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    warcraft 3 and windows 7

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Damonkashu, Jun 9, 2009.

  1. Damonkashu

    Damonkashu Notebook Consultant

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    hey all

    just installed WC3:TFT onto my sager np 8662. It's running windows 7 right now.

    However, when I connect to battle net to attempt to patch warcraft, I get an error "writing to your hard drive while trying to download a file from battle.net"

    any clues on what's going on here?
     
    Damonkashu, Jun 9, 2009
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  2. MidnightSun

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    You need administrative priviledges to patch. Run the game as administrator when you are going to patch and everything should be fine.
     
    MidnightSun, Jun 9, 2009
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    You can also disable that whole deal. (the requesting admin privaledges, in Vista, at least). Id try to do that...its such a pain...
     
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  4. Damonkashu

    Damonkashu Notebook Consultant

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    run as admin works for patching, but my connection also drops randomly while downloading maps or playing in game, any clues? This does not happen when playing on my mac or other assorted PC's
     
    Damonkashu, Jun 10, 2009
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    ViciousXUSMC Master Viking NBR Reviewer

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    I have read WC3 having some issues of the late, not just Win 7 but every OS due to some kind of changes made on battlenet.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Jun 10, 2009
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    WC3 works fine for me on Windows XP and on my [crappy] old Vista laptop.

    What exactly is this issue? o_O
     
    Melody, Jun 10, 2009
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  7. Damonkashu

    Damonkashu Notebook Consultant

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    I disconnected out of every game with my friends thus far, after about 1-2 minutes into the game.

    My macbook seems to connect just fine, leading me to believe it is definitely the laptop (or rather, the OS?) as opposed to the battle net servers being down

    Does anyone else play WC3 on windows 7, and have any opinions/advice on the matter?
     
    Damonkashu, Jun 10, 2009
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    Snowm0bile Starcraftologist

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    Windows and Mac OSX do not get along
     
    Snowm0bile, Jun 10, 2009
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    I play wc3 on my machine running windows 7 RC almost daily. Bnet and Lan works great.
     
    sujinge9, Jun 10, 2009
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    I also play WC3 on bnet daily with Win 7 RC.
    Having no problems so far.
     
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    you guys did not have to change any settings around? this is troubling :\ I wonder what the issue on my machine is...
     
    Damonkashu, Jun 10, 2009
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    interesting discovery:

    I partitioned my drive into 2, one for windows 7, one for windows vista.
    I installed warcraft 3 on windows 7 of course, but I continue to suffer frequent disconnects/dropouts.

    Today, I booted up into vista and I tried accessing Warcraft 3 on the windows 7 drive. I did not expect it to work (maybe I don't understand how partitioning works?), but I was able to run WC3 and did not suffer any connection issues! I am baffled. Could this be related to the network card drivers? I think I have them up to date on both OS's, so I have no clue what's going on here...seems like a hassle to have to boot into vista every time I want to play WC3 though.
     
    Damonkashu, Jun 11, 2009
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