Need help with running Custom Campaigns in Classic

[Oridgen]

Hi, I just joined. Not sure if this is the right place to post this (sorry if it isn't) but I really need some help and I thought I'd ask the experts. I'm on a mid-2009 macbook pro and am running version 1.26 of Warcraft III. I would really like to play some custom campaigns such as Rise of the Blood Elves, but due to a known bug, the game crashes when I try to select units with certain custom graphics. I heard that updating to version 1.27b would solve the issue, but I haven't been able to do this. I'd use bootcamp or wineskin to run the game, but I would need to reinstall, which would force it to update to Reforged, which as of yet does not support custom campaigns. So I downloaded a 'downloader' from blizzard and tried to use that to install the patch, but it says I need to have Reign of Chaos installed first (which I do). I'm a total noob with this stuff, so if anyone could give me a detailed step-by-step process that might help solve the issue, I'd greatly appreciate it.

 

[loktar]

Make sure you run RoC at least once before trying to update or install TFT.

You could try starting from a fresh install (uninstall and then install again).

Here's the win installers in case you want to try it in bootcamp or wineskin:
1.27a RoC - 1.27a TFT - patch 1.27b RoC - patch 1.27b TFT

Here's the MAC installers:
1.27a RoC - 1.27a TFT - I don't know where you can get the patch installers

On windows, the Campaigns folder should be in the WC3 installation folder in program files, don't know about Mac.

 

[Oridgen]

Thanks Loktar, I was able to get it updated to 1.27b. Works now, but occasionally still crashes upon selection of certain buildings/units, with seemingly no reason why. Not sure I'll be able to patch the game any further either. Probably just this ancient computer. Anyways, thanks a lot!

 

[pyf]

[...] Here's the MAC installers:
1.27a RoC - 1.27a TFT - I don't know where you can get the patch installers [...]

@loktar:

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