Unable to find war3.exe

[CreativeLP]

Hey guys, I have a big problem with starting warcraft3 at the moment. Here is what happened.

I played normally yesterday, when I tried to start warcraft today, it told me that
"Frozen Throne was unable to find War3.exe" btw same for ROC, it just says Warcraft III instead of Frozen Throne there.

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So I deinstalled it and reinstalled it, I started with Reign Of Chaos, game was starting and single player was no problem, then I went for the battlenet update cause the download version is 1.21, it downloaded without any errors, after that I tried to start warcraft3 again but I got the same error again.

Next step I did was to compare my warcraft folder with the one on my laptop, there I saw that my laptop folder contained a war3.exe , so I copied it and pasted it into my pcs warcraft folder, tried to start warcraft3 and the loading screen came but 1 second after that I could see the war3.exe disappearing in the folder and the same error message came again.
I also tried downloading vcredist_x86 as it fixed the problem for many people but it didn't change for me, so now I am here asking you if u got any more ideas what I can do, it really bothers me that it worked yesterday and today when I started my pc (without changing anything) it suddenly doesn't work anymore.

[RadiantCrystal]

Try install warcraft in a different path?

[Miyagi]

You need to download the latest patch which is 1.26 i think?

http://www.dota-utilities.com/2011/03/w ... -v126.html

[Don_Killuminati]

I had the same problem today,cause my antivirus deleted war3.exe
So i have to reinstall wc3 roc and tft.

[CreativeLP]

I had the same problem today,cause my antivirus deleted war3.exe
So i have to reinstall wc3 roc and tft.

Damn, that was actually the case, seems to work again now. I added an exception for my avast and then it was not deleted again.
I manually added the war3.exe into the folder and it seems to work so u probably only need to download the exe from somewhere.
I will try it later if everything works as always like gproxy etc, no time to prove that at the moment. Thanks for ur suggestions!´.

[Shaka)Tak)]

Just got this problem right now, wtf! :O

Tried to reinstall the game but as you said, after the bnet update war3.exe is missing.

Glad to hear that keeping some backup of this file + adding an exception to avast should fix the problem, will try tomorrow.

Thanks, will sleep well tonight.