wine-20050419 crashes warcraft 3

[Sebastien Fievet]

Hi all,

I recently compiled wine-20050419, and decided to give Warcraft 3 a try.
The game installed nicely but crashed at runtime, freezing my computer.
I had to hard-reboot the box to recover. Unfortunately, i am unable to give any
trace or log, because each time i launch Warcraft it hangs, leaving me with no
alternative but rebooting the system.

On the other hand, the world editor works more or less : i can't see the menu
bar above the map entry, but i can play with the landscape elements and build a
map.

I also managed to play "Starcraft" and "Atomic Bomberman", which don't make use
of opengl, so it sounds like my installation is correct.

Running Warcraft with or without "-opengl", in managed or desktop mode, as
root or normal user, with any windows version (from win98 up to winxp) amounts
to the same crash.

My config is:
- kernel 2.4.26 running on a k6-2 500MHz.
- xorg server 6.8.1
- GeForce 4 MX440 with latest NVidia drivers (1.7174)
Everything  compiled locally with gcc 3.3.4.

Any (little) help is more than welcomed!

regards, Seb.

[Timothy Mann]

Hi,
 You should probably edit your wine config file in .wine/config (if you
have one) to run war3.exe in a window. This will possibly allow you to
view any traceback information. The other thing is that you should make
sure that you are running Warcraft 3 in OpenGL. The command is:
wine war3.exe -opengl
I hope that this helps.
--Tim
> Hi all,
>
> I recently compiled wine-20050419, and decided to give Warcraft 3 a try.
> The game installed nicely but crashed at runtime, freezing my computer.
> I had to hard-reboot the box to recover. Unfortunately, i am unable to
> give any
> trace or log, because each time i launch Warcraft it hangs, leaving me
> with no
> alternative but rebooting the system.
>
> On the other hand, the world editor works more or less : i can't see the
> menu
> bar above the map entry, but i can play with the landscape elements and
> build a
> map.
>
> I also managed to play "Starcraft" and "Atomic Bomberman", which don't
> make use
> of opengl, so it sounds like my installation is correct.
>
> Running Warcraft with or without "-opengl", in managed or desktop mode, as
> root or normal user, with any windows version (from win98 up to winxp)
> amounts
> to the same crash.
>
> My config is:
> - kernel 2.4.26 running on a k6-2 500MHz.
> - xorg server 6.8.1
> - GeForce 4 MX440 with latest NVidia drivers (1.7174)
>
> Everything  compiled locally with gcc 3.3.4.
>
> Any (little) help is more than welcomed!
>
> regards, Seb.