World Of Warcraft Howto/Support UPDATED 3/25/05! OLD

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

PZoned: I'm not really sure what's causing your fps issues. Mine runs perfectly on regular wine (I don't have sound enabled, so I can't verify that aspect). No fps issues, good graphics quality, cinematics play fine. Are you on an ati card? I've heard several reports that cedega runs more smoothly with ati equipment than regular wine. Also, you might want to try running it in windowed mode at your fullscreen resolution (like I do). It seems to give a nice boost to performance, and that could fix your problem.
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ConVicTioN · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 10:47 pm Post subject:

I run both as well right now I am cedega because wine's dsound is bugged. I been trying to trace the bug with the tips from winehq since it might be the chipset. I have a new comp on the way.

wine
faster fps by about 5 fps on avg
true texture color sharpness
free
Handles high population areas better.

cedega
faster hd loads
sound was fixed about 3 months ago.
has D3D for ati guys

ATI guys stick to cedega. Until they release some sort of stable opengl drivers.
Correct me if I am wrong does any one have wine -opengl WoW.exe running on ati with out artifacts or corruption?
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discomfitor · l33t Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 927 Location: None

I'm trying to work with the wine guys to resolve the alsa issues; stay tuned for further updates on that front.
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MasterMind · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 10:59 pm Post subject:

What if you are running with arts driver? And sometimes I get 2 FPS... (in the Great Forge in Ironforge). What could i do?
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Lvis · n00b Joined: 19 Mar 2005 Posts: 1

Hello there,

I downloaded today CVS from WineX and tried to launch WoW. After i got unusable results using D3D i used Opengl-Mode and everything was fine.. The game patched (from EU Final Client) to the current client version.
After restarting WoW i have a very dark Main Menue (can't see the Textboxes and Buttons)

Has anybody a idea about that?

Baer · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 9:31 am Post subject:

Hi,

Some questions concerning the very first post:
- I have a running installation of WoW(-eu) on my mounted winxp-harddisk, is there a way to copy it to ~/somewhere and let it run thru wine?
- I don't like buying cedega, is there a way to play WoW in classic wine?

Regs
Rob

EDIT: Skip the cedega question -- I use cedega_cvs now.
EDIT2: Solved my problems! Thanks!
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Tuinslak · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 10:36 am Post subject:

Hi, an other little question, any idea why I get this?

yeri@spirit mnt $ wine cdrom1/Installer.exe
Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32\\" is not accessible.

there's a window that pop ups with "Cannot run the installer. You might be out of harddisk space".

I guess there something wrong in my config.
When I updated wine, my ~/.wine/config dissapeared?! so I used the cedega config for wine.
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pharaoh · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:28 pm Post subject:

I can't find a ~/.wine/config file either. I haven't updated wine in a long time until now, and it's just gone.

Question: Has anyone found that Cedega v4.3 disconnects you from server consistently after about 1-1.5 hours of play?
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Baer · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:37 pm Post subject:

New problems are on their way:
- When switching to nvidia's glx cedega does not start anymore, I simply stay on my desktop and the process consumes runtime. Anyone got a similar problem?
- The framerate is 1-3 fps using an NVIDIA GeForce FX-5200 (guess it uses d3d). How do I increase this?
- When quitting from the game (via menu-button quit) cedega does not seem to quit correctly and
I keep on seeing the login screen. Any idea how to correct that?
- Trying to start the game with "-opengl" simply pops up a requester saying that the ogl-hardware couldn't be initialized.

Regs
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scotte · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 7:44 pm Post subject:

Thanks to much of the info posted here, I was happily playing WoW in d3d mode under cedega 4.2.1 on my amd64 build... That is until I emerged cedega 4.3, after which I could only play in opengl mode (which is fine, except d3d mode looks better, at least on my card (6600gt), and more importantly certain things like the targetting circle doesn't work under opengl). Trying to start up in d3d mode resulted in the "World of Warcraft was unable to start up 3D acceleration." dialog.

At any rate, I just figured out how to fix my lack of d3d after a couple hours of hacking on it. Taking about my 20th random shot in the dark, I modified the [DllOverrides] section of ~/.transgaming/config, adding the line:

Tuinslak · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 7:53 pm Post subject:

Wonder if somebody has a good and working wine config?
And might mail it ? :mrgreen:

tuinslak@gmail.com -- thanks.
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Deathwing00 · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 8:09 pm Post subject:

This thread was split to: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-311551.html

Old messages can be found there.

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

Baer: Try using regular wine since you have an nvidia card. Also, neither versions (as far as I know) quit properly.

scotte: To determine whether you have direct rendering, simply check the output of glxinfo. Glxgears gives somewhat random performance.

I'll try and post my wine config somewhere soon for people to copy.

As for the new thread, I asked Deathwing00 to split this from the old one (And he did a great job! Thanks again Deathwing00!!!) because the middle 13 pages or so were obsolete and pretty much useless as a result of recent wine/cedega advances. The only posts in this thread now are ones that I thought would actually be useful to people wanting to get WoW running, as opposed to the ancient posts of me attempting to get WoW running in the pre-open beta days. So now you can actually read through the whole thing, and it should be much more effective.
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Malek · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 10:37 pm Post subject:

stobbsm · Guru Joined: 23 May 2004 Posts: 452

Orgrimmar does have this problem, there's just less horde so it's not as bad
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troyboy162 · n00b Joined: 20 Dec 2004 Posts: 33 Location: Fort Drum NY

i hate this game but my freind installed it in my windows partition. i moved it over to my kde desktop and the game simply ran with no fuss on cedega 4.3 and nvidia 71...something (the newest driver).

#cedega wow.exe
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Nikkichu · n00b Joined: 21 Mar 2005 Posts: 2

So, I'm running Cedega 4.2-1 on my FC3 box, with a really bad video thingie, ATI Radeon Mobility something. It runs fine, but I have one main problem.

I'm not running WoW with the -opengl switch, but I crash out when I enter buildings with the mini-map on. Should this be happening? Can I fix it? And if not, how does one apply the patch to have the mini-map default to off, so I can sleep in inns? If I do, the game won't let me load my char (it crashes right after the blue loading bar fills), and I have to call my friend on a windoze box and have him take me outside.
I found a mod called HideMiniMapFromStart, but it doesn't seem to do anything. Heard of it?

Thanks in advance!

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

Nikkichu: If you read the actual howto on the first page of this thread, you will find that your question has been answered.
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Nikkichu · n00b Joined: 21 Mar 2005 Posts: 2

I have read the how-to. I am NOT using opengl mode. I can't even run the game in -opengl. Is there something I am missing?

update: Used the cosmos fix and failed (crashed upon entering building with mini-map on), even though still unable to use -opengl... will inspect to see if I didn't do it right.

update2: unless this doesn't match yours, I should have cosmos closing the minimap on entering buildings.

PZoned · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:17 am Post subject:

Okay... that last post i made was on my friend's computer. I just got WoW, and here is what i'm encountering

Wine and Cedega:
Terrible ALSA quality (do i need to use ALSA? or does OSS crash?)
Excellent Cinematics

Wine:
Really Really Fast
Random crashes
Crashes on Exit

Cedega:
much slower (maybe around 25-30fps in large areas)
Game hangs on exit
Direct3d is really slow, OpenGL is quite faster (but not as fast as WINE)

I would like to use Wine... but the crashes make it unplayable (after about 10 minutes). I have the newest NVIDIA drivers and the newest versions of Wine and Cedega.
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loafimus · n00b Joined: 11 Jan 2005 Posts: 25

I just want to thank the op as this thread got me up and running and back into WoW. I gave it up a while ago because I got sick and tired of having that nasty Windows XP install on my hard drive =) Now with the new wine, it runs like a charm.

Noochoss · n00b Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 1

The new World of Warcraft patch just went live 1.3.0-us, and it seems my version of wine [20050310 from portage] will no longer load WoW.exe -opengl. I could never open it using d3d, I just get an #132 error, but when I try with -opengl I get the following error.

Does anyone else get this error:

loafimus · n00b Joined: 11 Jan 2005 Posts: 25

I get the same error also with the new patch and latest wine. This is ironic too, because just last night (and 2 posts above) I was so excited that I got it working. Kind of sucks considering I just reactivated my account last night. LoL, such is my luck.

Chamitae · n00b Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Posts: 2

I've got exactly the same error (however it does not spam anything in console), seems like the patch is breaking something... I've tried to move my game installation folder, erase .wine/, start wine to rebuilt my .wine/ folder, moving back game installation... but is doesn't work.

This is what is posted in wowerror on startup: