Bugs and Issues

[Dr Super Good]

(My PC currently runs on Windows 10, I'm allready registered as administrator on my PC and all other applications where closed and it gave me error message.)

Did you try running WC3 as an administrator? Just having your account as one is not enough as WC3 should still be mostly starting in user mode. After the patch is installed it should only ever be run in user mode.

 

[Cherrymage]

After updating from 1.27b to the latest version (1.28b I believe?), Warcraft III would ask for User Data Migration. But as soon as I clicked on it, Warcraft III froze.

Operating System : Windows 7 (32-bit)
Warcraft III Path : D:/dota

Before Clicking

After Clicking

 

[Dr Super Good]

Did you let it work for a few minutes?

 

[Cherrymage]

No, because I thought it's freezing.

Why? Is it normal for it to freeze?

 

[Dr Super Good]

Why? Is it normal for it to freeze?

That just means that the UI thread is busy and so has not polled events for a few seconds.

 

[Cherrymage]

Hmm, I see.

Also, can I just Alt+Tab away while Migration is in Progress?

 

[Dr Super Good]

Also, can I just Alt+Tab away while Migration is in Progress?

Sure. If you have a lot of saves or maps it might take several minutes. Might also be broken now that it was interrupted during migration (reinstall if that is the case). Make sure to run WC3 as an administrator during the migration, after the migration it should not be required to run as administrator.

 

[Cherrymage]

Aww, no... migration failed during halfway

Tried twice, but still the results are the same.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Try reinstalling WC3, use Blizzard download for it. If using a non-English locale then consider trying the English locale as that is widely considered the most stable.

 

[Kacpa2]

Another piece of feedback from me.
I've noticed that since last patch whispering seems to be semi broken. It initially seems to work fine but after several whipsers to others i couldnt whisper anymore and i didnt even see my own whisper messages. It stood this way no matter how much time have passed. And it wasnt just limited to single person. I couldnt whisper at all. I presume that even notifications about me joining in to a game wouldnt be whispered to my friends.
It happened to me every time i was on bnet so far since the update. Usually after 15 or 20 messages i think.
I hope that my feedback helps you spot cause of it. Does anyone else suffer from this issue?

 

[chusrubi2]

Another piece of feedback from me.
I've noticed that since last patch whispering seems to be semi broken. It initially seems to work fine but after several whipsers to others i couldnt whisper anymore and i didnt even see my own whisper messages. It stood this way no matter how much time have passed. And it wasnt just limited to single person. I couldnt whisper at all. I presume that even notifications about me joining in to a game wouldnt be whispered to my friends.
It happened to me every time i was on bnet so far since the update. Usually after 15 or 20 messages i think.
I hope that my feedback helps you spot cause of it. Does anyone else suffer from this issue?

If this is really happening, it's not because of the w3 client patches but because of the server side changes.

 

[Zwiebelchen]

New Bug found:

Enabling local file support causes the main menu to go black and also makes all ingame buff icons invisible!

 

[deepstrasz]

Multiplayer: if you pause the game just before a cinematic with disable user control starts, guess what, you can't do anything anymore

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Patch 1.28.5 Battlenet installer MPQ issue

 

[geegee]

It should probably be placed in the Warcraft III folder in documents, not any of its sub folders. If it does not work there then it is bugged and Warcraft III is either still looking for it in the install directory, or not looking for it at all.

How do I make my WC3 look for my maps in the WC3 folder in documents? I think mine is looking in the original install directory. When I try to host a LAN game, sometimes but not always, an error pops up saying "Game was not found."

What throws me off is that sometimes it lets me host games and other times it says the above error. Custom maps and default Blizzard maps both give me the same error.

edit: not sure how to add an image here sorry

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[Dr Super Good]

How do I make my WC3 look for my maps in the WC3 folder in documents? I think mine is looking in the original install directory. When I try to host a LAN game, sometimes but not always, an error pops up saying "Game was not found."

Update to the latest version of WC3. It will automatically migrate all maps to the documents folder.

What throws me off is that sometimes it lets me host games and other times it says the above error.

Image is broken link.

 

[geegee]

Update to the latest version of WC3. It will automatically migrate all maps to the documents folder.Image is broken link.

The latest update is what caused this error to appear, the maps are in the documents folder already.

Edit: There I got the image uploaded. "The game was not found." error appears when I try to host any map, but the strange thing is that sometimes there is no error & other times there is. Also, I've tried a fresh reinstall, I'm running as admin etc. Thank you.

 

[chusrubi2]

I was playing ladder the other day and I had this bug mentioned by someone else:

I had gargoyles, right-clicked on a copter that was above trees and they all moved there, without targeting the copter.

Sadly, I tried to reproduce it later but didn't succeed.

 

[Dr Super Good]

I had gargoyles, right-clicked on a copter that was above trees and they all moved there, without targeting the copter.

Sounds like you missed the hit box.

 

[chusrubi2]

Sounds like you missed the hit box.

I'm not the only one that had this issue, someone wrote it here in the forum not so long ago. Too bad I don't remember where.

 

[Kaijyuu]

I seem to recall some issue on the PTR where right clicking trees gave an invalid target error instead of movement for units that can't attack nor harvest trees. That would still require missing the hitbox though.

 

[deepstrasz]

[$100 Prize Pool] Melee Mapping Contest - 1v1
@Anomines found a major editor bug. I think he is using the original game's and not WEX or any other custom editor.

 

[Lumberjohn]

I can't use a Reign of Chaos-only world editor because

• Consolidated Reign of Chaos and The Frozen Throne into one game executable and one World Editor

so i can't launch any world editor without frozen throne

 

[dreambeliever]

thanks for this.

 

[deepstrasz]

Hey, how about a "fix" for too long map file names which can't be seen in the custom games section (ingame)? Shortening the name of the file works but what about something to make the game be able to read longer filenames?

 

[Dr Super Good]

Hey, how about a "fix" for too long map file names which can't be seen in the custom games section (ingame)? Shortening the name of the file works but what about something to make the game be able to read longer filenames?

Unlikely. Windows just does not like long file paths, although the limit is usually 256 characters for the entire file path.

 

[deepstrasz]

nlikely. Windows just does not like long file paths, although the limit is usually 256 characters for the entire file path.

Well, this is considered too long by my WarIII: Queen Sinestralis Fortress v 1.01 All that with the version at the end of it and (number of players) before the title and plus .w3x.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Well, this is considered too long by my WarIII: Queen Sinestralis Fortress v 1.01 All that with the version at the end of it and (number of players) before the title and plus .w3x.

No idea what you mean. WC3 finds the map fine.

I placed it in the path...
Warcraft III\Maps\TESTING\(4) Queen Sinestralis Fortress v 1.02.w3x

 

[deepstrasz]

No idea what you mean. WC3 finds the map fine.

Weird. Told you, my WcIII doesn't see it unless I shorten the filename. I'm using 1.27b by the way.

 

[Kaijyuu]

Could any unicode be in the path? Maybe even with your windows username (since by default maps are in your user folder).

Wc3 is *supposed* to work with unicode properly but some implementations start considering each character as something like 4 separate characters, which can make the actual size of a string explode. I don't know if they fixed it properly or not.

Another possibility is badly implemented symlinks that end up having multiple layers, which can make the apparent size of a path incredibly long.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Weird. Told you, my WcIII doesn't see it unless I shorten the filename. I'm using 1.27b by the way.

So you are complaining to Blizzard to fix something that has probably already been fixed...

Please update to the latest WC3 version and check if the problem persists. The maps now go in the Documents folder rather than Program Files. A limit may still exist but it is likely considerably longer than before.

Wc3 is *supposed* to work with unicode properly but some implementations start considering each character as something like 4 separate characters, which can make the actual size of a string explode. I don't know if they fixed it properly or not.

I am not sure if Warcraft III is even Unicode aware. It might be using the old code page system rather than the UTF-16 Unicode Windows APIs. All file names in modern Windows should be stored/represented as UTF-16. Windows OS itself uses UTF-16 internally, a left over of the days before UTF-8 was standardized and people considered the predecessor of what eventually became UTF-16 as the future of character encoding. This has caused many programmers a headache when it comes to multi platform support as Windows builds need to use the specialist Windows Unicode APIs which are not portable to other OS. Most other OSes now have standardized towards UTF-8 internally, often as an unexpected result of simply treating strings as buffers of bytes rather than a string of characters.

 

[pyf]

For the record, the file UnicoWS.dll was the best one could hope for (partial and sub-standard) Unicode support on W9x OSes. Software designed to make use of this dll file generally have it in their base folder.

Download Platform Software Development Kit Redistributable: Microsoft Layer for Unicode on Windows 95, 98, and Me Systems, 1.1.3790.0 from Official Microsoft Download Center

 

[deepstrasz]

So you are complaining to Blizzard to fix something that has probably already been fixed...

I'm not complaining. I was pointing it out in case anyone has this problem on newer versions...

Please update to the latest WC3 version and check if the problem persists

No thanks. Not yet at least.

 

[Nii-San]

for some reason I can't seem to see any Battle.net News? But I see them on Reign of Chaos. Does anyone know how to fix this?

 

[Kaijyuu]

I'm pretty sure the client caches the news, since I've had an error displayed for one of them for over a year (yet on a different computer it displayed fine).

 

[Nii-San]

I'm pretty sure the client caches the news, since I've had an error displayed for one of them for over a year (yet on a different computer it displayed fine).

so how do i fix this? by clearing cache? im not sure where its located.

 

[PurgeandFire]

Closing this thread in favor of the 1.29 thread. Please direct all your bugs there!