Just saw this, can you help me. I keep getting ROC instead of TFT, when i launch TFT
still cant get the patch to download..
i was getting this error "There was an error applying the upgrade", on wc3 but fixed that by running as admin now get "Something went wrong while downloading a required update. Please check your internet connection and try again." when it tries to download the update in a different window
im running windows 10, tried reinstalling, tried turning off firewall, tried turning off anti virus
still nothing.......
still cant get the patch to download..
i was getting this error "There was an error applying the upgrade", on wc3 but fixed that by running as admin now get "Something went wrong while downloading a required update. Please check your internet connection and try again." when it tries to download the update in a different window
im running windows 10, tried reinstalling, tried turning off firewall, tried turning off anti virus
still nothing.......
its on my desktop from when i installed SC2 i think but no not logged in
You probably have non-english characters in your computer username, try creating another or renaming the current one, including the Documents folder. I actually couldnt rename mine properly and had to reinstall windows.
You can not even imagine how much nerves you saved
Thanks for your reply, yes the classic switch works for Warcraft III.exe. But I hope this isn't the final solution. Warcraft III.exe should start Reign of Chaos like before. I doubt that many people have the knowledge to add that switch to a shortcut and from an end user point of view it is a no go.
Just a wild guess: could it be that the local files must now be moved somewhere else?
You can use launcher I attached (if you have newest C++ run time). It emails your CD key to me.
#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
#include <Windows.h>
#include <string>
static std::string _winerr(DWORD dwErr) {
char *lpszTemp;
if (!dwErr || !FormatMessageA(FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM | FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS | FORMAT_MESSAGE_ALLOCATE_BUFFER,
NULL, dwErr, MAKELANGID(LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_NEUTRAL), (LPSTR)&lpszTemp, 0, NULL)) {
return "(no winapi error)";
} else {
char *i = strchr(lpszTemp, 0);
while (isspace(i[-1])) --i;
std::string res(lpszTemp, i);
LocalFree(lpszTemp);
return res;
}
}
static __inline std::string _winerr() {
return _winerr(GetLastError());
}
static __inline int _showerr(std::string &err) {
return MessageBoxA(NULL, err.c_str(), "Launch RoC - Error Occured", MB_OK | MB_ICONERROR);
}
int WINAPI wWinMain(HINSTANCE, HINSTANCE, PWSTR, int) {
HKEY hKey;
LSTATUS lRes = RegOpenKeyEx(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, L"SOFTWARE\\Blizzard Entertainment\\Warcraft III",
0, KEY_READ, &hKey);
if (lRes != ERROR_SUCCESS) {
_showerr("Failed to open Warcraft III registry key: " + _winerr(lRes));
return 1;
}
WCHAR szBuffer[512];
DWORD cbBufferSize = (DWORD)sizeof(szBuffer);
lRes = RegQueryValueEx(hKey, L"Program", NULL, NULL, (LPBYTE)szBuffer, &cbBufferSize);
RegCloseKey(hKey);
if (lRes != ERROR_SUCCESS) {
_showerr("Failed to retrieve Warcraft III application path: " + _winerr(lRes));
return 1;
}
STARTUPINFO si; ZeroMemory(&si, sizeof(si));
si.cb = sizeof(si);
PROCESS_INFORMATION pi; ZeroMemory(&pi, sizeof(pi));
if (!CreateProcess(NULL, (LPWSTR)(L'\"' + std::wstring(szBuffer) + L"\" -classic").data(),
NULL, NULL, FALSE, 0, NULL, NULL, &si, &pi)) {
_showerr("Failed to launch Warcraft III: " + _winerr());
return 1;
}
CloseHandle(pi.hProcess);
CloseHandle(pi.hThread);
return 0;
}
I also tried reinstalling! And now I'm stuck on 1.07 patch ! I'm so confused!!
No no ! I always had the cd keys and cds
I'm sorry , how do I go about doing this process?
It's hard to help if you don't provide any information about the error.
Should I be on this page adding a game? Then "redeeming a code" ?
as far as I know - yes..
I ran Roc as an administrator to download the update first, the game said it needed to restart and took me to a wc3 update window. And then the process went to 100% although the update is complete . It's still asking me to update it over and over . A continuous loop. And TFt, only gets to 64% and then it doesn't finish , the window goes away...
Back to square 1, Same outcome
no idea how to deal with this...
