Any AMD users out there notice how the game feels like crap? Like, even if FPS count is high, something is noticeably off, mouse is super laggy, menus feel janky, its just bad, unplayable. And fps is maybe 90 when it should be over 200 anyway.
Well turns out its not the game, its AMD Fluid motion frames AFMF. It is supposed to be a driver level frame generation technique, some games work fine, but warcraft 3 hates it, basically bricks the game. If you turn this off, the game will work fine. Note, this doesn’t matter if you use reforged or classic graphics, problem exists on both and both are resolved when its off.
I was going crazy trying to play some War 3 Reforged on my 9070XT, other games from SC1 remaster to SC2 to modern games like BF6 run like butter, but War3? garbage. I tried everything, figure the game was just buggy like always, but then i noticed if i put it in window (not fullscreen window, complete window) it would run fine, like magic. But who wants to play like that? A few weeks later I was randomly looking at AFMF 2.1 settings in my drivers, and noticed it said “only affects full screen apps” and I immediately thought of war 3, sure enough, disabled it and all the troubles went away. I also then realized SC1 and SC2 were disabling this by default, i guess the games knew, but not war3, and hence the problem. Generally game level frame generation is better so I just disabled it entirely.
I dunno who you are, but someone wanting to play some war3 needs to know this, I haven’t seen anyone talk about it, only mention bad fps or the lag & stutters I described and blame the game. I hope this helps and can fix it for more people so they can enjoy the game again.
Anyway if a blizz engineer does see this, if you can update the game to flag AMD drivers to disable AFMF like what other classic games seem to do to prevent these problems.
Other than that, I want to encourage the blizz war3 team, honestly once I got that solved and spent some time with it reforged feels pretty great now, yeah still don’t like the new art, but otherwise seemed fine, I can finally play war3 and have a good experience on modern hardware, I was happy I could finally check it out in 4k, replay the campaign etc, after all these years. Please don’t give up on this game! If you did a new reforged approach beyond sprucing the og textures, but actually kept the correct art style, more like sc1 or war2 remaster, I think people would love it; just enhance what’s there, but more than texture cleanup as the 2.0 patch, actual polygons, but don’t remake.