Warcraft III dota Connection Issue

[bigdb11]

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?

 

[iTookUrNick]

MAC-PC perhaps?

Are you palying on a MAC against PCs?
If so, see the explanation that was given to me on this forum here. (Scroll down to the post by imassents.

Hope it helps.

 

[Sdashiki]

you cant be serious!?

it does NOT matter when playing on Bnet whether you/they have Mac/Win.

Its something else.

 

[imassents]

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.

 

[QCassidy352]

...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...

 

[Sdashiki]

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.

 

[pranavss11]

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.

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