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

smcwhtdtmc · n00b Joined: 28 Dec 2003 Posts: 4

Does anyone have it working with wine-20050419?

Personally, compile fails with a few iterations of Incorrect register `%r12' used with `l' suffix It's an amd64 thing from what I can tell (there's a similar problem with xine-ui on the forums). Any ideas on this?

(edit: wine-20050310 fails the same way... damn that inline 32 bit assembly code

Septor · Apprentice Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 150

Lucky B · Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 4:44 am Post subject:

switch to the 2005.0 profile and recompile your toolchain cleanly (ie. double emerge -e system)
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Waywocket · Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:33 pm Post subject:

DrewMadMax · n00b Joined: 29 Sep 2002 Posts: 43

I don't think the problem is with the amd64/32 bit problems, as I can run notepad.exe from my winXp install with no problems ( I did check the begining of the build process, and it did say that it was NOT going to cross-compile, but there was a cross-compiler present.. I haven't been able to figure out how to tell it to cross-compile).

I checked /usr/include/GL, and there were some header files present (the correct install for nvidia is nvidia-glx). One thought is that maybe I need the files provided by emul-linux-x86-nvidia (which happens to be masked atm), but I'm not sure. Any thoughts?
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discomfitor · l33t Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 927 Location: None

DrewMadMax: Wine does not provide opengl32.dll, but uses a linux library (/usr/lib/wine/opengl32.dll.so) instead which provides the same functionality. If it isn't being found, then you have something wrong with your wine install. You might want to talk to ackward since he seems to have it working on amd64 as well.

People who are STILL having problems: Can you post again with your problem and a link to a dll trace of wine when it fails? If it fails before wine actually starts, post the problem you're having with that. I just want to know whose problems have been solved and whose haven't. Thanks.

As for cvscedega, I can't really provide support for this as I have never used it. Try the TG forums or somesuch.

EDIT: Updating howto...

EDIT #2: Howto has been updated.
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DrewMadMax · n00b Joined: 29 Sep 2002 Posts: 43

Just got a bit further.. I needed to make a symlink from /usr/lib64/wine to point to /usr/lib32/wine (where the dll.so files were located), although I'm not sure if that is the right idea. I also made sure that those dll.so files were updated with my last install, and they were. Here is the output now:

Waywocket · Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:48 pm Post subject:

DrewMadMax · n00b Joined: 29 Sep 2002 Posts: 43

The .so files were actually in /usr/lib32/wine. I think the problem was that /usr/lib pointed to /usr/lib64, and that wine was looking in /usr/lib (which was actually /usr/lib64), and not able to find them. So, I created a symlink, and got a bit further.
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SDraconis · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 53

Darckness: Unfortunately, I am stuck on a specific kernel due to my IDE RAID controller drivers (2.4.30).

Septor: Okay, I am currently using the same setup as you with the new ATI drivers and patched ebuild of wine-20050419. Now I can load up the game without corruption with the extension still enabled, and have no problems entering the world. However, now my framerate is horrible in-game (2.2 FPS or so using CTRL+R inside of WoW). It gets slow to the point where even typing for in-game chat or moving the mouse cursor is lagged. I made sure to run opengl-update after installing the new drivers and fglrxinfo does show ATI and not Mesa. I tested that hardware accelerationg was working with glxgears and I am getting framerates in the 3000's. Nothing seems slow until I actually enter the world.

This is really puzzling as things were working faster with the older ATI drivers and Wine from CVS. Any ideas?

For extra info, I actually had to reinstall Gentoo because a scripting error deleted some important stuff. However, I installed the same software and kept the same Wine and Xorg config files. WoW is still the same since it is mounted from a Windows partition. Only difference that I can think of is the ATI drivers and CVS patched from Portage ebuild rather than CVS.

Septor · Apprentice Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 150

SDraconis:
It can be slow for me too... but usually only when new objects need to load. Normal play isn't too bad, but not nearly up to par with Windows. I am certainly getting better than 2FPS I think though... Try setting your terrain distance to about 50%. You should be able to leave everything else on max (even shaders should work fine). You could try to disable the VBO extension (even though it should be fixed), at least then we would know if your framerates improve or not (but I doubt it). Are you running wine nice'd? if so, make sure you don't have another process that is sucking CPU time away from wine due to process priority.

One extension you probably should filter out is "GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap". I don't know if WoW uses this extension a lot or not, but it does use it... this is the extension that causes the famous Neverwinter Nights memory leak with the ATI drivers. And is also the reason I wrote the filter_ext library in the first place. I usually run wine with this extension filtered out.

Darckness: Can you update the HOWTO to reflect that the vertex buffer object extension does not need to be filtered out for ATI users with 8.12.10 or new driver version. 8.12.10 should probably be the currently reccommend driver version in my opinion since it fixes many issues (UT2004, VBO extension, etc). Thanks!

Jamal · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2004 Posts: 44

Hi, i am working for 3 days to run WoW with cedega 4.3-1! My hardware is: Athlon XP 1800+, ATI Radeon 8500 and 1024 MB DDR RAM
If i start WoW "cedega WoW.exe" I get a critical Error, which says: "Error #132: The memory could not be 'read'"

I really have tried nearly everything, but nothing changed....:/

the same Error appers, on typing this: "wine WoW.exe -opengl"
But there, the Shell tells me:

eyoeth · n00b Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 4

Hello, i recently found this thread and read the thread and followed the how to's. What i have done is:

Installed ati-drivers and run fglrxconfig.
Emerged Wine with the patch and with opengl in USE.
Copied the dll files from a windows installation.
Installed Mozilla and the ActiveX Mozillacontrol.
Copied a World of Warcraft Installation from the windows computer.
And i have run "opengl-update xorg-x11".
And i can start wow up(with "wine WoW.exe -opengl", but i got around ½-1fps.

If i try glxgears i got around 350 fps, when i used debian and i got fglrx running i had much more, a couple of thousand fps. So i guess i dont got 3d acceleration, am i right? Or is it different in gentoo?

Garwin · Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 2:54 pm Post subject:

eyoeth · n00b Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 4

I tried "opengl-update ati" instead, and now i get the same error as Jamal here above. Thank you anyway Garwin.

Jamal · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2004 Posts: 44

Do you use cedega or wine and get the same Error as I do?

SKLP · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 May 2004 Posts: 96

any solutions coming to the horrible sound issues?

eyoeth · n00b Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 4

Jamal · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2004 Posts: 44

If I type "glxinfo | grep direct" there appears: "Direct rendering: Yes" And thats all, so dr is activated and runs...but I dunno, what else could bei wrong :/
I changed all my RAM Slots and tried with 2 different Rams, but no success...so there must be something else wrong :X

eyoeth · n00b Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 4

I got it to work now, i recompiled the kernel, re-emerged ati-drivers etc, dunno if that helped.
But one thing i think i changed now is: under Graphics Device in xorg.conf, i dont know that it stood fglrx under driver.

SDraconis · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 53

teidon · Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 7:12 am Post subject:

Septor · Apprentice Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 150

SDraconis:
Sorry the program name isn't winereg, it is regedit... but as I said, you should upgrade to ati-drivers 8.12.10 because then you wouldn't need either filter_ext or the registry hack!

Since you are not having sound problems, I was curious what sound card, driver (ALSA or OSS), Kernel version and config you are using. I get serious sound issues with both my SB Live! and nForce2 onboard sound... renicing or using the SoundBufferSize "200" is the only way to fix the problem. The SoundBufferSize "200" creates too much sound delay/lag so I just renice wine instead.

SKLP · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 May 2004 Posts: 96