Greetings!

Just purchased and downloaded WC3. Would love to get this running on Ubuntu, but haven't figured out how yet.

So far I have successfully installed to a directory, by running the installer via wine, but when I try to launch the program via the installed link, it ends up running WC3 in the provided Windows dosbox 0.73, from within Wine...less than optimal. the game crawls, and sound cuts in and out.

So I've got the Linux native dosbox v0.74, and I'm attempting to run with it pointing at the dosbox conf file found in the WC3 install dir, like so:

dosbox -conf dosboxWC3.conf

of course it died when trying to output video to ddraw, so I changed that to overlay, and tried again...

Then it seemed to die when it couldn't open the MIDI device, so I changed to:

midiconfig=128:0

...now it says it opened device:alsa, but ...

dosbox still quits, with no other error messages, so I don't know where to go from here.

Does anyone have the GOG WC3 working on Linux? Was it with a working dosboxWC3.conf, or another approach?

Also, one thing that puzzles me is where is the executable file for launching WC3??

Any help/suggestions greatly appreciated:-)

progress! I modified the [autoexec] section so that it's referring to the proper directories where I have things, POSIX style, instead of Windows style.

For example I have my installation directory in:

/a/dos/wc3/ so my file looks like this now:

****** [autoexec]
@echo off
mount C "/a/dos/"
c: cd wc3
imgmount D c:/wc3/DATA.DAT -t iso
d:
cls
wc3.exe
exit
*******
...so now the game is launching, and it looks like the frame rate/speed is just fine! But no sound...so we'll see what we can come up with next.

In case it's beneficial to anyone, adding an '-i' argument to the wc3.exe call in the [autoexec] section launches the configuration, instead of the game itself.

ah, forgot to mention that once I looked at the [autoexec] section, it became obvious that the game executable is contained within the .DAT file. Interestingly, the file is mounted as an iso, even though it has a .DAT extension.

Alright, got sound working now, so we're good to go! Just ran the wc3 config and input the sb16 settings that I saw in the conf file, both for music and sound effects. That's it, have a working setup on Ubuntu 12.04 now:-)