Warcraft 3 - Black screen

[WaffleFry]

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.

 

[AnonymousX]

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.

 

[jeremy7]

Frozen Throne Screen Problem

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.

 

[SammyTRK]

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.

 

[AnonymousX]

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.

 

[WaffleFry]

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?

 

[AnonymousX]

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

 

[jeremy7]

re:

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?

 

[AnonymousX]

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

 

[WaffleFry]

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

 

[AnonymousX]

I didn't do anything special.

 

[WaffleFry]

What are your system specs and what vid card driver are you using?

 

[AnonymousX]

Click "My System Specs"

And I use 185.81 W7 x64 driver.

 

[Mercurial]

just put windows xp sp3 on compatibility and run as admin and it should work

 

[WaffleFry]

I've tried that and doesnt work for me.

 

[sunn of nothing]

I keep getting a "Warcraft failed to initialize DirectX" error even though I have DirectX 10 installed. I'm running 7100 build (x64) and have all my graphics/motherboard drivers up to date and I've tried every compatability mode (and all the different display options). Is there some way to run a program with DirectX 8 or 9 and still have 10 for newer games/programs?

 

[HackieWackie]

Found a solution > How To Play Warcraft - Dota on full Screen in Windows 7 | A New Morning