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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