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Warcraft III

All official unmodified Frozen Throne versions without the World Editor.

Application Details:

Version: The Frozen Throne: 1.x
License: Retail
URL: http://www.blizzard.com/war3/
Votes: 75
Latest Rating: Silver
Latest Wine Version Tested: 6.11

Maintainers: About Maintainership

Test Results

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Selected Test Results

What works

Installing the game. Patched the game to 1.21a.

What does not

Cant find CD.

Workarounds

What was not tested

The game itself due to copyprotection

Hardware tested

Graphics:

  • GPU:
  • Driver:

Additional Comments

Starting with: setarch i386 -X wine "C:\Warcraft III\Warcraft III.exe"

selected in Test Results table below
Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
Workaround?
RatingSubmitter
ShowFedora 34 x86_64Aug 01 20216.11Yes Yes YesSilverErfan Zafar 
ShowFedora 33 x86_64Oct 22 20205.18-stagingYes Yes YesSilverPetr Veli?ka 
ShowLinux Mint 19.0 TaraFeb 19 20205.2-stagingN/A Yes YesSilverMychajlo Chodorev 
ShowFedora 31 x86_64Feb 10 20205.1-stagingN/A Yes YesSilverEonfge 
ShowUbuntu 19.04 "Disco" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Jun 13 20194.10-stagingYes Yes YesGoldTyler Fru 

Known Bugs

Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
1631 Sound underruns occur in directsound CLOSED FIXED View
1854 IpHlpDllEntry: This is an CHICAGO product. CLOSED WORKSFORME View
2398 OpenGL is only used on top level windows so child windows get overdrawn CLOSED FIXED View
2731 warcraft frozen throne 1.17a crash CLOSED FIXED View
3051 UNIX path names are not translated correctly and cause some applications to fail CLOSED ABANDONED View
3143 securom not working anymore / warcraft cant find cdrom CLOSED FIXED View
3343 Frozen throne crashes in game CLOSED WORKSFORME View
3647 Warcraft 3 TFT 1.20a wont start CLOSED FIXED View
3929 Warcraft 3 doesn't change the cursor properly CLOSED FIXED View
4093 deadlock in alsa driver: CriticalSection WINEALSA_mmap_crst CLOSED FIXED View
4095 Warcraft III Polish installer crashes CLOSED FIXED View
4384 Warcraft 3 TFT 1.20c wont start CLOSED FIXED View
4948 Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne freezes / gets stuck during splash screen CLOSED FIXED View
5467 Warcraft 3 Option Menu crash CLOSED WORKSFORME View
5732 preloader and mmaping seem seriously broken on FreeBSD CLOSED ABANDONED View
6618 Warcraft III Crash on intro movie playback CLOSED FIXED View
6971 Mouse "escapes" window or is confined to an area in the full screen program CLOSED FIXED View
8770 Warcraft III freezes in BN ladder games after a few seconds/minutes (ATI) CLOSED FIXED View
9465 WarCraft III causes OSS to emit loud noise CLOSED FIXED View
9787 Warcraft3 Battle.net Doesn't work (Needs AcceptEx) CLOSED FIXED View
9815 Warcraft 3 The Frozen Throne does not connect to Battle.net CLOSED DUPLICATE View
10304 Warcraft III 1.21a freeze when loading single player mission CLOSED DUPLICATE View
10833 WoW indoors/instance white characters. Vram problems? CLOSED ABANDONED View
10841 Restore display resolution when focus is lost or on exit RESOLVED NOTOURBUG View
10892 Unable to refocus after opening url link in Warcraft III [The Frozen Throne] CLOSED DUPLICATE View
11120 Fatal Error in Warcraft III on new wine versions CLOSED INVALID View
11188 Most attempts to save in Warcraft III 1.21a Reign of Chaos crash the game CLOSED FIXED View
11340 Warcraft 3 displays the start splashscreen forever and doesn't continue with the game start. CLOSED FIXED View
11438 Warcraft III crashes after memory leak grows too large CLOSED ABANDONED View
11706 Warcraft III freezes with a black screen on startup CLOSED ABANDONED View
12343 Anarchy Online: Shift Clicking anything with left shift does not work as intended CLOSED FIXED View
12415 Can not leave fullscreen Warcraft 3x (Regression) CLOSED FIXED View
12455 Warcraft III 1.21b - Crashes with Fatal Error on Switch Desktop CLOSED FIXED View
12716 Ctrl and Shift no longer working in warcraft 3 CLOSED DUPLICATE View
12792 Warcraft III videos is not playing CLOSED FIXED View
13186 Warcraft III TFT fails to start with prefixes never used by CLOSED FIXED View
13252 Warcraft III: Unable to Host CLOSED DUPLICATE View
13335 Wine virtual memory exhaustion causing OpenGL crashes / slowdowns CLOSED FIXED View
13535 WarCraft 3 crashes when attempting to run in a window CLOSED INVALID View
13547 Warcraft III loses all textures after game window loses focus in OpenGL mode CLOSED FIXED View
13891 start.exe http://someurl/ does not work (affects any app that invokes external browser, e.g. Google Sketchup) CLOSED FIXED View
13956 Warcraft III does not start CLOSED FIXED View
14182 Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne installer crashes CLOSED FIXED View
14512 Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne battle.net chat is invisible CLOSED DUPLICATE View
14900 Warcraft 3 ocassionally has connection instability on BattleNet CLOSED ABANDONED View
15404 Fullscreen game windows are cropped to reveal GNOME menu and task bars CLOSED DUPLICATE View
15426 Warcraft III loosing textures CLOSED DUPLICATE View
15518 Garena won't start Warcraft3 CLOSED FIXED View
15559 winealsa sound regression: scratchiness/stutter in multiple games CLOSED FIXED View
15598 Full Screen mode in World of Warcraft (WoW) broken in 1.1.6 with Gnome CLOSED FIXED View
15620 starting games totaly kills the sound on the system CLOSED FIXED View
15963 Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne crashes when joining a DotA game CLOSED FIXED View
16047 Garena client crashes in WSASendTo CLOSED FIXED View
16106 Warcraft 3 map mouse scroll bug (fullscreen compiz-fusion) CLOSED DUPLICATE View
16194 WC3 - invisible chat CLOSED DUPLICATE View
17245 Warcraft 3 The Frozen Throne: crash when trying to enter battle.net CLOSED INVALID View
17432 Lan hosting/listening not working in warcraft iii. CLOSED ABANDONED View
17596 Resizing warcraft 3 in windowed+OGL mode results in an odd letterbox effect. CLOSED ABANDONED View
17809 Warcraft III crashes when logging into battlenet CLOSED INVALID View
17951 Warcraft III TFT Lan problems CLOSED DUPLICATE View
18088 Warcraft III doesn't load maps CLOSED INVALID View
18794 Using FBO as the ORM crashes with (broken) fglrx drivers - not a Wine bug CLOSED INVALID View
18997 Warcraft 3 1.23 crashes after remaining one minute in a Battle.net chat room. CLOSED FIXED View
19542 Warcraft 3 TFT: Keys control-6 and control-8 do not work CLOSED ABANDONED View
20181 Warcraft 3 crashes on start with GLXBadDrawable CLOSED INVALID View
20610 xmodmap numpad realigning unrecognized by Wine REOPENED View
20616 Warcraft 3 crash when login to BNet CLOSED DUPLICATE View
20653 Warcraft 3 freezes after successful login into Battle.net CLOSED FIXED View
20911 Warcraft III (Frozen Throne) performance issue (cpu at 100% all time) CLOSED INVALID View
21204 Warcraft 3 disproportionately slow in d3d mode unless RenderTargetLockMode=disabled CLOSED FIXED View
23004 Video setting "Texture Quality" is malfunctioning on value "High" in Game: Warcraft III The Frozen Throne CLOSED INVALID View
23310 Mouse pointer prevented from leaving virtual desktop window when it shouldn't be UNCONFIRMED View
23745 warcraft 3 freeze when desktop switching/minimize NEW View
23902 Games crash during audio initialization CLOSED FIXED View
24124 Warcraft 3: window size cannot go more than 1370x751 in window mode CLOSED ABANDONED View
25031 Warcraft 3 display is upside down RESOLVED NOTOURBUG View
25282 SetWindowsHookEx does not work perfectly - X-Mouse Button Control and Warcraft 3 CLOSED ABANDONED View
25651 Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne windowed resolution stuck at 1072x588 CLOSED ABANDONED View
25748 Warcraft 3: crash after a game CLOSED ABANDONED View
25983 Double Sound (Alsa and Pulse) CLOSED FIXED View
27004 Warcraft III fails to select units by mouse drag CLOSED FIXED View
27028 Touchpad mouse cursor flickers when moved, jumps back towards original position when released CLOSED FIXED View
27616 Warcraft 3: missing mouse cursor CLOSED FIXED View
29494 Occasional wineserver crashes when playing Warcraft 3 CLOSED ABANDONED View
29566 Warcraft 3 RoC/TFT 1.22a don't start CLOSED ABANDONED View
29835 Warcraft 3: Black stripes on some graphics CLOSED INVALID View
31245 xrandr12 warcraft 3 regression NEW View
31839 Mouse jumps to the upper left corner of the screen CLOSED ABANDONED View
32959 Warcraft 3: Minimizing problems CLOSED FIXED View
33658 Warcraft 3: Crash on missing sound permissions UNCONFIRMED View
34247 "Program Files" is not locale-specific NEW View
35241 Warcraft 3: Crash on starting the game CLOSED DUPLICATE View
35308 Warcraft III and it's extension Frozen Throne crash at start if winegstreamer isn't disabled CLOSED INVALID View
35309 Warcraft III and Frozen Throne : can't move mouse more than 2/3 of the screen CLOSED ABANDONED View
35528 Warcraft 3 - all textures are lost with opengl parameter CLOSED INVALID View
35651 Warcraft III: Some videos are not played NEW View
35990 keyboard becomes unresponsive in blizzard games UNCONFIRMED View
38009 winex11.drv does not set NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN if the display mode was changed NEW View
39223 Warcraft 3: Game conflicts with other applications UNCONFIRMED View
39224 Warcraft 3: Sound rustles without -opengl UNCONFIRMED View
40284 Unable to change resolution for LVDS panels (laptop), on which only one resolution is available (ex. 1680x1050) UNCONFIRMED View
40894 Warcraft 3: Crash on starting the game CLOSED FIXED View
45773 Warcraft 3: Game can't be installed via the downloader on non-english languages UNCONFIRMED View
45905 WarCraft 3 1.30 does not start (needs realtime updates to KSYSTEM_TIME members in KUSER_SHARED_DATA) CLOSED DUPLICATE View
46128 Warcraft III TFT: Using `-graphicsapi OpenGL2` after Blizzard's 1.30 patch displays black screen CLOSED INVALID View
46517 Warcraft III: Installation fails (trouble launching Battle.net Update Agent) UNCONFIRMED View
46710 Warcraft III does not install CLOSED WONTFIX View
51237 Unable to run Warcraft 3 (1.31 x86_64 build) after change to shell32 in wine 6.10 CLOSED DUPLICATE View

Show open bugs

HowTo / Notes

HOWTO

Latest Game Version: 1.31.0

There have been substantial changes such as

  • Integrated Direct3D 11 and Metal graphic APIs
  • 64-bit support
  • Changes to command line argument syntax

Patchnotes can be found here

Game shows only a black screen but audio works

As of 1.31.0 the default rendering backend changed to something that might result in a black screen upon game start.

The following command line argument forces d3d9 mode which can fix the issue (1.31.0)
-graphicsapi Direct3D9

The mouse feels sluggish

Consider using -windowmode fullscreen

Players can't join my Battle.net games, what is wrong?

There are two causes for this problem:

  • A firewall or router blocks the connections attempts. Make sure you have the correct ports open. Open outbound and inbound, TCP and UDP, port 6112, or whatever you set in the game configuration. More Network Ports
  • lib32-gnutls or gnutl is not installed on your system

How to fix problems related to the Local Area Network option?

If you try to play using the Local Area Network option, and do not see a game hosted from your machine on another or vice versa, and you are in the same subnet, this is likely caused by not having a default gateway. The game relies on sending UDP packets to the broadcast address and Linux will not send them unless there is a default gateway or another rule to handle them. To fix it, there are two methods:

Add a default gateway.
- OR -
Route 255. 255. 255. 255 to your local network.

See Wine Traffic #62 for another description of the issue. This is not considered a bug.

How to fix cursor/mouse problem in windowed mode?

When running windowed, if you move the cursor out of the screen and back again, sometimes it stays as the scrolling cursor and not the pointer cursor. Hover the mouse over a unit or building to fix the cursor. This is an oversight in the game itself and not a bug in Wine. Use mouse grab or full screen mode to bypass this problem. You may also disable automatic scrolling and use the middle mouse button or the directional keys (non-keypad) for manual scrolling.

Remapping numpad keys

Xmodmap remapping does not work. Consider using something more low level such as xkeysnail.


�Last updated : 2019-06-04

WARNING - Crash with ATI cards

Several users with ATI Radeon video cards encounter problems when playing. If run in Direct3D mode (e.g. without -opengl switch or registry hack) Warcraft 3 doesn't even start up. If run in OpenGL mode, the console prints these error messages

libGL error: drmMap of framebuffer failed (.............)
libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering

and the game is extremely slow with corrupted graphics because it uses the MESA Software OpenGL implementation instead of the 3D hardware acceleration of the ATI card. 

If you encounter the same problem, have a solution to it or ATI, Wine and WC3 are running fine for you, please describe it in this bug report:

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13335

How to disable window manager's alt key combo

Window managers often have the alt key bound to certain features, especially the alt-click. THIS IS NOT A WINE BUG. If you have problems with the alt key in any way DO NOT REPORT IT. Fix your window manager. I'm not going to list steps for every one because there are too many possibilites. Figure out yourself or ask in a help forum (here is okay... but be warned all I use is TWM). If you are desperate, turn off window manager managed windows in winecfg.

KDE

Go into KDE Control Center, expand Desktop, click window behavior, then click window actions tab. You can turn off the alt-combos. If you want to make window specific settings, click on window specific settings under window behavior on the side.

GNOME

The option to change the key binding is in System Menu -> Preferences Menu -> Windows.

How to play without CD?

Connect to battle.net to upgrade to the latest version of Warcraft 3 which doesn't need a CD.

If you ever get "Please insert disc", this is NOT a problem with detecting the CD. The protection system is probably still built into the game even though the CD check itself is disabled. Make sure you use version 1.21b or later. If you get this problem after having this version installed, you are likely suffering from a buggy video driver as this is the only known (and proven possible) cause at this point.

DO NOT USE NOCD PATCHES - They are pointless, and won't fix the real problem.

Skip the intro videos

Method 1: Rename the videos

After installing the game, its highly recommended that you browse to your Warcraft III folder and rename the movies folder. Many people crash from the movies because of buggy sound drivers, or simply hang, so you should do this in case you are one of them. You can still play the movies under mplayer (or xine if you so choose)! TutorialIn.mpq is the very first cinematic of the game, and for the rest; *Op.mpq is the cinematic at the start of the campaign and *Ed.mpq is the cinematic and the end. If you wanted to follow the story, it's not hard at all to play the ones corresponding where you are at.

Method 2: Mark the intro as seen

If you don't want to play the campaign, but only want to start Warcraft III without a crash while playing the intro then you can simply mark the intro as seen:

  1. Open reedit:
    $ wine regedit
  2. Navigate in regedit to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Blizzard/Warcraft III/
  3. Create a key (folder) Misc in the Warcraft III key. You can do so by right clicking the key.
  4. Create a DWORD value seenintromovie with the value 0x1
  5. ­

Comments

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1.2.7b gives a "Can't find game.dll" error
by Juni Song on Thursday May 14th 2020, 6:43
Been trying to set up Warcraft III for a good bit and every time I patch it up to these versions, it gives me te "Can't find game.dll" error, sometimes it gives the disc check error too but not always. This is after going from an early 1.21 install to 1.27b.

Tested on Manjaro Linux 5.6.11 with Wine 5.8.


github.com/w3lh/w3l

I've also had no luck getting this to run, useful for PVPGN servers.
I cant run. Installing might have been an issue.
by Eric E Knaak on Friday February 22nd 2019, 18:37
The installer said that it was dependent on the agent. I tried installing battle.net client and that didn't fix the issue and now results in error 0.
using i386 4.2 wine.
Using `-graphicsapi OpenGL2` after 1.30 patch displays black screen
by Simon Désaulniers on Saturday November 10th 2018, 0:41
Game sound works in the background, but the image doesn't show. You can quit the game by pressing ESC as you would expect. Here follows the full output:

```
wine32 /var/lib/wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Warcraft\ III/Warcraft\ III.exe -graphicsapi OpenGL2
000b:fixme:winediag:start_process Wine Staging 3.19 is a testing version containing experimental patches.
000b:fixme:winediag:start_process Please mention your exact version when filing bug reports on winehq.org.
0009:err:winediag:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated. Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path. Usually, you can find it in the winbind package of your distribution.
0009:fixme:thread:create_user_shared_data_thread Creating user shared data update thread.
002f:fixme:kernelbase:AppPolicyGetThreadInitializationType 0xfffffffa, 0x24bfea0
0009:fixme:mpr:WNetGetUniversalNameW (L"C:\\Program Files\\Warcraft III\\Data\\data", 0x00000001, 0x32b4e8, 0x32b4ec): stub
0031:fixme:winhttp:get_system_proxy_autoconfig_url no support on this platform
0031:fixme:winhttp:WinHttpDetectAutoProxyConfigUrl discovery via DHCP not supported
0009:fixme:process:GetProcessWorkingSetSizeEx (0xffffffff,0x32d7e4,0x32d7e0,(nil)): stub
0009:fixme:winsock:WS_EnterSingleProtocolW unknown Protocol
0009:fixme:winsock:WS_EnterSingleProtocolW unknown Protocol
0009:fixme:winsock:WS_EnterSingleProtocolW unknown Protocol
0036:fixme:ver:GetCurrentPackageId (0x394fe9c (nil)): stub
003a:fixme:avrt:AvSetMmThreadCharacteristicsW (L"Audio",0x3d8fe74): stub
0009:fixme:kernelbase:AppPolicyGetProcessTerminationMethod 0xfffffffa, 0x32fe2c
```
Migration from ArchWiki
by Svito on Saturday December 23rd 2017, 20:34
You can move useful information to HowTo/Notes and delete this comment:

WarCraft III is a real-time strategy game created by Blizzard Entertainment. This article will describe how to install and run it and its addon The Frozen Throne on Arch Linux using [[Wine]].
WarCraft III can be run with full OpenGL support.

==Installing Wine==

If you need any further help check out the [[Wine]] article. You will also want to run {{ic|winecfg}} and change a few settings to your liking before running the install CD.

==Configuring Wine==

This shows you how to configure Wine before installing WarCraft III and The Frozen Throne.

===Windows version===

In order to make copy protection work under Wine you must switch your Windows version to 2000 or XP.

===Audio===

Both [[OSS]] and [[ALSA]] work. If you expierence difficulties with ALSA you may want to switch to OSS. Please note that aoss can make your sound glitch every three seconds so it is not recommend to use it.

===Devices===

In order for the copy protection to work you must add a CD-ROM device:
Add a device, set path to /media/cdrom (or whatever you use when you mount CDs) and change the device type to "CD-ROM".

==Installation==

The following process will detail how to install WarCraft III and the expansion The Frozen Throne and finally update to the current version.

===Installing WarCraft III: The Reign of Chaos===
This is rather simple. '''DO NOT''' use cracked versions of this game.

* Place the CD in your drive and mount it (or let it automount if that's how your machine is setup).
* Open a terminal and change in the directory of the CD.
* Run
wine install.exe
* Follow the dialog boxes of the setup and enter your key when it asks for it.
* Do not forget to leave the directory or you may have problems getting your CD back from your computer.

===Installing WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne===

Please follow the same procedure as above, using the CD of The Frozen Throne instead.

===Upgrading to the current version===

You can try updating via Battle.net or use an offline patch. For the first solution just hit the Battle.net button in the main menu after you have started the game. Be sure you have read the post installation tipps before running WarCraft III the first time. If you want to patch offline, follow these steps:

*Look [us.battle.net/support/en/article/classic-game-patches here] for the patch.
*Download the current patch and save it in the directory you installed WarCraft III.
*Open a terminal, change into that directory and run the patch via
wine .exe

If you have patched to version 1.22 or higher you do not need your CD anymore for starting the game.

==Post installation tricks==

There are some things you might want to fix before running WarCraft III the first time because they still can cause you trouble. If one of the following registry keys or values does not exist, simply create it.

===Disabling intro movies===

The movies are not displayed correctly and cannot be aborted. So we set them to be already seen.

*Open a terminal, run
regedit
*Go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Blizzard Entertainment\Warcraft III\Misc
*Set "seenintromovie" to "1".

===Widescreen resolution===

The option menu of WarCraft III does not support high widescreen resolutions. If you want to use one you have to put it in the registry by hand. Please note that you will loose this setting if you enter the options menu inside WarCraft III because it will overwrite your setting with the highest value it is capable of.

*Open a terminal, run
regedit
*Go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Blizzard Entertainment\Warcraft III\Video
*Set "resheigth" and "reswidth" to whatever you prefer. Pay attention that you can enter either hexadecimal or decimal values.

===Alt key combo===

If you like to use [Alt] + left click for minimap signal and you are using [[KDE]] or [[GNOME]] you will find that this feature does not work due to keyboard shortcuts with [Alt] that your desktop environment uses.

====GNOME====
The option to change the key binding is in System -> Preferences -> Windows.

====KDE====
Go into KDE Control Center, expand Desktop, click window behavior, then click window actions tab. You can turn off the alt combos. If you want to make window specific settings, click on window specific settings under window behavior on the side.

===Alt+Tab===

Normally, using alt+tab key combo, and then coming back to the game,will make it unplayable - for example bar(s) will of your desktop will remain displayed.

There is an easy workaround: go to winecfg and make a virtual desktop with size of your current resolution. This will also allow you to play movies. You can make a special wine settings for Warcraft III.exe and Frozen Throne.exe only, so you will not need to turn on/off a virtual desktop every time.


==Running WarCraft III==

You can now run WarCraft III. You can check if the installer has made you a starter in your applications menu. If so, you can use it. If you have any problems you may want to check the command to start WarCraft III. The path to your WarCraft III folder can be different depending on the location of your wine folder and the installation path of WarCraft III.

====WarCraft III: The Reign of Chaos====

wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Warcraft\ III/war3.exe -opengl

====WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne====

wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Warcraft\ III/Frozen\ Throne.exe -opengl

You do not need the -opengl parameter if your Direct3D rendering is fast enough. Please test this for yourself.

==Troubleshooting==

===Patch 1.23===
To login to battle.net with the latest version of wine make sure you have lib32-gnutls or gnutls installed.

===No Sound in 64bit===
install following packages: {{Pkg|lib32-alsa-lib}}, {{Pkg|lib32-alsa-plugins}}

==See also==
* [[Wine]]
* [appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=897 WineHQ's AppDB entry]
new patch 1.27 breaks this app
by Cory on Wednesday March 16th 2016, 21:34
Seems the new patch, 1.27, is causing problems for a lot of folks on many systems, not just Wine.

In any case, I now get the following error on launch, also reported on the Blizzard forums:

err:module:import_dll Library MSVCR120.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Warcraft III\\Storm.dll") not found
err:module:import_dll Library Storm.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Warcraft III\\war3.exe") not found
err:module:import_dll Library MSVCR120.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Warcraft III\\war3.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\Program Files\\Warcraft III\\war3.exe" failed, status c0000135

accompanied by a CD Drive Error requesting that I ensure my CD is in the drive (which doesn't help).

I've tried installing the digital client from Blizzard, which also fails to run (not sure how to force this to go through Wine).

I did notice the new digital download installation includes new packages, including a DirectX setup which states DirectX 9.0c, which fails to install as it is not compatible with the version of Windows currently installed.
RE: new patch 1.27 breaks this app
by 0d_billie on Sunday March 20th 2016, 12:23
I was getting this after a fresh install (news of the patch and discussions about the game at work made me want to play it again). After failing to get it running via CD, I gave downloading from the Blizzard website a go, and it works like a charm. Version 1.27a and no problems as yet, online or offline.
RE: new patch 1.27 breaks this app
by Janus on Wednesday October 5th 2016, 0:17
Hello
Does this mean you were able to play online too?
Can you please give details on your setup?
I can't get on Battle.net
Anything else works though.
Problems with Wine 1.9.2
by Gero on Friday February 5th 2016, 17:17
Wine Version 1.8.1 works great, as well as version before that, like 1.7.55.

But with Version 1.9.2 (staging) I get the following:
fixme:winediag:start_process Wine Staging 1.9.2 is a testing version containing experimental patches.
fixme:winediag:start_process Please mention your exact version when filing bug reports on winehq.org.
err:ole:CoCreateInstanceEx apartment not initialised
err:winediag:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated. Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path. Usually, you can find it in the winbind package of your distribution.
fixme:module:load_dll Loader redirect from L"wined3d.dll" to L"wined3d-csmt.dll"
fixme:winediag:wined3d_dll_init Experimental wined3d CSMT feature is currently enabled.
fixme:module:load_dll Loader redirect from L"wined3d.dll" to L"wined3d-csmt.dll"
fixme:winediag:wined3d_dll_init Experimental wined3d CSMT feature is currently enabled.
fixme:module:load_dll Loader redirect from L"wined3d.dll" to L"wined3d-csmt.dll"
fixme:winediag:wined3d_dll_init Experimental wined3d CSMT feature is currently enabled.
tobias63r0@tobias-pc64:/media/Games/Wine/Warcraft III$ err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found 800x600x32 @75! (desktop)
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found 800x600x32 @70! (desktop)
err:quartz:GetClassMediaFile Media class not found
fixme:gstreamer:GST_QueryInterface No interface for {37d84f60-42cb-11ce-8135-00aa004bb851}!
fixme:gstreamer:unknown_type Could not find a filter for caps: video/x-msvideo
fixme:gstreamer:watch_bus decodebin0: Ihrer Installation von GStreamer fehlt ein Plugin.
fixme:gstreamer:watch_bus decodebin0: Ein Plugin »Audio Video Interleave (AVI)-Demuxer« wird zum Abspielen dieses Datenstroms benötigt, ist aber nicht installiert.
fixme:gstreamer:GST_Connect GStreamer could not find any streams
fixme:gstreamer:watch_bus typefind: GStreamer hat einen allgemeinen Datenstromfehler festgestellt.
fixme:quartz:Parser_QueryInterface No interface for {37d84f60-42cb-11ce-8135-00aa004bb851}!
fixme:quartz:AVISplitter_InitializeStreams stream 1: frames found: 2166732, frames meant to be found: 2167456
fixme:module:load_dll Loader redirect from L"wined3d.dll" to L"wined3d-csmt.dll"
fixme:winediag:wined3d_dll_init Experimental wined3d CSMT feature is currently enabled.
fixme:quartz:VideoRendererInner_QueryInterface No interface for {37d84f60-42cb-11ce-8135-00aa004bb851}!
fixme:gstreamer:Gstreamer_FindMatch Could not find plugin for audio/mpeg, mpegversion=(int) 1
fixme:ole:CoCreateInstanceEx no instance created for interface {00000000-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} of class {728dcf55-128f-4dd1-ad22-becfa66ce7aa}, hres is 0x80004005
fixme:strmbase:TransformFilterImpl_QueryInterface No interface for {37d84f60-42cb-11ce-8135-00aa004bb851}!
fixme:quartz:DSoundRender_QueryInterface No interface for {37d84f60-42cb-11ce-8135-00aa004bb851}!
fixme:quartz:AsyncReader_QueryInterface No interface for {56a868b5-0ad4-11ce-b03a-0020af0ba770}!
fixme:quartz:Parser_QueryInterface No interface for {56a868b5-0ad4-11ce-b03a-0020af0ba770}!
fixme:quartz:Parser_QueryInterface No interface for {2dd74950-a890-11d1-abe8-00a0c905f375}!
fixme:quartz:VideoRendererInner_QueryInterface No interface for {56a86897-0ad4-11ce-b03a-0020af0ba770}!
fixme:quartz:Parser_OutputPin_QueryInterface No interface for {56a868a5-0ad4-11ce-b03a-0020af0ba770}!
fixme:quartz:Parser_OutputPin_QueryInterface No interface for {56a868a5-0ad4-11ce-b03a-0020af0ba770}!
fixme:quartz:Parser_OutputPin_QueryInterface No interface for {56a868a5-0ad4-11ce-b03a-0020af0ba770}!
fixme:quartz:Parser_OutputPin_QueryInterface No interface for {56a868a5-0ad4-11ce-b03a-0020af0ba770}!
fixme:quartz:Parser_OutputPin_QueryInterface No interface for {56a868a5-0ad4-11ce-b03a-0020af0ba770}!
fixme:quartz:AVISplitter_thread_reader Receiving error: 80040227
fixme:quartz:AVISplitter_thread_reader Thread 0 terminated with hr 80040227!
err:quartz:ACMWrapper_Receive Error sending sample (80040227)
fixme:quartz:AVISplitter_thread_reader Receiving error: 80040227
fixme:quartz:AVISplitter_thread_reader Thread 1 terminated with hr 80040227!
dct: 0.000000 ms (0 calls)
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