How to play Warcraft 3 on ubuntu with wine
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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.
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.
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.
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Reader Comments
It works,thanks for your great jobs!!!
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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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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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finally i can play warcraft in my ubuntu..thanks to u..
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sweet! works like a charm
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Thanks! But my video card is Mobile Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100. Where i can download driver for it video card?
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Omg i cant rename the movies folder !!!!!!!!!!!!! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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I’m runing Ubuntu 9.10 and It’s works like on windows!!!
Thanks a lot!!!
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I am going to try this as I have just installed the latest version of Ubuntu on a spare pc. I will comment on my sucess or failure as soon as I get to do it.
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GOOD!!
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im using ubuntu 11.04.. im already install wine 1.2 and q4wine… but im still can’t open my dota.. im already try that command, but terminal not found that folder… someone can help me… im save my dota folder at public… im try this command= ” wine /public/warcraft iii CN version E/Frozen Throne”.exe -openg1
ples help me~~~ tq
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FINALLY I GOT IT WORKING! Thanks XD
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