Cracking Age of Empires III over shader quality settings
Or how disassemblers and debuggers can save your eyes.
Hasnain says:
Excellent read on reverse engineering and modifying binaries to meet your needs.
“At this point, you might give up. This is a Mac system and you’re unlikely to find a user-patch (well — I’ve looked around a bit. There’s some shady stuff here and there. Might work.) It’s just graphics. It sounds annoying to fix.
But you’re not going to. Because you remember how Age 3 should look like. You remember looking at that beautiful wavy water. At those particle effects. At those huge ships that simply wouldn’t fit in the goddamn fucking frame. Jesus that camera is zoomed in. What were they thinking.”