Re: warcraft 3

[Jesse Allen]

Hi,

Here's how to get Warcraft 3 running under wine:

1.  Use the latest wine cvs.  Only that will work.

2.  Mount the CD, and run install.exe on the CD with the winver set to
win98 under config.  (even though 95/98 are exactly the same when playing
the game--i hate that)  You should disable the ide-scsi thing because it
seems to cause problems =(

3.  Close the install program.  Go to the
directory where war3 is installed.  mv the Movies folder to Movies backup.
 The game tries to display a movie clip on start in the retail, and it
hangs wine =(

4.  Download the NoCD patch for Warcraft 3 v1.00 (I don't
know if 1.01 is out yet) at www.gamecopyworld.com.  mv war3.exe and
worldedit.exe to backup names.  Copy in the patched program exe's.  You
may now run War3 if you wish.  Warcraft 3 uses Safedisc v2.  With this
patch it will bypass it.  Run war3 with the command "wine war3.exe --
-opengl".

5.  To login battle.net, you need to bypass the exe check.  With
the patched version of the game, it won't work.  So what I did to get it
to work is moved the patched exe's to something like "war3_patched.exe"
and create a symbolic link "war3.exe" that links to it.  Start the game
"war3.exe".  To login to battle.net, open bash console.  Change to the
war3 directory, and reset the symbolic link to the original war3 exe, let
it sleep 5 seconds, and then reset the symbolic link back to the patched
version.  While it's sleeping, you need to login into battle.net
immediately.  This is what I did to get D2 battle.net to work under wine.
It should work for war3.   You need to be the same version as battle.net
for it to work though. (currently only 1.00 is availible for linux, and
battle.net is 1.01)

6.  To patch the game, you need to get the
standalone patches.  Set your symbolic link to the real exe's, and patch
away =)

The beta in contrast worked perfectly.  The retail has a couple problems
=(.  The advantages I find running War3 under linux/wine/opengl, are
higher framerates than on both real windows, and winex.  And no graphics
errors in comparison to winex d3d8, and no sound problems like under real
windows.  My three button mouse also works unlike windows.   All these
advantages =)

Jesse

warcraft 3

[Rob Browning]

"Jesse Allen"  writes:
> - Close the install program.  Go to the directory where war3 is
>
> installed.  mv the Movies folder to Movies backup.  The game tries
> to display a movie clip on start in the retail, and it hangs wine =(

Hmm.  Sounds suspiciously like the Baldur's Gate movie problem.

warcraft 3

[Jesse Allen]

> Hmm.  Sounds suspiciously like the Baldur's Gate movie problem.

Warcraft 3 uses Divx for it's movies.  If Baldur's Gate uses it as well,
then it definately related.

Because War3 uses Divx (http://www.divx.com), it might be easy to debug
because I think it's open source.  I might as well try fixing it.

Another thing that's interesting to me, like nearly a year ago, I would
guess, I and a couple other people were asking blizzard to release their
trailers in a better format than quicktime.  Most people in the forums
would say quicktime was the best, and we would say, "have you ever heard
of divx?" We suggested divx because of superior compression and quality. 
(And for me, it works in linux =)  And a couple weeks later, they
rerelease a bunch of trailers under divx, and announced they licensed it. 
Even on their website they list for the divx trailers "PC/Linux"  which is
a big deal for me =)   And they like it so much they use it in their
latest game.  Maybe this is another reason I got the beta  =)

(and another thing, open the first page of the game manual, it lists they
use divx, Freetype 2.0, and zlib.  No wonder it works so well under linux.
 Maybe one of these days they will use SDL ? =)

Jesse

warcraft 3

[Rob Browning]

"Jesse Allen"  writes:
> > Hmm.  Sounds suspiciously like the Baldur's Gate movie problem.
>
> Warcraft 3 uses Divx for it's movies.  If Baldur's Gate uses it as well,
> then it definately related.

Not sure -- cd1's moviecd1.bif claims in the first chunk of the file
that it's an "Interplay MVE File", whatever that is, and the first
bytes claim BIFFV1.

FWIW

warcraft 3

[Bobby Bingham]

On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 04:32:30PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote:
> "Jesse Allen"  writes:
> > > Hmm.  Sounds suspiciously like the Baldur's Gate movie problem.
> >
> > Warcraft 3 uses Divx for it's movies.  If Baldur's Gate uses it as well,
> > then it definately related.
>
> Not sure -- cd1's moviecd1.bif claims in the first chunk of the file
> that it's an "Interplay MVE File", whatever that is, and the first
> bytes claim BIFFV1.

All the movies in the "Movies" directory have extension .mpq, but they are just
avi files with divx5 video.  but instead of normal "DIVX" fourcc code, they
use "BLZ0", but mplayer plays it fine once tweaked for the different fourcc.

warcraft 3

[Andreas Mohr]

On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 10:54:53AM -0700, Jesse Allen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here's how to get Warcraft 3 running under wine:

Wrong place.

This should have been appdb.codeweavers.com instead ;-)

Well, OK, I'll better add a HOWTO note to it soon.
Thanks for this description !

warcraft 3

[Matthieu Foillard]

Jesse Allen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here's how to get Warcraft 3 running under wine:
> -
>
> Use the latest wine cvs.  Only that will work.
> -
>
> Mount the CD, and run install.exe on the CD with the winver set to
>
> win98 under config.  (even though 95/98 are exactly the same when playing
> the game--i hate that)  You should disable the ide-scsi thing because it
> seems to cause problems =(
> - Close the install program.  Go to the
>
> directory where war3 is installed.  mv the Movies folder to Movies backup.
> The game tries to display a movie clip on start in the retail, and it
> hangs wine =(
> - Download the NoCD patch for Warcraft 3 v1.00 (I don't
>
> know if 1.01 is out yet) at www.gamecopyworld.com.  mv war3.exe and
> worldedit.exe to backup names.  Copy in the patched program exe's.  You
> may now run War3 if you wish.  Warcraft 3 uses Safedisc v2.  With this
> patch it will bypass it.  Run war3 with the command "wine war3.exe --
> -opengl".
> - To login battle.net, you need to bypass the exe check.  With
>
> the patched version of the game, it won't work.  So what I did to get it
> to work is moved the patched exe's to something like "war3_patched.exe"
> and create a symbolic link "war3.exe" that links to it.  Start the game
> "war3.exe".  To login to battle.net, open bash console.  Change to the
> war3 directory, and reset the symbolic link to the original war3 exe, let
> it sleep 5 seconds, and then reset the symbolic link back to the patched
> version.  While it's sleeping, you need to login into battle.net
> immediately.  This is what I did to get D2 battle.net to work under wine.
> It should work for war3.   You need to be the same version as battle.net
> for it to work though. (currently only 1.00 is availible for linux, and
> battle.net is 1.01)
> - To patch the game, you need to get the
>
> standalone patches.  Set your symbolic link to the real exe's, and patch
> away =)
>
> The beta in contrast worked perfectly.  The retail has a couple problems
> =(.  The advantages I find running War3 under linux/wine/opengl, are
> higher framerates than on both real windows, and winex.  And no graphics
> errors in comparison to winex d3d8, and no sound problems like under real
> windows.  My three button mouse also works unlike windows.   All these
> advantages =)
>
> Jesse

hi,
after i follow these steps, I can't make it working with both winex and 
wine :

Using winex using d3d (compiled from cvs), start using wine 
path/War3.exe  :
err:win32:_EnterSysLevel (0x407e74a8, level 2): Holding 0x40887fec, 
level 3. Expect deadlock!
fixme:ddraw:D3D_GL_sync_render_state unsupported render state 161
fixme:ddraw:D3D_GL_sync_render_state unsupported render state 162
fixme:ddraw:D3D_GL_sync_render_state unsupported render state 168
fixme:ddraw:D3D_GL_sync_render_state unsupported render state 171
fixme:ddraw:D3D_GL_sync_render_state unsupported render state 172
fixme:ddraw:D3D_GL_sync_render_state unsupported render state 173
fixme:ddraw:D3D_GL_texture_stage_state unsupported texture stage state 28
fixme:ddraw:D3D_GL_texture_stage_state unsupported texture stage state 25
fixme:ddraw:D3D_GL_texture_stage_state unsupported texture stage state 28
fixme:ddraw:D3D_GL_texture_stage_state unsupported texture stage state 25
Erreur de segmentation
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x40c2a314 "x11drv_main.c: 
X11DRV_CritSection" wait timed out, retrying (60 sec) fs=2307

Using winex using opengl (compiled from cvs), start using wine 
path/War3.exe -- -opengl :
it prints :
fixme:opengl:wglSwapLayerBuffers (): stub !
fixme:opengl:wglSwapLayerBuffers (): stub !
fixme:opengl:wglSwapLayerBuffers (): stub !

over and over ...

Using wine using opengl (compiled from cvs), start using wine 
path/War3.exe -- -opengl :

fixme:dsound:IDirectSoundImpl_SetCooperativeLevel 
(0x403aad78,00010023,2):stub
fixme:win32:CreateIoCompletionPort (ffffffff, 0000, 00000000, 00000000): 
stub.

then it seems to start fullscreen but does not display anything, so that 
i must kill it.

any ideas ?

warcraft 3

[Sylvain Petreolle]

> Using wine using opengl (compiled from cvs), start using wine 
> path/War3.exe -- -opengl :
>
> fixme:dsound:IDirectSoundImpl_SetCooperativeLevel 
> (0x403aad78,00010023,2):stub
> fixme:win32:CreateIoCompletionPort (ffffffff, 0000, 00000000,
> 00000000): 
> stub.
>
> then it seems to start fullscreen but does not display anything, so
> that 
> i must kill it.
>
> any ideas ?

ps -ef |grep wine to see if it has gone to debugger (winedbg).
if so, you should put "Desktop" = "640x480" or so to see what happened.

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[Lionel Ulmer]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 06:08:07PM +0200, Matthieu Foillard wrote:
> Using winex using opengl (compiled from cvs), start using wine 
> path/War3.exe -- -opengl :
> it prints :
> fixme:opengl:wglSwapLayerBuffers (): stub !
> fixme:opengl:wglSwapLayerBuffers (): stub !
> fixme:opengl:wglSwapLayerBuffers (): stub !

This is fixed in the WineHQ CVS tree. You just need to wait for the patch to
do the WineHQ => ReWind => WineX path (as it's X11 licensed) :-)

Or you can also apply the patch yourself to your CVS WineX tree.

Lionel

warcraft 3

[Ove Kaaven]

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Lionel Ulmer wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 06:08:07PM +0200, Matthieu Foillard wrote:
> > Using winex using opengl (compiled from cvs), start using wine 
> > path/War3.exe -- -opengl :
> > it prints :
> > fixme:opengl:wglSwapLayerBuffers (): stub !
> > fixme:opengl:wglSwapLayerBuffers (): stub !
> > fixme:opengl:wglSwapLayerBuffers (): stub !
>
> This is fixed in the WineHQ CVS tree. You just need to wait for the patch to
> do the WineHQ => ReWind => WineX path (as it's X11 licensed) :-)

It is? I don't think it said so in
http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-patches/2002/06/0041.html, and Jesse
Allen isn't registered as X11-friendly yet... which is among the reasons
why it hasn't taken that route yet.

warcraft 3

[Lionel Ulmer]

> It is? I don't think it said so in
> http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-patches/2002/06/0041.html, and Jesse
> Allen isn't registered as X11-friendly yet... which is among the reasons
> why it hasn't taken that route yet.

Ah, forgot that I 'dual attributed' the patch to Jesse too.

Lionel

warcraft 3

[Matthieu Foillard]

i finally made warcraft III working :

1. rename the Movies folder as  Jesse Allen did.
2. get winex from cvs, then patch srcs with 
http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-patches/2002/06/0041.html
3. configure wine using ./configure --enable-opengl ..., then build it.
4. run warcraft using : wine /path/War3.exe ( the -opengl doesn't work 
for me)
5. enjoy !

warcraft 3

[leanne]

Matthieu Foillard wrote:
> i finally made warcraft III working :
> - rename the Movies folder as  Jesse Allen did.
> - get winex from cvs, then patch srcs with
>
> http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-patches/2002/06/0041.html
> 3. configure wine using ./configure --enable-opengl ..., then build it.
> 4. run warcraft using : wine /path/War3.exe ( the -opengl doesn't work 
> for me)
> 5. enjoy !

I followed your procedures, X crashed when I started to run it.  
It said ".... deadlock ..."
Any idea?
Thanks.

Leanne

warcraft 3

[Jesse Allen]

> Matthieu Foillard wrote:
> > i finally made warcraft III working :
> > - rename the Movies folder as  Jesse Allen did.
> > - get winex from cvs, then patch srcs with
> >
> > http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-patches/2002/06/0041.html
> > 3. configure wine using ./configure --enable-opengl ..., then build
> > it. 4. run warcraft using : wine /path/War3.exe ( the -opengl doesn't
> > work  for me)
> > 5. enjoy !
>
> I followed your procedures, X crashed when I started to run it.
> It said ".... deadlock ..."
> Any idea?
> Thanks.

Hi,

I don't know what's going on with the current WineX, I can't get it to
work.  I got an old version that I used with the beta back in March to
work.  Getting the latest WineX to work seems to be much harder than Wine.

Try my How To under "Warcraft III" in the application db found at
http://appdb.codeweavers.com  except remember this before running
install.exe: copy a native msvcrt.dll into your wine installation. 
Example destination location:  ~/c/windows/system
If you don't copy that in install.exe will fail like people have been
complaining about giving this error message:
fixme:msvcrt:__CxxFrameHandler
(0x40481e98,0x405959b0,0x40481b20,0x040481ab0):stub?...(repeated)

Luckily, people seem to be trying to fix this kind of problem for wine so
in the future, you won't need this native dll.

I can't believe I missed this part.  I thought it wasn't needed because I
cleaned out my wine install setting up War3 retail to find out the exact
steps.  I copied this dll to my home directory thinking it was outside the
windows/system path, and would purposely not load... come to find today...
I see this F:/msvcrt.dll in some logs!!! doh it was loading it all along. 
I tried running install.exe without, and discovered what people been
talking about.

I hope people can get running now, because wine War3 does work very well. 
 =)

Jesse

warcraft 3

[Nix N. Nix]

On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 13:54, Jesse Allen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here's how to get Warcraft 3 running under wine:
> -
>
> Use the latest wine cvs.  Only that will work.
> -
>
> Mount the CD, and run install.exe on the CD with the winver set to
>
> win98 under config.  (even though 95/98 are exactly the same when playing
> the game--i hate that)  You should disable the ide-scsi thing because it
> seems to cause problems =(

~/.wine/config:
...
[Version]
"Windows" = "win2k"
...

Doesn't work.  In fact, this doesn't help, irrespective of the version I
set it to.  Where else can I set the Windoze version ?

I managed to get War3 to work using winex:
http://www.transgaming.com/showthread.php?msg=11638&forum=6&thread=1...

Hope this helps, and thanks for the help.