World Of Warcraft Howto/Support UPDATED 6/15/05!

cypherphreak · n00b Joined: 23 May 2005 Posts: 17

Well I am having the same problem of "no config" file in ~/.wine I read somewhere in this thread that the newer versions of wine do not have a config and rather store it in the registry but when I open up winecfg it says "The winecfg tool is not yet complete, and does not actually alter your configurations. If you want to alter the way Wine works, look in the ~/.wine/config file for more information" which obviosly does not exist on mine and when I do make one wine gives me lots of trouble and won't load anything.

error from wine with ~/.wine/config

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

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sirbrett · n00b Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Posts: 16

sirbrett · n00b Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Posts: 16

nevermind! i fixed it!

my problem was that i had to compile it in 32bit mode (duh) im using fedora x86_64. so i changed the compile command to:

deadly_dragons · n00b Joined: 04 Jul 2005 Posts: 1

Gridmark · n00b Joined: 11 Mar 2005 Posts: 22 Location: Dallas

Okay. It seems i'm having an issue nobody else is.

Using latest cedega, both in OpenGL and in Direct3d. I can run WoW with pretty good performance, except for when I transfer into a zone. I.e. Use my hearthstone, attempt to enter an instance, anything that involves the loading screen.
The screen will load and the happy blue bar will get to the end. Usually I will hear the "Zoned noise" of my bags being initialized and a few open/close window sounds (Actually the sounds of all my AddOns loading, this happens to everyone when they zone). But it doesnt update from the loading screen. Mouse freezes and all is lost, the only way to recover is by switching back to my normal Xserver and issuing a killall -9 wine.

When the crash occurs I get the following error:

teidon · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 8:48 am Post subject:

@ Gridmark
Have you tried to play WoW without AddOns, special UI's and other such things? Move the Interface directory to a safe place from WoW's directory and try to play again. Also are you sure that WoW crashes or the screen just doesn't update (that memory corruption does sound bad...)? Like can you here any sounds/music after it (by opening backpack or questlog or something else)? If WoW is still running, you could try to switch to terminal (ctrl+alt+F1) and then back to Xserver (alt+F7). The screen will remain black for a while, but should update after a short while (that is, if WoW is running. That's a good way of clearing the "picture" if you get some strange artifacts after you switch to other virtual desktop and back to WoW).

And that Shamus's fix weren't intended for Cedega users as Cedega users can fix the mouse bug by other means.

WhiteWolfkiba · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:51 am Post subject:

I have found out a useful tip sry if it has already been posted here before. for those of us with the "cursed cursor" where you cannot click anything unless you look into the sky. hit V then you can talk to NPCs by right clicking their health bar. its helpful for talkign to NPCs indoors. sadly it does not make looting any easier. So keep looking to the skys!
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legine · Guru Joined: 27 May 2004 Posts: 555 Location: Germany

Okey I added the Problem with NPC and stuff to the know Issue section on
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_and_update_World_Of_Warcraft_with_wine
please check there if the solution is already there.

It is a bit of a mess there since I have a lot of thinks to do this week. I hope I can polish it up a bit later. But it would be great if someone else could do this. You find all infos how you can do it on the Wiki page itself and I have done a lot there already.

I hope with the collecting mass issues there that we concentrate solutions and technical install howto we can concentrate on new or unsolved issues here. I hope that will break the wind for those who are against this thread and encourage all of us to keep WoW Supported the Gentoo way

So please have no stoppages (?) to work on the Wiki HowTOO. I appreciate any help on this.
(please check there the TODO list. Its on the diskussion side

)

Cheers
Legine
EDIT: Thanks to all helpers, workers problem analysers and readers for your constructive Critics and posts.
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discomfitor · l33t Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 927 Location: None

I've decided that I'm not going to add the cool fix for wine (courtesy of shamus13) to the howto on here. It seems that this doesn't work for a number of people, and therefore I can't put it in. I will link to it, however.
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legine · Guru Joined: 27 May 2004 Posts: 555 Location: Germany

maybe you should put at least the sky looking solution and the activation of Nameplates. It is reinvented all the time.

I think I collect all the Data We have. but I believe a Wiki Page is a lot easier to handel and build then a Forum post, so we should here just mention the most imoprtant thinks.
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frosch · n00b Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 1

Hi,

I hope that I'm not repeating all stuff, but I searched google and forums and didn't find my problem:

World of Warcraft is starting up, but the menu is unreadable. It looks like all polygons are flickering randomly through the screen. I will try to make a screenshot avaiable soon.
I tried a lot of tips I found in the net, but didnt succeed.

Here some infos on my system & configuration, perhaps someone finds an error or something:

cedega version: cvscedega installed by the WineCVS.sh script, -v gives just "Cedega CVS" but its 1 or 2 weeks old now (July 2005 ;)
WoW: copied from a windows-installation, should be the newest version
kernel: 2.6.12.2 (same error with 2.6.11.12), no difference if legacy_va_layout is avaiable or not (if that could have to with it)
grafik: NVidia GeForce 3 Ti, 128mb, Driver: media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7664
glxinfo says: OpenGL renderer string: GeForce3/AGP/SSE/3DNOW!

I switched a lot of options in the cedega-config, but nothing changes anything (including setting AGP-Ram options and d3dgl-options).
Allthough tried to install cedega manually which leaded to the same problem.
Switching Desktop-Color-Depth and Color-Depth-Options of cedega dont seem to influence the problem in anyway.

There are a lot of error-messaegs and warnings in the cedega-console, perhaps they could help:

MasterMind · Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 7:23 pm Post subject:

Hmm. I found one problem

. Everything works perfect, but! I can't select nothing with clicking. I can select a hostile with TAB, but I can't click him. Could anyone told me what is wrong? I am using Wine and NVidia GeForce 5700 FX LE. I tried chaging DXGrap to Y, but didn't helped...
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ikshaar · Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 7:28 pm Post subject:

MasterMind: read at least the first post, please... bug from version WoW 1.5.1. Fix for cedega, possible work around for wine see link in first post.
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MasterMind · Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 7:42 pm Post subject:

ikshar: I've read the first post, but I thought it was refering to my problem (I'm a bad reader, I guess). Tried the patch, and it workes flawlessly.
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teidon · Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:24 pm Post subject:

@ frosch
The cvs of Cedega haven't been updated for months (it's still known as Winex in cvs). It's too old to be able to run WoW anymore. You'll have to use either WINE (2 last releases works fine with WoW) or Cedega (I think you need the latest version). You'll have the annoying mouse bug with both of them, but read the first post for fixes/workarounds.

ikataii · n00b Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Posts: 59 Location: CA

I've tried 2.6.11-ck10 with no luck, though it does increase overall performance (makes the initial load faster, if slightly choppier, and the entire system runs at a better clip). Toggling the mem-related differences between my kernel and Waywocket's didn't seem to affect anything, though I might have missed something. Anybody gotten this to work?
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teidon · Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 8:39 am Post subject:

Caedes · n00b Joined: 09 Jun 2005 Posts: 30

Hi teidon,

I am also incapable of getting a wine fix to work. I would guess the wine people are refering to the fix proposed by legine when they speak of a memory wrapper starting at 0x10000000. This fix should do the same thing as the cedega workaround. But even for cedega there are a few people for whom this fix does not work.
I played a bit with legines approach, but still no success. E.g. I increased the length of memory reservations by a few bytes, wasting memory but maybe preventing overflows. Still no success.
I installed a shiny new cvs version of the xorg-server, assuming it could be a graphics problem. To me it is not clear, why a memory wrapper fixes it. It looks like a Z-Buffer problem, i.e. painting the objects in the right order but calculating mouse over collisions in the opposite direction, resulting background objects preventing the correct mouse over behaviour. But, as you will certainly guess, no success.
Finally, I am at the end of my wits while comparing my vanilla kernel config to the working one posted by Waywocket. I see no real difference, legacy memory layout is turned off by default and turing it on again (/proc/sys/vm/va_legacy_layout to 1) makes no difference.
To bad, playing WOW on Linux was quite fun.

Septor · Apprentice Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 150

Well I don't know if I got lucky or something, but it seems there was a mini-WoW patch today... and it fixed the picking problem for me!

Everyone log in and try it without any preload hacks

shamus13 · n00b Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 21

Ello all,

Looks like we did get an answer from the Wine guys, eh? Well, at least we got
on WWN, we are famous

@Caedes
I originally thought the same as you, that is was a graphics problem, but
i dug through a lot of postings on forums and found, that the bug appeared
with GL and D3D and windows and wine/cedega. The cedega fix and the
increase of error 132 from windows people rather changed my mind:)
It makes perfect sense for a memory bug to cause this, but what are the odds
of it trashing this one buffer...

@Septor
Didnt notice any mini updates today and no changes with the picking bug.
Was this mini update on the EU or US servers?

Yours Shamus

Septor · Apprentice Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 150

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kEiNsTeiN · Guru Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 361 Location: Germany

Hi!

I am really sorry if this has been solved already, I couldn't find it anywhere if it has.

My problem is, that if I use Wine with OSS, it's not working at all, and the sound with Alsa ist choppy and weird, although it's working.

The errormessages I get with wine are the following, the last line repeats endlessly: