If it doesnt load try renaming the root folder back to WarCraft III (or whatever it was originally)… hopefully that should be enough, as long as you dont have any registry issues (registry issues are annoying to fix) Once you do that, then installing Reforged should not effect the OG game (hopefully) just make sure you do NOT install reforged on top of the same folder as the OG gameĪfter you install Reforged, try running the OG game. Next, rename the main folder where the game is installed on your PC with patch 1.26. When you re-install it, save it to a different location (not the default programfiles/wc3 folder, just anywhere else)… After you get it patched to 1.26 correctly, then make a backup copy of that folder on your backup hdd, and you can rename it to whatever you want Then you should re-install WC3 from the CDs in order to downgrade your patch version to 1.26. What I would do is, copy the OG folder to a backup harddrive/PC 1st. Its hard to say because its different for everyone, and I havent done this since the game launched in January so… do you have another PC you can test things on? its always helpful if you can have a backup copy on a separate PC just in case anything happens to your main PC My question is, am I able to permanently decline the update to WC3R, and still use the Blizzard App? I would like to get back into Starcraft 2 and other Blizzard games but do not want to risk losing access to classic WC3 and download 30 gigs of files I won’t use. I pressed “pause” in an attempt to stop the update, and have not tried opening the blizzard app since then. The issue I have is when I launched the Blizzard App for other blizzard games, WC3 reforged started to download. Its easy enough to avoid the update to Reforge when I play classic by declining the update when the game loads.

I am only interested in the campaigns and skirmish against the AI. I want to stick with classic WC3, as the current stage of Reforged is not quite ready in my opinion.

I have WC3 classic installed (by activating disk keys on blizzard’s site a few years ago), and am currently patched to 1.30.4.

Sorry if this topic has been covered before, but I was not able to find an answer that covers my exact situation.

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