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BottleNeck.
10-04-2003, 12:47 PM
Ok, Hello all :)
Im thinking about giving Linux another try,
because windows is giving me chills :(
and here follows my question:
I'm downloading Mandrake 9.1.
Will I be able to run Warcraft III : The Frozen Throne online via Battle net using WineX?
Any one had any luck with this?
I know its possible to get Warcraft III ..... running using WineX
battle.net works with the normal WC III. I imagine it does with te Frozen Throne as well.
the best thing to do is use the databse on transgaming.com to look up if they support it or not.
BottleNeck.
10-04-2003, 02:02 PM
Ok, Thanks Hayl.
Will Wc 3 : TFT run smoothly on a P4 2400 MHz / 512 RDRam box?
carbon-12
10-04-2003, 02:11 PM
wc3 : TFT runs ok on my amdxp-2200+, 256mb DDR, Radeon 7500 64mb
bwkaz
10-04-2003, 05:17 PM
Originally posted by BottleNeck.
Will Wc 3 : TFT run smoothly on a P4 2400 MHz / 512 RDRam box? Depends. What video card?
You may have to install drivers separately, but it's not too hard if you follow the instructions. :)
BottleNeck.
10-05-2003, 05:35 AM
Im running a Nvidia Gforce 4 ti4600 128mb
Offcource I will install Nvidia drivers,
But do I have to run frozen throne.exe with the --opengl ?
In windows that makes the graphics a bit buggy :(
But that's in windows right? ;)
wc3 : TFT runs ok on my amdxp-2200+, 256mb DDR, Radeon 7500 64mb
Guessing my box will do it to then...
bwkaz
10-05-2003, 02:46 PM
Originally posted by BottleNeck.
But do I have to run frozen throne.exe with the --opengl ? Never having played it, I have no idea. With WineX, you'll always end up using OpenGL, since that's the only interface to the video hardware that's available, but sometimes the games can use their Direct3D graphics instead.
Of course, if you can see any difference, then you know that the original game developers put nowhere near as much time into the GL renderer as they put into the D3D renderer. Which is stupid, but I bet it's the reason the Windows GL renderer is bad.
And you won't be able to "run frozen throne.exe". You'll likely have to wine "frozen throne.exe" (or winex it) from the command prompt. It is, after all, a Windows program, which the Linux kernel cannot, and will not, directly run. If you do want to pass --opengl, then start it like wine[x] -- "frozen throne.exe" --opengl (without the --, wine or winex will take --opengl as an argument to it, not to the program you're running).