[SOLVED][Linux Mint] Warcraft 3 Reforged not launching (using Battle.net with Steam)

[Astria]

Hello everyone. I'm making this thread since I searched everywhere on this forum for this specific issue but nothing seemed to work.

A friend of mine has a problem with running Warcraft 3 Reforged through Battle.net installed with Steam.

Here are the steps for the installation process (I'll mention the fact that I did this too but everything worked fine for me) :

ALL OF THIS WAS DONE IN THE FILE SYSTEM HDD, NOT ON A SECONDARY HDD

1. Downloaded the Battle.net-Setup.exe in /home/hisusername/Downloads
2. Added the .exe in Steam as a "Non-Steam Game" -> Properties -> Compatibility -> Selected GE-Proton10-34 -> Launched the setup with this custom Proton (which he got from ProtonUp-Qt) (I'll also mention the fact that he didn't tinker with anything from the "Shortcut" tab from Properties)
3. When the Battle.net Installation tab got prompted, he didn't change the install location (the default being C:/Program Files(x86)/Battle.net)
   
4. After the client got installed and opened as it should, he closed it by selecting "Exit application"
5. Went to Steam -> selected Battle.net-Setup.exe from Library -> Properties -> Shortcut -> Changed the "Target" and "Start in" to the path where Battle.net installed
   Target - "/home/hisusername/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/4121679098/pfx/dosdevices/c:/Program Files (x86)/Battle.net/Battle.net Launcher.exe"
   Start in - /home/hisusername/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/4121679098/pfx/dosdevices/c:/Program Files (x86)/Battle.net/
6. Renamed Battle.net-Setup.exe to Battle.net (from Steam)
7. Opened Battle.net through Steam (with the same Proton : GE-Proton10-34) -> Install Warcraft 3 Reforged in the same directory Battle.net installed :
   /home/hisusername/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/4121679098/pfx/dosdevices/c:/Program Files (x86)
8. When he launched the game (obviously through Battle.net) only a black screen appeared (and it wasn't even in fullscreen) while the sound worked

He changed to a bunch of other Protons like : Experimental, Hotfix, 9.0-4, 8.0-5, 10.0-4, GE-Proton10-32, GE-Proton10-30 but nothing fixed this issue.

Here's some general information about his system:



Not-so-general information about his system (lshw) :

description: Notebook
    product: ASUS TUF Gaming F17 FX706LI_FX706LI
    vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
    version: 1.0
    serial: M2NRCX003566057
    width: 64 bits
    capabilities: smbios-3.2.0 dmi-3.2.0 smp vsyscall32
    configuration: boot=normal chassis=notebook family=ASUS TUF Gaming F17 uuid=2d5667b9-6acc-4e4c-9d1a-578dbef85c10
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       product: FX706LI
       vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
       physical id: 0
       version: 1.0
       serial: M104NRCX00FRX2MB
       slot: Default string
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
          physical id: 0
          version: FX706LI.310
          date: 11/26/2021
          size: 64KiB
          capacity: 16MiB
          capabilities: pci upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer acpi usb smartbattery biosbootspecification uefi
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          slot: System board or motherboard
          size: 16GiB
        *-bank:0
             description: SODIMM DDR4 Synchronous 3200 MHz (0,3 ns)
             product: 8ATF1G64HZ-3G2J1
             vendor: Micron
             physical id: 0
             serial: 2AE50CE5
             slot: ChannelA-DIMM0
             size: 8GiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 3200MHz (0.3ns)
        *-bank:1
             description: [empty]
             physical id: 1
             slot: ChannelA-DIMM1
        *-bank:2
             description: SODIMM DDR4 Synchronous 3200 MHz (0,3 ns)
             product: 8ATF1G64HZ-3G2J1
             vendor: Micron
             physical id: 2
             serial: 2AE50BB3
             slot: ChannelB-DIMM0
             size: 8GiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 3200MHz (0.3ns)
        *-bank:3
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             physical id: 3
             slot: ChannelB-DIMM1
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          slot: L1 Cache
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          capacity: 512KiB
          capabilities: synchronous internal write-back unified
          configuration: level=1
     *-cache:1
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          physical id: 52
          slot: L2 Cache
          size: 2MiB
          capacity: 2MiB
          capabilities: synchronous internal write-back unified
          configuration: level=2
     *-cache:2
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          physical id: 53
          slot: L3 Cache
          size: 16MiB
          capacity: 16MiB
          capabilities: synchronous internal write-back unified
          configuration: level=3
     *-cpu
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          vendor: Intel Corp.
          physical id: 54
          bus info: cpu@0
          version: 6.165.2
          serial: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
          slot: U3E1
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          capacity: 5GHz
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 100MHz
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          configuration: cores=8 enabledcores=8 microcode=256 threads=16
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          product: 10th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers
          vendor: Intel Corporation
          physical id: 100
          bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
          version: 02
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
          configuration: driver=skl_uncore
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             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1
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             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pm msi pciexpress normal_decode bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
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           *-display
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                product: TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile]
                vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
                version: a1
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
                configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
                resources: irq:169 memory:c3000000-c3ffffff memory:b0000000-bfffffff memory:c0000000-c1ffffff ioport:4000(size=128) memory:c4000000-c407ffff
           *-multimedia
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                product: NVIDIA Corporation
                vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
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                bus info: pci@0000:01:00.1
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                logical name: /dev/snd/hwC1D0
                logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC1D3p
                logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC1D7p
                logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC1D8p
                logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC1D9p
                version: a1
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
                configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0
                resources: irq:17 memory:c4080000-c4083fff
              *-input:0
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                   physical id: 0
                   logical name: input14
                   logical name: /dev/input/event12
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                   physical id: 1
                   logical name: input15
                   logical name: /dev/input/event13
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                   logical name: /dev/input/event14
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                   product: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=9
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             product: CometLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics]
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
             logical name: /dev/fb0
             version: 05
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom fb
             configuration: depth=32 driver=i915 latency=0 mode=1920x1080 resolution=1920,1080 visual=truecolor xres=1920 yres=1080
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        *-generic:0
             description: Signal processing controller
             product: Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Thermal Subsystem
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 4
             bus info: pci@0000:00:04.0
             version: 02
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: msi pm cap_list
             configuration: driver=proc_thermal latency=0
             resources: irq:16 memory:c4410000-c4417fff
        *-generic:1 UNCLAIMED
             description: System peripheral
             product: Xeon E3-1200 v5/v6 / E3-1500 v5 / 6th/7th/8th Gen Core Processor Gaussian Mixture Model
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 8
             bus info: pci@0000:00:08.0
             version: 00
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: msi pm cap_list
             configuration: latency=0
             resources: memory:c442b000-c442bfff
        *-generic:2
             description: Signal processing controller
             product: Comet Lake PCH Thermal Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 12
             bus info: pci@0000:00:12.0
             version: 00
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm msi cap_list
             configuration: driver=intel_pch_thermal latency=0
             resources: irq:16 memory:c442a000-c442afff
        *-usb
             description: USB controller
             product: Comet Lake USB 3.1 xHCI Host Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 14
             bus info: pci@0000:00:14.0
             version: 00
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm msi xhci bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=xhci_hcd latency=0
             resources: irq:124 memory:c4400000-c440ffff
           *-usbhost:0
                product: xHCI Host Controller
                vendor: Linux 6.17.0-20-generic xhci-hcd
                physical id: 0
                bus info: usb@1
                logical name: usb1
                version: 6.17
                capabilities: usb-2.00
                configuration: driver=hub slots=16 speed=480Mbit/s
              *-usb:0
                   description: Mouse
                   product: PixArt Dell MS116 USB Optical Mouse
                   vendor: PixArt
                   physical id: 3
                   bus info: usb@1:3
                   logical name: input7
                   logical name: /dev/input/event5
                   logical name: /dev/input/mouse0
                   version: 1.00
                   capabilities: usb-2.00 usb
                   configuration: driver=usbhid maxpower=100mA speed=1Mbit/s
              *-usb:1
                   description: Video
                   product: USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam
                   vendor: Azurewave
                   physical id: 7
                   bus info: usb@1:7
                   version: 19.02
                   serial: 0x0001
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                   configuration: driver=uvcvideo maxpower=500mA speed=480Mbit/s
              *-usb:2
                   description: Bluetooth wireless interface
                   product: AX201 Bluetooth
                   vendor: Intel Corp.
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                   bus info: usb@1:e
                   version: 0.02
                   capabilities: bluetooth usb-2.01
                   configuration: driver=btusb maxpower=100mA speed=12Mbit/s
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             product: Comet Lake PCH Shared SRAM
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 14.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:14.2
             version: 00
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz (30.3ns)
             capabilities: pm cap_list
             configuration: latency=0
             resources: memory:c4422000-c4423fff memory:c4429000-c4429fff
        *-network
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             product: Comet Lake PCH CNVi WiFi
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 14.3
             bus info: pci@0000:00:14.3
             logical name: wlo1
             version: 00
             serial: 70:9c:d1:45:a7:8b
             width: 64 bits
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             resources: irq:16 memory:c441c000-c441ffff
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             vendor: Intel Corporation
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             version: 00
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
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             product: Comet Lake HECI Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
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             bus info: pci@0000:00:16.0
             version: 00
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list
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             vendor: Intel Corporation
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             bus info: pci@0000:00:17.0
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             width: 32 bits
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                      capabilities: journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink recover 64bit extents ext4 ext2 initialized
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             product: Intel Corporation
             vendor: Intel Corporation
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             version: f0
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm normal_decode bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
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                vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
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                logical name: enp3s0
                version: 15
                serial: f0:2f:74:a1:07:78
                size: 1Gbit/s
                capacity: 1Gbit/s
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
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        *-isa
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             product: Comet Lake LPC Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: isa bus_master
             configuration: latency=0
           *-pnp00:00
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                physical id: 0
                capabilities: pnp
                configuration: driver=system
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                product: PnP device PNP0c02
                physical id: 1
                capabilities: pnp
                configuration: driver=system
           *-pnp00:02
                product: PnP device PNP0b00
                physical id: 2
                capabilities: pnp
                configuration: driver=rtc_cmos
           *-pnp00:03
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                physical id: 3
                capabilities: pnp
                configuration: driver=i8042 kbd
           *-pnp00:04
                product: PnP device PNP0c02
                physical id: 4
                capabilities: pnp
                configuration: driver=system
           *-pnp00:05
                product: PnP device PNP0c02
                physical id: 5
                capabilities: pnp
                configuration: driver=system
           *-pnp00:06
                product: PnP device PNP0c02
                physical id: 6
                capabilities: pnp
                configuration: driver=system
           *-pnp00:07
                product: PnP device PNP0c02
                physical id: 7
                capabilities: pnp
                configuration: driver=system
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             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.3
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.3
             logical name: card0
             logical name: /dev/snd/controlC0
             logical name: /dev/snd/hwC0D0
             logical name: /dev/snd/hwC0D2
             logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c
             logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
             logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC0D3p
             logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC0D7p
             logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC0D8p
             version: 00
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=32
             resources: irq:170 memory:c4418000-c441bfff memory:c4100000-c41fffff
           *-input:0
                product: HDA Intel PCH Headphone
                physical id: 0
                logical name: input18
                logical name: /dev/input/event16
           *-input:1
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                physical id: 1
                logical name: input19
                logical name: /dev/input/event17
           *-input:2
                product: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=7
                physical id: 2
                logical name: input20
                logical name: /dev/input/event18
           *-input:3
                product: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=8
                physical id: 3
                logical name: input21
                logical name: /dev/input/event19
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             product: Comet Lake PCH SMBus Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.4
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.4
             version: 00
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             configuration: driver=i801_smbus latency=0
             resources: irq:16 memory:c4424000-c44240ff ioport:efa0(size=32)
        *-serial:2
             description: Serial bus controller
             product: Comet Lake PCH SPI Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.5
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.5
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             configuration: driver=intel-spi latency=0
             resources: irq:0 memory:fe010000-fe010fff
  *-power UNCLAIMED
       description: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
       product: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
       vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
       physical id: 1
       version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
       serial: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
       capacity: 32768mWh
  *-input:0
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       physical id: 2
       logical name: input0
       logical name: /dev/input/event0
       capabilities: platform
  *-input:1
       product: Lid Switch
       physical id: 3
       logical name: input1
       logical name: /dev/input/event1
       capabilities: platform
  *-input:2
       product: Asus Wireless Radio Control
       physical id: 4
       logical name: input10
       logical name: /dev/input/event8
       capabilities: platform
  *-input:3
       product: Asus WMI hotkeys
       physical id: 5
       logical name: input11
       logical name: /dev/input/event9
       capabilities: platform
  *-input:4
       product: Video Bus
       physical id: 6
       logical name: input12
       logical name: /dev/input/event10
       capabilities: platform
  *-input:5
       product: Video Bus
       physical id: 7
       logical name: input13
       logical name: /dev/input/event11
       capabilities: platform
  *-input:6
       product: Power Button
       physical id: 8
       logical name: input2
       logical name: /dev/input/event2
       capabilities: platform
  *-input:7
       product: Power Button
       physical id: 9
       logical name: input3
       logical name: /dev/input/event3
       capabilities: platform
  *-input:8
       product: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
       physical id: a
       logical name: input4
       logical name: /dev/input/event4
       logical name: input4::capslock
       logical name: input4::numlock
       logical name: input4::scrolllock
       capabilities: i8042
  *-input:9
       product: ELAN1203:00 04F3:307A Mouse
       physical id: b
       logical name: input8
       logical name: /dev/input/event6
       logical name: /dev/input/mouse1
       capabilities: i2c
  *-input:10
       product: ELAN1203:00 04F3:307A Touchpad
       physical id: c
       logical name: input9
       logical name: /dev/input/event7
       logical name: /dev/input/mouse2
       capabilities: i2c

And here is Wine:

$ dpkg --list wine
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                  Version          Architecture Description
+++-=====================-================-============-==================================================
un  wine                  <none>           <none>       (no description available)
un  wine-amd64            <none>           <none>       (no description available)
un  wine-i386             <none>           <none>       (no description available)
ii  wine-stable           11.0.0.0~noble-1 amd64        WINE Is Not An Emulator - runs MS Windows programs
ii  wine-stable-amd64     11.0.0.0~noble-1 amd64        WINE Is Not An Emulator - runs MS Windows programs
ii  wine-stable-i386:i386 11.0.0.0~noble-1 i386         WINE Is Not An Emulator - runs MS Windows programs
un  wine1.4               <none>           <none>       (no description available)
un  wine1.4-amd64         <none>           <none>       (no description available)
un  wine1.4-i386          <none>           <none>       (no description available)
un  wine1.5               <none>           <none>       (no description available)
un  wine1.5-amd64         <none>           <none>       (no description available)
un  wine1.5-i386          <none>           <none>       (no description available)
un  wine1.6               <none>           <none>       (no description available)
un  wine1.6-amd64         <none>           <none>       (no description available)
un  wine1.6-i386          <none>           <none>       (no description available)
un  wine1.7               <none>           <none>       (no description available)
un  wine1.7-amd64         <none>           <none>       (no description available)
un  wine1.7-i386          <none>           <none>       (no description available)
un  wine32                <none>           <none>       (no description available)
un  wine64                <none>           <none>       (no description available)
ii  winehq-stable         11.0.0.0~noble-1 amd64        WINE Is Not An Emulator - runs MS Windows programs
ii  winetricks            20240105-2       all          simple tool to work around common problems in Wine

Thanks for reading this and hopefully there's a fix.

 

[Retera]

Subscribing because I would also like to know the answer for this. I've tended to believe that given how Wine worked almost perfectly for Warcraft III from the year 2012 until 2019, I've operated with the assumption that rebuilding the game with Chrome and a React UI embedded was a ludicrous decision that might have been an intentional way to make the game's code so convoluted that it wouldn't run on Linux anymore.

Because I have a difficult time coordinating to actually play this game socially, now that I moved to Linux computers for several years my solution for playing Warcraft III has been to use my open source rewrite of the game (better fits Linux philosophy anyway). However this is not feature complete, and then friends tell me to play Reforged like the situation your friend is in, and then last time I had this problem you are describing -- and this is not a joke -- I walked down the street to a vendor that I found in an internet search and bought a Windows computer for some extra cash and then I brought it back and plugged it in and played Reforged with my friend.

And then when I was done I tossed the computer.

I think this is really seriously how they want you to solve the problem and I think Microsoft is likely to increase the extent to which they want that to be how you solve the problem as time goes on. But I hope that I am incorrect, and that someone else responds with a better solution, because admittedly buying a Windows box to play Reforged with my friend that day and then trashing it was obviously a very entitled thing that I was only able to do because I have been momentarily fortunate and financially stable at this exact moment in time in my life.

 

[Remis2004]

Hey, I'm the friend in question. I managed to get it working by launching Battle.net via Steam with Proton GE 10-3. The issue was, from what I gather, the game launching in Windowed Fullscreen instead or Fullscreen. I changed it in the War3Preferences.txt file in Documents/Warcraft III. This also expains why, after importing my documents file from Windows (where i used Windowed Fullscreen), the game stopped working.

Anyway, there is still an issue that I feel should be fixed. This method, while giving me a functional Warcraft III game, leaves the Editor being lackluster, in the sense that the terrain and boxes on the left "flicker" every time I move the camera. I also tried normal Proton 10 again, since that's what my friend is using and has got it to work with no such issues. However, Proton 10,0-4 didn't fix the Editor and the game only runs once, then goes back to a persistent black screen with sound.

 

[Remis2004]

Hello once again and sorry for double posting. I got the World Editor to work flawlessly with one simple trick. I installed an older version of Warcraft III reforged, copied the "World Editor Launcher.exe" file from there, pasted it in the /Program Files (x86)/Warcraft III folder, where i have my retail version of Warcraft III installed. I then run the launcher with Wine and the flicker is gone. Also, I should mention that there is no black bar where the tray containing the object editor, campaign editor etc is.
This method has the launcher start the retail version of the World Editor (I know this because it can open a file from the latest version of the editor, whilst if I just started the launcher in the folder containing the older version, it could not open said file).

 

[Remis2004]

Update: The game gives a blackscreen with sound most of the time when booting it up. The solution for me was reducing the maximum framerate from 100 FPS to 60 FPS. This doesn't fix the initial blackscreen, however, after tabbing out and back in a couple of times, the blackscreen turns into the game's visuals anr afterwards, the game runs fine.