Winex3 + Warcraft 3

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djprotoss · Post by **djprotoss** » Wed Apr 30, 2003 1:45 pm

For some strange reason the installer fails everytime I try

it gives the following error:

Setup was unable to add the following file to C:\Program Files\Warcraft III\War3.mpq: blizzard.ax
Error 0x85200064:
(C:\temp\020606lockit\Installer\Source\MpqUtil.cpp:45)

Operation Aborted

Anyone come across this problem?

mo-ca · Post by **mo-ca** » Fri May 02, 2003 11:22 am

are you using the cvs version??

i installed wc3 with winex (bought-version) and its running great (only without videos)

if you're able to understand german, you can take a look at: HowTo WC3

eNTi · Post by **eNTi** » Fri May 02, 2003 12:35 pm

@djprotoss: what kernel are you using. because i had this problem with 2.5.x kernels only.

@mo-ca: for me even movies work great.

djprotoss · Post by **djprotoss** » Sat May 03, 2003 3:42 pm

On the machine (its not actually mine - its my g/f's, but thats another story)
its running gentoo-sources (r1 iirc) and its using the official transgaming binaries. The point may well be moot as I am currently having to rebuild her system after an extremly nasty spot of reiser corruption...

djprotoss · Post by **djprotoss** » Sun May 04, 2003 3:21 pm

Addendum:
Ok, I've rebuilt her system (now on ext3) using gaming-sources-r3, and I get exactly the same problem. Any thoughts anyone?

[EDIT:]
have now also tried it using development-sources, and using cxoffice (I know its not designed for that, but I thought it was worth a go). and it always gives the same r*&^y error Gah.

mo-ca · Post by **mo-ca** » Mon May 05, 2003 1:21 pm

did ever you install from that cd ?? [perhaps windows]

perhaps its only a problem with the cd, because the mpq-files were only copied during the install from the cd to harddisk.

perhaps you should give a try and copy it yourself to your install-directory

@eNTi: nice for you, the movies are working for me too, but it doesnt switch back to game afterwards. (game crashes)
--> but no problem xine and mplayer are playing the movies nice

djprotoss · Post by **djprotoss** » Tue May 06, 2003 11:45 am

/me slaps forehead Doh!

the cd was scratched. I didn't suspect it since it had recently installed under windows, and was still working for running it under windows.

Now it installs ok. Doesn't do anything when I run wine3x War3.exe mind you, but thats another problem that will have to wait a couple of days while I take some more of my finals.

djprotoss · Post by **djprotoss** » Fri May 09, 2003 5:34 pm

Gah. This is crazy.

Ok, I've determined that it wasn't the cd being scratched - The time i got it to work i was actually installing of the HD (i'd forgotten). I've tried it with a friends cd and I get exactly the same problem

Having got it installed via the HD, i've been unable to get it to recognise the CD (despite various attempts at playing with config and user.reg). I eventually gave up and used a sort-of-patch program that i found in the usual places (wink wink).

now when I run it at least gives an error message...

bash-2.05b$winex3 war3.exe
[FAIL] CoCreateInstance(CLSID_FilterGraph, NULL, CLSTX_INPROC, IID_IGraphBuilder, (void **)&s_pGraph = -2147024891wine: Unhandled exception, starting debugger
...
bash-2.05b$

p.s. I've tried it with and without -opengl

[EDIT:] I've rebooted into windows and checked the patch works. It does

gutano · Post by **gutano** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 8:30 pm

I had this same problem loading from CD, it seems to be a problem with the cached copy in /tmp, I simply deleted all my war3 stuff from /tmp, and re-installed with no problem.

Hope this helps.

gutano · Post by **gutano** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 11:00 pm

Aside from getting through the installer, I still come up with a blank screen when I try to run the game. It seems a few other people have run into this aswell? I have tried patching to newer versions of War3 thinking they might have change some initializations, but no luck. I have also tried using different versions of wine, includeing Winex3.0, Winex3.1, wine-20030508. I must say this is rather frustrating because War3 worked VERY well (aside from a slightly noticable skew in the fonts) on a version of standard wine that I installed last summer on a gentoo box.

Any idea's?