[Wine] Warcraft III won't run

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Fri Aug 4 15:21:32 CDT 2006


Have you deleted the Movies folder from the installation?


On 8/4/06, GERST, MICHAEL (SBCSI) <mg9176 at att.com> wrote:
> No native DLL's or anything funky.
>
> Just a vanilla install of FC5, used Add/Remove software to install wine,
> then winecfg to switch to ALSA sound driver and to enable desktop
> windowed mode.
>
> Wine version is 0.9.17
>
> Warcraft III installer runs perfectly - no problem.
> Attempt to start WCIII with 'wine "C:\Program Files\Warcraft
> III\Warcraft III.exe" -opengl -window' results in the splash screen
> showing in the windowed desktop, gamma seems to shift for the whole
> display, CD is located, then seems to have trouble as the windowed
> display goes blank.  Without the window I lose the display completely
> and have trouble restarting X as I also sometimes lose my keyboard.
> Output on the terminal results in this particular line repeating
> indefinetly:
>
> [FAIL] s_pGraph->QueryInterface(IID_IMediaPosition, (void **)&pMP) =
> -2147467262
>
> Now, I'm no great programmer, but it looks as though that last figure is
> MIN_INT?  My main concern is to figure out where this failure is coming
> from - video? Sound? Something else?
DirectShow IMediaPosition Interface

See:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/directshow/htm/imediapositioninterface.asp

>
> Video is built-in intel 945G chipset on a dell GX520.
>
> What other information would prove helpful?
>
>
> - Michael Gerst
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Drescher [mailto:drescherjm at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 12:42 PM
> To: GERST, MICHAEL (SBCSI)
> Cc: wine-users at winehq.org
> Subject: Re: [Wine] Warcraft III won't run
>
>
> Could you please give some info on the problem you are having wint
> Warcraft III, what version of wine you are using, if you have any
> native dlls installed...
>
> John
>
> On 8/4/06, GERST, MICHAEL (SBCSI) <mg9176 at att.com> wrote:
> > Did you ever resolve your problem with Warcraft III?  I'm having the
> same problem.
> >
> > Michael Gerst
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