using opengl to run warcraft in virtualbox

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=897
You can run Warcraft III through Wine with only a couple of problems.

This guide helps you on your way, however I recommend that you use latest development version of Wine 1.1.30 instead of the stable version 1.0.1 found in repositories.
http://www.tipsfor.us/2009/06/04/install-warcraft-3-on-ubuntu-linux-a-visual-guide/

As for Virtualbox, do you have Windows XP in it or what?

I'm sorry, latest version of Wine seems to be 1.1.31.

Hey.

I recommend you use Wine to install and run Wc3 , rather then using 3d accel in virtualbox, it works but its easier and better performance in Wine.

Also make sure you're using the right video card driver

Thanks for all the replies, but I specifically need it to run in
virtualbox because I want to run another program (garena) with
warcraft.

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So I then ask again. Have you got Windows XP in Virtualbox?

If you have Windows XP, go to settings for your virtual computer and set 3D-acceleration to enable. Then inside XP I suppose you just install the guest addon thing and enable 3D-acceleration in that as well. If your Ubuntu (your main OS right?) has got 3D support and activated, (if you have Compiz actived then 3D works), you should simply have to install Wc3 in your Windows XP installation in Virtualbox.

This has however nothing really to do with Ubuntu and you will probably get better support at the Virtualbox forum :O

Why do you people give advice not even knowing what this guy is trying to achieve? Garena won't work with the current version of wine, or at least I wasn't able to make it work.

However, back to the topic. If you have correctly enabled acceleration support and the lastest guest additions, installed Garena and Warcraft, you have to just run Warcraft with the -opengl switch, which is very easy itself. Go to Garena > Settings, change your Executable settings normally, like "C:\Warcraft\war3.exe", but type "-opengl" into the Game Bootstrap Parameters field. Save and you are done, Wacraft should work.

As for performance, on my AMD 7800/2GB ram/Ge7300 I get around 20-30 fps with 1680x1050 resolution on low settings. This is way worse than wine, yes.

If the game works, you may want to disable the toolbar in virtual machine settings and the alt keybind in your window manager.

This solution isn't perfect though, as with NAT networing you will only see some games, other will be unjoinable. I believe the solution is to set up host-only networing, but I didn't have the time to try that out yet.

As for the Virtualbox forums: that may be correct, but I am googling for some time now about running garena in Virtualbox and this is the first related topic I find... So I decided to write down everything here ;-)

Hope it helped a bit.

Yeah, my bad I didn't realize the importance of Garena that was mentioned in the first post. I focused too much on getting Wc3 running ;)

thank you very much, that was exactly what I wanted to ask, but I
guess I didn't clarify it correctly. So I opened garena, and saw the
box for "Game Bootstrap Parameters" and I just type in "-opengl" into
that box? What do I put into the "executable setting"?

So I tried pointing to the war3.exe for the "executable settings" and
put in "-opengl" <-(theres a dash there right?) in the parameter box,
and it didn't run warcraft. I have a feeling I don't have opengl,
since I didn't install it or anything. Shouldn't I have to setup
opengl or something?

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No, Executable settings should point to war3.exe, and "-opengl" should be in the Game bootstrap parameter. OpenGL is no magic, it's a programming interface like, for example, Direct3D.
Warcraft 3 can use both Direct3D and OpenGL to render its graphics, Direct3D run by default and OpenGL activated by the "-opengl" switch appended to the run parameters.
If you've done all of that and still can't run Warcraft in Virtualbox, there can be a variety of things that could make that happen: no graphic drivers on the host system, no guest additions, 3d acceleration not activated in the virtual machine settings, a cpu not supporting virtualization technologies (amd-v and VT, I guess it shoud run without that, albeit very slowly).