World Of Warcraft Support UPDATED DEC31/06!

discomfitor · l33t Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 927 Location: None

curtis119: Please post all WoW related support questions here. Made sticky. Also see the Native Linux port of WoW petition thread https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-160521.html

10/10/2005-Massive overhaul. Deleted obsolete sections, changed wording, removed other stuff, added a couple things here and there.
11/9/2005-Updated some shader stuff, added polygon offset patch
11/10/2005-Added a note for E16 people, posted a patch that fozner linked on page 6
12/31/2006-I give up. This will now be purely a support thread.

I admit it, I'm just too lazy to keep updating this. From now on, I will only be including texts to helpful links and fixes.

INSTALL DOCUMENTS:
AppDB at WineHQ.com
HowTo at the Gentoo wiki site

That's it for now. Let me know if something else needs to be linked here.
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mooninite · n00b Joined: 21 Oct 2005 Posts: 15

This post is very old and much of it is not needed and is very different now. I suggest a total rewrite. (as of Wine 0.9.1x and up and WoW 1.1x and up)

urbanomad · Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 1:42 am Post subject:

anyone having problems with the new WoW patch? (the one that downloads)

hackerError · Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 3:09 am Post subject: WoW patch 1.11 update breaks game

Besides the stupid update problems everyone is having including hanging at 84% and all around slow download times (thx blizzard) the game fails to run at all.

When the patch is downloaded and tries to run it flashes on the screen then shows a wine unhandled exception and crashes.

This with the latest cedega.

Anyone get it working yet?
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berferd · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 May 2004 Posts: 117

I can't even get the patch to apply. It insists wow-patch-backup.MPQ is corrupt, but the repair utility exits with no problems. I checked MD sums it is not corrupt.

CCMCornell · n00b Joined: 28 May 2006 Posts: 39

The Blizzard Downloader was going so slow I abandoned it at 48%. Instead of downloading the ~150MB 1.10->1.11 patch, I downloaded the full ~450MB 1.11 patch from Fileplanet.com. Running the executable via wine 0.9.14 worked fine. Fileplanet's speed was like 400kb/s (after a one hour wait), so getting the larger file shouldn't be a problem.

swoppe · Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 12:35 pm Post subject:

I have managed to applay the latest patch.
But when I try to run the game I get lots of fixmes on the console

Tinyn · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2005 Posts: 34

I had the insane flicking problem in patched 0.9.14. Upgrading to 0.9.15 fixed the flicking, bt reintroduced the Minimap crashing bug. If the minimap is displayed in a city or indooors area, the game crashes with a BadMatch error. The AddOn on CurseGaming that removes the Minimap seems to be working though.

treor · Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 3:48 pm Post subject:

also here the minimap crash. but for surprise. i can login using direct3d. it seems that wine-0.9.15 is a great step in forward in the direct3d support. but its not playable in direct3d (some graphik mistakes and a little slow).

is there any other solution für the badmatch crash than to remove the minimap?

swoppe · Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:03 pm Post subject:

what patches are you using? Im using wow.new.patch.0.9.13-1 from winehq togeather with wine .15 and it's flickering like mad. Id gladly trade the minimap bug agains a playabel game...
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treor · Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:18 pm Post subject:

wine-0.9.15 on a 64bit. compiled with the wine-0.9.13-2(?) patch from winehq.org

swoppe · Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:22 pm Post subject:

same as me, using latest nvidia drivers in ~amd64

As it is now its unplayabel

I allso tried with wine .0.9.14 with the patch from winehq same problem...
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swoppe · Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:24 pm Post subject:

Got it working now!!

I just nuked the WTF and WDB folders and its working, happy days!

EDIT: nope only the loginscreen worked still flickering like mad
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Toadicus · n00b Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Posts: 40

While I haven't logged in yet (stupid work), I know that WoW loaded just fine after I applied the full patch from Fileplanet (which also ran fine in both Wine and Cedega). I'll let you know if I have any trouble trying to log in this evening.

*edit* Are you actually having trouble running the game, or just patching it? I've found with past patches that Cedega will sometimes not run the patcher (for no clear reason), but normal wine has never failed me there. I almost always patch with Wine.

ikshaar · Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:38 pm Post subject:

jhardtone · n00b Joined: 28 Feb 2004 Posts: 51 Location: Helsinki

Got it working by using a mod that disables the automap, linkage:

http://www.curse-gaming.com/en/wow/addons-4147-1-minimap-autohide.html

Using WINE 0.9.15 with the patch linked to on the WINE AppDB page for WoW.

xanas3712 · Guru Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 455

The patcher ran fine with wine for me (I copied from another windows machine here). But the game is kaput, no run..

:/ This is with wine 0.9.15 on an Amd64 system with xorg-x11-7.0-r1 and the latest nvidia driver (card is a 7800 GT)

RazielFMX · l33t Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Posts: 835 Location: NY, USA

Just to let you all know it doesn't work right on WinXP either. It hung at 83%. When I started doing some debugging of my interface, it suddenly started downloading the rest of the patch slowly. Not sure if my debugging was related or not (yes I know WinXP is evil, I haven't tried running WoW yet under my linux build).
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Toadicus · n00b Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Posts: 40

Game is running just fine for me, on both of my computers. One's running Gentoo ~x86, the other's running Ubuntu Dapper (32 bit), and I haven't run into any troubles of any kind. If anything, it's running better now. A friend of mine is running it in Gentoo ~amd64, and I just got done with a raid with him, so it's not a 64-bit issue, necessarily.

tomaw · Guru Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 429 Location: UK

This might be worth knowing for people who are having problems getting the patch to apply.

From https://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?FN=wow-tech-support&T=938151&P=3

tbacav · n00b Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 22

My take on it all is this:
* Transition from the introductory movie to the login screen crashes WINE with a BadMatch error - solved by placing
SET movie "0"
in your Config.wtf.

* The minimap will crash WINE (again, a badmatch error) the moment you transition from an outdoor area to an indoor area. This is solved by the mod linked in the above posts or by logging in on a Mac/Windows machine, moving to an outdoor area, logging in on your linux box, and disabling the minimap by clicking the X above it. I assume that is saved per character, so its just easier to use the mod and lose your minimap. This kind of sucks if you are a raider and need to know positioning on the fly for various TAQ/Nax fights, but such is the price one pays for using incompatible software.

Configuration:
AMD Athlon64 3500+
1GB RAM
nVidia Geforce 6600GT (PCI-E) 128MB Onboard RAM

Distro: Gentoo Linux
Profile: default-linux/x86/2006.0
Kernel: 2.6.16-gentoo-r8
GCC: 4.1.1/vanilla
glibc: 2.4-r3

nVIDIA kernel + glx: 1.0.8762 from Gentoo Portage
WINE: 0.9.15 from source + the 0.9.13_new patch from the WINE Appdb

blk_jack · Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:36 am Post subject:

Here's my take on all of this!

When I start the game, even though I have SET movie "0" in my Config.wtf, the game still crashes with BadMatch error.

I run wine 0.9.16 (brand new) with the 0.9.13-1 patch from WINEHQ.

Configuration information for fun:

AMD Athlon 64 3000+
1.28gb ram
nVidia Geforce 6600GT (PCI-E) 128MB Onboard RAM
Distro: Gentoo Linux
Profile: default-linux/x86/2006.0
Kernel: 2.6.16-gentoo
GCC: 3.4.6-r1
glibc: 2.3.6-r4

Running Xorg 7.1 and nvidia 1.0.8762 (with RenderAccel false).

The one thing that might be making a huge difference between tbacav and I is that even though I have a 64bit processor, my entire system is 32bit. That and I'm running a lower kernel, and lower versions of GCC+Glibc.

Go figure :roll:

tbacav · n00b Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 22

xanas3712 · Guru Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 455

blk_jack · Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 12:04 pm Post subject:

Weird.. I was just updating/reemerging some packages (mesa, xgl, pango, glitz, etc) as well as some of the xorg-x11 7.1 X modules and suddenly WoW started working. I grabbed that minimap hider add-on, popped it in, and the game worked great.

So far I've only seen the inside of IF, but my framerate is already twice what it was before.

Weird!