bear]

Anybody know what I am missing here? I change it from 1 to 0 and hit decimal. However, when I go back in there, it is back on hexidecimal. Every time. The number change stays though... I also don't notice any difference visually, and my fps fluctuates quite a bit (but I don't notice any significant difference between 1 and 0).

Does it require it to be decimal? And if so, how come it reverts back to hex? Anyone else notice this if they go back and double check?

[Cp6uja]

Yes, its back to hexadecimal. Its only important to save it as zero. To check your FPS, type /fps when playing Dota in your chat.

Check (compare) the fps before and after using this guide.

[green.bear]

I didn't notice much of a difference really. I tried comparing letting it sit before picking a hero, then while picking invoker, then after, but it still ranged from 6fps during invoker lag to 60 during a calm period. I was wondered if this would help the lag that that computer in particular experiences at some points, but I don't think it really will (at least not visibly, even if the fps remains slightly higher).
It had been working better until recently. Now, when a game gets really late (45+minutes) it begins lagging heavily. Early and mid game is fine (though worse than non-garbage computers). Is it WC3/DotA that sucks up more memory as it goes? It doesn't seem to be the computer, since if you join another game it is fine early on and again becomes worse later, and rebooting doesn't do much (those late games the person on that computer might as well give control, since you get only a couple frames during the fight- nothing else running, not even in the tray, and we recently completely reformatted the computer thinking that would solve the problem :/).
I don't see any reason not to change this though, if it does increase fps.

[xÐarkSyndrome]

OMG. WHAT THE!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!

EDIT : Awww. It still didn't work. I got like 60+ fps at the beginning but when the creeps started to fight, it went down to 30. Then after like 4 minutes, the fps became 17-21.

Any help?

[Dysania]

Yea, i did everything exactly as you said and my FPS stayed at 30. o_o

Any idea why?

[Redeemed A.I.]

My fps was 65 before and after.But good try though

[Francis]

I think lockfb has something to do with the frame buffer; but ohwell; once again Cp6uja_, you stand testament to your awesome status.

[0tso]

I tried fiddling with this when I was having some FPS issues with my wc3.

When I did this I did notice a clear increase in displayed FPS but the game was not smoother at all, and I also felt like the game was 'unstable' and it would sometimes lag a looot even if I have a a machine that runs sc2 on ultra.

I suspected that the increase in FPS was just redundant frames and that the frame buffer was locked for a reason so I left it locked.

For the people who did see an increase in performance (I mean increase in performance not a higher amount of FPS reported by wc3), are you per chance using super poor CPU:s with decent gfx cards? On my machine it's the other way around so perhaps it is only good to unlock the frame buffer if your gfx card is the bottle neck and not the cpu..

[Cp6uja]

Originally Posted by green.bear

I didn't notice much of a difference really. I tried comparing letting it sit before picking a hero, then while picking invoker, then after, but it still ranged from 6fps during invoker lag to 60 during a calm period. I was wondered if this would help the lag that that computer in particular experiences at some points, but I don't think it really will (at least not visibly, even if the fps remains slightly higher).
It had been working better until recently. Now, when a game gets really late (45+minutes) it begins lagging heavily. Early and mid game is fine (though worse than non-garbage computers). Is it WC3/DotA that sucks up more memory as it goes? It doesn't seem to be the computer, since if you join another game it is fine early on and again becomes worse later, and rebooting doesn't do much (those late games the person on that computer might as well give control, since you get only a couple frames during the fight- nothing else running, not even in the tray, and we recently completely reformatted the computer thinking that would solve the problem :/).
I don't see any reason not to change this though, if it does increase fps.

Lategame is very slow because of too much CPU consuming stuff, not because of ram. 512 Ram is enough for DotA. Its the CPU which is making troubles. The more the lategame is, the more CPU cycles DotA will eat. For smooth late game, you'll need at least AMD Athlon 64 3000+ or Intel Pentium© 4 3GHz (both are single cores), or any new Dual Core or Quad Core.

Originally Posted by xÐarkSyndrome

OMG. WHAT THE!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!

EDIT : Awww. It still didn't work. I got like 60+ fps at the beginning but when the creeps started to fight, it went down to 30. Then after like 4 minutes, the fps became 17-21.

Any help?

Did you even check the old FPS? Please, compare old FPS to new FPS

Originally Posted by Dysania

Yea, i did everything exactly as you said and my FPS stayed at 30. o_o

Any idea why?

This method doesn't work if you play your game with -opengl. Also, please, compare FPS with old one.

Originally Posted by Kasad

My fps was 65 before and after.But good try though

Well, no point if you have 64 all the time

Originally Posted by Francis

I think lockfb has something to do with the frame buffer; but ohwell; once again Cp6uja_, you stand testament to your awesome status.

[ex-Skyforger]

Before: 30
After: 30

Since I have an integrated Intel VGA in my notebook such things don't work. Nothing new. Could have worked with my desktop PC tho, too bad I fried it 9 months ago, lol.