[Solved] Broken graphics and no cursor in menu inside VirtualBox

[Luashine]

You can run Warcraft 3 if you enable VBoxSVGA graphics with 3D acceleration in VirtualBox settings. Yet the main menu will have broken colors and won't show a cursor. Nonetheless the game works fine once you load a map.

Solution: Go to game's graphics options (hotkeys or navigate your cursor by escaping the VM window and aiming) and set lighting effects to minimum.

PS: Virtual Machines are a great tool, if you haven't tried yet and have 3-4GB free RAM then you should too!

Update: Registry setting to do the same without launching the game:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Blizzard Entertainment\Warcraft III\Video\lights = 0 (REG_DWORD)

Update 2: The menu breaks again despite this workaround once you install TFT or a later ROC patch.
Warcraft ROC v1.0 below. Before / After