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h2sammo · Veteran Joined: 11 Mar 2009 Posts: 1025 Location: Michigan

ill dig up some error messages but for now i tried the installer on my ubuntu netbook with wine 1.2 and it works!!!

i am curious what USE flags or other modifications from the origiinal gentoo wine emerge do you have.

eccerr0r · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:43 pm Post subject:

[ebuild U ] app-emulation/wine-1.2.1 [1.2] USE="X alsa cups dbus gecko gnutls gsm jpeg lcms ldap mp3 ncurses opengl oss perl png ssl threads truetype win32%* xml -capi -custom-cflags -esd -fontconfig -gphoto2 -hal* -jack -nas -openal -pulseaudio -samba -scanner -test (-win64) -xcomposite -xinerama"

I haven't upgraded yet and haven't picked up all the new USE flags but I really think it's winetricks that did it for me for the most part...
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h2sammo · Veteran Joined: 11 Mar 2009 Posts: 1025 Location: Michigan

what do you have enabled in winetricks?

did you install wow as trial from winetricks?

eccerr0r · Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 8:53 pm Post subject:

4.1 released... Once again the game doesn't work right.

When I try to run the game Wow.exe /opengl after freshly patching with Launcher.exe, it gets through the two ToU/EULA pages, it would hang with wine 1.2.1 so I can't login. Wondering if other people are seeing this issue?

I guess I'll see what wine-1.3 does with this too, also if my real windows box has the issue or not...

UPDATE: Got it working, with wine-1.2.1

I ended up updating my video drivers to fglrx 11.2. That in itself was a big problem, and was outlined in another posting here (with /etc/ati/amdpcsdb updated as well as /etc/X11/xorg.conf cleaned up). Bad driver. bad bad driver that doesn't do bounds checking on input...

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-866411.html
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telegraphguy · n00b Joined: 10 Aug 2011 Posts: 3

I guess it could be the difference in video card since the drivers are the same (as I said, I use a 7800 GT). :roll:

eccerr0r · Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 2:27 am Post subject:

Updated to fglrx 11.8 from 11.6.
The second display mouse cursor problem is gone! yay!

But why am I posting here?

It seems that WoW will freeze now, once in a while :( Requires killing WoW.exe from another window and restart it seems.

Not sure yet if I want to revert to 11.6 to not freeze... Sigh...

-update-

It looks 11.8 is running better now, not sure what happened, might have been a re-emerge and kernel update.

-new-

I was trying to see what my Intel GMA X3000/G965 does nowadays. It looks like the 1.2.x wine will NOT support WoW due to not being able to detect the proper MESA routines for the Intel graphics. You'll need to run 1.3 to have a chance.

It looks like 1.3.23 work for a little while (amd64/x86_64 system)! Wine 1.3.32 (latest in portage when I made this update) however, seems to crash with a segfault after two or so frames are drawn after you're logged into the game... But it got through without winetricks.

I also tried installing to my eeePC (GMA 950/945GM) with 1.3.23 as well, it crashes at pretty much the exact same point as the X3000...

The 945GM is considerably slower than the G965.
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eccerr0r · Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 4:18 pm Post subject:

Looks like 4.3 Launcher causes Wine to crash :( Anyone seeing this?

Wine-1.3.32 and Wine-1.3.17 both crash while running launcher to pick up WoW-4.3 last bit of patch info (about 30MB).

Anyone seeing this? Both my ATI (RadeonHD 5770/x86) and Intel (G965/x86_64) Linux boxes crash, so probably not a video issue in Launcher...

Looks like Windows has no problem with the new Launcher bits... :( Looks like wine has some debugging to do?

And WoW works fine after copying it back from Windows...
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Chiitoo · Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 7:49 am Post subject:

What does the terminal say?

Somehow I'm guessing something like 'an unhandled exception'?
I can't try WoW myself, but the latest versions of Wine started doing that for the PlayOnline Viewer (FFXI) though sometimes it still does start it regardless. o.o

Either way they seem to definitely have broken a bit somewhere but I haven't looked at their bugs to confirm this yet. Could do some regression testing myself but meh, I'm sure someone/some people are on it already!
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eccerr0r · Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 4:22 pm Post subject:

Not sure exactly where it breaks but it does start downloading the new bits in Launcher.exe - it does get a few bytes but dies early. Of course I rarely run Launcher, but it starts the bittorrent patcher downloader.

Chiitoo · Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 10:11 am Post subject:

Oopsies, I actually meant 'Unhandled page fault', I think, it doesn't produce the stack dump for you there it seems after it, and between them it would (maybe) say something like: "Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to blahblah". Not sure why, but it doesn't shove the stack out for me sometimes either.

Anywho, even though it's just a "fixme", seeing that wininet would probably make me try something like:

f4c3m3l70r · n00b Joined: 19 Jul 2011 Posts: 47

Finally solved this messy launcher problem starting it in a virtual desktop 1024x768 and disabling P2P after reseting (deleting) wine configs located in "/home/USERNAME/.config/wine" and "/home/USERNAME/.wine"
Proof
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eccerr0r · Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 4:38 am Post subject:

How well does launcher work for everyone? I can't even go through most of the windows without it whitescreening and crashing...

Anyway...

Yes it looks like it's peer to peer that's crashing launcher. I disabled p2p and it works now without bittorrent. Wait till Blizzard forums get a note of this, I'm sure they don't want people disabling p2p. Hope they fix it despite it's found under Wine...
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f4c3m3l70r · n00b Joined: 19 Jul 2011 Posts: 47

This should definetly fix this issue:

Open /WTF/Launcher.WTF with a texteditor set this variable to zero:

bendeguz · Apprentice Joined: 10 Feb 2010 Posts: 189

Hey all!

Anyone playing this game with an AGP video card? Which one is suitable? I can't buy a new hw, so my option for now is to choose a card which is less painful to play on.

Regards

eccerr0r · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 6:14 am Post subject:

When my GeForce4 MX420 AGP actually worked (it died...) it was really slow playing WoW in Wine last I remembered. It wasn't all that fast in Windows either but if I recall correctly it was about half the speed, so slow that you probably would not want to do anything but auction house runs if that.

I only have one fully functional Linux/WoW machine and that's PCIe (Radeon 5770)... The AGP machines I have don't seem to work properly (ATI Radeon 9000M and Radeon 9250SE, using the dilapidated OSS 3D drivers). And my Radeon 8500 AIW is completely unstable in Linux...

[More!!!]

I just got a cheap crappy Nvidia GeForce 8400GS (PCI-e, 64 bit DDR3 RAM!) as a spare, more of a temporary workaround for my PVR box because the intel driver crashes on my G965 when playing back 1080i recordings in MythTV.

It was trivial to get WoW (4.3/Cataclysm/Hour of Twilight) working with an x86_64 machine under Wine (OpenGL) -- it just started right up with the Nvidia binary blob driver. Its frame rate is not too bad, definitely not as fast as my Radeon 5770 but seems to beat out the GMA X3000 last I remember it, by a huge margin, and is even quite a bit faster than my Radeon 8500 (128 bit) in Windows. Much faster than the GeForce4 MX420, doesn't even compare. Definitely enough to move around Stormwind.

I do wonder how bad it will run in a 25-man raid...even my 5770 sometimes chokes out, not exactly sure why yet...
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dreamcatcher · n00b Joined: 03 Mar 2012 Posts: 1

Hello. I'm having trouble with World of Warcraft 4.3.3. Launcher starts normally, update's running fine. But after i hit play button i get following error message:

eccerr0r · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 5:37 pm Post subject:

I haven't had much luck running 1.2.x versions of Wine. Currently I use 1.3.17 but that's due to pulseaudio kind of messed up on my system.
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andrad01 · n00b Joined: 06 Mar 2012 Posts: 1

Thanks for sharing this information .

eccerr0r · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 4:57 pm Post subject:

Useful URL: http://www.wowwiki.com/Wine_troubleshooting

Best way to disable p2p for Launcher.exe by hacking the registry as swiped from WoWWiki:

eccerr0r · Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 3:32 pm Post subject:

Mists of Pandaria update!

I'm getting BLZPTS00007 error while trying to update to 5.0.4. Anyone seeing this issue?

UpdaterImpl - Applying incremental patch failed.
UpdaterImpl - ERROR: Blizzard Updater is unable to write to this location because it is a system directory.
Full download patch:
-source url: http://dist.blizzard.com.edgesuite.net/tools-pod/NA/a1267/a-1267-win.mpq.torrent.DF82C19F3743F8858FFD8CF4F8A1BF68
-dest: C:\windows\profiles\blc\Temp\Blizzard\AgentUpdate_1FDBF899\a-1267-win.mpq

UPDATE:

I found that there are people with windows boxes that have this issue too! And some of them it was "fixed" by using Administrator privledges.

NO I WILL NOT RUN WINE AS root. NO software should need to be running as root/Administrator if not necessary.

Anyone know of the real issue? I might have to go instrument or try to debug what it's trying to do when it dumps out that error message...

UPDATE 2:

After using Windows to update/patch and then copying back to Linux, running MoP-pre 5.0.4 seems to work... It's mostly Launcher that does crappy stuff... However I noticed that fglrx is having trouble drawing some stuff. Looks like some layering issues. Not a game killer but still annoying...

UPDATE 3:
I tried installing wine-1.5.9: I noticed ONE of my x86_64 installs, the "World of Warcraft Launcher.exe" program actually works...
Trying wine-1.5.9 on x86, that same program fails with Agent.exe and trying to modify a "protected" file...

Weird.
However the game itself on x86/wine-1.5.9/fglrx seems to work even in d3d mode... Except it does black out after a while :( It did give some of the nice features that Win7 had (advanced water, better shadows, etc.)

UPDATE 4:

For kicks I tried running Wow-64.exe. It seems to work fine on one of my x86_64 boxes (haven't tested the other yet). It allocated 5.8GB RAM in virtual memory (about 750MB real memory) while running which is a lot more breathing space than the 2.7-odd GB max in 32-bit world... At least it's using similar amounts of real memory...

Update 5:
Well, for some reason the Agent.exe issue was solved sort of by following the windows post
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2179528066

I moved the whole directory to a different directory (through bash of course) and suddenly it started working...

*WEIRD*

so much for closed source software.

eccerr0r · Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 4:30 am Post subject:

Well, it's the night before Mists of Pandaria launches. I think I may have found a weird issue that was sort of solved on my laptop.

Because my laptop has both Win7 and Gentoo on it, I had to share a partition between the two. WoW was one of these apps that should run under either OS. So this shared partition is Fat32 because Linux knows how to TRIM it (see other post about SSD in Off The Wall.)

I think some things appear to work better since WoW is installed on the case insensitive Fat32 partition!

I just noticed a few anomalies in the log files that seem to indicate problems translating slashes and backslashes through the filesystem. Ultimately I think this still may be a Wine bug but can be worked around...
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eccerr0r · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 11:53 pm Post subject:

Mists of Pandaria is now in full swing, people already hitting 90 including myself. But not without a slew of problems.

One thing is that I simply could not play with the world map not pointing where you are, and a minor problem that your character info sheet gets draw wrong. This is an OPENGL issue that manifests in the WoW client, not Wine. I tested it in Windows 7 with OpenGL turned on and failed the same way. Boo for Blizzard.

The workaround is to actually use Direct3D! I found that D3D is a bit slower than OpenGL unfortunately but the map problem really is a problem while trying to figure out where things are.

However I also found that the stable version of x11-drivers/ati-drivers-12.6 (at this point) does NOT work properly with wine-1.5.9 to render D3D9 in WoW. If however I switched to the ~x86 unstable x11-drivers/ati-drivers-12.8 and stay at wine-1.5.9, things look happy actually. I'm not impressed with the draw framerate in WoW on my RadeonHD 5770 but it's sufficient to play. Up until I tried ati-drivers-12.8 I had to play in Win7 on my Intel HD 4000 graphics. The RadeonHD 5770 with D3D in Wine is about the same speed as Intel HD4000 in Windows... :-( And even ati-drivers-12.8 isn't perfect, I found that misty fog sometimes draws artifacts on my 5770 in d3d9 mode.

The nice thing about D3D mode is that you can enable the "advanced" graphics options like high quality shadows and better water rendering. Unfortunately with the speed you still may not be able to and keep a high frame rate...
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eccerr0r · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:58 am Post subject:

The patchly update: Mists of Pandaria: Landfall ( 5.1.0 ) has just been released.

I found that one of my wine boxes oddly enough patches just fine. I think I rootcaused why:

I believe WoW is hardcoding paths to directories depending on what version of Windows you set WoW to emulate instead of checking every possibility. So, perhaps the solution is to recreate your directory structure to what you set your version of Windows to in Wine...

A lot easier than it sounds - you have to fix your registry as well. Perhaps "downgrading" your windows installation would work, except you can't go too low and WoW will complain about too old version of Windows...

Downloading it from a Windows box and copying it over still works.

On a side note, they fixed OpenGL! It works as well as it once did. It _is_ faster than D3D by a few frames/second but does not have the graphical niceties that D3D has. But those extra FPS help...
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foux · Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 7:24 pm Post subject:

I'm having a problem launching the WoW setup on Wine 1.5.19.
The installation goes through stage 2, and then nothing happens.

Same thing happen with SCII and Diablo 3.
Any idea what's happening?
Here's my console ouptut (sorry, it's a bit long) :

eccerr0r · Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 3:36 pm Post subject: