wine users - Aug 2009 - Problems running WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos in WINE

Hi everyone!

I am trying to run WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos in Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope, on a
MacBook Pro. However when I try to run the game the screen first goes black,
appearing to be loading the game, then it returns to the desktop but I seem
unable to use any of the icons on my desktop or any of the programs, something
which I think implies that the game is still running, but that some bug has
occurred.

This is the error message I am getting:
> martin at bomba:~$ wine .wine/drive_c/Programfiler/Warcraft\ III/war3.exe 
> err:ole:CoCreateInstance apartment not initialised
> fixme:advapi:SetSecurityInfo stub
> fixme:d3d:IWineD3DImpl_FillGLCaps OpenGL implementation supports 32 vertex
samplers and 32 total samplers
> fixme:d3d:IWineD3DImpl_FillGLCaps Expected vertex samplers +
MAX_TEXTURES(=8) > combined_samplers
> fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f3a0,0x00000000), stub!
> fixme:d3d:IWineD3DImpl_FillGLCaps OpenGL implementation supports 32 vertex
samplers and 32 total samplers
> fixme:d3d:IWineD3DImpl_FillGLCaps Expected vertex samplers +
MAX_TEXTURES(=8) > combined_samplers
> fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f778,0x00000000), stub!
> fixme:d3d:IWineD3DImpl_FillGLCaps OpenGL implementation supports 32 vertex
samplers and 32 total samplers
> fixme:d3d:IWineD3DImpl_FillGLCaps Expected vertex samplers +
MAX_TEXTURES(=8) > combined_samplers
> fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f384,0x00000000), stub!
> err:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_SetCurrentMode Resolution change not successful --
perhaps display has changed?
> err:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_SetCurrentMode Resolution change not successful --
perhaps display has changed?
> fixme:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Add OpenGL context recreation support
to SetDepthStencilSurface
> err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found
800x600x32 @75! (XRandR)
> err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found
800x600x32 @70! (XRandR)
> err:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_SetCurrentMode Resolution change not successful --
perhaps display has changed?
> fixme:quartz:AVISplitter_InitializeStreams stream 1: frames found: 2172570,
frames meant to be found: 2173350
> fixme:d3d:IWineD3DImpl_FillGLCaps OpenGL implementation supports 32 vertex
samplers and 32 total samplers
> fixme:d3d:IWineD3DImpl_FillGLCaps Expected vertex samplers +
MAX_TEXTURES(=8) > combined_samplers
> fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32e008,0x00000000), stub!
> fixme:quartz:AsyncReader_QueryInterface No interface for
{56a868b5-0ad4-11ce-b03a-0020af0ba770}!
> fixme:quartz:Parser_QueryInterface No interface for
{56a868b5-0ad4-11ce-b03a-0020af0ba770}!
> err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x14424c
"videorenderer.c: VideoRendererImpl.csFilter" wait timed out in thread
0009, blocked by 001f, retrying (60 sec)

This is my setup:
3rd generation MacBook Pro (Santa Rosa)
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz
2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
120GB harddrive
nVidia GeForce 8600M GT, running the nVidia driver version 180.44

I must also mention that I am using an external monitor as my only monitor, with
an external keyboard and external mouse. My MacBook Pro is always closed, and
therefore I have disabled the MacBook Pro monitor and set my external monitor as
a "Separate X screen".

Does anyone have any experience with this situation, and know of a fix?

Maritim wrote:
> I am trying to run WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos in Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope,
on a MacBook Pro.
There is a good HOWTO on AppDB page:
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=1177
Read it and follow all the directions.

Problem solved. The game stalled when attempting to play the intro movie, so I
renamed the Movies-folder to Moviez, which made the game skip the intro movies
altogether and jump straight to the menu screen. It now appears to be working
perfectly :) No need to reinstall, downgrade or upgrade anything!