Test Map is acting up

[13ack.Stab]

Hey folks... I just came back to Warcraft a few days ago after a 5-month leave, and I jumped right back into making maps. However, every time that I click test map, the map auto-saves and requests for the Warcraft 3 (original game) CD. I have the frozen throne CD in my drive, and the WE says that the map is an expansion map.

After a while, I got fed up with it and put the original WC3 disk in there - all the game did was sit at the menu. No map opening, nothing.

It never did this before, and its really getting on my nerves.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[PurplePoot]

One of the main reasons for that is that it's not compiling properly. Make sure to save it before and see that you don't get any errors.

 

[13ack.Stab]

I have - no errors come up.

It shouldn't be a problem with the installation, because I haven't uninstalled it... and this hasn't come up before.

 

[Eternal Epix]

Yeah, that happened to me too. I stopped around 6 months ago and it's been doing that since I started a month ago.

 

[PurplePoot]

If your account doesn't have administrator priveleges (on your computer) and you're running on windows, the OS will stop you from making a test map. Are you an admin?

 

[Eternal Epix]

Yeah, I am, and I'm on Mac.

 

[Tonks]

Are you able to run the game normally? Are you able to test other maps?

 

[Eternal Epix]

Yeah; No.
I just save it in the maps folder then go to TFT

 

[Tonks]

It may be a problem with over-writing the previous test map. Try deleting the test map in "Warcraft 3 > Maps > Test" and then try testing. Other than that, I don't know. Though, if your map is not corrupted, and can still be played normally, it's not a major problem. Small hassle, sure, but workable.

 

[13ack.Stab]

I looked into my test folder before deleting, and there are some temp folders and two maps. One map is *very* old and is a wc3 original map, while the other is what I was working on before I stopped - a wc3 expansion map. I deleted the test folder, quit the editor, rebooted it, and tried testing again - the same thing happened.

I don't know why this is happening, but you might have found the beginning of the solution. Thanks.

Edit: I looked into my WE preferences, and under the test map tab, it said the filepath was Maps\Test\WorldEditTestMap.w3x, which is completely correct. It previously didn't have the w3x (which I added), and, before, there were two files in there - w3m and w3x. It might have been opening the w3m by default, since it didn't have a file suffix. Now, however, I don't know what the problem is.

 

[13ack.Stab]

Bump.

 

[13ack.Stab]

Come to think of it, it might have something to do with the latest patch. I didn't have it before I took a break.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Lattest patch works fine, I can even run TFT up with my ROC disk. Make sure that WE is not being blocked by firewalls or anti viruses, cause they may stop it from writing the map / opening the map in tft.

 

[13ack.Stab]

I doubt you're using a mac, and thats the machine I'm currently on... and thats probably why you aren't having the same problem.