Some special effects not displaying (Windows 10?)

[Bribe]

The spell I made recently, The Big Dipper, is supposed to have a Thunderclap effect which launches at the last phase of the spell. I can't see this effect, no matter what effect I use. I have tried debugging the coordinates which are fine, displaying the string which is fine, displaying the handle ID of the effect which is also fine. I have tried removing the Destroy Last Effect line and still nothing. All my graphics on my Win10 laptop are cranked up. Can someone verify for me if they also can't see the effect at the end of that spell?

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/spells-569/gui-spell-system-v1-0-0-0-a-273415/

 

[Veritas 117]

It's there for me.

Have you tried something as simple as restarting your laptop. Occasionally I need to restart my comp to get certain special effects to show up again. Not sure why

 

[Wietlol]

This would mean that you cant see any special effects in WC3 on W10?

 

[Veritas 117]

I don't use Win 10 so I guess I don't know if that would cause problems or not.

 

[KILLCIDE]

I have Windows 10 Home - 64 bit. I can see the effect. It must be your laptop?

 

[Bribe]

Thanks, Veritas. Restarting fixed the issue and I can see the effect, now. I don't like restarting as it's a stopgap solution, but I'll do it from now on.

 

[Veritas 117]

Ya I wish there was a better way. Or a way to prevent it from happening all together. But for now it's the only way I know of. I remember freaking out the first time it happened and pulling my hair out trying to figure it out.

 

[LordDz]

Dumb question:
Was your graphic settings set to low by any chance?

 

[KILLCIDE]

Dumb question:
Was your graphic settings set to low by any chance?

Noope

All my graphics on my Win10 laptop are cranked up.

 

[Bribe]

I mis-typed a sentence. Here's the amended statement:

> All my WC3 graphics on my Win10 laptop are cranked up

 

[Dr Super Good]

If you played a different widgitized map before it is possible the wrong or no effects will display when intended. Restarting the game should fix this.

Try running WC3 in OpenGL mode. The Direct3D8 interface of WC3 has major compatibility problems with Windows 10 (bad framerate performance, no gamma support etc) and there is no official fix to this (the third party D3D8 DLL is likely to cause other problems). Hopefully Blizzard's legacy game revamp will fix this problem in the coming years.