Warcraft III in Gentoo Linux – Crashes in bnet

December 11, 2010 Chilling_Silence How-To's / Guides / Tech info

So I ran Ubuntu a while ago and knew it could work fine using the latest Warcraft 1.24e, but for some reason in Gentoo every time I would sign in to battle.net it would accept my password and then just as the screen would start to “pull down” from the top, WC3 would bomb out and die 🙁

Turns out if you recompile wine using +gnutls everything works magically! I’m happily playing DotA!

I’ve not tested hosting, apparently you need a little more fairy dust to make that happen, but my ghost++ bot on my VPS hosts for me, so I really don’t mind.

Played a few games, everythings been fine so far. It did die when I used !unhost in a lobby, rather than just kicking me back to the channel I was in. Oddly enough I did it again later that day and it worked just like it should.

I’m sure it’s not just me, but the animations also seemed smoother in Linux, though I must admit that my map-loadtime has tripled to 13.5 seconds. A small price to pay 😀

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