Warcraft 3 - Black screen

I am having difficulty trying to run Warcraft 3 : Frozen Throne. When I run FrozenThrone.exe the splash screen shows up and then my resolution switches to 800x600 and then the screen turns black with the windows taskbar. I have downloaded the patch (1.23 full) from blizzard and I have tried the following with no sucess:

• running in compatibility mode (xp and vista)
• Disable desktop composition
• Run as admin

Has anyone encountered this?

I am running Build 7100.

Thanks in advance for your help. :)

That's strange, I'm on older build 7077 x64 and older patch for War3 (1.22a?) and I can run it without having to enable/disable anything.

I'm going to install 7100 soon.

i have a similar problem with you but not as bad as your problem hehe....
i am able to play dota on windows7 but the game screen doesn't seems to stretch to fill my laptop widescreen display. Note that i set all settings to high as possible and i'm running the game on a highest resolution possible. I am using the HP CQ40 126 AX. Is there any way to fix this? I tried playing PES2008 and it fits well.

I had that problem trying to run Americas Army.
I have a nvidia geforce 8600gt.
MS update installed drivers for it. They would always give me a black screen after the splash screen, so I went to nividia website downloaded the drivers for win7. Installed, rebooted and it worked great.

Hope its that easy for you.

jeremy7 said:

i have a similar problem with you but not as bad as your problem hehe....
i am able to play dota on windows7 but the game screen doesn't seems to stretch to fill my laptop widescreen display. Note that i set all settings to high as possible and i'm running the game on a highest resolution possible. I am using the HP CQ40 126 AX. Is there any way to fix this? I tried playing PES2008 and it fits well.

It's normal for Warcraft 3 because the game doesn't have native resolution support for widescreen. But are you using NVIDIA GPU? If you're, then there's a possible solution for it.



Choose Use NVIDIA scaling, It will try to stretch the screen to fill your display.

I installed the latest drivers from NVidia (8.15.11.8581 4/28/2009) for my 8800 GTS and still no dice .

AnonymousX have you tried installing on Build 7100 yet?

Installed War3 on 7100. Works like a charm...

i don't think that's normal coz when i was still on vista, the game fills the whole screen perfectly. I still think there is something wrong with win7. i just hope that soemone will help me solve my problem soon.
I'm using ATI HD 3450 and i already installed the latest ATI catalyst for windows 7. but the problem remains... anybody got a solutions?

lol then I don't know how to help, I don't own ATI card, sorry.

So what was the magic trick to get warcraft 3 to work on win7 build 7100?