Patch 1.28.5 Battlenet installer doesn't set game path flag [Self-fix included]

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Whenever I install WC3 via the regular battlenet installer, every tool I have will no longer find the game MPQs by default (Magos ModelEditor, MDLVis, WEX, etc). I can fix this for magos and MDLVis by putting a copy of the MPQs inside the directories those tools are placed in, but I can't do that with WEX.

My guess is that the battlenet installer does not properly place a registry entry that tells those tools where to look.


If I install WC3 from the physical game discs and do the migration process when patching the game regulary, this issue does not happen (but many other nasty bugs happen when I do that). It only happens when I install via the battlenet installer.

 

[Zwiebelchen]

MindworX found the reason for this issue. Seems like my original guess was right here:

The Battlenet installer forgets to place an important flag in the windows registry.

To fix this manually, open your Regedit (right-click the windows symbol, click execute, enter "regedit"), go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Blizzard Entertainment/Warcraft III and add a new string called "InstallPath" and enter the path to the main game directory.