Receiving "The game was not found" error when I host any maps

[geegee]

I'm not sure where to place my issue sorry if this is the wrong place.

I've been guesting on this site for a couple of years and I figured someone here might know how to fix this problem. My maps all work in single player and campaign but when I create the same maps in LAN the error "The game was not found" pops up. These maps can be custom maps from this site or regular Blizzard maps, it's the same result for me.

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This is a screenshot of my error^

 

[Kaijyuu]

Are you updated to the latest version?

 

[geegee]

Yes updating to the most recent version is what has caused this error. I've tried reinstalling & I always run as admin.

 

[Kaijyuu]

All your local files were correctly moved to your My Documents folder? There shouldn't be any left in the wc3 folder.

 

[geegee]

I have some like this:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Warcraft III\Maps - which has all of the default Blizzard maps here. (Not sure how to do spoiler tag sorry.)

Notice that the small icon next to the map name seems to be different to what it used to be before the update & is blank.

Then this is my documents folder, it shows the folders but I can't actually see the maps here:

Thanks for the assistance btw.

 

[LordDz]

Place the maps you wish to play in the Documents\Warcraft III\Maps folder that you have in the second screenshot.
The documents Warcraft 3 folder is the new map folder for Warcraft 3.

Like this:

 

[geegee]

I figured that would be the solution, but before I moved anything I'm wondering why I only get this error sometimes & not all the time? Any ideas? Sometimes it allows me to host LAN games then other times it provides the error.

 

[Kaijyuu]

My best guess is that some but not all of the old filepaths in the game were properly updated. People were noticing that you could still run the game with local files in the wc3 directory after the first patch came out, and that still hasn't been entirely fixed.

 

[geegee]

My best guess is that some but not all of the old filepaths in the game were properly updated. People were noticing that you could still run the game with local files in the wc3 directory after the first patch came out, and that still hasn't been entirely fixed.

Makes sense. Thanks!