Hi, i used to play Warcraft 3 on wine very well years ago and recently decided to give it another go, only to find that it won't work with recent versions of wine. I think this is sad beyond words, but its not my project. I come here to ask some guidance in getting an old version of wine. My googling reveals that 0.9.10 is the one i should get. I use Ubuntu 7.10 and i can try to compile from source (how to get that old source?) but there must be a .deb package around from when 0.9.10 was the latest. Thank you.
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:42 AM, cttw <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Hi, i used to play Warcraft 3 on wine very well years ago and recently decided to give it another go, only to find that it won't work with recent versions of wine. I think this is sad beyond words, but its not my project. >It works with the latest. I played it last night on wine-0.9.59. Although because of bug 11188 it is difficult to press the save button knowing that your progress may be wiped out. http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11188 John
Interesting. Personally i get a black screen at start. I renamed the Movies and i run with -opengl. If i run with -window i get a black window instead of a black screen. There are countless forum threads about this problem, and not one has a solution. There also seems to be a problem connecting to battle.net, but i haven't made it that far yet. When i played it some time ago i could do everything, battlenet, and even run it in directx mode for laughs! My wine version is 0.9.58. I installed warcraft and the expansion from original CDs, and the latest official patch removed the cd-check, so there is not even a crack involved. My last ditch effort was going to be reverting to an old wine version. Now i am out of ideas, and would appreciate any help. Other 3d games work, other wine games work, i am not even running compiz or anything that might unsettle the system. Please help me make this work.
On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:12:40 -0500 "cttw" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Nvidia 7600 GS >have you tried with a clean .wine directory ? -- Marcel W. Wysocki <maci at satgnu.net> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20080408/4031338c/attachment.pgp
Marcel W. Wysocki wrote:> On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:12:40 -0500 > "cttw" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote: > > > > Nvidia 7600 GS > > > > > have you tried with a clean .wine directory ? > > -- > Marcel W. Wysocki <maci at satgnu.net> > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: not available > Type: application/pgp-signature > Size: 197 bytes > Desc: not available > Url : http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20080408/4031338c/attachment.pgpNo. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game, but the .wine directory has been on a quite long lived home partition. So i will do it. Can i save my installs? Like the installed game folder and the registry? Or is that what i should be getting rid of?
John Drescher wrote:> I heard that battlenet does not work with wine versions > 0.9.48 but > for me that is fine because I never use that. >Unfortunately i pretty much only play on battle.net.
On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:35:33 -0500 "cttw" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> > Marcel W. Wysocki wrote: > > On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:12:40 -0500 > > "cttw" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote: > > > > > > > Nvidia 7600 GS > > > > > > > > have you tried with a clean .wine directory ? > > > > -- > > Marcel W. Wysocki <maci at satgnu.net> > > -------------- next part -------------- > > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > > Name: not available > > Type: application/pgp-signature > > Size: 197 bytes > > Desc: not available > > Url : http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20080408/4031338c/attachment.pgp > > > No. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game, but the .wine directory has been on a quite long lived home partition. So i will do it. > > Can i save my installs? Like the installed game folder and the registry? Or is that what i should be getting rid of? >just make a backup of your .wine directory mv .wine .wine_bak then run wineprefixcreate -- Marcel W. Wysocki <maci at satgnu.net> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20080408/f7010bf1/attachment.pgp
On 08/04/2008, cttw <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> No. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game, but the .wine directory has been on a quite long lived home partition. So i will do it. > Can i save my installs? Like the installed game folder and the registry? Or is that what i should be getting rid of?You can try a different wineprefix without actually deleting the old one - try creating a fresh wineprefix and install it in that. From the command-line, do something like: export WINEPREFIX=.wine-warcraft wineprefixcreate - this creates an entirely fresh fake Windows directory, and you can then try to install afresh in that. If that works, you know Wine works, and you can then experiment with what files need to be copied over for saved games, etc. to be loaded. - d.
On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:39:30 -0500 "cttw" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> > John Drescher wrote: > > I heard that battlenet does not work with wine versions > 0.9.48 but > > for me that is fine because I never use that. > > > > > Unfortunately i pretty much only play on battle.net. > >theres a patch here to make bnet work again: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9787 -- Marcel W. Wysocki <maci at satgnu.net> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20080408/1490a86e/attachment.pgp
I renamed .wine, created a new one with wineprefixcreate, installed and now it works! I had to rename the movies still, but battle.net works without any further changes. I should have tried this on my own, but because of my early (2005) successes with wine i had assumed i would never have to reinstall the windows stuff, since i would just carry my /home around as i changed system. A great thank you to all that helped.
On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:29:13 -0500 "cttw" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> I renamed .wine, created a new one with wineprefixcreate, installed and now it works! I had to rename the movies still, but battle.net works without any further changes. > > I should have tried this on my own, but because of my early (2005) successes with wine i had assumed i would never have to reinstall the windows stuff, since i would just carry my /home around as i changed system. > > A great thank you to all that helped.the registry and stuff may change with newer wine versions. just run wineprefixcreate everytime you updated wine and it should be fine. -- Marcel W. Wysocki <maci at satgnu.net> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20080408/0be42984/attachment.pgp