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nn

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Registered: 2007-03-23

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Playing Warcraft 3

i followed the guide to installing wc3 in the wiki
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Warcraft3

and i got up to the Bypassing Copy Protection

the problem is, the current patch when this was written was 1.20e, now it is 1.21

i applied the official 1.21 patch from blizzard but have not been able to find the no-cd patch.

i have the original wc3 cd in the drive (which i bought), i dont know why i need a no-cd patch to make it work, but im sure there is a reason. anyways, is there someone who can help me and/or update the guide in the wiki?

phrakture

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Registered: 2003-10-29

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Re: Playing Warcraft 3

Yeah - they broke it (partly why I stopped playing) so the no-cd crack doesn't work...

The reason it is needed is because of the craptastic way that Blizzard tries to validate the CD rom - I don't know how exactly it works, but it's a method that doesn't bubble down to the way linux handles devices... that is, while the Windows APIs are there, the actual validation of the CD won't succeed.

What you need is the "d2loader" from winehq - it's used to load diablo 2 by shuffling binaries around.  You should be able to use it for WC3 too, but I never got around to getting it working.

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nn

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Registered: 2007-03-23

Posts: 12

Re: Playing Warcraft 3

are there any reports of the d2loader working with wc3? i just want to be sure before i try it.

or is there is any other way to play wc3 online with the new patch? i havnt checked out cedega yet, do you think that would work?

Fal

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Registered: 2007-03-21

Posts: 30

Re: Playing Warcraft 3

I have 1.21 patched working WC3. Dun remember where I got the nocd but perhaps I could get it to you

nn

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Registered: 2007-03-23

Posts: 12

Re: Playing Warcraft 3

thanks. i dont know if this forum has a PM system, but if you could email it to me, it would be great

Xorcerer

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From: China

Registered: 2007-03-09

Posts: 15

Re: Playing Warcraft 3

I have got one, but It's a Chinese patch that overwrite all the files that updated.
www.replays.net. (Simple Chinese)

nn

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Registered: 2007-03-23

Posts: 12

Re: Playing Warcraft 3

ok i got warcraft3 to load and it says 1.21 in the corner at the main menu

but when i try to connect to battle.net, it says that it cant download the latest version and to apply it manually

i downloaded 1.21a from blizzards site and applied it already, what am i doing wrong?

Fal

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Registered: 2007-03-21

Posts: 30

Re: Playing Warcraft 3

ummm.. not quite sure. try reinstall, patch the universal patch, put the crack there again and see if works

nn

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Registered: 2007-03-23

Posts: 12

Re: Playing Warcraft 3

hmmm...still same problem. you think maybe something is wrong with the patch im using? i got it from battle.net, is there another one i should have gotten?

and Fal, i take the exe's from the "Files" folder and not the "Original Files" folder and replace them with the exes in .wine/drive_c/Program Files/Warcraft III/ right? what is the install.exe for? i already ran from the cd. am i supposed to use the one you sent me instead?

and what do you mean by universal patch? the one im using is "War3ROC_121a_English.exe"

Fal

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Registered: 2007-03-21

Posts: 30

Re: Playing Warcraft 3

well... only RoC? Not sure will that nocd work then since it's for RoC & TFT...

nn

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Registered: 2007-03-23

Posts: 12

Re: Playing Warcraft 3

i dont have my tft cd, i just want to play roc. will i need a new nocd?

Fal

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Registered: 2007-03-21

Posts: 30

Re: Playing Warcraft 3

Most likely yes.

nn

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Registered: 2007-03-23

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Re: Playing Warcraft 3

i dont know if im allowed to ask/post cracks on here, but i found one at gcw that was apparently for roc. i have to go to school now so ill try it when i get back

nn

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Registered: 2007-03-23

Posts: 12

Re: Playing Warcraft 3

ok i just tried again with the other nocd patch and still the same result.

Fal, if i get tft and use the patch you gave me, will i still be able to play roc as well as tft? if thats the case, ill go get my tft cd

Dheart

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Registered: 2006-10-26

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Re: Playing Warcraft 3

Actually, because I really hate to use my original CD, I found a way that worked arround, but unfortunatly it stoped when they released the 1.21 (Well It doesn't work with my fake CD, but anyway I'll describe what I tried)
First I got Cedega 5.2. At first War 3 was unable to start even with my original CD.
Than as root I wrote this:

chmod a+xr /dev/cdrom
chmod a+rx /mnt/cd
chmod a+xr /dev/cd/cdrom-sr0

And magically It started working (this changes the permissions so that user can read/write on CD which is required for the copy protection to verify) (And I think that after you do this and configure your cdrom drive at winecfg as D:\ Copy protection starts working with wine too, but I didn't tested) But as I said above I really hate to use my original CD so I countinued searching new ways to make War 3 run on Battle.net. After searching on Google I found a way to make a copy of my original disk and then (after I wasted several CDs) I finaly got a working CD that I used as my nocd (which, I know, is extremely stupid) and was happily playing war 3 but than blizzard realiased a new patch, which made me miserable. First something went wrong with patch that it refused to recognize my fake CD as original so I finaly gave up and switched to Win to play.
I also found an other way that worked ONLY with wine (although I claimed to work perfectly with Cedega) and fucked up my Gnome screen brightness (But as I'm switching to KDE now I'll see if it would work better) This shell script used the cracked exe to start the game and then it copied the original exe over the cracked (since the battle.net "Unable to verify game version" error comes from the .exe) and you were able to log on to battle.net... However (since I play with higher brighness than the default) when I quit the game the higher brighness still remained and the only way to fix it was ctrl + alt + F1 which I disliked. I can't find a link for that no cd, but I'm share it's somewhere on the net. If I have any succes with the new patch I'll write.

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Fal

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Registered: 2007-03-21

Posts: 30

Re: Playing Warcraft 3

nn, war3.exe -opengl -classic ftw Starts RoC in opengl mode.
and tft adds a lot of cool custom maps to be played (and most maps from different mapsites require tft)
I recommend you get TFT

nn

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Registered: 2007-03-23

Posts: 12

Re: Playing Warcraft 3

i have tft, but i prefer the dota map on roc so i gave me tft to my friend. i can always get it back, but i would like to be able to play roc.

dheart, thanks for the info. from what i understand, changing the permissions did not work on the new 1.21, correct?

if you can give a little more info on that crack that replaces the cracked.exe after it starts, that would help. i wouldnt mind the screen brightness problem at this point, i just want it to work.

update: i had no luck finding the crack your talking about, am i allowed to ask for it on these boards?

skymt

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Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 443

Re: Playing Warcraft 3

Why do you need a crack? Recent versions of Wine work with the copy protection.

nn

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Registered: 2007-03-23

Posts: 12

Re: Playing Warcraft 3

Are you saying i just run the original war3.exe after its installed? ive tried that and it asked for the cd. unless this version of wine is recent (within the last few days?), then ill have to update