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Revision as of 22:19, 18 February 2013
Template:Infobox Warcraft (series)
General information
- Official Blizzard Site
- Battle.net Warcraft III Patch Site
- Mojo StormStout's Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne Strategy Guide Strategy and Game Guide by Blizzard
- Epicwar Biggest Warcraft III Map Database
- The Hive Workshop Community Site with focus on modding & Map database
Patches
Click on "Battle.net" in the Main-Menu to automatically patch the game to the latest version. Patches are also available as separate download (English, other languages). Current patch is 1.26.
Issues and Fixes
Mac issues
While Warcraft 3 works fine with most new Macbooks a lot of older ones (Powerbooks and early generation MacBook pros around 2006) can be very deceptive. A lot of them will be able to run the game until too many units are spawned in a game, which will cause the computer to freeze completely forcing the user to shut the computer down. Other than that a lot of the older macs get error messages quite often causing disturbance in gameplay. There are some rather difficult work arounds for some of these issues but the best you can do is installing a windows partition on your mac using bootcamp. This will allow the computer to run as a windows with as much power as the actual mac, enabling it (in some cases) of playing the game.
Windows NT Is Not Supported
When installing Warcraft III, the installer will contain a warning about Windows NT if you are using Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7. These versions of Windows are based on Windows NT, but are compatible with Warcraft III. It is safe to ignore this message.
Windows Vista/Windows 7 Compatibility
The game will run on Vista and Windows 7, even though it was intended for Windows 98. There might be a few issues with the game, however. If you have any problems, set the Compatibility Mode to "Windows 98 / Windows ME".
You may get the following error message in Windows 7 when connecting to Battle.net: "There was an error writing to your hard drive while trying to download a file from Battle.net. You may need to free some space. Please check your hard drive and try again." The game is trying to write to Program Files, but does not have permissions to do so. Run as administrator.
Cinematics may have artifacts or other corruption on Windows 7. Right-click the executable. On the Compatibility tab, check Disable desktop composition and click OK.
Wide Screen Support (WINDOWS)
As of patch 1.25b, Warcraft III contains native Widescreen support. To change resolutions, simply open the video options. If you do not wish to install the patch, do the following:
1. Start 2. Run 3. Type "regedit" 4. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Blizzard Entertainment\Warcraft III\Video 5. Right click and modify "reswidth" and "resheight" 6. Change the "value data" to match the resolution of your monitor (make sure to change the base to decimal) *ex. 1080P (1920*1080) reswidth = 1920 and resheight = 1080 7. Restart Warcraft 3 8. Have Fun
Although Widescreen is now supported, it is stretched widescreen, causing the UI to look somewhat misshapen.