Any time I try to host a game the game will either host and kick me immediately or it will host with a single slot. Private invites don’t work, and if I place a bot/close the slot I get kicked. If I click start the game will also kick me once the timer has completed. This problem occurs with all downloaded maps including from recently joined games. The default maps on the map list (non frozen throne/downloaded) work fine.
I have tried turning off my firewall, moving the document location, reinstalling the game (twice now), with no progress. I have no other Warcraft III folders including beta or classic, but cant figure this out. I’ve read other topics and there doesn’t seem to be any fix that works. I can join other peoples games fine (No friends or host bots so out of luck there for the custom maps I want to play)
My Warcraft III maps are in the standard path User/Documents/WarcraftIII/Maps , I am operating on Windows 10 with default windows security.
No errors, crash reports or security notifications come through when this happens. The game worked 2 years ago last time I played, but this install and patch just don’t work.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Solved: So my solution was I duplicated my WC3 folder into x86 program files, and moved my custom maps into a subfolder of downloads.
All of my extended Melee maps save under 30 character number and letter random folders. So I placed my games into the documents folder version that held NeonCity. For some reason that works