I’ve always had bad performance in the menu since Reforged launched, despite having a strong graphics card (GTX 1070) that performances well in all other games, including when Warcraft 3 actually launches into a game.
After some tinkering, it appears to be related to my enabled Intel Integrated Graphics (Intel HD Graphics 530). As long as the driver for it is enabled, blizzardbrowser.exe will always use it to render frames, giving it terrible sub 15 fps and slowing down the menu animations.
If I unplug my 3rd monitor that is connected to the motherboard VGA port (i.e. to the integrated graphics card), no change. My other 2 monitors are connected to the dedicated graphics card’s ports, and the game runs on a monitor connected to the dedicated graphics card’s ports.
If I disable the integrated graphics driver, blizzardbrowser.exe uses the dedicated graphics card, and the menu performs normally.
In all cases, warcraft iii.exe and every other game out there uses the dedicated graphics driver just fine, so its definitely not a hardware limitation on my computer.
No option that allows me to force the GPU used (via Windows Settings or via Nvidia control panel) can force blizzardbrowser.exe to use my dedicated graphics.
Please fix it so that blizzardbrowser.exe can pick the correct graphics card to use.
