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

teidon · Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 4:18 pm Post subject:

Here's a way how I installed and patched wine. WoW works fine and this is also newbie friendly way of doing it as there's no need to mess with cvs.

1. Get the try6 patch from somewhere.
2. Open 2 terminal programs and "su" to root in both of them.
3. Type this to one of the terminals, but don't execute it yet (note that that directory doesn't exist until you do emerge wine and the source has been unpacked, so copy+pasteing this might be a good idea. Remember to change "/location/to/try6-patch" to the correct one): cd /var/tmp/portage/wine-20050310-r1/work/wine-20050310/ && patch -p0 < /location/to/try6-patch
4. In the other terminal do "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge =wine-20050310-r1" and after it says ">>> Source unpacked." execute the line in the other terminal.
5. Now just sit back and wait until wine has been emerged.

Incase emerging went well and there were no errors during patching you now have a wine which can run WoW (atleast it's working for me).

meinbobo · n00b Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 17

50 bonus points to teidon - those directions were just what i needed - thanks

DrewMadMax · n00b Joined: 29 Sep 2002 Posts: 43

I've been having this problem for awhile, and haven't seen anything that really seems to address it (I could have just overlooked it). I copied my WoW install over from my windows drive, and whenever I try to run it, I get the following error:

PrometheusDrake · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 18

I've just followed teidon's method. Emerged and patched "on the fly". I still get the same error from WoW. Error 132 (0x85100084). After snooping around the technical board a little, I'm starting to wonder if it might have to do with me trying to run it from a mounted FAT32-disk. Anyone had a problem with running it like that? Gonna try to copy it over to the Ext3-partition soon (Once I get some leasure time, hopefully before next weekend

), and let you know how it goes.

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

DrewMadMax: You can't use native dlls for opengl stuff. Are you sure you're building wine with opengl enabled?
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Septor · Apprentice Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 150

PrometheusDrake · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 18

Yup, just doublechecked.

Septor · Apprentice Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 150

Is your Xserver running in 16bit color mode by any chance?

My xorg.conf for my nVidia machine has the following screen section. Yours should be similar with the exception of the resolutions and maybe the string names. Most importantly note the DefaultDepth is 24. If you are still having troubles after checking this, post your /var/log/Xorg.0.log

teidon · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 8:17 am Post subject:

PrometheusDrake, I noticed that there were "err:opengl:wglCreatePbufferARB blah blah" in the output of wine and also the patch didn't ably cleanly but there were some trouble patching opengl32/wgl_ext.c. If those same errors happened with the emerged and "patched on the fly" wine-20050310, those maybe the source of your problem (the patch has something to do with Pbuffer... not that I have any clue what it is and what it does

). Make sure that the patch file isn't broken, I didn't get any errors when I patched.

Also, have you tried to use "clean" wine configs and c_drive? Try to rename .wine (located in your home directory) to something else, and then run wine without parameters and it will create a new .wine from default files. Then try to run WoW, and if it still not working you can get rid of the new .wine and rename the older one back to .wine. I just tested and the clean .wine works with WoW - no changes needed to get WoW working.

For future reference for all those reading this: If some program/game isn't working with wine even if it should work, try to use clean .wine directory. Over time you do some changes to the config files, add some dll's to c_drive/windows/system, maybe override some dlls, etc etc and some of those changes may break something. That happened for me when I tried to get WoW's 1.4 patch to work with wine. Did everything as were told, tried different versions of wine and it just didn't work. Then tried it with clean .wine directory, installed Firefox and Mozilla ActiveX controller to it (because the patch won't work without them) and 1.4 patch worked without any issues.

PrometheusDrake · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 18

Septor: heh, waddaya know... Somehow overlooked that little something... The default was 16. I'll try when I get home tonight, and let you know if it works.

Teidon: That error did not occur during the emerge. Everything apparently went smooth.

ackward · Apprentice Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 192

teidon · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 3:09 pm Post subject:

ackward: Guess you can do it that way too. I didn't know about fg... I'm a Linux newbie :cry:

Couple comments on the Darckness's guide on the first post:
- The minimap problem has been fixed some time ago, so I guess those parts of the guide could be removed as it's no-ones problem anymore (WoW doesn't work anymore with the earlier versions of wine and cedega where minimap were still problem).

PrometheusDrake · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 18

It works! Set the Deafult Depth to 24, started WoW.exe, and she runs. Now I just have to fix an unrelated xfce4-problem to make it run higher than 800x600...

Thanks a bunch for all the help, people.

MurlocDundee · n00b Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 2

Blork

Hello everyone, my respect to Darckness. Don t stop the good work.
I am following this thread since 1 month and I m very pleased with the support that it brings to us Wine users.
I feel that s the moment to post something about my own experience in running WoW with Wine. I will not go through each step of the installation instructions i did , i just stick to the CVS howto and it went fine. I used the CVS 2 days ago..
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Lucky B · Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 1:43 am Post subject:

cleanest way to apply the patch is the following:

Septor · Apprentice Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 150

Lucky B · Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 2:15 am Post subject:

ooo, merge works too, 10x easier, never tried :

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SDraconis · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 53

I am having problems still with getting the game going. Unfortunately, my issue is not with the patch at all, as I have a patched copy that I pulled from Windows. I can get past the login screen and past the character screen. My problem occurs when I try to enter the world. I can get up to the point where I can actually see the area my character is in, and then the game totally freezes. I uninstalled, cleaned/updated my Wine from CVS and reapplied Try6 this morning, and then recompiled. Before this recompile, I was getting a similar result, except that sometimes I was actually able to get my character to move a little before WoW crashed with an error #132. Also before the recompile, WoW would sometimes freeze up my entire system to the point where I would have to hard reboot. My current situation has two scenarios: either it freezes when my character health bar still says "Unknown identity" or just after it loads in my name, but still freezes before my character model can actually be seen. Either way, it will just sit there and suck up 100% of a CPU until I Ctrl+C in the xterm I started it from.

Background:

Output to console:

Septor · Apprentice Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 150

You don't need you use my filter_ext library if you are using the ati-driver 8.12.10 package (which I highly recommend to all fglrx driver users). What extensions were you filtering anyways? The try6 patch allows you to filter extensions with a wine registry entry, so you don't need the filter_ext even if you did want to exclude extensions.

I get a lockup and/or crash after about 20-30 minutes of play with Wine+try6 patch. Cedega works much longer, but eventually seems to crash as well. Framerates are pretty bad with the ATI fglrx driver, but I don't have an nVidia card to compare, so it could just be that WoW is slow in Wine/Cedega. I have a Radeon 9800XT and WoW is really smooth in WinXP with all settings on max.

One thing you might want to try is to use the try2 and fixwow patches instead of try6... I think I had more success with those when running for a long time.... I'll try those again tonight probably.

SDraconis · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 53

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

teidon: Those performance fixes basically force WoW to run in a big window. WoW thinks it's running fullscreen though, and I find this to be very beneficial if you're like me and switch between applications/desktops frequently. No more minimizing WoW!

SDraconis: What kernel do you use? If it isn't ck-sources, try ck-sources. It's my patchset of choice for gaming, and is extremely well made to boot. Also try using wine 20050310. I remember getting that problem back in the days when wine didn't work with WoW, so it could be your version somehow.

Septor: What kernel are YOU using? I recommend ck-sources to you as well if you aren't using them. As with above, which wine version are you using?
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Lifetech · n00b Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 4

Septor · Apprentice Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 150

Darckness:
I am currently using gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.11-r6 with the ati-drivers-8.12.10 video drivers. For wine I was using 20050310 with try6 (hacked an ebuild for myself) but am now using wine 20050419 with try6 patch (again, made an ebuild for myself... I love ebuids

).

I run WoW in fullscreen mode with XrandR=Y and XVidMode=Y and DGA is disabled in my xorg.conf (since it is broken/not recommended with the ATI binary driver). Using wineoss driver with ALSA OSS emulation in kernel (using winealsa driver seems to cause crashes more often). Also I "renice 19 wine-preloader" to fix audio skipping in my WoW start script.

SDrakonis:
Download this file: http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=827&action=view and run winereg on it to disable the vertex buffer object extension. As I said previously though, this extension is not bugged in the ati-driver 8.12.10 ebuild, so I recommend you upgrade so you don't need to disable the extension.

For those intested the wine patch bug log is at: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2814

Jamal · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2004 Posts: 44

Hi, I'm using cvscedega and have nearly the same Error:

DrewMadMax · n00b Joined: 29 Sep 2002 Posts: 43

Darckness:

Yeah, I was running wine with opengl enabled. I even tried re-emerging it like so: