Linux guide

Running Warcraft III with Wine

This tutorial was tested with wine-10.4 (Staging) on Debian 12. Players reported that Wine Stable also works.

You need:

• Warcraft III 1.26a and/or 1.28.5
• Eurobattle.net Installer

Installation Steps

1. wine installer.exe
2. If prompted to install wine-mono, accept.
3. Untick "I already have Visual C++" on the first step.
4. Continue through the installation steps.
5. For game paths, I prefer /home/me/games/<w3>, which maps in the dialog to e.g. Z:\home\me\games\Warcraft III 1.26. For the target install directory, you could also use a place in your home, e.g. Z:\home\me\programs\Eurobattle.net.
6. Click Install and wait for it to finish.

Starting the Client and the Game

In the terminal:

1. Open the Wine Registry Editor:

   regedit

2. Navigate to:

   HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Blizzard Entertainment/Warcraft III/Misc

   Set seenintromovie to 1. This disables the intro movie, which is broken under Wine. If this key does not exist yet, create it as DWORD.

3. cd /home/me/programs/Eurobattle.net && wine xpam.exe

Everything in the client should work except the News tab, which uses Qt WebEngine and is broken under Wine.

Enjoy!