I am playing Warcraft III dota and keep getting disconnected from my game. I dont think its my computer given its a unibody with 4gb ram and 512 graphics card. I have heard other mac users are having this problem. What have people done to fix it?
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Warcraft III dota Connection Issue
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you cant be serious!?
it does NOT matter when playing on Bnet whether you/they have Mac/Win.
Its something else.
it does NOT matter when playing on Bnet whether you/they have Mac/Win.
Its something else.
Try it.
The triggers in the DotA AI version (the bots one) causes disconnects for Macs when playing cross-platform. I can't remember whether an all Mac game does the same thing or not. Another map is GemTD and it used to crash on Macs as well (PCs were fine). I haven't seen plain old DotA have issues yet.
It's a well known fact that both platforms interpret some triggers differently. Because of this, maps using these triggers have issues.
The triggers in the DotA AI version (the bots one) causes disconnects for Macs when playing cross-platform. I can't remember whether an all Mac game does the same thing or not. Another map is GemTD and it used to crash on Macs as well (PCs were fine). I haven't seen plain old DotA have issues yet.
It's a well known fact that both platforms interpret some triggers differently. Because of this, maps using these triggers have issues.
...something about the host running vista? I'm not making a smartass remark about vista, I really think I heard something about macs having problems on vista-hosted dota games. The details escape me tho...
I still barely understand the idea of "hosting" a Bnet game.
Ive had plenty of instances where the host (blue player, creator of the game) has left.
The game STILL runs with everyone else just fine.
So, somewhere I doubt that the operating system of the host can affect anyone.
Ive had plenty of instances where the host (blue player, creator of the game) has left.
The game STILL runs with everyone else just fine.
So, somewhere I doubt that the operating system of the host can affect anyone.
When a host (blue player) disconnects, the server automatically looks for the next player who can host. If it dosen't find any, it drops the whole game.
@OP, I've been playing dota for quite some time on my mac and have never disconnected from the game unless my internet crashes. I would recommend sending blizzard wc3 support a quick email explaining this issue to them.
I have had a different issue and they got back to me pretty quickly with a solution.
Just my 2c.
=-P