{"id":578,"date":"2010-12-11T10:20:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T21:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/?p=578"},"modified":"2010-12-11T10:20:50","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T21:20:50","slug":"warcraft-iii-in-gentoo-linux-crashes-in-bnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/warcraft-iii-in-gentoo-linux-crashes-in-bnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Warcraft III in Gentoo Linux &#8211; Crashes in bnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"8781ca4f97038dd0d58a1ad8af045721\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-6411751809866006\";\r\n\/* BlogHorizontalSlim *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"6442664612\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>So I ran Ubuntu a while ago and knew it could work fine using the latest Warcraft 1.24e, but for some reason in Gentoo every time I would sign in to battle.net it would accept my password and then just as the screen would start to &#8220;pull down&#8221; from the top, WC3 would bomb out and die \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>Turns out if you recompile wine using +gnutls everything works magically! I&#8217;m happily playing DotA!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not tested hosting, apparently you need a little more fairy dust to make that happen, but my ghost++ bot on my VPS hosts for me, so I really don&#8217;t mind.<\/p>\n<p>Played a few games, everythings been fine so far. It did die when I used !unhost in a lobby, rather than just kicking me back to the channel I was in. Oddly enough I did it again later that day and it worked just like it should.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s not just me, but the animations also seemed smoother in Linux, though I must admit that my map-loadtime has tripled to 13.5 seconds. A small price to pay \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I ran Ubuntu a while ago and knew it could work fine using the latest Warcraft 1.24e, but for some reason in Gentoo every time I would sign in to battle.net it would accept my password and then just as the screen would start to &#8220;pull down&#8221; from the top, WC3 would bomb out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[282,278,281,105,279,280],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-tos-guides-tech-info","tag-dota","tag-gentoo","tag-gnutls","tag-linux","tag-warcraft-iii","tag-wine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pWi3e-9k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}