World Of Warcraft Support UPDATED 2016 Edition

Elleni · Veteran Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 1295

I can confirm that on a new wine prefix set to windows 10 with wine-staging-5.10-r1 vulkan and vkd3d and dxvk enabled, the only thing I had to do is to add dxvk latest from winetricks. For DX12 the dxgi dll needs to be changed to Builtin.

eccerr0r · Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 2:03 am Post subject:

Last I checked vulkan doesn't work on my old RadeonHD 5770, has this changed?

Then the new issue popped up: ground litter, water, and flaming spells are all brightly psychedelic-colored and sometimes has a bounding box drawn around it, which makes it quite hard to see things if they're on top of each other. Anyone seen this before?
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Elleni · Veteran Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 1295

I am on a amd rx580 with amdgpu opensource driver. I will check wether I see something the like with dx12 and / or dx11 and report back.

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 3:46 pm Post subject:

Elleni · Veteran Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 1295

After prepatch, I could not start game anymore with wine-5.10-r1 so upgraded to 5.19 but this did not work either. What does work though is downloading 5.19 staging with playonlinux and chosing it from lutris, so something is missing on the system 5.19.

eccerr0r · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2020 6:19 pm Post subject:

Onto my other machine, though I got wine-staging-5.17 installed on both, it doesn't work on my laptop.
It also doesn't work in Windows7 so something strange is going on here...
Blizzard Updater is reporting a patch is needed but gives me an error when trying to update and the repair tool gives the same error. Need to try the repair tool in Windows too.

The only strangeness: I copied the working install from my other machine...

My guess as to what's going on: WoW doesn't like wine running on vfat anymore ... perhaps? Without reformatting my SSD I'm not sure what's going on. Seems fine on ext3fs.
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Elleni · Veteran Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 1295

Could this have something to do with the non-PE/mingw builds Ionen mentioned here? I think in my case at least that's why gentoo wine does not work, but the one downloaded from playonlinux and used by lutris does work.

eccerr0r · Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2020 3:00 pm Post subject:

with Chiitoo suggesting it, it's worth a shot, at least it worked for me!
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Elleni · Veteran Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 1295

How you have done it? I looked into mingw wiki but that seems complicated, and as wine from playonlinux works but I have no mingw toolchain installed I was hesitating to test that path. Simply installing wine with mingw useflag from mentioned FireBurn overlay obviously was not enough.

Edit to ask about esync / fsync. Installing lutris I increased the max. open files per process to enable esync, and now I am wondering if anyone tried fsync and can tell if WoW would benefit from it. Apparently the kernel would need to be patched for that or zen-sources would already be patched?

eccerr0r · Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2020 3:31 pm Post subject:

I went ahead and installed the mingw toolchain with crossdev and hacked the ebuild as suggested. Was fairly straightforward in my opinion.
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Elleni · Veteran Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 1295

I see, I am glad it worked and thanks for posting. I will look into it if I have some spare time, in the meantime I'll wait and see if gentoo wine will get an updated working version, and will continue to use playonlinux wine-staging which works fine, but it's good to know, what would be needed so thanks again.

Have you any experience with esync / fsync. Installing lutris I increased the max. open files per process to enable esync, and now I am wondering if anyone tried fsync and can tell if WoW would benefit from esync or fsync. Apparently the kernel would need to be patched for fsync or zen-sources would already have those patches.

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Elleni · Veteran Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 1295

Thanks Ionen for your explanations. Not seing any impact I disabled esync again as my cpu's in wow run at ~25% on a gentoo ryzen 5 1600

Chiitoo · Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2020 11:50 pm Post subject:

At most, we can probably do some checking of things and guiding the user towards what to do, which is basically what the FireBurn overlay already does with Wine Staging.

Setting up the MinGW compiler and things via Wine ebuilds seems quite out-of-scope, at least to me, even if there are hints around towards upstream considering this to be the default set-up now. It doesn't help that the actual requirements have not been documented still (as far as I know), so I'm not entirely sure what we should be looking for aside from the things other users have already mentioned in some shape or form (via the overlay and WineHQ Bug tracker for example).

In any case, we'll try to make this more user-friendly sooner rather than later!
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eccerr0r · Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 1:37 pm Post subject:

Digging a bit deeper, it seems that Wine-WoW no longer can run properly on a FAT formatted disk perhaps?
Anyone still running WoW on FAT?

Chiitoo · Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2020 12:31 am Post subject:

eccerr0r · Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2020 5:35 am Post subject:

I don't think I needed to add any special flags, but I do have to mention I did run into some minor hiccup when trying to build mingw, namely, I tried crossdev -S for stable versions, but mingw64-runtime had no stable versions available. After some finagling 7.0.0-r1 built...

So the toolchain I got crossdev to build:
cross-x86_64-w64-mingw32/binutils-2.34-r2
cross-x86_64-w64-mingw32/gcc-9.3.0-r1
cross-x86_64-w64-mingw32/mingw64-runtime-7.0.0-r1

It's been a while so I'm not sure what is in my WINEPREFIX anymore, so I hope nothing in there is contributing to it running...
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Aiken · Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2020 10:41 pm Post subject:

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don't forget "eselect wine ..."

Chiitoo · Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2020 9:27 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I only have the 9999 versions of Vanilla and Staging installed currently (usually calling them directly too), and both are built 'with-mingw' at various states of 'git master', as well as 5.11, 5.19, and 5.20.

Tried also building the GCC bits with 'EXTRA_ECONF="--enable-threads=posix"' (also threw in the other options mentioned by i.Dark_Templar). Building with posix threads in turn does require USE="libraries" in the runtimes, so I've tried that as well.

So here's what I'm now testing with now:

zChris · n00b Joined: 01 Nov 2020 Posts: 2

I got a Ryzen 7 laptop with GTX2060.

NVIDIA-drivers 450.80.02 (tried 455.2

, Kernel 5.8.17, Wine-staging 5.20 from FireBurn

Got Lutris with DXVK enabled, and enabled NVIDIA prime render offload. When i run wow.exe it becomes defunct.

Anyone gotten it to work? With this kind of setup ?

EDIT: forgotten to select correct wine with eselect wine :oops:

/zChris

eccerr0r · Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2020 2:35 am Post subject:

In case people didn't notice, Shadowlands officially opened up today. If it was working during the prepatch, it should still be working now.

Except the graphics issues I had during prepatch, currently it's really badly invading Bastion. Seems any I guess "smokey" regions are very badly colored, as if it were not initialized properly, I tend to get either psychodelic or even hints of textual fonts (like the skies say in icecrown during the prepatch), white out areas (areas like death and decay from death knights while fighting) or blacked out areas like the walkways in Bastion in Shadowlands.

No idea what's going on.

Also anyone know if the supposed "patch" for old GPUs is in so that older DX11 GPUs will work once more?
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Chiitoo · Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2020 3:41 pm Post subject:

Sort of solved my little mystery finally: something in the prefix seems to have gotten broken (I mis-remembered it was a really clean, recent one, but there were at least some files from 2018... ooopsies).

I managed to somehow break a new, fresh prefix a few times too while testing, but in any case, I did get StarCraft and World of Warcraft running again, and pushed some changes to the 9999s and a 5.22-r1
in the overlay (and thank you sarnex for pushing them into ::gentoo!).
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eccerr0r · Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2020 4:15 pm Post subject:

Okay it's sort of good I'm not alone:
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49170

This is the bug I've been seeing from before the opening of the Shadowlands.

The issue I'm seeing now, whether it's related or not, is debilitating...
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Aiken · Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2020 10:59 pm Post subject:

A nice surprise this morning is the wine-staging ebuild 5.22-r1 now has a mingw use flag. No more copying the ebuild to my local overlay and removing the --without mingw line.

My complaint at the moment is the blizzard app is unstable for me with 5.22. The game runs fine. I had dropped back to 5.21 where the blizzard app was running fine.
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