Sorry for bad english.
I still have my original WC3 CD’s (both ROC and TFT)
But they are at mums house which is 1 hours drive from my house.
Before i drive to there to get my CD’s, can i install the game and play it like before reforged come out?
i heard i have to turn of my internet if i do that because the games will try to auto update or somthing happen like that.
You can indeed install the game from CD and have it function that way. And as far as I know, you don’t need to turn off your internet, but you will obviously not be able to play multiplayer - and if you tried to, it’d prompt you to update the game. This can be made impossible to do even accidentally if you block the game’s executable from accessing the internet, but a surprising amount of people don’t know how to do that, so I won’t go into details about it unless you want me to.
There are also sites that provide patches to specific versions, so you don’t have to use the game itself to update.
Hey i tried to do that but it just got me into battle’net.
No way to play on the original BNET?
You can install from CDs and manually patch up to 1.27b. You can not connect to classic battle.net. Don’t attempt to or it will try to force upgrade your client. With 1.27b you can enjoy single player content and LAN and whatnot as it all originally was.
How do i do that then? As the last time it diden’t work
Holbart,
Assuming you were asking me:
Just install WC3 and TFT from your retail discs. Then place the patch file (you can download manual patches up to 1.27b in both RoC and TFT variants) in your installation directory and run it. That will patch everything up and add things like the remaining Horde Bonus Campaign, the maps of the month, etc.
If you click the Battle.net button, however, the game will try to update you to the Reforged client. So consider it a single player/LAN only installation. I have it installed on my PC as WC3 Classic alongside Reforged. I can run both versions depending on what I am in the mood for.
The game will patch to Reforged if you try to connect online.
There are ways around this. But The current game is “original.” if you didn’t purchase reforged, you simply don’t get access to reforged mode or the storyline achievements.
Negative, it does not exist anymore.
If you do so on an old PC then yes. Newer PCs will probably not work, especially for very old versions of Warcraft III which struggled to run even on Windows 7. More recent patches should run just fine on Windows 10, if you can get a hold of them.
Only if you try to play online. Logically online play will not work with an old version so this should not be a problem.
That was shutdown as it was replaced by the current BattleNet 2.0 servers. The fact some core features are missing is another issue and not a fundamental problem with the move to BattleNet 2.0.
I can confirm if you were to get the original Battle Chest set than using the the gaming -tools site and download all patches up to 1.27b you can play the original. I bought 2 battle chest from amazon. there are like 37 of them from $15 to $100+ from used to collectible conditions. that is the only way I know of. it works for me perfectly.
If you do so on an old PC then yes. Newer PCs will probably not work, especially for very old versions of Warcraft III which struggled to run even on Windows 7
What exactly do you mean here? Which “very old versions”? I have 1.27 running on W7 and W10 just fine, on a modern PC system. You do know there are compatibility options on Windows systems?
Only if you try to play online. Logically online play will not work with an old version so this should not be a problem.
Not… entirely true. There’s still LAN play, and using certain platforms, e.g. Garena, you can play with people over the internet. There was even a discord group created for this, but I am sure if it’s still up.
I am referring to very old versions. Like 1.06 or whatever most WC3 CDs were burnt with without any patches downloaded and installed. These are highly unlikely to run well on modern operating systems.
Less old but still legacy versions may also suffer from extremely bad graphical performance on Windows 10 when run in Direct3D8 mode (only D3D mode available). Or at least they did back when they were not old. Running in OpenGL mode solves this, but does have poorly drawn text compared with Direct3D.
All old versions lack widescreen support. Although widescreen resolutions can be forced in the registry, these will cause the display area to be stretched horizontally which is ugly. Versions of Warcraft III from just before Reforged released did support wide screen natively however there may be no stand alone updater available for them.
You don’t even need to turn off your internet, just block the .exe in your firewall.
Here are the official full game downloads of version 1.27a. It’s playable right away. From there, you’d just need the 1.27b patch if you want it.
RoC: https://us.battle.net/download/getLegacy?product=WAR3&locale=enUS&os=WIN
TFT: https://us.battle.net/download/getLegacy?product=W3XP&locale=enUS&os=WIN
But like several others have said above, do not connect to Battlenet. That will forcibly upgrade the game to Reforged. However, everything else is fully available to play.
When you say “do not connect to Battlenet”, does that just mean within the game? Or will launching the Battle.net client (to play a different game) also force an update to Reforged?
I can confirm that the original version of the first battlechest of RoC, version 1.0x (the very first one with different damage towers and the vivendi registration) can run on Win7 without problems.
Just from inside the game. Essentially, don’t click the “Battle.net” button on the main screen.
You can stop automatic updates in the BattleNet app. As such even if it detects the legacy version of WC3 you can choose not to update it and only update the BattleNet games you play online.
Great, thanks. I can vaguely remember it updating my old installation (and messing it up in the process so that it wouldn’t launch anymore) when Reforged came out, but I couldn’t remember what triggered that. I guess it was me…