Warcraft III on 10.8

I plan to buy Warcraft III Rein of Chaos and The Frozen Throne from Best Buy today, will it not work on my Mountain Lion (10.8.2) Mac Book Pro?
If I try a transfer method from another Mac (below 10.6) that had installed Warcraft 3 RoC and TFT to my ML Mac, will it then work?

Alternate installation method

You could also use Wineskin to install and run the windows version. I wrote a blog post detailing the process: http://marzzbar.wordpress.com/2012/...sic-blizzard-games-on-mac-os-x-mountain-lion/

WC3 transfer

Just got a new Mac and transferred over Warcraft III via Migration Assistant (along with all applications, but not the users).


When connecting to Bnet, it gives the "Tried to install to HD, check if space is available" error. This error was common with Vista, the fix was to run it as an administrator.


I assume this error is because of an administrator user issue, since I created a new user on the new Mac and transferred only the Applications with Migration Assistant.


Any way to get around this and not have to re-install via the methods described in this thread?

Any official updates? I bought a retina and ill be selling it of I can't get TFT to play. I have it installed on an 11 iMac at home and on several ssds I swap from alienwares I've bought recently so I have several installed patched and playable copies.

I downloaded from bnet but it downloads somewhere and there's no icons to click .. Not sure where to begin ...

I do have a copy of snow leopard I purchased a long time ago.. Can I reinstall snow leopard.. Install TFT patch it and then upgrade it to the current os?

Well I just copied the wc3 folder onto a USB stick from my iMac and pasted it into the app folder on my new retina mbp 15. Clicked the TFT logo and it fires up and works perfectly

I'm not one to give advice but what I did is :

On an older Mac (2011 iMac 27)
Log onto bnet
Download wc3
Download TFT (into wc3 folder)
Open TFT let it update and played a quick game online

Copy entire wc3 folder and paste onto thumb drive
Copy/paste from thumb drive into app folder in MacBook Pro
Open app folder, click into wc3 folder and click the TFT icon.

Hope it helps anyone.

8000rpm said:

Well I just copied the wc3 folder onto a USB stick from my iMac and pasted it into the app folder on my new retina mbp 15. Clicked the TFT logo and it fires up and works perfectly

I'm not one to give advice but what I did is :

On an older Mac (2011 iMac 27)
Log onto bnet
Download wc3
Download TFT (into wc3 folder)
Open TFT let it update and played a quick game online

Copy entire wc3 folder and paste onto thumb drive
Copy/paste from thumb drive into app folder in MacBook Pro
Open app folder, click into wc3 folder and click the TFT icon.

Hope it helps anyone.

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if this help i need to find some 1 with SL since i do not have one anymore..
damm i miss wc3

8000rpm said:

Well I just copied the wc3 folder onto a USB stick from my iMac and pasted it into the app folder on my new retina mbp 15. Clicked the TFT logo and it fires up and works perfectly

I'm not one to give advice but what I did is :

On an older Mac (2011 iMac 27)
Log onto bnet
Download wc3
Download TFT (into wc3 folder)
Open TFT let it update and played a quick game online

Copy entire wc3 folder and paste onto thumb drive
Copy/paste from thumb drive into app folder in MacBook Pro
Open app folder, click into wc3 folder and click the TFT icon.

Hope it helps anyone.

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Couldn't this theoritically work for Diablo II And D2: LOD?

Mac problems

I am on a 10.8 macbook pro and installed warcraft and frozen throne by installing it on an older version and moving it across. But I am still having problems actually playing the game.

The game starts up fine but if I go into settings it freaks out and I have to force quit the application.

I play this game mostly at lans but the lan function isn't working properly either. I cant see others games and I also cant start a game myself. When I try it just resets to the main screen. I tried installing the modified files from SiDVacant but it still doesn't fix my issue.

Any ideas

Warcraft 3 - my PC will not recognize/see another game on mac

We have been trying to play warcraft 3 on our PC against a player in the same home on his mac. Any suggestions?

meme1255 said:

Someone with 10.9 DP1 to test it?

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The game itself works fine on single player, but when clicking local area connection it gives an error saying "could not connect to network."

meme1255 said:

I hope that you're joking

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Unfortunately, I am not joking. I am hoping it is just my machine, but I don't have another 10.9 machine to test with. I may end up having a Mountain Lion and a Mavericks partition on my machine after the final release, just so I can continue to play Warcraft III network games.

Update to this thread for those who love WC3:

2013 27" iMac
OSX Mavericks (GM build)

Tonight I downloaded and installed WC3 ROC and WC3 TFT directly from my battle.net account on Blizzards website directly to a G4 iMac running OSX Tiger 10.4.11. I installed the patches and ran the game (everything was working as well as battle.net).

I copied the entire WC3 folder (in the applications folder) onto a thumb drive and put it onto my new iMac. After first running WC3 it took a moment and the screen flashed a few times and the game started. I changed the settings to match the display and it is running great and looks great. Both ROC and TFT are working fine and playable.

.....except battle.net. It will not connect. I've attached the error. For me this is okay b/c I don't use that aspect of the game. But for others this will obviously be an issue.

Jovian9 said:

2013 27" iMac
OSX Mavericks (GM build)


.....except battle.net. It will not connect. I've attached the error. For me this is okay b/c I don't use that aspect of the game. But for others this will obviously be an issue.

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Yeah... Mavericks obviously changed something with the networking layer and Warcraft 3 doesn't even know that there is a network card in the system anymore. I hope that we can figure out how to make the game recognize a network card in Mavericks...

same error for me.... could not connect the network or battle.net

Mavericks removed Open Transport, which was shared with OS 9 about a decade ago. Given that WCIII was coded for OS 9 and OS X, and it's pretty old, I'm thinking there is a good chance Open Transport being cut killed the network capabilities.

goMac said:

Mavericks removed Open Transport, which was shared with OS 9 about a decade ago. Given that WCIII was coded for OS 9 and OS X, and it's pretty old, I'm thinking there is a good chance Open Transport being cut killed the network capabilities.

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This. Apple isn't going to fix this (they removed Open Transport for their reasons) which leaves Blizzard to write an update/patch and Warcraft III being such an old game, it's not likely they'll be doing this anytime soon.

Does anyone know how to fix the black minimap?

Hi everyone,

I would like to thank all of you for your input, but I am still facing a problem with Warcraft 3. I own a 13' MB Pro (OS X 10.8.5) bought in september of this year and I successfully installed War3 by copying the files from my previous MB Unibody bought four years ago (OS X 10.6). The game runs just fine and I can log onto Bnet but some icons and the in-game minimap are black.

I tried re-installing the game, same thing happens.
I tried the PC version from my brother and downloaded that chinese file, same problem.

The game plays just fine but I am not enjoying the online gaming since I can't use the minimap (which makes it incredibly hard to win as you can expect). And I can't use my previous MacBook to play since my mum is using it and I am living in another town.

Does anyone know how to fix this problem?? I really want to play that game again. I guess I'll just move to StarCraft II if there is no solution...

Thanks for reading

I got Zero hour working with open transport, would someone smart post the code to get Warcraft 3 TFT to work with mavericks? I've tried and failed.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1660889/

Don't suppose anyone has figured out how to get WIII ROC/TFT working?
Particularly on Yosemite.

so, i did a clean install of yosemite and tried to install wariii but got that dreaded circle with the line through it icon over the application. so after googling the issue, i came upon this thread. One of the posts describes installing and patching the game in Snow Leopard and then copying the directory over. I remembered my previous os installation of Lion had a copy of War III patched up so I moved it over from my time machine backup and everything seems to work. Here's a screenshot:



THe only thing that didn't work was battle.net understandably. I'll see if there's an open transport work around and post again if anyone cares.