Strange Warcraft III problem

[ltmon]

Hi All,

I have installed my copy of WC3 under the latest wine (0.9) and it runs perfectly... full speed, sound etc.

I can play custom games and lan or battlenet games fine.

The only thing that won't work is the campaigns. When I go to the campaign selection screen I get a level select (Normal/Hard), a back button and nothing else. There are no campaigns to be seen.

Anyone had this problem?

Ideas to diagnose?

Cheers,

L.

[ltmon]

For future Googlers, see this:

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2075

In short, this is fixable if you don't mind patching Wine a little.

[Takis]

In short, this is fixable if you don't mind patching Wine a little.

And you can follow what they're on about. They suggest quite a few different things to do, in amongst the technobabble. Do you get what needs to be done...?

[Takis]

Okeydizzle what seems to have worked for me is:

1. Get a copy of msvcrt.dll from Windows (located in C:\Windows\System32)
2. Copy it into the windows/system directory of your Wine install.
3. Open a terminal and run

   export WINEDLLOVERRIDES="msvcrt=n"

4. In the same terminal, run Warcraft 3 and create a new profile. You should be able to run campaigns.
5. You can probably put steps 3 & 4 into a nice little script. Make sure to cd into the Warcraft III directory before running the program, it might not work otherwise.

Notes:

• I don't really know how to use Wine. I'm just listing the steps that I did that worked for me. This may not necessarily work for you.

Mods may like to move this post into the how-tos.