World Of Warcraft Howto/Support UPDATED 5/10/05! (old)

meinbobo · n00b Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 17

the serial number is associated with the account not with the install
ie if you reinstall you do not have to enter your s/n again

but good thought

-meinbobo

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

True, copying the files is guaranteed to work. Just make sure to save your WTF directory so that you don't lose all your settings.

ikataii: Are you ABSOLUTELY SURE that you're running 20050310 and have those dlls?

Everyone else: Try the net installer for mozilla. And make sure you're using the right wine version with the dlls.

EDIT: Just updated appdb with the new version info. Whoever submitted the "1.4.1" version, it isn't out yet. Either that or I'm playing the wrong game.
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SKLP · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 May 2004 Posts: 96

I'm experiencing problems similar (or the same) to(/as) ikataii.
This is with an about one week old cvs wine + try6.
Now I'm going to try with a clean wine(from cvs today) + try6 + clean drive_c.
Wish me luck

Antibronto · Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 10:07 am Post subject:

It seems to work for me. I've successfully installed the english version of the european patch (via dlls from dll-files.com and the mozilla stuff). I haven't played though, since the european servers are still down, but I made it to the realms list.
The only thing that remains is to thank you Darckness!
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SKLP · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 May 2004 Posts: 96

I got it to work

here's how i did it:

1. installed wine from cvs (today) with try6

2. installed mozilla 1.7.7 (zip file) to .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/mozilla

3. wine mozilla.exe -- didnt work, outputted same or similar error as i got before with mozilla installer, fixed by changing windows version from winxp to win95.

4. installed MozillaControl177.exe

5. started the patch, it worked

6. switched back to winxp and started wow, it worked

teidon · Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 11:29 am Post subject:

If you are having problems to patch WoW to 1.4 even if you have followed Darckness's guide, this might help you.

The problem is that you have messed your c_drive or wine config file somehow.
1. Rename your .wine directory (in your home directory) to something like wine-old
2. Run wine without any parameters or anything and it will recreate .wine directory with all the configs and clean c_drive (don't bother tweaking configs unless you are going to keep using the clean .wine directory)
3. Copy msvcp60.dll and mfc42.dll to .wine/c_drive/System (like Darckness told)
4. Install Windows version of Firefox and then Mozilla ActiveX control using wine (like Darckness told)
5. Patching should work now so do so by running "wine WoW-1.3.1.4297-to-1.4.0-enGB-patch.exe" in your WoW installation directory
6. Remove .wine and rename wine-old to .wine (unless you want to keep the clean .wine directory)

There, WoW should be patched to 1.4 and working like before (servers aren't up yet in here Europe...).

I used wine-20050310-r1 which I patched with try-6 patch on the fly during emerging. Hope this helps, and one more thank you for Darckness from me

PS: Hmm, a "rival" guide appeared as I typed this...

ackward · Apprentice Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 192

I just want to kudos Darckness. You are doing a great job. I used cedega and now I use wine, mainly by your support because I don't see any difference in performance between them (except for sometimes wine has a little graphic glitch and my char appears nude

)

I play in the Europe servers and there the patches seem to come at least a few days later so with your help I'm usually already prepared when they come.

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

Glad everyone is getting things working. I'll most likely update the actual howto within the next couple days if nobody reports any major issues.

This is by no means confirmed, but I suspect we'll be seeing a considerable amount of opengl work in the coming days/weeks.

EDIT: Also, I'm hoping for another thread split here, so don't be alarmed if you can't post to the thread for a short period of time today.
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Deathwing00 · Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 5:32 pm Post subject:

This thread was split. You can find the former messages in the following locked thread: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-327761.html

Keep the discussion in this thread.

ackward · Apprentice Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 192

Darckness great support it worked flawlessly

Amd64 + Nvidia card.
before: I was using wine-20050310 with fixwow and fb2.
30 minutes later: wine-20050419 + fb6, copied the 2 dlls from my brother winxp/sytem32, installed mozilla 1.7.7 and the activex. Copied the patch and the installer from my brother computer while i was emerging wine. WoW worked, patched without problems (although I couldn't see the patch log) and playing it now perfectly.

let's rock some allies :twisted:

thanqu0l · n00b Joined: 06 Mar 2005 Posts: 8

Thanqs Darckness!

b.t.w. I've read earlier that there are sound problems running under wine... I must say that I do NOT have any issues at all (well the circle around the selected enemy, but thats an totaly Blizzard issue)

Gaming under Linux - greater performance!

Hope they will learn that its time to give Linux users their own native client!

giblets · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 18

Ariakus · n00b Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Posts: 4

Hello,

I also could not patch, had to go to windows to patch the client.

I play the game in full screen in one monitor, and have a normal desktop at a second one. I can't find a way to go from wow in monitor 1, to desktop in monitor 2, do you guys have any idea that will allow me to change from wow ( fullscreen ) in monitor one to the desktop @ monitor 2?

Regard's

PrometheusDrake · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 18

Hi. I've been trying for a couple of days to get this working... Hope you could give me some pointers, cause I'm stumped.
Some days ago I managed to get the game running up to the point where I log on. I had emerged wine-20050111. I simply
ran #wine WoW -opengl , and the game started. My character was indoors when I last logged out though, so it could be
the minimap thing that crashed it.

Then I downloaded the ebuild for wine-20050419. That did not work at all. (Think I got the same errors I get now)
Then i unmerged wine, and started following the steps here. I checked out the wineCVS, patched it with Try6, copied
the missing DLLs to the systemfolder. Installed Mozilla 1.7.7 and the ActiveX-thingy.(Though I probably could have
dropped that, since I patched the game in win2K).

I run the game from a mounted FAT32-disk. my user has full access to that disk.

Now I get the following error messages. I couldn't find any corresponding errors already in the thread, so I'm posting them here:

The console error reads:

Septor · Apprentice Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 150

Make sure that you have the following in your wtf/Config.wtf file:

PrometheusDrake · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 18

Yup. Got both of those.

I just noticed I forgot to mention what system I'm running. It's an AMD Thunderbird (Firebird?) clocked at 1Ghz, with an Asus GeForce4 Ti 4200 (128MB).
I'll paste in the config relevant config files as well, as I've done a few changes to both the Wine Config an the Xorg.conf

Here's my Wine Config:

thrstn · Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 4:30 pm Post subject:

Can someone post the link to this try-6 patch?

thx!

PrometheusDrake · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 18

I believe it's on the first post of theis thread.

nyda · Apprentice Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 183

Waywocket · Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 10:29 pm Post subject:

I recently upgraded several pieces of software, and found some problems. Nothing fatal, and I've solved them (kind of), but I thought I'd share the experience; maybe somebody else is finding the same things.First, I upgraded WoW, Wine, my kernel, my X server (from xfree86 in Debian Sid to xorg in Ubuntu), KDE (unlikely to be relevent in any case), and my Nvidia drivers all at once. I immediately wished I'd done these one step at a time, as I found three problems with WoW: the loading screen had the folding problem reported by some others, where half of it looks fine, but there's a diagonal line past which it flickers and looks generally garbled. More seriously, I found my framerate was about half what it had been. Finally, there were a few graphical glitches in game, with some UI elements flickering slightly, though nothing bad.

Anyway, the upshot of testing everything was that the loading screen folding issue and the occasional glitches were linked, but the slowdown was a seperate issue. Unfortunately I can't remember which way round it was now, but one was caused by the kernel version (2.6.8 works fine, 2.6.10 has the problem), and the other by the Nvidia driver version (6629 works, 7174 has the problem). I believe the kernel version was linked with the slowdown, but I'm only about 80% certain I've remembered correctly :oops:

)

Don't know if anybody finds this useful, but I thought I'd share my experience as something to try in case of problems.

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

PrometheusDrake: Try using the 20050310 version patched with the try6 patch. The error you're getting is caused by not using a patch containing recent pbuffer changes. Make absolutely sure that you're running with try6. If that fails, post back here. It's also possible that the latest cvs no longer works with try6 for some reason; mine is a few days old.
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Waywocket · cvs update -D "2005-04-24"

PrometheusDrake · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 18

I removed the wine source folder (rm -r wine), ran a cvs checkout, then an update (-D "2005-03-10"). Then I tried to patch it. I got this error message, so I think something went fubar...

Waywocket · Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:05 am Post subject: