Wine also runs on Macintosh computers with x86 CPUs under Mac OS X, but since Blizzard makes a Mac OS X native World of Warcraft client, running it under Wine is unnecessary and even silly.

This article primarily talks about setting up Wine for running the MS Windows version of World of Warcraft.

3.3 Method 3: Copy a working Windows install.

3.2.2 Problems mounting the DVD (collectors edition for and and standard for ).

Spread the word, let others know! If we get the server full, we can play! 😉įor more Reforged updates checkout the overview. More reasons to use the classic server: Playing custom games together, playing custom campaigns, playing the campaign, single-player matches, watching replays – and if there are enough players, playing online in a working matchmaking system.

Reforged is still full of bugs, the classic client is quite stable.

A lot of content has been removed (temporarily?), like voice-overs.

Warcraft 3 Reforged has no LAN functionality (yet).

The custom games and the world editor changed the complete copyright model, everything you create in Reforged belongs to Blizzard.

You can’t play Reforged offline: Even to get through the main menu, you need to log in.

That means if you want to anything, that is not yet working with Reforged, then you can use the PTR build. Blizzard killed the latest live version of ROC and TFT and replaced it with Reforged.

The PTR is one of the current rare solutions to play the old classic Warcraft 3 version.

What is the reason to play the classic version instead of Warcraft 3 Reforged? It’s just a PTR and players from all over the world get matched, this can end in games with a ping of 150ms. Yes, I can confirm it, while writing this in February 2020 it’s working.īut is the PTR playable? Not really, there are not enough users to play with, you can try to search a 1on1 if you have patience, but team games are nearly impossible. Of course you can just play with others who have the exact same version of Warcraft 3.

You can play online in the, everything is working fine.

Start the game and you will see the lovely old client! 😉 Welcome back to Classic WC3!.

Simply install the PTR client, it needs no updates.

Info: The Public Test Realm has been uploaded by Blizzard in June 2019 to give everyone the chance to test WC3 Patch 1.31. You can get the download here, scroll to the bottom.

Download the official Warcraft 3 PTR Client (PTR = Public Test Realm).

Thanks to he found the workaround! 🙂 Have fun! Step by Step Guide How to play the old classic Warcraft 3 client:ĭisclaimer: I don’t know how long this method will work, but while writing this (February 2020) it is working.

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