World Of Warcraft Howto/Support UPDATED 11/10/05! (old)

goblin · n00b Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 39

Hello again. About my previously posted problem, it was all my bad, hadn't installed the most recent wine version and neither the patches. Now, with the help of posts from this thread all is good, even the sound, however there is one thing that slightly bothers my perfectionism - is the game in fact running slower with wine/linux? I've seen some posts saying that it's faster, but I am experiencing, or rather, think I am experiencing it to lag a bit more (it requires more computer-power) in wine/linux. Maybe it has something to do with my settings? The game lags quite much when there is a large amount of things to display, like when I'm outdoors, and is running as smooth as, well very smooth, when I'm an indoor setting, is this due to low RAM? Have 500. My gkrellm says that RAM is down to say 120-40 free when I'm playing, whereas the CPU goes up to 99%, so the most obvious thing would be to blame the CPU, but I wouldn't know... Oh, and I never installed Direct X, is that required? :oops:

Thanks everyone,
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neuron · Advocate Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 2371

when I had 512mb ram it ran waaay smoother in linux than it did in windows, as linux was way better handling my memory than windows was.

You might wanna try fluxbox for wow, although gnome should be fine as soon as it starts putting it in swap instead of in active memory.

goblin · n00b Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 39

Aha, well I'm already on fluxbox and loving it =P I can agree that sometimes it runs smoother, and sometimes it runs more laggy than windows. Or that is how I percieve it, it might be wrong. Anyways it's not that big of a deal, I sure aint gonna go back to xp for now, no reason. Just wondered if there were any setting that could've done it, or perhaps installation of Direct X.
Another issue is that the game doesnt seem to keep my values for example sound. I turn on the music, but next time I enter the game it is turned off. And also gamma, I dont seem to be able to change my gamma..

prg · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 94

do not install directx. if it works at all it won't be helpful, rather the opposite. there's already that directx stuff in wine or you wouldn't be able to play now. just direct3d9 isnt't quite ready for use as far as i know this so you need to use opengl.

about the settings: is the wow directory (or the config files in it) writeable? if you copied it over network from a read only source it probably will still be write protected.

goblin · n00b Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 39

Yes the directories are writeable. I can also modify the WTF Config.wtf-file (SET Gamma "value") but it doesn't seem to have an impact on the game. Other things in the config-file like SoundBufferSize works, so why the game ignores gamma I dont know... Anyways, dont sweat it, I'm just so really happy to play it as good as it is now.

neuron · Advocate Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 2371

you can always set gamma in x (xgamma)

teidon · Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 1:17 pm Post subject:

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

A recent cvs commit seems to have broken a patch to the Wine preloader. I've updated my big WoW patch and my cvs Wine ebuild, but I need somewhere to host them. Volunteers?

Additionally, the bug with the black screen seems to be fixed now. Yay.
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minoan · n00b Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 14

I updated to latest cvs this weekend and forgot to patch the preloader. Instead of patching it I started playing with WINEPRELOADRESERVE and found out that:

chrisashton84 · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 3:06 am Post subject:

Polynomial-C · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 2:47 am Post subject:

Hello people,

I must admit, I was kinda "shocked" how many people are using the wine-wow_fixes.patch which I originally only created to spare others from hacking the patch into the wine-sourcecode themselves... I really never expected that

But work has to go on and as I noticed, there is also floating around an "OpenGL target fix" which I decided to include to the existing patch. This doesn't mean that the original patch is gone, I'll keep this one because there are so many forums out there who link to my filebase. But there's now also a wine-wow_fixes-2.patch which includes the above mentioned fix as well. So if you are going to patch your wine for WoW you can now use the -2.patch instead of the original one and don't need to hack the OpenGL target-fix into the sourcecode yourself.

Have fun with playing WoW like my sister and my dad have (for them I originally started to find a patch to fix wine

)

Cheers Polynomial-C

P.S.: I'm NOT the author of any code within my patches. I only have veeeery little knowledge of C and some more knowledge about how to create patches. So the only "work" I did was to copy the fixes into the wine-sourcecode and create the patches with diff

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rek2 · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 7:55 pm Post subject:

what is the command to patch this?

patch patch ? I do that and it just sits there.

never mind I got it.
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b1f30 · Apprentice Joined: 16 Nov 2005 Posts: 262 Location: USA

Where/how exactly do you add this?

--- dlls/opengl32/opengl_norm.c.old 2005-11-09 17:38:20.000000000 -0500
+++ dlls/opengl32/opengl_norm.c 2005-11-09 17:38:35.000000000 -0500
@@ -2367,7 +2367,7 @@
void WINAPI wine_glPolygonOffset( GLfloat factor, GLfloat units ) {
TRACE("(%f, %f)\n", factor, units );
ENTER_GL();
- glPolygonOffset( factor, units );
+ glPolygonOffset(-factor, units );
LEAVE_GL();
}

Thanks guys.

*** EDIT ***

Eep! Nevermind. Thanks for the patch Poly. Nice work dude.

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Polynomial-C · Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 1:32 am Post subject:

Hi again,

alright, I just tried wine-0.9.4 and my two patches don't work with it. But fortunately there's only one line to change in the patch to get it applied again. But that was reason enough for me to create another patch especially for wine-0.9.4 and maybe future versions of wine.
You can find this patch here: wine-0.9.4-wow_fixes.patch
To be clear: You only need this single one patch for wine-0.9.4. I will never force people to apply more than one patch to wine if these patches were created by me.

Cheers
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b1f30 · Apprentice Joined: 16 Nov 2005 Posts: 262 Location: USA

Game works absolutely phenominal now under Gentoo running on my AMD box. The sound is perfect, the graphics smooth as hell at 1600x1200, and I can get back into being a sexy Night Elf once again.

Thanks to Gentoo, and the community, and a nice patch from Poly to help me get my crack fix proper.

redhook · n00b Joined: 24 Jan 2005 Posts: 18

morgir · Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 10:31 pm Post subject: some strange problem

yea i have very strange problem with instalation of WoW
When Instalation ends i get a something like this

guzik · n00b Joined: 17 Aug 2003 Posts: 64

Sounds to me like you are running wine in user-mode, and haven't set it up properly. You can install it in root (su) mode or you should try cedega ($).

morgir · Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 12:35 pm Post subject:

i dont have many for cedega:P in root mode i have com. :

otherside · Apprentice Joined: 01 Jul 2002 Posts: 179

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

Just edited a couple things in the ebuild and cleaned out the patch directory and sent it off to chrisashton84. Hopefully it will be up soon.

Changes:

Tinyn · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2005 Posts: 34

I just installed wine 0.9.4 from Portage, and overlayed in the above wine-0.9.4 combined patch, and now Im getting this message

stazich · n00b Joined: 08 Nov 2005 Posts: 6 Location: indy

Can anyone post a screenshot of that?
how do you go about updates?

Polynomial-C · Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 11:54 am Post subject:

Hi,

well wine-0.9.4 seems to have some issues with WoW. I wasn't able to fire up the game neither with the patch applied nor without. I downgraded to patched wine-0.9.3 and all is working nice again.
This is the errormessage I got when trying to run the game with wine-0.9.4: