World Of Warcraft Howto/Support UPDATED JAN03/06! (old)

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[node@are-b.org]

ATi driver 8.22.5
wine 0.9.8 wine-0.9.7-wow_fixes patched
1.9.4 wow
9 FPS in XR Inn....

True, I have an old 9500Pro, and only a 3200+ Athlon XP, but still, that's just bad. It runs a whole bunch faster in cedega, (and yeah, in windos it runs at 50+ fps)

I run at 1280x1024 (native res of my tft) with everything else set to low/off.

[meff]

[wazoo42]

Don't know if I should post this here or in a new thread..... I have dual boot going on with my laptop, gentoo and xp pro. I have wow installed in windows. In the first post of this thread it talks about the easiest way to install wow is just to copy it over. If I do that, what shouls I set the permissions to? wow.exe should be made executable, and probably any other .exe file, right? Also, I'm using cedega 5.1, so how do I go about configuring cedega to run wow?

[whiterussian]

Although i am mainly a debian/SuSE user, i have managed to get World of Warcraft running beautiffuly virtually hassle free using wine running the direct x 9 path (dx9wine), you do need the 2 dll files included in the first post on this thread. dx9wine can easily be attained via WineCVS (look for WineCVS.sh, damned easy to use).

It simply works, however i suggest you install and run under windows 2000 or windows 98 settings ('dx9wine winecfg' lets you configure under dx9). I have no sound problems or anything, it works fine. Only wish i had a better video card...

Specs: Acer Travelmate 4100 WLMI, mostly running OpenSuSE 10 (technically, but its really some horribly hybrid between SuSE and Slackware), Intel ICH6 based hardware (sound video, etc.)

NOTE: It is easyest to run the install and patch system with dx9wine or regular wine, set to run a virtual desktop, otherwise it seems to run slower. This has been tested on several machines, including a gentto based one.

Cheers! Hope to see you guys in game.
WhiteRussian.
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06:08.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01)

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[berg]

hm, sounds good, would be very nice to have a ready to use wine ebuild including the D3D9 Patches...

[meff]

Here is some more info on my system, if it'll help any.. This sucks.. at XR: 15fps, Orgrimmar: maybe 5fps..

Doom3, albeit native, runs at full speed.. I don't see any driver issues, well, because if Doom3 can run fine why can't WoW at least chug out 50% of what I had on Windows?

Forewarning this is my Debian box, though this happens with any distro I install, including Gentoo.

Wine 0.9.8 (have tried .6, .7 also)

[whiterussian]

Im using the newest alsa release at the moment, however before that worked i could sort of get sound with OSS.

[neuron]

nvidia's said they'd have a new driver out in within 2 weeks btw, hopefully that'll improve it for some of us

[marcust]

Well, after 24 hours of trying, I'm pretty mouch out of options right now. I've seen someone having the same problem in this thread, but can't find it anymore. Mostly everything works fine until I enter the game world itself, where the game locks up and I can't do anything in game but can ALT+TAB out and close it. The configuration dialog crashes for me as well.

I'm on Debian, Kernel 2.6.15.4, ATI Mobility card with latest drivers (8.22.05) and by now a self build 0.9.8 with some WoW patch, plus latest WoW as upgraded by the game itself. I tried lots of different configurations. My WINE sound doesn't work due to winecfg crashing, but this is a known wine issue. Running with d3d works but is dead slow (as in unplayable).

Anyone found a solution to the "in game locking" issue yet?

[Matteo Azzali]

wine-0.9.8 regression for Warcraft III hitted also WoW?
I'm asking myself what's the wine developers target, reading of command & conqueror
as platinum app for wine isn't so enjoying, at least for me.....

Only known solution at present time is to rollback (0.9.5 is by far the best option for warcraft III)
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[Darknight]

[marcust]

Moving /usr/lib/wine/winearts.drv.so out of the way as suggested in the above mentioned post works for me, at least I can configure sound now. But it doesn't really help with my system locking up when entering the world.

By now I suggest the Graphics Card (Radeon Mobility M300), the driver or wines interaction with it.

What is quite strange is that it depends on the WoW configuration whether or not it holds the system or just simply freezes (I was mostly tweaking graphics options ( at least options that look like it) but don't really know which one it was). Is there a list somewhere which discribes all Config.wtf options, their meaning and their influence on stablity? I guess it would be reasonable to have such a list. Furthermore, I've never seen anyone describing wine's configuration which is "best" for WoW, mostly the Graphics options (or do they just influence D3D?) and in the Audio page. Are there any OpenGL options which can be changed manually in the registry? Are there any wine configurations that are known to work better than other ones?

Last question: is there a known success case for my configuration? (Kernel 2.6.15.4, ATI Driver 8.22.5, Wine 0.9.8 + wow patch, X.Org 6.9)[/quote]

[berferd]

I was getting "Error 132" after I upgraded my motherboard. It turned out to be ALSA sound. Switching to the jack interface resovled the problem. OSS is not an option because it mostly just gives me really loud white noise. Lspci sez:

Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a1)

Using the snd-intel8x0 ALSA driver. Kernel 2.6.15.1, wine 0.9.5-r1 + mouse over and bad match patches.

[Lechium]

How do I patch wine for the BadMatch error?

The HOWTO simeply says patch and than consume it. However it doesnt say HOW. I looked up and pacthing supposed to work as follows: "patch stuff.ebuild stuff.patch" problem is however -- patching any of the ebuilds (9.4 and 9.5) yelided errors:

[antonlacon]

Add it to the src_unpack() section of the ebuild. You will need to create a portage overlay to maintain the changes.

Example to the 0.9.8-r1 ebuild snippet.

[Lechium]

Thanks a lot.
I followed your guide and got to compiling. I did get a folowing error...

[b1f30]

Installing and Playing World of Warcraft on Gentoo Linux using Wine 0.9.6

Note: I take no responsibility if you break your system trying to make World of Warcraft work on Gentoo! These instructions are based around an x86 system using an nVidia 6600gs/7500gt card, wine-0.9.6, and a portage overlay. Your mileage may vary! Following these instructions, I am able to play World of Warcraft on my AMD64 Gentoo box with amazing performance!

1) Create a portage overlay:

# mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/app-emulation/wine/files
# cp /usr/portage/app-emulation/wine/wine-0.9.6.ebuild /usr/local/portage/app-emulation/wine/wine-0.9.6-r1.ebuild

2) Edit your /etc/make.conf to reflect the new portage overlay directory that you've created. Add the following to /etc/make.conf:

PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"

3) Download this WoW patch:

ftp://anch.org/pub/linux/wine/wow.patch

4) Copy the original wine files and the patch to the 'files' directory in the new wine overlay directory:

# cp /usr/portage/app-emulation/wine/files/* /usr/local/portage/app-emulation/wine/files
# cp /location/of/wow.patch /usr/local/portage/app-emulation/wine/files

5) Edit the ebuild in it's revised state:

# nano -w /usr/local/portage/app-emulation/wine/wine-0.9.6-r1.ebuild

Look for the following lines in the src_unpack section of the ebuild:

epatch "${FILESDIR}"/wine-no-ssp.patch #66002
epatch "${FILESDIR}"/wine-20050830-gcc-32bit.patch

And then, just under these lines, you add the following:

epatch "${FILESDIR}"/wow.patch

6) Save your changes, and then digest the ebuild

# ebuild /usr/local/portage/app-emulation/wine/wine-0.9.6-r1.ebuild digest

7) Add the 'testing' branch of wine to your keywords file (only once) and then emerge wine with --oneshot so that your custom build does not get an entry in your world file, thus, preventing it from being updated. Otherwise, the next 'emerge -uDN world' you do will rebuild wine without the customizations and patches we've added:

# echo "app-emulation/wine ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
# emerge -av --oneshot =wine-0.9.6-r1

8) While you're waiting for wine to compile, start checking out these links that I've found to be very helpful for World of Warcraft:

Plan your character's talents:

http://wowhead.com/

Ultimate World of Warcraft Database:

http://thottbot.com/

Cosmos custom UI for WoW:

http://cosmosui.com/

And then, when wine is done compiling, and you've got your ub4r Orc warrior all mapped out...

9) Configure wine using winecfg and under the audio section, be sure to use the appropriate audio system. I use ALSA for my box.

# winecfg

I've heard conflicting results with OSS and ALSA. Personally, I've used ALSA with great success, but again, your mileage may vary! If you're going to use OSS, make sure you have the backwards compatibility compiled in with ALSA.

10) You'll need two dll's from http://www.dll-files.com/ - download and copy them into your .wine/drive_(c)/windows/system(32)/ directory:

msvcp60.dll
mfc42.dll

11) Download a Windows version of Mozilla from http://www.mozilla.org/ and install it using wine:

# wine mozilla-win32-1.7.12-installer.exe

12) Download the Mozilla ActiveX control. World of Warcraft's patch utility requires ActiveX to be installed order to function properly (BLAH!). Install this with wine:

# wget -c http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/MozillaControl1712.exe
# wine MozillaControl1712.exe

13) Use wine to install World Of Warcraft. You may have to manually mount and/or eject CD's, depending on what desktop or window manager you use.

# wine /path/to/cdrom/install.exe

14) Tweaking sound. Edit your World of Warcraft config file:

# nano -w .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/World\ of\ Warcraft/WTF/Config.wtf

Add or change the following:

SET SoundOutputSystem "1"
SET SoundBufferSize "150"

You may have to play with the buffer size to get the sound where it needs to be. (If someone has a better way to do this, please let me know and I'll make the proper edits!)

15) Start World of Warcraft:

# wine .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/World\ of\ Warcraft/WoW.exe -opengl &

The first time you start WoW.exe, you may have to patch - which will take some time. There's no workaround for this, unless you download the patches manually, and that's still going to take time anyway. WoW seems to use what appears to be their own version of a torrent client to download files. Be patient - sometimes you'll wait in line quite a while to download, and the files are usuallly huge - especially if you're doing a fresh install.

Works like a dream for me.

Thanks to everyone on the b1n4ryfr33d0m list and the Gentoo Linux community for making F/OSS the best and most fun stuff of all.

[Lechium]

Dude it worked! Thanks man.

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[KoffKoff]

I don't know if this error is related to WoW or not since I haven't tested it with any other programs, but this is the error I get:

[inf3rno]

Hello all,

I'm experiencing an issue, that in one form or another, I've been working on for over a solid month to resolve. My end goal is to run World of Warcraft on Linux, as to make a long story short, I can't install Windows on the computer I'm using for WoW. I first tried to use Cedega with Fedora Core 4, and it was then that I identified this persistant issue: When World of Warcraft loads, somewhere between the time it first renders the game world after the loading screen, and a few minutes into play, the game will freeze hard, requiring me to CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE to get out of the process, sometimes requiring me to hard power down.

I half-resolved this issue for the time being by setting

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