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

[Delvin]

I can't make it work with cedega 5.0 ...

I have my wow directory in the home of my user and whan i make Install in point2play cedega returns me

[equilibrium]

hmm I tried updating cedega but now nothing works

I get the same error over and over on any game.

[neenee]

i'll try to get it to compile =]

ok. it compiled.

the answer to the question on my previous page (sandbox issue) is:

put:

[sp]

I am using wine 0.9.3 with patches applied - but NOT the targetting circle patch. I think that was a work around for a bug in WoW which blizzard have fixed in 1.9. So, if you don't have a targetting circle then reverse the patch, recompile opengl32.dll, install and run..

It took me a while to get the update installed, the blizzard updater kept telling me that WoW was running and I needed to exit the game first, I gave up.. went to work.. came back and had another go and asked google for help. Finally found the problem, WoW was running

Does anyone know why it doesn't exit properly? I will make sure to kill all wine processes now after I finish playing.

[the_enigma]

Woo, it works. I think?
Running wine-cvs w/out the opengl patch.
Running WoW with -opengl.
I get the right textures and all. All i need to do now, is fix some interface issues.

[asjapulk]

Got it allmost working using exactly zveanturz's how-to (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-418298.html) but the game keeps on crashing time-to-time with

[equilibrium]

hmm I got it working on cvswine after a few problems with some of the dependencies

The game seems to be running at a stable 10fps which compared to cedega (on the old patch) is stupidly slow also whats on with the configuration. Was so much more simpler to edit the ~/.wine/config for custom settings. Seems that you can't tweak anything at all using winecfg
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[Delvin]

I made it world with wine-0.9.3 and the mouse patch

still a little problem with the sound but it will be solved soon I think (oss problem and some crash)

wine-cvs refuse to compile on amd64

and cedega still doesn't work ...
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[KoffKoff]

OK, have tried 0.9.4 now with the patches (both of em) and I ended up with the same error as many other ppl have had when I run in OpenGL and I always get it when the loading screen is done.

[b1f30]

Is it just me, or has this new patch completely hosed Blizz/WoW? Seriously.. this is starting to remind me of SWG back in the day. The downtime this week has been nothing short of WTF-ness....

ARGH!!!

[equilibrium]

hmm I got the fps up on wine, now seems to be 20fps with high's of 40fps, still not really playable

I als got rid of the cedega error I was getting earlier by re-installing cedega(5.0.1). I just get another error now lol

[chrisashton84]

I hadn't checked the ebuild Darckness sent - yes, the opengl patch part needs to be removed from the wowfix.patch. I didn't have any problems compiling, though it could be a very recent change caused that. I've tried to fix this and added ~amd64 keyword, but didn't add the sandbox fix, and put it at http://www.chrisashton84.com/files/wine/wine-cvs-0.9-01-04-2006.tar.gz.

EDIT: as far as performance, I'm on an opteron 240 clocked at 1.4 GHz and I get 30 fps outside of cities, 10-15 inside. Sound skips a bit when loading new areas but I don't nice it. I did notice a fairly big difference when I removed all my old addons, but then I put a few back and it slowed down again. I can even speed up / slow down Auctioneer depending on whether I'm doing anything else on the computer while it scans, and my framerate drops quite a bit while it scans, so I'm wondering if addons aren't having more of an effect than usual.

[irCuBiC]

Ergh, I'm not sure if it's the new patch or whatever, but the game keeps crashing for me now. :\
With one of those "Critical error" message boxes that wine so humbly provides.

I have no idea what makes it happen, it just happens completely at random and after varying amounts of ingame time. I've tried with several wine versions too(at least, versions in portage, that I have patched), but same problem.

[EDIT]
Took a quick peek in my winecfg, and saw that suddenly ALSA had gotten selected for sound. Hoping that this is the cause, I have changed it back, and took a quick trip.
I actually survived the walk from Razor Hill into the center of Orgrimmar this time, so it MAY have been the problem, but given the random nature of it, I'm not entirely sure ^^;

[lethalray]

Got WoW working somewhat: amd64, nvidia using http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_and_update_World_Of_Warcraft_with_wine
Can't seem to get the numpad working or any of the bars. pops up an error in wow whenever I click on some action button. Am getting around 50 fps average tho. Disabled all mods. Anyone have any ideas about the numpad or the interface problems ?

[the_enigma]

Ok, I still have problems
Direct3D still has really bugged textures.
OpenGL gives 132's after playing a bit.
I'm yet to play D3D mode for very long, so I don't know how the 132s are. Time to run another memtest (I had 132s previously, and it was my memory)

15 min memtest, no errors. Last time I had 10-15 at this stage.
Trying with new drivers now.

Edit3:
Get 132's in D3D and OpenGL
It's always the same memory too, "instruction at 0x7BEE87FF referenced memory at 0xFFFFFFFF, Could not be read." Not verbatim, but you get the idea. even the locations are the same, and referencing 0xFFFFFFFF reeks of coding faults. Trying to work out whether it be a mod, or the game now though. I'm guessing mod. Many of my mods are out of date


Edit 56:
Ok, think it might work now. I had wine and wine-cvs emerged at once, and wine and wineserver were complaining about version mismatches. I've unemerged wine, and so far it seems ok.
Not 100% though.
Edit 93:
Nope, still crashed. Took about an hour to crash that time though, was in stratholme. Damn this, so irregular I can't even test it.

It still errors out. I think it may have something to do with c:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll though, although I'm not sure on where this file came from.

Just crashed again. That memory location definately points to ntdll.dll. Anyone have a copy of this file they'd care to share?

Last edit hopefully! Think it's all good, been in strat from baroness to Rammstein, no crashes. I just deleted that ntdll.dll file .... feck, it just crashed. More to come.

[irCuBiC]

Well, for all of you who gets the OpenGL error with wine-0.9.4 (X Error of failed request), there is a patch on the wiki page(it's in the troubleshooting section) that makes the problem go away by reversing the wine native patch that caused it. I'm using it with great success right now.

Also, if you're getting "Critical error" errors in wine, no matter the version, make SURE you have OSS as your wine driver, that's what was my problem, I found after compiling like 6 different wine versions. ALSA can create troubles. Now it works like a charm, though ^^

[the_enigma]

So, I went nuts, and tried going back to cedega. It all looks good, cept my minimap is white Anone else ever had this?

Edit2:
Ok, Cedega seems much better, got minimap+mouse working now. However, i can't use Opengl, it gives me "Unable to start 3D acceleration". Transgaming forums recommend adding those lines "SET gxApi etc" to Config.wtf. However, I had them there to start with. Also, opengl works fine with wine-cvs (apart from crashing) so it must be something to do with Cedega itself. Any ideas? I'll try anything.

[asjapulk]

Seems i got it working. Haven't played over 30minutes yet but no crashes so far.
Used exactly http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_and_update_World_Of_Warcraft_with_wine

I know that "thank you" doesn't pay bills but: Thank you! Thank You! Thank You!

[equilibrium]

I just updated cedega to 5.0.3 and it seems to work ok. The performance still seems the same as wine tho I might end up running winblows again for WoW altho I am concerned about the possibility of it containing spyware in it's anticheat part .

In windows I get about 90fps with everything on high and in linux about 30fps which drops to about 20fps

Makes me think cedega is a bit of a waste of money.

I tested cedega and wine performance on quake3 tiimedemo and on both I get 300fps where on native I get 530fps so I guess cedega and wine seem to be working as they should.
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[discomfitor]

Anyone here have a GeForce 6800GT? If so:

What's your processor?
How much RAM do you have?
What's your performance (framerate) like in big raid encounters (Molten Core, Blackwing Lair, Onyxia, etc)?


In other news, I recently obtained a 7800GT and the performance gain over my old 5700FX is incredible. I can, however, see where I'm being limited by Wine.
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[neenee]

hm. i have a 6800gt, but i have not been part of raids
to those three, at least not in linux.

i did do an open-air raid quest in the plaguelands. but
framerates were rather horrible there, even with most
details on the lowest possible settings.

as a priest, with people depending on me, it just does
not feel right to run linux yet
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[discomfitor]

I'm asking about that card in particular because a friend of mine has it, and I'm trying to figure out if his low framerates are a result of Windows or WoW.
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[b1f30]

[neenee]

[chrisashton84]