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

jcurry · n00b Joined: 27 Dec 2005 Posts: 4

I'd appreciate if someone could help me...I am using debian sid, with working nvidia drivers, and I'm running into a problem that I don't think anyone else has seen.

I compiled wine 0.9.3, after patching with
http://polynomial-c.homelinux.net/pub/gentoo/portage/app-emulation/wine/files/wine-wow_fixes-2.patch
(is this the correct one?)
and when I try to run WoW with -opengl, I am taken to the character selection screen, and I hit "Enter World".
When it finishes loading, I see one frame of the world, with three weird short golden things on the screen, and then the screen goes black, after maybe ten seconds.

Direct3D mode (without -opengl) works almost perfectly. Characters do not have textures, and when I walk around the world, my character is not there, all I see is a huge black patch.

Any way to fix one of these problems (it seems it is better to get OpenGL working) is much appreciated!

Thanks.

Jengu · Guru Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 384

jcurry · n00b Joined: 27 Dec 2005 Posts: 4

Xorg version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11
Nvidia version: 1.0.7174-4
'glxinfo|grep direct' shows "direct rendering: Yes"
kernel-version: 2.6.14
Other 3D games work fine

jcurry · n00b Joined: 27 Dec 2005 Posts: 4

Oops. Update my nVidia drivers, and now it all works. Thanks for the helpful guide, and the prompt to upgrade. Sorry to bother y'all.

chrisashton84 · Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 8:58 am Post subject:

lordofthesewers · n00b Joined: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 18

Hi guys. I have a quick stupid question.
How do I apply polynomial-c patch through portage? Sry I'm a n00b to gentoo, just installed it three days ago (i'm coming from vector linux slack based).
Cedega doesn't work for me, worked on vector linux, but now it gives me error 21. With wine if i do wine wow.exe -opengl works except sound and mouse, right for what the patch it is for.
Please forgive my dumb question.
Thanks

Polynomial-C · Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 7:05 am Post subject:

Hi lordofthesewers,

this is explained quite comprehensive at the gentoo-wiki http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_and_update_World_Of_Warcraft_with_wine.
I hope this helps you.

Cheers
Polynomial-C

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lordofthesewers · n00b Joined: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 18

neuron · Advocate Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 2371

what kind of memory usage are you guys seing? I think I'm leaking somewhere.. it's easily using all my memory and start swapping after a while.

chrisashton84 · Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 8:04 am Post subject:

Darckness sent me his ebuild and patch, I have them up on www.chrisashton84.com/files/wine/ for download. Hopefully I can now get it working

fozner · n00b Joined: 01 Oct 2005 Posts: 4

I noticed it starts to gobble resources if you have unnecessary effects turned on in-game. Load in a character and press [esc] to go into the video settings. Set everything as low as you can stand (except for the settings that it says are recommended for performance of course). Most of the extra graphical effects don't seem to do anything on my box anyway. I noticed the biggest improvement in turning off reflective water though it still looks the same to me. I no longer get kicked off the griffon in ironforge.

minoan · n00b Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 14

WoW works for me with latest cvs when the patch below is reversed

http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2005-December/022944.html

/minoan

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chrisashton84 · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 6:46 am Post subject:

It may just be wine-cvs is broken right now, but I can barely even get any program to run without crashing, including builtins such as winecfg (after hacking a new winecfg-cvs script to even run it, if there's some other way to run the wine* programs from Darckness's ebuilds please let me know

)... not to mention that that ebuild is really outdated now that I've started using it (the scripts for one need to be re-written to account for not using the config file). For an AMD64 system, to get the game running, what's the suggested path right now? I've tried the HOWTO on the wiki, using 0.9.4, it didn't even compile. I've tried the wine-9999 ebuild and it didn't compile. I'm about to try compiling and patching by hand, but that's not idea. Suggestions? If I can get some way that *works* I'll of course post, but I have had very little luck working for a couple of days on this.

Thanks

Polynomial-C · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 1:00 pm Post subject:

Hello chrisashton84,

I'd say that there's something wrong with your Gentoo when wine-0.9.4 doesn't compile on your box. I got it compiled on five different machines and the only one already known problem with version 0.9.4 was some TLS related regression which I told about some posts above and which seems to be fixed already. What's the errormessage when the compilation stops on your box?

Cheers
Polynomial-C
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leligeour · n00b Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 13

Wow under wine-0.9.4 is brocken due to the GLX patch (use 0.9.3 for the moment).

Has someone the same problem ?

Yoda

chrisashton84 · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 10:30 pm Post subject:

lordofthesewers · n00b Joined: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 18

I'm using polynomial's wine 93 patch and it is memory leaking somewhere, after 15 minutes it just freezes and i have to restartx.
my cflags are-march=pentium4 -pipe -03 -ffast-math
I have high quality settings cause that's how i play and i'm not willing to get my eye candy down. Any ideas
thanks
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jcurry · n00b Joined: 27 Dec 2005 Posts: 4

I'm seeing another problem. Same settings as above (nVidia v. 1.0.8178 this time), but my right mouse button doesn't work. anyone else seeing this? Otherwise, the game runs fine.

chrisashton84 · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 6:49 am Post subject:

Today I got the cvs version (patched w/ wow patch) to compile and install by hand. It runs winemine and other programs just fine so in theory wine is working. However when I try to run WoW copied over from my Windows partition it tries to reference 0x00000000 and fails. At first, the blizzard bug reporter didn't catch it, but with a clean ~/.wine directory (just link dosdevices/c: to the correct place) both the blizzard and wine bug windows come up. I suppose I'll wait a couple of days and try again. Too bad, cause I'd been hoping to play some over winter break... so close to 60 and I need to figure out whether to continue the account before I get charged for another 6 months. (and playing in Windows means I don't get any other work done, cause rebooting constantly is a pain)

EDIT: Oh, and the installer doesn't start (same 0x00000000 reference error), and I did as suggested above and commented out the exceptions.c line or whatever it was from the ntdll test Makefile in order to get it to compile.

goofus · Apprentice Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Posts: 180

hello.
i have a problem running wow with wine.
after the char selection and when the "blue bar" loads up, wow freezes. right after the blue bar ends loading.

edit: i use the latest stable wine and ati-drivers. without adding manual patches.

edit2: i can correctly login without using the -opengl flag but then i dont see anything except the chat and ui. :/