World Of Warcraft Howto/Support UPDATED 11/10/05! (old)

discomfitor · l33t Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 927 Location: None

Mod edit: Split from topic 246098. --kallamej

Split for 1.8.

Hooray for patch day!
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mopomi · n00b Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Posts: 13

PseudoKrazy · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 11:20 pm Post subject:

Ok... so i got WoW working last week, and after seeing how awesome it ran in wine, decided to go and purchase 6 months of it.

...

There was an update today

. And it broke my WoW. :evil:

My sound was fixed,but now sucks once more, and i can no longer target anything other then myself. :-(

someone help me fix my WoW and tell me i didnt waste money on 6 months of this.

ikataii · n00b Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Posts: 59 Location: CA

Right, I've had it running smoothly since I got wine-20050830 installed, then this patch came out and everything came apart. I got WoW to start smoothly a couple of times under 20050830, then found the mouseover bug and hoped 20050930 would fix it. Now I get the following every time I start up wine, including the last line unique to winecfg trying to apply my drive_c setting, even with an absolute path (/home/kate/.wine/drive_c)

ikataii · n00b Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Posts: 59 Location: CA

scratch that. Uninstalled 20050930 and reinstalled 20050830 and it works (sorta) again.
Now we just need a way past this mouse bug. Anybody tried the old fixes?
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morrowyn · n00b Joined: 12 Oct 2005 Posts: 2

Ok, i have WoWW 1.8.0 running via the latest wine (20050930), i also experience the mousebug problem. Btw, i run it on slackware 10.2, but then again this is beyond the linux distro's this is about gaming

I also have a question, i have 2 monitors and if i dont run a windowed mode, WoWW runs 1280x1024 resolution on both screen. The nice part is that it is the first game on linux that im aware of that doesnt do weird stuff when running dual screens.
However, does WoWW support a resolution of 2560x1024?

Regards

cfempa · n00b Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 5

shamus13 · n00b Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 21

Ello all,

I guess, it was naive in the extreeme to think, blue had actually fixed their
heap corruption problems causing the mouse bug. Any way, i have tracked
down an old post with a patch to add this override feature to winex. Its not
terribly big, but it is still going to be a bit of work to figure out, how to hack
that into wine.

The post with the old patch can be found at:
http://lists.transgaming.org/pipermail/winex-devel/2004-May/000259.html

I for one will be tinkering with a bit of source this evening:D

Shamus

RabbidFrogLobotomy · n00b Joined: 25 Jan 2005 Posts: 39

PseudoKrazy · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:44 pm Post subject:

ikataii · n00b Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Posts: 59 Location: CA

Yeah. Precisely as it happened before, it only affects opengl and it causes either the mouse to think it's in the background or for it to think that the background items are in front of the target (basically, reversing the order, which I think we had figured out last time).
I'll see what it looks like in d3d, but last time, I got absolutely no text in that mode.

Edit: Yeah, under wine-20050830 and d3d, no character textures and no text loads, which, while I suppose theoretically playable, would not be fun. On a side note, Cedega doesn't even load for me. I try running it and it seems to start up the processor to about 20%, then just vanishes and gives me a blank line in my command prompt.
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Marneel · n00b Joined: 13 Oct 2005 Posts: 3

GoldDog · n00b Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 18

The 1.8.0 patch broke my WoW too. I just updated to WINE20050830 and, for me, the mouse bug is still there for openGL and d3d. So now, I am not able to play, no matter what I try. I've tried with those little memory fixes and without, and nothing works.

System Specs:
AMD Athlon 2.4
512MB of memory
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Running Fedora Core 3 (with all updates DLed and installed)

Marneel · n00b Joined: 13 Oct 2005 Posts: 3

Has anybody tried the solution given in this thread: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2693799.html#2690553

The only Win32 application I run is WoW, so if it totally breaks Wine for other applications, that's no big deal. If nobody has, I'll try it tonight (please). Failing that, it'll be the weekend. :-/

discomfitor · l33t Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 927 Location: None

Cursor bug confirmed.

Cedega still playable.

I'll see if I can dig up anything on the wine end, but no guarantees. I'm absolutely swamped with work at the moment.
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teidon · Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:44 am Post subject:

shamus13 · n00b Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 21

Ello all,

Just wanted ask if any of you have experienced the arcane missiles bug at 1.8.0?
I didnt see it at all during 1.7, but yesterday during my mucking around in the
wine memory allocation system, i saw arcane missiles bug out and fail to fire
missiles.
You dont suppose, they fixed the bug with the range indicator by putting the old
buggy code from 1.6 and earlier back in?

Yours sincerely,

Shamus

spectra · n00b Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 1

Hey all,

I too have the cursor bug, however if I just logout and log back in (don't exit the game), it fixes it. I haven't seen mention of that "fix" anywhere, so I thought I'd share.

*shrug*

lord_ph · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 5:33 am Post subject:

That little fix didn't work for me

. But thanks for offering it up.

lord_ph · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 5:34 am Post subject:

BTW, this is for cedega version 4.4.2 & 4.4.3 that i'm having the mouse problem with.

ikataii · n00b Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Posts: 59 Location: CA

@lord_ph: have you tried the MemoryLayoutOverride fix for Cedega?

@spectra: I tried logging all the way in and trying to look at IF, then out to char select and right back in, then out to login screen (name / pass) and back to IF. Then I killed it and got to char select, then back to login, then into IF. None of the above fixed my mouse.
What sort of specs / card / API are you using?
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Marneel · n00b Joined: 13 Oct 2005 Posts: 3

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ThE_TemPLaR · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 4:47 pm Post subject:

lord_ph · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 6:26 pm Post subject:

@ikataii: yes, i used that fix for the 1.6 update, and that did fix the problem(at the time). But it no longer works for me in cedega 4.4.2 & 4.4.3 and WOW 1.8.