World Of Warcraft Howto/Support UPDATED 11/10/05! (old)

[Mobeater]

I air-headed that one.

winecfg
.......drives
.................auto-detect

OMGoose, it worked

LOL, sorry bout that one

WoW installing now!

Thanks All!
-Mob_Eater

[legine]

Shienarier
If you use .wine-cvs then it may be so.

[DaveHope]

I've applied the 1.8.0 patch but am getting the following error when trying to run in wine:

ERROR #132 (0x85100084)
Program: C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe

DBFilesClient\VideoHardware.dbc has wrong number of columns (found 19, expected 22)

Any ideas ?

[Shadows]

I air-headed that one. :oops:

winecfg
.......drives
.................auto-detect

OMGoose, it worked

LOL, sorry bout that one

WoW installing now!

Thanks All!
-Mob_Eater

Hehe, yeah, I suggested that a few posts backwards on page 9 ;)

@Shienarier
This sounds more like a problem with old and new config files to me. You don't have a config file anymore in the newer wine versions, including cvs. If in doubt, just move your .wine directory to something like .wine.bak or whateva and start winecfg. That'll detect that no fake_windows is installed and will make a fresh one in .wine/drive_c.

Just configure a CD-ROM drive in winecfg and configure the sound (hint: choosing OSS will prevent lots of problems, including sound cracks, lags and even aborts!) and retry your installation.

Edit:

I've applied the 1.8.0 patch but am getting the following error when trying to run in wine:

ERROR #132 (0x85100084)
Program: C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe

DBFilesClient\VideoHardware.dbc has wrong number of columns (found 19, expected 22)

Any ideas ?

Hmm... do you start it with -opengl switch?

How many updates have been applied by the installer? I remember my WoW restarting like 3 or 4 times and getting additional, smaller updates after the 1.8 one.

Only thing I can image right now, since you've installed a 1.4 Patch manually and the error occured after that, that this 1.4 patch screwed something up. Maybe you should copy the install from the vmware again and just start the unpatched WoW, since it'll download automatically the 1.8 Patch series.

[DaveHope]

Edit:

I've applied the 1.8.0 patch but am getting the following error when trying to run in wine:

ERROR #132 (0x85100084)
Program: C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe

DBFilesClient\VideoHardware.dbc has wrong number of columns (found 19, expected 22)

Any ideas ?

Hmm... do you start it with -opengl switch?

How many updates have been applied by the installer? I remember my WoW restarting like 3 or 4 times and getting additional, smaller updates after the 1.8 one.

Only thing I can image right now, since you've installed a 1.4 Patch manually and the error occured after that, that this 1.4 patch screwed something up. Maybe you should copy the install from the vmware again and just start the unpatched WoW, since it'll download automatically the 1.8 Patch series.

It occurs with or without -opengl

No idea. I downloaded an offline update for both 1.4.09 and 1.8.0. I'm now running through the Blizzard Repair util to see if anythin's up. Interestingly, it still runs in a windows environment.

[Shadows]

Edit:

I've applied the 1.8.0 patch but am getting the following error when trying to run in wine:

ERROR #132 (0x85100084)
Program: C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe

DBFilesClient\VideoHardware.dbc has wrong number of columns (found 19, expected 22)

Any ideas ?

Hmm... do you start it with -opengl switch?

How many updates have been applied by the installer? I remember my WoW restarting like 3 or 4 times and getting additional, smaller updates after the 1.8 one.

Only thing I can image right now, since you've installed a 1.4 Patch manually and the error occured after that, that this 1.4 patch screwed something up. Maybe you should copy the install from the vmware again and just start the unpatched WoW, since it'll download automatically the 1.8 Patch series.

It occurs with or without -opengl :|

No idea. I downloaded an offline update for both 1.4.09 and 1.8.0. I'm now running through the Blizzard Repair util to see if anythin's up. Interestingly, it still runs in a windows environment.

Well, as I said before, if it won't work after the repair, retry it with an upatched WoW und just starting the game, without manually installing any patches. Will take some time, since the initial 1.8 patch is really big, and it'll restart and download some other ones, but it went through that procedure almost automatically and everything was right after that.

Edit:
Or you could just make a backup of the unpatched WoW and try to start WoW and log-in under the vmware, so maybe there it'll download any missing patches and after the first successfull log-in to the game world copy that patched version over to your wine directory and restart then.

Or are you already at a point where you can log-in and play under the vmware?

Another Question@all:
Does the 0.9.1 version of wine still require the two patches for the circle and the mouse-over bug?

[prg]

Another Question@all:
Does the 0.9.1 version of wine still require the two patches for the circle and the mouse-over bug?

the circle thing is a bug in wow, so blizz has to fix it, not the wine guys

[legine]

Shadows

and for mouse over bug it is the question if it is realy a wine or a overestimated bug in Windows. At least in Windows the bug seems to be unknown. So the question remains what or who is wrong here.

We will say when the mouse over bug gets fixed. At least I wil try to!

DaveHope
Does not look like OpenGL problem. It is a failure of Blizzard. I found similar threads with google on forum but not on a direct search on the WoW forums itself (very odd).
But what I have seen from the bits I could see it may be that your installation maybe your copy from VMware went wrong at somepoint.

I fear best solution would be a reinstall. And I have an Idea how to do it.
if you can mount the ISOs you made copy them over to hd. All in one directory of course and then tr to install it again. This is of course a blind shot and wild guessing. But at least something to try. (if you have the space you could choos an other path as target and see what it brings out.)


Cheers
Legine

[DaveHope]

I fear best solution would be a reinstall. And I have an Idea how to do it.
if you can mount the ISOs you made copy them over to hd. All in one directory of course and then tr to install it again. This is of course a blind shot and wild guessing. But at least something to try. (if you have the space you could choos an other path as target and see what it brings out.)

Tried, gives an error. that I mentioned on page 9

[Shienarier]

@Shienarier
This sounds more like a problem with old and new config files to me. You don't have a config file anymore in the newer wine versions, including cvs. If in doubt, just move your .wine directory to something like .wine.bak or whateva and start winecfg. That'll detect that no fake_windows is installed and will make a fresh one in .wine/drive_c.

I only have a .wine directory since i have used regular wine, wine-cvs seems to use .wine-cvs, but that should be fine?
When i delete .wine-cvs and runs

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wine-cvs winecfg

i get this:

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!! ~/.wine-cvs/config missing
!! Setting up a config file
!! Setting up ~/.wine-cvs/fake_windows/
!! Setting up default registry.
!! Installation complete.
!! Set your drives in ~/.wine-cvs/config

And then it exits. The next time i type that exact command winecfg does start, but no changes are saved.

[Linte]

Thx for the help Prg

Game works fine now, no mouse probs, minor slow down, runs around 20-30fps. No other problems. just as ref. for other newbies, the untar options were slightly off for me, i had to use :

tar -xvjf wine-0.9.1.tar.bz2 // with the extra v, the xfj returned errors for me, dunno why

everything else worked great.

Thanks

[Shadows]

@Shienarier
This sounds more like a problem with old and new config files to me. You don't have a config file anymore in the newer wine versions, including cvs. If in doubt, just move your .wine directory to something like .wine.bak or whateva and start winecfg. That'll detect that no fake_windows is installed and will make a fresh one in .wine/drive_c.

I only have a .wine directory since i have used regular wine, wine-cvs seems to use .wine-cvs, but that should be fine?
When i delete .wine-cvs and runs

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wine-cvs winecfg

i get this:

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!! ~/.wine-cvs/config missing
!! Setting up a config file
!! Setting up ~/.wine-cvs/fake_windows/
!! Setting up default registry.
!! Installation complete.
!! Set your drives in ~/.wine-cvs/config

And then it exits. The next time i type that exact command winecfg does start, but no changes are saved.

I dunno, but that cvs version of wine you're using seems to be a bit outdated to me. I'm quite sure that they dropped the config file and moved the whole wine config into the registry since wine-0.9.0, therefore I assume that you're using an outdated cvs snapshot.

Why do you want to use a cvs version at all? Doesn't the regular 0.9.1 version of wine work for you?

@Linte:
Congratz!
Interesting to see, that a total newbie managed it to unpack a source, patch it by hand, compile, install and run the application under Linux with it finally working how it's expected to. Very nice :)

Edit:
Ah, and yes:
What's your Hardware spec by the way?

I'm playing WoW on my PC #2, and as long as I'm not in a big City with many players like Orgrimmar, my FPS climbs up to 30 and it's still quite smooth even with 15-20 FPS (except the problems I mentioned on page 9)

How's your FPS under Windows?

[Linte]

@shadows, thx,

i assume u mean me about the specs, so here you go: Pentium 4 2.66, 768 RAM, Nividia 6800 GT 256 RAM, duel boot WinXP/SuSE 9.3.

After the patch the sound is a little choppy, and it does go slow in Ironforge, but it does in Windows also, its my connection speed aswell I think. Does WoW keep the settings in windows in the registery do u know, and can i import these into wine? the game loads with the graphics setting on minimum. Anything else u want to know, just ask
Thanks

[Shadows]

@shadows, thx,

i assume u mean me about the specs, so here you go: Pentium 4 2.66, 768 RAM, Nividia 6800 GT 256 RAM, duel boot WinXP/SuSE 9.3.

After the patch the sound is a little choppy, and it does go slow in Ironforge, but it does in Windows also, its my connection speed aswell I think. Does WoW keep the settings in windows in the registery do u know, and can i import these into wine? the game loads with the graphics setting on minimum. Anything else u want to know, just ask :)
Thanks

Yes, I wanted to know about your HW specs :)

For the settings, I think, WoW does not store any settings into Registry, since it's available for Macintosh and Windows as well and Macintosh has no such Registry.

Therefore, the settings stored in the WTF directory which resides in the WoW directory should be the only ones that WoW stores. So, to get the same settings on your Linux-WoW as you have on your Windows-WoW, you could copy the WTF and the Interface/AddOns directorys over to your Linux-WoW and it should work out of the box.

Just in case something goes wrong, backup those two directories for the Linux-WoW.

And for your sound problems:
Make sure, that you've chosen "OSS" as the sound driver, since ALSA is too buggy at the moment and other solutions like aRts or Jack are software solutions and therefore they steal you CPU cycles.

Additionally to that, you could append the following lines to WoW-directory/WTF/Configs.wtf:

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SET SoundOutputSystem "1"
SET SoundBufferSize "150"

The value for the Buffer could be something between 100 and 180, just try out what value works best for you. With 150 on my system, I experience only sound problems while loading or under heavy load, else it's just fine.

Edit:
Hmm, I'm surprised that you have just between 20 and 30 FPS with your current Hardware configuration, especially if it runs with minimum graphics settings. It just seems to low to me, but I can only compare with my system, and mine is really a slow one, especially my graphics board, but still I manage to have around 20 FPS and even 30 if I'm outside of towns or dungeons. Well, in Orgrimmar it drops to 10 FPS ;)

Are you using the -opengl switch?

@all:
What FPS do y'all have approx. in WoW and what are your specs?

[Mobeater]

So I have tried understanding this patch thing, and to no avail.

I am emerg getting wine20050930 and have it

I can run the game and such, no mouse clicky in environment

so I look at the patch posts (all 10 pages of this thread and the wiki) and I must just be simple minded, I have no idea where I am to put the patch (I have it downloaded in my /home/name directory) above and beyond that, I have no idea how to get the thing to work, I tried the patch -p0 deal, and it asks me for what files I want to patch, to which I have no answer... same for the second file.

Sorry for the simple questions on this guys, I just can NOT figure it out

btw...game play is nice, sound is nice, FPS flying into and running around IF is around 22-45 (using ctrl+r ingame monitor)

AMD Athlon-XP 2100, 1gig pc3200 ram, nVidia GeForce FX 5500


Thanks in advance,
-Mob_Eater

[Mobeater]

The memory fix for cedega fixes my mouse, which I can live with, but I would much rather use wine, if anyone can guide me from my post above.

Thanks,
-Mob_Eater

[prg]

Quick and dirty:

Created /usr/local/portage/app-emulation/wine

copied the contens of
/usr/portage/app-emulation/wine (recursive)
into it

copied wine-wow_fixes.patch into
/usr/portage/app-emulation/wine/files


cp /usr/portage/app-emulation/wine/wine-20050930.ebuild /usr/local/portage/app-emulation/wine/wine-20050930-r1.ebuild

added:
epatch "${FILESDIR}"/wine-wow_fixes.patch #wowmousepatch
in:
/usr/local/portage/app-emulation/wine/wine-20050930-r1.ebuild

mkdir /usr/local/portage/app-emulation/wine/wine-20050930-r1

added
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
to /etc/make.conf

cd /usr/local/portage/app-emulation/wine

ebuild wine-20050930-r1.ebuild digest


emerge wine

enjoy WoW

my only issue is a liitle choppy sound , but mouse is working

thank you all for helping us to get wow run

replace 20050930 with 0.9.1, would be my guess...

[Linte]

@shadow,

Found out about the settings, turns out that my monitor in linux doesn't support 1600x1200, which is what Wow in windows plays as, and because of the NTFS partition where the game is (havn't installed it in Linux), the file config.WTS was read only, so the game couldn't save the changes everytime i reset. I have changed the sound to OSS with winecfg, so i'll have a look at the WTB/config.wts later today. (i get the feeling the winecfg doesn't even effect the wine prog when run from the shell, can i tell what driver is running from within the game to see if it has changed?)

btw, 20-35 is just the average, does go upto 50, and down to 10 (in IronForge), although i have the lastest nVidia drivers, but i'm missing manufactures software for my card (Gainward = expertool) so i get the feeling most functions of the card don't work yet in linux.

thanks for the further help, p.s. i do use the -opengl swtich


--edited--

If I simply 'drag'n'drop' the WoW folder from the windows NTFS partition to my linux home folder, do you think it would still work, and how do you patch the game in linux (I had to use windows - i know i'm weak). Looks like the BNUpdate.exe file, but that crashes, and the games says "update to access updates - try re-installing World of Warcraft".

Thanks again

[Mobeater]

I added my addons to the Interface AddOn folder...but when I log in there is no addon button, am I missing something here?

Thanks,
-Mob_Eater

p.s.
Followed the patch thing posted above, I was having errors all this time because I copied the wiki verbatim, thus I put all my files into a non existant /portage/blablabla/ directory

anywho, game works great now, sound is perfect, can click/target anything I want.

Now for the addons

[prg]

If I simply 'drag'n'drop' the WoW folder from the windows NTFS partition to my linux home folder, do you think it would still work, and how do you patch the game in linux (I had to use windows - i know i'm weak). Looks like the BNUpdate.exe file, but that crashes, and the games says "update to access updates - try re-installing World of Warcraft".

Thanks again

yes you can just copy it and it will continue to work
the updates should work the same way they do in windows, just start the game, then the patch will be downloaded and applied. or run the downloaded WoW-old-to-new-patch.exe. if it asks about some activex control just click yes, no need to install that stuff manually.

[Loki|muh]

for me, 0.9.1 works except the targeting
any news at this point?

[prg]

for me, 0.9.1 works except the targeting :(
any news at this point?

how much of this thread did you read?

[Loki|muh]

for me, 0.9.1 works except the targeting
any news at this point?

how much of this thread did you read?

the patches do not work for me. I tried them.

[prg]

for me, 0.9.1 works except the targeting :(
any news at this point?

how much of this thread did you read?

the patches do not work for me. I tried them.

sure they got applied correctly? seems to work for about anyone else.
try to describe your problem a bit more. how did you patch it? did you create a portage overlay with the patches? does the target circle hack work?

[lameaim]

...

It was never needed for installation, just for patching. And they only became necessary a few months back.

Patching works fine here with just mfc42.dll.