Warcraft and ubuntu
Warcraft is not designet to run on the linux system. But using wine, it is actually posible to play the game.
Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix.
From Winehq.com
So, basicly you should be able to run windows software on the linux system. But not everything runs as good as you could wish. Warcraft III was able to run on the system. I installed it and renamed movie directory inside the warcraft III directory. This way I disabled the movies from the game. Also, I could have deleted them. But since the movies in the game was stopping the game from running properly, it was necessary. Then I ran a test game on Battle.net. It was fine, except its runs slower than on the windows system, so a had to lower the graphics settings. But thats about the computer.
But playing warcraft III on battle.net is not really appealing, theres is too much delays and more. Then it is good that someone made a gaming platform called Garena. It is some kind of Virtual Private Network. It has lots of users, and the delay is minimal. This works for windows and macs as well. But running this in wine seemed good, right untill I tried the “Start Game” button. All though the game path is set, the game just doesn’t start and Garena freeze. This is as of version 2.4 of Garena. I have not yet found any solution to this. Hopfully it get to work in a future version of the program.
It seems that not everything is easy in Ubuntu.