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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 254213" data-attributes="member: 4720">Actually, WarCraft III has other MAJOR problems, which prevent MANY people from even STARTING the game.  There are a great many people (myself included) who have had complete system crashes that Blizzard is unable to replicate.  I finally fixed it, but I had to track the error down myself, because Blizzard tech support was useless.  At least Bioware was more responsive from what I saw.  And they're bringing out patches quickly.  As far as I can tell, Blizzard is waiting for people to fix it themselves.If anyone's curious in regards to the WarCraft bug... apparently several standard Via on-motherboard sound chips are either unsupported or supported improperly, causing crashes shortly after game start.  I had to swap in a junky old Yamaha card b/c I can't afford to run out and but a good sound card right now.  On-board sound cards aren't exactly a non-standard configuration, so I find it bizarre that Blizzard hadn't managed to replicate this.  It's not like Via's chipsets aren't UBIQUITOUS.As for the people who are complaining about the modularity and graphic repetition...  What were you expecting?  I really want to know.  If non-programmers are ever going to have a prayer of making their own mods, it NEEDS to be tile-based.  Besides, if the focus is role-playing, why all this griping about the visuals?  If it's all about the visuals, why play PnP games?</blockquote>

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