World Of Warcraft Howto/Support - OBSOLETE

Griswold · Apprentice Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 212

Ctrl-R in WoW. It should pop up a yellow framerate meter in the middle of the screen.

Caboose · Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 12:07 am Post subject:

Ctrl+R :ninja edit: Beat to the Ctrl+R thing. There are also interface mods, like Titan Bar that has a plugin to display FPS, which is what I use.

otherside said that the patch gave him a 50-100% framerate boost. It didn't do that for me. I get between 20-30 fps average I start noticing sluggishness at around 20, although quite playable. Havn't played in Windows for some months (about the same time it's been since I booted into windows actually) but WoW runs at about 60fps there.

35-40 fps constant would be really nice.
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otherside · Apprentice Joined: 01 Jul 2002 Posts: 179

neuron · Advocate Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 2371

Timbers2k · Apprentice Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 215

otherside, any ideas on the error I'm getting on .9.13? See my post above.

otherside · Apprentice Joined: 01 Jul 2002 Posts: 179

Timbers2k · Apprentice Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 215

Does 0.9.13 work with no patches? Or where do I find the correct patch?

otherside · Apprentice Joined: 01 Jul 2002 Posts: 179

Timbers2k · Apprentice Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 215

Thanks, I've saved the link and I'm building 0.9.13 now.

urbanomad · Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 1:42 am Post subject:

I'm having a problem.. I installed wine, and WoW, but when I try to run it I get this:

Lowrider · n00b Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 27 Location: Italy

I installed Wine 0.9.12 and patched it for WoW, following lots of tutorial that i've found.

Everything worked fine so far, but WoW crashes when i enterworld (just after the loading)
It complains something about "memory not writtable" (i'll post a better error message later)
The point is that: it seems that Wine is working nice since i got no error from it, but WoW crashes ...

somebody has a clue ? i really don't know what to do (i am merging wine 0.9.13 right now)
Have ATI Radeon 9800 ( :oops:

hope to change it soon)
AMD Athlon xp 2600 with 780Mb Ram

thanks to everybody who will try to solve this problem

WoW pop up window of error

otherside · Apprentice Joined: 01 Jul 2002 Posts: 179

Lowrider · n00b Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 27 Location: Italy

lameaim · n00b Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 16

urbanomad · Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 1:51 pm Post subject:

Wine 0.9.13, patched
Dual Nvidia 6600GTs using sli
Amd64

Ok, I got WoW into a playable state. The only problem I'm running into now is that when I open my quests menu, it starts flickering really crazy. Has anyone encountered this and if you have is there a way to fix it?

edit - Just fixed this, I set my multisampling from 24bit - 24bit - x1 to 24bit - 24bit - x4. Weird.

nlaw · n00b Joined: 19 May 2006 Posts: 1

neuron · Advocate Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 2371

a new patch showed up on http://appdb.winehq.com/appview.php?versionId=4031, wow.new.patch.0.9.13-1. Anyone seen a changelog? It works well for me with the previus patch from there, and I'd like to see what the new patch fixed before just slapping it on

ikshaar · Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 5:32 pm Post subject:

Just managed to get into the test server. WoW-0.11 seems to work fine with latest cedega. Only the updater (within test client) crashes one.
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Dizzutch · Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 7:42 pm Post subject:

So i got everything running great with the latest patch found on winehq.com on wine 0.9.13
The only problem is the BadMatch problem which crashes tha game when the player goes indoors

urbanomad · Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 3:34 am Post subject:

Ok, everything was going great, then I made the mistake of emerging gnome 2.14. Now WoW still runs, but it's SUPER slow. Any ideas what could have changed between gnome 2.12 and gnome 2.14 that would completely b0rk wine?

Elleni · Veteran Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 1270

Hi all,

I have a strange WoW freeze ingame issue. Lately I installed an ATI X1300 LE pciexpress graphic card, followed the instructions and wikis (direct rendering: yes) and was able to patch wine 0.9.8, 0.9.13 and right now the 0.9.14 verstion without any problem. When entering game - after some seconds the whole system freezes - so that I am not even beeing able to Ctrl+Alt+Backspace and have to unplug power.

2 days ago I was finally able to play with the 8.24.8 drivers so I will reinstall them and see if it is stable. I will also try some other games, to see if it is a game and wine or more some sort of graphicdriver problem.

fyi:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-464952-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-ati+8+25+freeze.html

rakeyry · Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 11:24 pm Post subject:

I recently got WoW to work and when I run it, it is EXTREMELY choppy. I have the latest r8 kernel and the latest ATI drivers. Direct Rendering is enabled and my /dev/shm is mounted.

Now WoW worked fine on the same system under Windows.

Anyone reccomend anything?
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CCMCornell · n00b Joined: 28 May 2006 Posts: 39

I've just freshly reinstalled Gentoo and emerged wine 0.9.14 using an overlay and the patch on the winehq site for WoW. WoW runs, but with some problems. Some have already been mentioned.

When I walk into an indoor area (ie an area where you can't mount), the screen flickers. It does not stop even after walking outdoors.

Something else that I noticed was that the only resolution available ingame was 1280x1024. This is the only mode I entered in my xorg.conf file for the default depth of 24. In Windows, I usually play at 800x600 (for performance reasons on this old, old machine) but I can't change to that resolution under Linux.

I tried editing my xorg.conf and used a default depth of 16 and for that depth I added modes 1024x768 and 800x600. Now, I get the "badwindow" error when either trying to start WoW.exe through wine or even just winecfg.