Problems with Warcraft 3 - OS X Leopard

[Hansen1142]

Hi..

I just bought my new MBP yesterday, and i love it.

But, i also love playing WC3 / WC3 TFT!

Today i installed the games, but when i start up the game, i just get a black screen. The only thing on the screen is my Cursor (The WC hand) and the game-version in the right lower corner.

The game dosen't play the animation-movie at startup, as it should. I've tried following:

Install WC3 Reign of Chaos, and the Fozen Throne - Without opening any og the games before both where installed.

Copy the install files to my harddrive, and install from there (it asks for CD anyways?) and install the same way as above.

Checked my harddrive format - It's formatted as Mac OS Extended - Journaled as it should.

Tried patching with the latest 1.23a patch for Frozen Throne - It just says that it can't find War3.mpq, and that i should put in the CD - Even if it's allready in. I've tried to pull out the CD, and put it vack in - No difference.


Any suggestions? I'm a little new to OS X - But as seen in other threads about the problem, it seems that i've done everything right.

Thanks

[Hansen1142]

Now i've tried only installing Reign of Chaos - This works fine..

I did'nt update it, just started it up, and closed down again. When i install the Frozen Throne, i get the issues above - None of the games works. Only the courser, and game-version is showed..

The version it shows is 1.07

[Edot]

You need to get the 1.23a patch installed successfully.

http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?articleId=21222

You shouldn't need to copy anything from the CD to your harddisk. Just run the installers from the CD and then patch.

Are you installing into the Applications folder?

You may want to check this out:

http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?articleId=20646&categoryId=2546&parentCategoryId=&pageNumber=1

Good Luck!

[Xavier]

I had no difficult on my MBP installing RoC, then TFT, then patching the game through the Battle.net menu inside the game.

[Hansen1142]

Really weird..

No suggestions?

[Hansen1142]

You need to get the 1.23a patch installed successfully.

http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?articleId=21222

You shouldn't need to copy anything from the CD to your harddisk. Just run the installers from the CD and then patch.

Are you installing into the Applications folder?

You may want to check this out:

http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?articleId=20646&categoryId=2546&parentCategoryId=&pageNumber=1

Good Luck!

Hi..

As writtin in #1, i've just installed from the CD's, via harddrive etc, with no luck.

I got some isues with the patch - It can't find war3.mpq, even if the patch is placed in the WC3 folder in Applications -> Warcraft III folder

I've also allready tried upgrading the divx, with no luck.

I can't find any solution in Blizzard's support site..

[Hansen1142]

Hi..

As writtin in #1, i've just installed from the CD's, via harddrive etc, with no luck.

I got some isues with the patch - It can't find war3.mpq, even if the patch is placed in the WC3 folder in Applications -> Warcraft III folder

I've also allready tried upgrading the divx, with no luck.

I can't find any solution in Blizzard's support site..

Screenshot applying the patching problems..

Tried with both the WC3 RoC, and WC3 TFT CD's.. Same error..

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/1001/billede1j.th.png (http://img10.imageshack.us/my.php?image=billede1j.png)

[imassents]

Checked my harddrive format - It's formatted as Mac OS Extended - Journaled as it should.

I remember that if your drive is formatted as "case sensitive" it will generate this exact problem (black screen + versoin number + cursor). Yours isn't case sensitive is it?

Also, before running the patch, place it in the War3 folder. It can help reduce patching errors.

[Hansen1142]

I remember that if your drive is formatted as "case sensitive" it will generate this exact problem (black screen + versoin number + cursor). Yours isn't case sensitive is it?

Also, before running the patch, place it in the War3 folder. It can help reduce patching errors.

It is formatted as Extended - Journaled.. And the patch is placed in the Warcraft III folder

[Edot]

Screenshot applying the patching problems..

Tried with both the WC3 RoC, and WC3 TFT CD's.. Same error..

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/1001/billede1j.th.png (http://img10.imageshack.us/my.php?image=billede1j.png)


What language is this? Are you using the correct language patch? Is this an original CD or a copied/burned CD?

[Hansen1142]

What language is this? Are you using the correct language patch? Is this an original CD or a copied/burned CD?

Original CD's, and the game language + Patch language is english..

I bought 2 brand new copies today, so now i'll try with them.. My old disc's is going to be used on my girlfriends lappy instead, she runs Windows, where it works just great..

Works grest in windows on my MBP also :)

[spencecb]

This doesn't sound like the same problem I had, but it is worth a try, nonetheless.

This is from another thread on this forum. Just follow the link and see if this solution helps:

Your problem is not DivX related. Have a read here for a solution
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=686349