How to play Warcraft 3 on ubuntu with wine

This post was written by admin on April 19, 2009
Posted Under: General

Wine is a program that allow Linux users to run some Windows applications inside of Linux.If you are using ubuntu and want to play warcraft 3 in ubuntu,this tutorial may help you.

First,make sure graphics drivers installed in your system,then install wine by executing following command in terminal:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine

Locate to your warcraft folder and rename “Movies” to “_Movies” after wine installed.

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Start game by using command:

wine "/media/jmk/war3.1.20/WarcraftIII/War3".exe -opengl

where “”/media/jmk/war3.1.20/WarcraftIII/War3″.exe” is the location of war3,it can be mounted from ntfs drive.
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Tips:
There’s also a GUI tool called PlayOnLinux in Ubuntu Linux,that you can install and run WarCraft 3 in your Ubuntu.
ALt+right click combination key is often used,and a menu list pop up when you press the combination key in game.Click here to fix it.

Tags: game, wine

Reader Comments

It works,thanks for your great jobs!!!

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Written By Jgx on April 19th, 2009 @ 11:50 pm

Thanks!
Its working fine,with you and program calls wine.

Now i can play warcraft 3 on ubuntu man.
Wooooooooooooo-hoooooooooooo!

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Written By Ivan on June 21st, 2009 @ 12:33 pm

Hi,

Thanks for the tip. My game now works smoothly, how to configure that wine will use OpenGL as default graphic engine? Because I want to just click on the icon to play, not type the command.

Thanks.

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Written By ndthuan on August 13th, 2009 @ 1:12 am