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Help with installing Warcraft 3

jamin00

jamin00

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Fancied a play on the old Warcraft so I downloaded no 3 but when I come to install it I can't as it says Powerpc is no longer supported?

Dont mention nothing about this before you buy it for Mac but I can only find help for World of Warcraft and not no 3.

Oh, I got a late 2011 MBP 15" if it means anything

Any clues??

Cheers
 
Did you buy and download the game directly from Blizzard? I believe they've updated it to work with Lion. If they haven't, then your only choice is to somehow install the game on a pre-Lion Mac and copy the application folders over.
 
mikeo007 said:
Did you buy and download the game directly from Blizzard? I believe they've updated it to work with Lion. If they haven't, then your only choice is to somehow install the game on a pre-Lion Mac and copy the application folders over.
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I downloaded it.

I don't have nor have access to a pre Lion Mac :(

Guess its a refund?
 
jamin00 said:
I downloaded it.

I don't have nor have access to a pre Lion Mac :(

Guess its a refund?
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I would try emailing Blizzard first and see if they can help. The game itself runs fine on Lion, it's just the installer that needs PPC.
 
I have created a ticket so see what they come back with.


Anyone know about Starcraft 2, will that run?
 
The Mac OS X version will work on Lion but you would need to install it and patch it to the latest version on a Mac with 10.6 or earlier and copy it across.

The other option would be to download the Windows version and install it in a Wineskin wrapper or run it under crossover games. This works for older Blizzard titles in Lion such as Warcraft 2, Starcraft and Diablo 2.
 
Mattww said:
The Mac OS X version will work on Lion but you would need to install it and patch it to the latest version on a Mac with 10.6 or earlier and copy it across.

The other option would be to download the Windows version and install it in a Wineskin wrapper or run it under crossover games. This works for older Blizzard titles in Lion such as Warcraft 2, Starcraft and Diablo 2.
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I recently upgraded to Lion only to find about 20 of my programs no longer function, Starcraft chief among them. I tried the wine option, Starcraft runs slower on my 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo than it did on my 75MHz Pentium back in 1998. Wheee.

I got much better results running Starcraft in a Windows 2000 VM using the excellent (and free) VirtualBox. The obvious disadvantage is that you need a copy of Windows (2000, XP, 7 have official support and "extensions", ME, 98, 95, 3.1 do not).
 
We should all ask them to make another installer by opening a ticket on battle.net, I did it.
Come on, it's a little small program, it takes two days for a developer !
 
fredm said:
We should all ask them to make another installer by opening a ticket on battle.net, I did it.
Come on, it's a little small program, it takes two days for a developer !
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It's not that easy really considering that WC3 is a legacy PPC based installer. It all has to go through a testing process among different machines and versions of OS X. My MBP shipped with Snow Leopard and I installed (and updated) before Lion was publicly announced. Thankfully it works. I discussed this with the mods here on MacRumors of sharing my updated install folders but in doing that, I would be violating the EULA I'm bound with upon the purchase of the game.

In addition, I don't want my CD key floating around and redistributed all over illegal file sharing sites etc. It looks bad for MR and myself as a game developer under multiple NDA'S. That trust is shattered along with my reputation and possible damages.
 
fredm said:
We should all ask them to make another installer by opening a ticket on battle.net, I did it.
Come on, it's a little small program, it takes two days for a developer !
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Ungibbed said:
It's not that easy really considering that WC3 is a legacy PPC based installer. It all has to go through a testing process among different machines and versions of OS X.
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Well, Blizzard needs to man up and do the right thing. They have two options:

1 - Invest the relatively small amount of time to solve this issue and post a downloadable version of WC3 and it's expansion that can properly install on current Macs, or

2 - Recall all Warcraft 3, Diablo 2, and Starcraft Battle Chests from all the retail display shelves of every Walmart, K-Mart, etc. We're not talking about being upset when that bargain-bin software from 1995 won't run on your new computer, we're talking about software that occupies high-dollar shelf placement alongside current titles, being sold as a current title, that DOESN'T WORK on modern computers!


It's almost like Blizzard and Apple are too stubborn to help each other out here. Good for them.
 
I tried installing it with 10.6 server in parallels, but no luck there either, no opengl support so installation works, but game can't be started and hence not patched.
 
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