I found the problem. It's the damn ATI drivers. I switched to the open
source ones and now WC3 works flawlessly, woohoo :) I'm so pumped.
Georges.
On 7/16/05, Georges A.K. <georgesak@gmail.com>
wrote:> Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately, I tried cvscedega and I get
> exactly the same problem. I would subscribe (I don't mind the
> 5$/month) but unfortunately, it's not worth it until it works :(
>
> Georges.
>
> On 7/15/05, Jeff Vian <jvian10@charter.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 18:53 +0000, Georges A.K. wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm trying Warcraft 3 under wine and although the single
player works
> > > flawlessly, I have a problem when playing online (with BNet).
Every
> > > few seconds, I receive the following :
> > > WARNING : wait4 timed out
> > > and the game freezes for a 1 sec or so. It's killing me. Only
happens
> > > on BNet, single player works fine. Tried cvscedega, same problem.
> > > I tried disabling pthreads but that doesn't work (some error
about
> lstat).
> > >
> > > My system : Acer ferrari 3000 running Gentoo. Kernel is
2.6.11-ck8.
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > > Georges.
> > >
> >
> > I have not tried under wine, but I play Warcraft 3, Diablo 2, and
others
> > under cedega (formerly winex) from www.transgaming.com and I have
never
> > had the symptom you describe when using battlenet. The cost of a
> > subscription is pennies and provides for updates and tech support.
> >
> > I am using Fedora (both 3 and 4) on athalon processors.
> >
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