I have not been able to play these remasters ever since I bought them on launch day for one simple reason: they don’t even start for me, here it is on video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fstKelGwk0
I spent around a week talking to support through a ticket that I opened but they couldn’t help me and advised to open a thread about it instead (helpful support, that one) so I did that.
Here are my specs:
OS: Windows 11
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800x3D
GPU: RTX 4070 12 GB
Games and the OS are on an SSD
Specifics that come to mind and might matter:
- I have my CPU’s iGPU disabled in the BIOS
- My Windows language is Hungarian and my Windows user name has an “á” character in it. I mention this because there was a game a few years ago where this caused a minor problem.
Please investigate, Blizzard, I’d really like to play the game and I’m not alone with this issue.
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you’re really not alone with this, i and MANY others have the same problem
it seems to just not work with windows 11, people said that putting in it on an earlier windows 10 version fixed that
i think they said that it’s not really supporting 32x bit anymore, blizzard really needs to finally make them 64x bit
I play on windows 11 and it works most of the time, had a day with 3 blue screens, but that’s it.
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some also said that’s because of a to updatet driver and/or a to new… graphic card? i guess? i forgot to say that. i dont really know what exactly they meant, i dont talk IT language but some had issues and others had solutions for them and i’m just trying to spread these solutions but i don’t really understand what they were talking about
doesn’t change the fact that wacraft 1 and 2 need to become (or “run in”?) 64x bit
There is only one problem with that notion: I have a ton of 32 bit apps installed and they all work perfectly on Windows 11. The War 1 and 2 remasters being this bad at launch is shocking to me exactly because I’m the kind of person who plays a lot of old games and it’s very rare that I see anything that’s just refusing to run.
Warcraft 1 and 2 GOG releases? They work perfectly. The DOSBox based Battle.net releases that came along with the remasters. Yup, they run. Every other game I have on Battle.net? They work without issue and of course they do, why wouldn’t they? Windows 11 is perfectly fine for gaming most of the time though right now there is a bit of an issue with Ubisoft games which is stopping me from updating to 24H2.
I don’t know what happened here but honestly the only reason why I didn’t refund these remasters was that I’m curious how long it will take the fix them because the problem is sure as heck ain’t my machine. I’m never buying another Blizzard product on launch.
EDIT: Pulled up the Event Viewer to see if any crash was logged. There was but I can’t post the link to the screenshot of it that I uploaded because Blizzard forums are great nowadays (why are we going backwards?).
I guess I’ll just paste the details in text:
System
[ Name] Application Error
[ Guid] {a0e9b465-b939-57d7-b27d-95d8e925ff57}
EventID 1000
Version 0
Level 2
Task 100
Opcode 0
Keywords 0x8000000000000000
[ SystemTime] 2024-12-11T00:14:05.6003051Z
EventRecordID 6083
Correlation
[ ProcessID] 21228
[ ThreadID] 21208
Channel Application
Computer DESKTOP-K8HSF6I
[ UserID] S-1-5-21-2780115865-3248754887-1374936843-1001
Have you try to analyze and repair?
I had the message error “couldn’t load texture” by chance I tried to analyze and repair…after WC I and II started to work!
Yeah, that was one of the first things that I tried.
Anyway new hotfixes came out today, they didn’t fix the game, they still won’t start.
I’m experiencing similar. The game launches to a black screen. Both versions ran fine one time then did this. Scan and Repairs done, reinstalls done, nothing seems to work. Black screen comes up, if you click on it, it tells you it’s Not Responding. It also only seems to be the Remastered versions with this problem.
Warcraft 1 sometimes crashes when loading a mission but plays fine if it manages to load.
Warcraft 2 just randomly crashes during loading and during play.
Neither seem to have any discernible trigger.
Just updating this thread, game (both War1 and War2) STILL wont start, just like ur video, only difference is im on Windows 10
Could you share with me your system specs? Anything that comes to mind really, sadly I have no idea why the games don’t work so anything can be relevant. CPU? GPU? State of drivers? Any software in particular that you use frequently and think might not be super common? Your system language?
Sadly it’s becoming clear that the people who are working on this (if there are even people still working on the remasters) are either unwilling or failing to fix this shockingly huge issue so we might be on our own when it comes to fixing their broken, shamefully put together product.