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Hi,
I decided to share with you a little tip :
- Hosting games on Warcraft III (The Frozen Throne) under wine on Ubuntu Hardy (LAN & Battle Net) -
. Ubuntu (Hardy).
. Wine via official Repositories ().
. Nvidia / ATI drivers installed and working.
. Ports 6112 ~ 6119 () are redirected to your computer IP address if you are behind a router.
. You can play Warcraft III with wine.
x Warcraft III is running good, but you can’t host LAN games or create Custom Games on Battlenet.
When you’re hosting a game, everything looks good, ports are open and redirected, but no one can join …
- for all the clients that are trying to join.
Same problem when hosting LAN games …
This problem have been introduced in a very old version of Wine.
This “bug”, back in those days, broke the entire Battle Net access, and LAN games.
The Battle Net bug was pretty fast fixed.
The Problem ?
They never fixed the problem about hosting games (as far as i know) since this version of wine.
And this, since version 0.40, today, on hardy, the official version is 0.58!
And absolutely no workable fix or patch for this Warcaft III/Wine problem.
Believe me, after LOTS of researches and tries, there is no other solutions except to downgrade wine …
When i use version 0.40, i can host games on LAN and/or over Battle Net.
So a little :
$sudo apt-get remove wine
Will remove wine.
Get this version of wine
$sudo dpkg -i
Will install this old version of wine (v0.40) wich was for Ubuntu Feisty 7.04 (i386). If you have Ubuntu 7.4, you’r good. On Ubuntu Hardy : There will be a dependancy problem about an uninstallable lib (libldap).
If you have Ubuntu 7.10; i did not try, see for yourself !
Except this little warning, this dependancy is not a big deal.
Wine works without it.
If you want to host games on warcraft III, don’t forget NOT TO update Wine and keep this version.
If you have the same problem on Debian Etch, you can have the Wine Package (v 0.40) HERE.
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