HOWTO: Warcraft III with wine

[pascalosti]

When i run Warcraft through the applications\wine
it starts up but its really slow and choppy. It ran fine when i had XP installed.
when I run this command

cc@cc-laptop:~$ wine "Warcraft III.exe" -opengl
wine: could not load L"c:\\windows\\system32\\Warcraft III.exe"
: Module not found


Since im not using the "opengl" flag how can i get around that?


I found this for WoW but the "SET" command isnt recognized
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/win...raft-wine.html
Once you have installed WoW, the /World of Warcraft/wtf/Config.wtf file needs to be modified. Add the following lines:
Code:

SET gxApi "opengl"
SET SoundOutputSystem "1"
SET SoundBufferSize "100"
SET gxColorBits "24"
SET gxDepthBits "24"





Never mind the stuff below, my previous problem
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I think the install went fine, now the cd shows "Play Game" rather then "Install game"
(in applications under wine "warcraft 3 does appear with its submenus)
I did try pressing "play Game" which gave me some blinking black screens.
I installed it inside "c:\\program files\\".

when I run this command i get this error


cc@cc-laptop:~$ wine "Warcraft III.exe" -opengl
wine: could not load L"c:\\windows\\system32\\Warcraft III.exe"
: Module not found

How can i delete or uninstall it to retry from start. Or is there a step i missed.
("uninstaller" does not show any applications)


I used
wine /media/cdrom0/autoplay.exe
not sure if " install.exe" makes a difference

[pascalosti]

got it working looking deep into this forum topic


wine will probably put an icon on your desktop. right click and select properties, go to the launcher tab, at the end of the text in the 'command' box add
Quote:
-opengl
this should enable you to launch warcraft III using opengl by just clicking on the icon on your desktop.

[Enverex]

When i run Warcraft through the applications\wine
it starts up but its really slow and choppy. It ran fine when i had XP installed.
when I run this command

cc@cc-laptop:~$ wine "Warcraft III.exe" -opengl
wine: could not load L"c:\\windows\\system32\\Warcraft III.exe"
: Module not found

That wont work unless you're in the same folder as the EXE itself.

[Cigue]

If I shouldn't use Winetools, then what should I use? Winecfg?

also, when I open Warcraft, I click on the icon on my desktop (properly modded with -opengl in launcher) and my session reboots! what should I do please?

[uph0ria]

Everything is working fine except for this... "unable to validate game version....". Anyone know a fix?

[Pioneer5000]

If you are using 7.04 i dont think you need to do anything on that list just do this

Type this into terminal:
sudo apt-get install wine

then insert disc (wc3) and then explore go to double click auto run and then just install from there like normal. I managed to getting working with just that. Hope it works for you too.

[BOBSONATOR]

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[chaos2286]

Hey guys,

I don't know if this forum gets looked at anymore due to how old the game is, but I'm still struggling with this. I've installed the game on both wine and cedega, and I get the same result. I can navigate around in the menus as well as on battle.net. But about 20 seconds after I actually start a game my monitor shuts off and it just lists the hzs and gives me a status. I installed my ATI driver with envy and it seemed to go smoothly. If anyone has had this problem/has any idea how to fix it I'd be thankfulll.

ps using fiesty fawn

- chaos

[zorkerz]

Hi all. Warcraft plays beautifully however it freezes during lan play with a windows computer. The freezes require a hard boot so I have not been able to observe any errors in the terminal. I can often get a ways into the game before the freez like 2nd or 3rd hero.

Im running gutsy gibbion with wine 0.9.43.
any ideas.

[holomorph]

Have you tried running it in a window so that you can see the terminal you launched it from?

Also, what window manager are you using? I've had a few freezes which are the fault of the window manager locking up (not during warcraft); but then I can usually still move the mouse, just tha clicks and keyboard inputs don't do anything. If it's a hard freeze where the mouse doesn't move anymore either, that's usually a kernel panic I think; not sure what would be causing that, but if it only happens during net play, perhaps it is related to your network card?

good luck