Warcraft III on Wine

Marus · 04-03-2004, 10:09 AM

I recently bought Wine Rack 3.2, hoping to play some of my Windows games on my Linux computer. I tried to install Warcraft III and it installed, but I can't start the program. I've fiddled around w/ the configuration and stuff, but I can't seem to get it to work. If any of you out there know what I'm talking about and know how to fix it please tell me how!

LavaDevil94 · 04-03-2004, 11:04 AM

are you using regular wine or winex? either way, try this:
go fetch a nocd-crack
wine -- "War3.exe" -opengl

Xolithe · 04-03-2004, 03:09 PM

Degress is the opposite of progress. kthx. o.O;

LavaDevil94 · 04-03-2004, 06:43 PM

i have to disagree with Xolithe. the opposite of progress is congress

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snipersock · 04-03-2004, 09:47 PM

I'm a paying member of transgaming (http://www.transgaming.com) and if my memory serves me right warcraft 3 is officially supported by them. Check out there website and see what they have to offer. There service isn't expensive, $5 bucks a month and you really get what you pay for.
I have a great time playing warcraft 3 and the frozen throne expansion using winex 3.2 and it runs perfect for me. This is coming from personal experience.
~ Nick

MNKyDeth · 04-04-2004, 05:52 AM

Yeah, don't try wineX 3.3 on it though. It crashes on custom maps when you join the game. For War3 stick with wineX 3.2 or 3.2.1 from what I can see.

luxitan · 04-04-2004, 05:55 AM

i have the last version of wine and it runs fine. with the exception that i could not start a new game, but once i found a savegame and loaded it, i had no more troubles.

Marus · 04-04-2004, 10:04 AM

Oh, so you have to pay them $5 every month for it to actually work?

uglydot · 04-04-2004, 02:54 PM

You pay 15 dollars and for 3 months you get access to member stuff. What you dl is yours forever.

ernesto_lelo · 04-13-2004, 07:51 PM

I got the warcraft to run under the wine, but is actually very slow to play. Any idea. It use to run perfectly under Windows. I'm running Red Hat 9, 256 Ram, 64 MB Nvidia video???
Any idea?

LavaDevil94 · 04-13-2004, 08:32 PM

are you running it like this:
wine -- "War3.exe" -opengl
if its still slow, do you have hardware 3d enabled?

Spasmolytic · 04-13-2004, 08:40 PM

1) Make sure you're using a no-CD crack
2) rename the Movies directory to something else like Movies_DISABLED, for some reason it froze on the intro movie for me, this may fix your problem... it fixed mine
3) run it with "wine War3.exe -- -opengl" otherwise it'll be sloooooooooooow

LavaDevil94 · 04-13-2004, 09:05 PM

the movies are damn good though, so make sure you watch them somehow. mplayer plays them fine, but i think thats the only one. ive tried xine, no go.

ernesto_lelo · 04-14-2004, 01:14 PM

Quote:

are you running it like this:
wine -- "War3.exe" -opengl
if its still slow, do you have hardware 3d enabled?

Yes, I'm using that instruction to run it. How do I know if my hardware 3d is enabled?

LavaDevil94 · 04-14-2004, 03:00 PM

what average fps do you get from this command:
glxgears