Configuring Warcraft III for Vista

[ace992]

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.

1. Put Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne in administrator mode.

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2. Right click the Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne icon; select properties.
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. 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%.

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

 

[UchihaSasuke.gr]

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

 

[ace992]

Thnx for the rep

 

[brad.dude03]

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

 

[ace992]

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

 

[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.

 

[Gift_o_Chaos]

OMG I love you!!

 

[Wolverabid]

Tutorial Approved!

~ Thread edited and moved to Miscellaneous Tutorials.

 

[Unscrewed_Magic]

OMG I love you!!

Same, but with more love.

 

[ace992]

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]

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]

Yes, very, very odd.

 

[scarx]

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]

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]

i did , i tried every compability and it doesnt work

 

[ace992]

ok frist off carm down its not like its the end of the world
ok now do you have the newst patch from blizzard?
try admin mode as well then run the game if it still dosnt work try the xp and 2000 modes
the black screen could be from your graphics card try getting the newest update for that too and if this still dosnt work send me some screenies so i can try to help out more and what vers of vista? home basic ect.

give me your pc specs if you got like 512 ram and useing vista that would be the main problem but i think you need to try admin mode make your your got the latest patch for warcraft 3 as well and did you turn admin mode on for tft not rc if this still dosnt help try updateing grahpics card driver

 

[DesKaladA]

God...
this is a peace if wale vomit
i war3 is not working is vista not warcraft
also this workaround is a glitchey as somting by dansihofdeath

 

[brad.dude03]

Well then Vista officially hates your Warcraft III installation and there's nothing you can do.

That's what you get for installing Vista

 

[DesKaladA]

acutally...
all you need to do is let vista update

 

[Unscrewed_Magic]

I had to drag the Warcraft III folder to my desktop before it would let me log onto battle.net or use the World Editor.

Vista seems to be very touchy about what data goes in and out of the program files folder.

 

[brad.dude03]

Vista seems very touchy about a lot of things.

Too many things, in fact.

 

[Pyritie]

Far, far too many.

It's sound recording program, for one thing, is pointless. All it does is record. It can't trim, reverse, increase/decrease volume/pitch, or change the quality.

Very annoying.

 

[Unscrewed_Magic]

Why did they get rid of the old sound recorder...

I bet you could still download the old one.

 

[Pyritie]

Nah, I just copied over the sndrec32.exe over from our crappy XP desktop at home.

 

[robot-dude]

When i tested Wc3 in vista i had no problems. I think its just some systems that do not allow them whilst using "Vista"

 

[HamsterBoo]

lol. try google for a change.

If you are having a black screen (going in and out) when you try to open WC3, download quicktime. WC3 doesnt support what vista has (how could it), but it does support quicktime. Worked like a charm for me (although i cant see any1 on bnet, but i haven't followed this guide yet). The problem is when you start the game the first time, it tries to play a movie which you dont have the software for.

 

[brad.dude03]

It plays an AVI dude, and windows media player can play AVI's, and i'll be damned if I want Quicktime taking over all of my formats...

 

[Pyritie]

Yup, the movie played just fine for me after about 20 seconds of screen flickering and resolution changing.

 

[~Void~]

I don't get why one would need to configure it... my Vista works fine... I don't see why people say it's buggy because it isn't, maybe you are all talking about old versions or something?

 

[Belgarath]

My brother once had the home premium trial and he crashed within 15 minutes. His first reaction was to blame vista, but it was actually something with his graphics card. Really, I don't think vista is that terrible. Sure, it might not be the best gaming system, but firstly, I've never had it, and apparently I can be thankful for that, and secondly, don't always blame the OS just because someone said it sucks. All the people that I know who have used vista say it's awesome, or it sucks, but then the computer they were on was built for something like 2000.
But anyway, if it helps some people, then yay for them, if it doesn't help you, then that sucks.

 

[brad.dude03]

I KNOW it sucks. I installed it for a single day before putting XP back on. This is why it's so bad: It's performance massively varies from person to person, meaning its not just consistantly bad, it's randomly bad, which is even worse. It's like a freaking grab bag: Stick your hand in and you never know which bugs you'll pull out with you.

 

[~Void~]

It's never been buggy for me. Or at least no more than XP.

 

[Firelord213]

Lol I have Vista and I didnt have to do ANYTHING start playing wc3..

 

[brad.dude03]

That's really great, as I've told many people, Vista's bugs occur at random, meaning that sometimes a program will work for one person, and not for a second person, and sometimes it will work and decide to stop working for both people.

A friend of mine had to run Wc3 in Windows 2000 compatibility mode just to make it work.

 

[Dr Super Good]

I have Vista busniess edition, and WC3 installed and seems to run fine without doing any of this.

 

[brad.dude03]

No, we don't. At least I don't, and I've had all kinds of problems with Vista. I have great hardware that makes XP fly, but Vista wont have any of that 'Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHZ' nonsense, or that '4096 MB of RAM' crap. That would be outrageous.

 

[Dr Super Good]

WC3 and vista run beautifully (for now) on Intel Core 2 Quad PC with 4 GB ram and Nvidia 8800GT(1GB version) with SP1 installed. I think problems may occure if you are using an old graphic card (pre / early DX10) or are loged in on an account with reduced access as they tend to be the most shaky compatibility wise.

Also terminating not needed processes may improve preformance and compatibility by freeing up more recources but this should not affect anything much if you have exlubrant hardware.

So far only compatibility problem I have seen is Diablo II LOD runs slow (unplayable slow with 10> FPS) as hell when using DirectX render. This can be fixed by switching to DirectDraw render for less quality (runs insainly fast and never lags). This does not seem a fault with Vista but with Nvidia's modern cards as my XP machine with a 7800GS also suffers from the same problem and cure.

 

[brad.dude03]

I'm using an HD2600XT 512 MB which should be more than up to the task with the graphics, and 4 Gb of RAM should make resource worries a thing of the past. And still everything runs slow as shit. also, i'm the only Administrator and user of my PC, so that shouldn't be the issue either.

 

[~Void~]

No, we don't. At least I don't, and I've had all kinds of problems with Vista. I have great hardware that makes XP fly, but Vista wont have any of that 'Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHZ' nonsense, or that '4096 MB of RAM' crap. That would be outrageous.

That's the same as my system, but it works fine. For some reason, computers made for Vista work better with Vista, and computers made for XP work better with XP. It's probably not the CPU, hard drive, or any of that, it's probably the stuff that connects it all, and the machine itself.

 

[The-Weeh.]

Dude i didn't have any problem with vista...?

 

[Dr Super Good]

Any axcess violations I think are RAM based where the program trys to used already in use RAM. Probably caused by anti virus collisions, lack of RAM or not enough permissions for your account (admins even have restrictions unless they remove them).

 

[brad.dude03]

Have you not been reading? I had an admin account, I have 4096. Antivirus wasn't installed yet.

 

[Kaitech[SanD]]

Well, if it isn't Vista that's the problem, then why did XP run WC3 like a charm, but now I have Vista I'm having to run it on no sound and low graphics just to cut down the amount of RAM is uses? I mean OK, 512mb of RAM isn't cut out for Vista, but still...

 

[brad.dude03]

Even with 4 GB's of RAM, it still runs faster on XP, plus you have less compatibility problems...

 

[DjTheDeath]

it works fine with my vista (aside from a few laggy things that all comps have for massed units)

 

[wet_water]

I feel bad for the people who can't play on vista, i just got this vista laptop and wc3 worked for me (THANK GOD) I do a minor video/resolution problem, I soon as I installed the game and turnd it on I noticed the screen was very small. This concerned me greatly so being that its a new laptop, I just threw the resolution all the way up. Even so there are still black borders on either side of the gaming screen, battle.net, single player, not matter where I go they follow! Can you help me make the evil black borders go away nice people?? I would really like to play it full-screen...

 

[forzamoto]

Not that bad at all...

ZOMFG zombiesssssssssssssssssssss

 

[Dr Super Good]

wet_water, its caused by your graphic driver settings. It is set to not scale the graphics up and WC3 is not the same resolution as your screen.
To make it full screen simply modify the settings via the registry editor and set it to the same resolution as your screen is.

forzamoto do not spam.

 

[Archimondus]

Seriously why do you get Vista? Its impracticable. . . Simply get Windows XP. Vista does nothing but crash PC users.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Archimondus. . . You have no idea. . .
My vista PC works perfectly. WC3 loads in like 5 seconds with no problems and looks amazing ingame. D2 works perfectly with 1 setting change. TES oblivion works completly flawlessly. Supreme commanders does not crash unlike on this XP machine where it crashes in 1 min of game play.

Really, Vista is under ratted. It works better than most people say it does. Just do not upgrade a slow PC to vista and you will have no problems.