Warcraft 3 with Oracle VM Virtualbox, but how?

[shadowvzs]

i tryed this https://www.virtualbox.org/

i made a virtual hard disk drive with it, then installed to it the windows xp, installed the guest addition with direct 3d stuff and seems ~pretty ok, i can use at 16/24/32bit (vm use his own vga driver so not the original), i installed both directx 8.1 and 9.0c still warcraft there give this error (look the screenshot) even i reinstalled the whole wc3 in virtual machine/virtual windows/to my virtual hard drive........

any suggestion how to make wc3 workable inside the VM virtualbox?

(coz i think the only way for test myself my map with 2 human player same time)

 

[Hashjie]

i tryed this https://www.virtualbox.org/

i made a virtual hard disk drive with it, then installed to it the windows xp, installed the guest addition with direct 3d stuff and seems ~pretty ok, i can use at 16/24/32bit (vm use his own vga driver so not the original), i installed both directx 8.1 and 9.0c still warcraft there give this error (look the screenshot) even i reinstalled the whole wc3 in virtual machine/virtual windows/to my virtual hard drive........

any suggestion how to make wc3 workable inside the VM virtualbox?

(coz i think the only way for test myself my map with 2 human player same time)

Ow yeah I forgot to tell you that you need to start it in opengl mode if you want it to work in Virtualbox, it does not yet support directX.

It should be fairly simple to run wc3 in opengl. Simply go to the properties of your executable and add: -opengl to the end of your path.

I hope this works

It might look a bit crappy by the way, but it should work nonetheless.
Here's an example of how it could look depending on your graphics card in conjunction with openGL on VBox:

Also, if you are having trouble hosting games on battle.net and this would be the reason why you can't test your maps, then why not try using garena to tunnel your local area network with other players?
It's fairly easy to host on garena instead of battle.net

 

[shadowvzs]

ty it worked but ....

no, i dont want disturb other people with "come lets test my map again", thats why i want do
it alone but that "bit" crap is damn crap

 

[Hashjie]

ty it worked but ....

no, i dont want disturb other people with "come lets test my map again", thats why i want do
it alone but that "bit" crap is damn crap

I know, that's the only drawback
But I guess it's still usefull for testing desynchs and such

Especially because you can now have 2 windows next to each other, the one of your VM and the one of your PC.

 

[shadowvzs]

y i use for that (idk but its damn slow, i mean laggy with opengl, it is because i got only 2,6ghz and motherboard vga or i shared too less resource?)

sadly i cant give rep yet :/

 

[Arhowk]

try Sandboxie. It allows you to run a program as part of a seperate h/d. You'd need a 2nd install of wc3 so it doesnt yell at you in bnet

(google it)

 

[Dr Super Good]

The problem is you are running a virtual machine on an opperating system. This messes up kernal level calls as they have to be done in such a way that they cannot comprimise the host opperating system. You actually need a virtual opperating system which hosts the virtal machines (like they use in big server centres).

 

[shadowvzs]

try Sandboxie. It allows you to run a program as part of a seperate h/d. You'd need a 2nd install of wc3 so it doesnt yell at you in bnet

(google it)

i tryed, installed wc3 2 times with 2 different cd key but doesnt allowed me to launch the 2nd one, its gived same error than if i tryed launch without sandvoxie (wc3 already run or something like tthis was the error)

You actually need a virtual opperating system which hosts the virtal machines (like they use in big server centres).

i dont think that could ressist m old pc hehe

 

[Dr Super Good]

i dont think that could ressist m old pc hehe

Linux can kind of do that. It allows OS instances (only linux in this case) inside a kernal which do not couple to each other. They can even run on a raspberry pi.

However that does not really help you.