World of Warcraft Patch 2.0.3 Random Ingame Crashes

mmx87 · n00b Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 7

Hey everyone,

I would post this in the transgaming forums but my suscription is up so I cannot. I am having this problem on Gentoo, however.

I was unable to patch Wow with Cedega 5.1.3. I used Wine 0.9-15 in order to patch wow successfully. The problem I have is when I get in the game. If I use cedega, every thing works ok ingame, except there is a random crash that always occurs. Wow will crash with its standard error box (http://kruck.biz/images/wow_error.png, but this isn't the exact error, just to give you an idea) 10 seconds to 5 minutes after getting into the game. If I use wine 0.9-15 in D3D mode, the game works although with major graphics errors, the mouse bug, and the same random crashes every 5-10 minutes. If I use openGL mode, the game crashes instantly with an X Bad mismatch error (possibly from the minimap bug, which can be fixed with a minimap hider wow addon, but that addon doesn't work with wow patchlevel > 2.0.0...).

Someone on the transgaming forums was having a random crash bug like this, but his was because he has problems with his twin monitor setup.

On a side note though, I have noticed that OpenGL is tons better for me than D3D with cedega and wine.

Anyone else having this problem though? I know Cedega 5.1.3 is an old version, but $15 for a new version is lame :/ .....

broken_chaos · Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:30 pm Post subject:

Try wine 0.9.28. It's what I've been using with 2.0.1, and soon with 2.0.3 (as soon as the patch finishes).

mmx87 · n00b Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 7

Ok, upgrading to wine 0.9.28 makes wow work perfectly. The only thing is, I had to upgrade from monolithic xorg 6.9 to modular xorg 7.1...so if you haven't already done that you might want to do that. (now I just have to fix my libXaw problem so I can run xterm..)

Thanks alot!

ruta · n00b Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 69 Location: Canada

I'm having this exact same problem. It's odd, because it doesn't even matter if I'm doing anything or not. For example, I was waiting in queue to get into my server (it's one of those planned to split) and I got the 132 error.

I might try wine, but I wish I could get a fix for cedega rather than start a whole new project. As it stands, I just got home from a four month period overseas, and I'm not particularly in the mood to figure out the whole read-me with wine. Also, I'm not sure how it stands now, but I recall that wine didn't have support for pixel shaders and what not when I left (while cedega did). If it's the case that it does now, I'd feel better about getting it to work.

Anyone have more info on all this?

tgurr · Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:16 pm Post subject:

Wine is the way to go, just install the most recent version and you're set. There's only the -opengl option you have to set in your WoW config if you want to use opengl, and a registry parameter to add to the "windows" registry if you wan't to speed fps up. More info is in the wine appdb or in the wow forum thread here.