10/12/2005
Warcraft 3 on linux
I’ve finally managed to play warcraft 3 on linux with pretty decent perfomance…
First of all install the game using Cedega. Read this one more time…I’ve said C E D E G A. NOT wine.
After installing using your registration keys, go find a nice no-cd crack from www.gamecopyworld.com. Install that too and you are set. If you have problems patching warcraft to it’s latest version use a symlink from the cedega c_drive c:\Program Files\Warcraft III to the cedega c_drive c:\war3\.
This small script will make your life a bit easier too:
#!/bin/sh
# edit the next path
pushd /PATH/TO/CEDEGA/c_drive/war3
#cedega war3.exe -opengl
#cedega w3l.exe -opengl
popd
UNCOMMENT 1 of the 2 cedega lines. The first one is for use with Warcraft III The Frozen Throne and the second one if you use a loader for pvpgn (read below). You HAVE to uncomment one of those 2 lines, OK ??
If you want to be able to play with friends on your own battle.net server, set up a pvpgn server somewhere and use a pvpgn loader to start warcraft. If you don’t use a pvpgn loader you WILL get an error about being “unable to connect”.
Last but not least, add these 2 lines to your /etc/hosts:
X.Y.Z.W uswest.battle.net
X.Y.Z.W Europe.battle.net
Where X.Y.Z.W is the ip of your pvpgn server. Have fun!
Filed by kargig at 17:21 under General,Linux
11 Comments | 10,544 views
hey you heve ……
nice.. might try this somethime
Hey, thanks for the HowTo!
Tanx!!! =)
I have a question, can I play on battle.net? If not, I’m not getting Ubuntu! So please, help me.
YES. You CAN play on battle.net on Linux if you have an original copy of the game with a legit serial.
I’ll try to install on debian….only CPU war…no more..maybe it will runnig at..:P
It still doesn’t work when I sudo gedit etc/hosts and add my pvpgn ip and those lines..
Are you sure it works?
now is working with wine too
because now it has full directX support, and for those that didn’t knew cedega is a fork of wineX, the FORMER not so good wine with direct X.
i’ve never heard of cedegar before!
does this really work?