Configuring Warcraft III for Vista - The Hive Workshop

ace992 · 10-02-2007, 02:41 AM

Requirements

Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne must be installed.
Ensure that the latest patch is also installed: Blizzard Support Page

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 or better is installed: Vista update page

Getting it to work.

Put Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne in administrator mode.

Right click the Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne icon; select properties.
Browse to compatibility in the right hand conner, click it then at the bottom. look for run this program in administrator mode and click it.

If the game still doesn't work you can try to run this in compatibility mode for Windows XP Service Pack 2: it's in the same place as run this program as an administrator.

Now you're done!

Warcraft should now run 100%. If sound errors are present, just update the sound card drivers.

Testing

This procedure was tested using two Vista Ultimate PCs and worked 100%.

Feel free to PM me for more help (I can get other older games to work on vista as well!)

UchihaSasuke.gr · 10-02-2007, 01:23 PM

Nice tutorial.That's some good info about these buggy Vista!
+rep

ace992 · 10-02-2007, 10:35 PM

Thnx for the rep :)

**brad.dude03** · 10-04-2007, 11:48 PM

A friend of mine had to run it on Windows 2000 compatibility mode just to get WC3 to run >.>

ace992 · 10-05-2007, 02:31 AM

Yeah? well i got vista and this is how i got mine to work so im hopeing this helps other people :).

dofys · 10-05-2007, 05:28 AM

I think Windows 2000 compatiblity mode is a feature on the Vista.

Anyways, is there to why vista-users should work with administrator mode? You can't just say that it was tested on the two computer and worked very well.

Gift_o_Chaos · 10-06-2007, 10:56 PM

OMG I love you!!

Wolverabid · 10-07-2007, 06:58 PM

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Unscrewed_Magic · 10-07-2007, 10:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gift_o_Chaos

OMG I love you!!

Same, but with more love.

ace992 · 10-09-2007, 04:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dofys

I think Windows 2000 compatiblity mode is a feature on the Vista.

Anyways, is there to why vista-users should work with administrator mode? You can't just say that it was tested on the two computer and worked very well.

Lol im not sure but this is the way i got warcraft 3 to work :) admin mode solves alot of stuff on vista cuz vista muchs sure its the admin playing with the settings ect

**Pyritie** · 10-16-2007, 09:34 PM

Weird. Wc3 works just fine on my Vista. Then again, I had to purge it a few days after I got it because Magos' editor did something to the file types settings and so whenever I double-clicked on a folder it tried to open it in Magos'...

Then I had to reinstall all the drivers...

Even before I nuked it wc3 still worked fine. Weird.

It's Vista Business by the way. Don't ask why.

The only bug I've found is that whenever you click on anything in WE it beeps. Very odd.

**brad.dude03** · 10-16-2007, 10:34 PM

Yes, very, very odd.

scarx · 10-20-2007, 02:05 AM

i tried EVERYTHING above ... i look everywhere how to solve my problem... here my problem: i try to run warcraft TFT and when it starts running all i get is a black screen then my task bar is showing and the screen is still black and my alt+tab i can go to other programns open but the background is still black so i need to ctrl+atl+del and it says warcraft iii : not responding ...so can anyone help me out i miss playing DOTA :(

**brad.dude03** · 10-20-2007, 04:06 AM

I don't possinly see how you could miss such a shitty game, but try running Warcraft 3 in Windows Xp or 2000 compatibility mode.

scarx · 10-20-2007, 04:28 AM

i did , i tried every compability and it doesnt work :(