Video Tutorial: https://youtu.be/IaIzdasSuBc
Used to bypass around GameRanger limitation of not being able to launch Warcraft III in windowed mode.
To run Warcraft III in windowed mode you must pass the -window argument to the game, but GameRanger does not have an option for that. The solution was to take a program that requires no arguments, but launches the game in windowed mode.
This program attempts to read the command line to execute from a configuration file. If file is missing or there is an error reading it, then it will attempt to use default Warcraft III location: C:\Games\Warcraft III 1.26\<warcraft_3_game_executable>.
In order to make it work with GameRanger one has to navigate to the Warcraft III root directory and change the name of war3.exe to some other name (NOTE: do NOT overwrite this file), by deafult it is assumed that the file was renamed to realWar3.exe. Then insert the fake war3.exe and configuration file named fakeWar3.cfg into the root directory.
The configuration file fakeWar3.cfg can contain the following settings:
Location- text, path to the real Warcraft III executableWindowed- true or false, tells to start Warcraft III in windowed modeBorderless- true or false, tells to make Warcraft III window borderlessResolution- text, should beautoor a custom resolution in format"<number>x<number>"Arguments- text, other arguments that should be passed to Warcraft III, must be separated by space
Please note, that the file MUST HAVE an empty line at the end of the file. Example:
Location="C:\Games\Warcraft III 1.26\realWar3.exe"
Windowed=TRUE
Borderless=FALSE
Resolution="auto"
Arguments=""
Please remember to wrap the path and all the other text settings with double quotes ("), as shown in the example.
- This software was only tested for Warcraft III: Frozen Throne.