World Of Warcraft Howto UPDATED 3/16/05! (old)

[ikshaar]

I finally got WoW running on my AMD64 machine (using P2P/Cedega)

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* Used Point2Play-1.3.2 (using x86 keyword)
     +need to upgrade pygtk to 2.4.1
* Install cedega 4.2 from within P2P
* Installation of games:
      + you cannot install on FAT32
      + You need to have 4G free space on the Temp drive as well as on destination drive !!!
* After install, game do not start as games.ini has command line in DOS format when it needs it in Linux format.

I can run only in D3D so far, but it is playable if I set up settings on low.

(Still recommend Wine as Cedega support is a myth !!!)

[jedi_master_ss]

i can load Wow and play it fiine in windowed mode however i want to play it in full screen, when ever i try to load it in fullscreen the keystrokes aren't sent to the game, example when the login screen shows up i go to type in my username however it is sent to the console that opened it instead of to the username box. same w/ the esc key so inorder to exit the game i need to press ctrl-c

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[x11drv]
; Number of colors to allocate from the system palette
"AllocSystemColors" = "100"
; Number of colors to copy from the default palette
"CopyDefaultColors" = "0"
; Use a private color map
"PrivateColorMap" = "N"
; Favor correctness over speed in some graphics operations
"PerfectGraphics" = "N"
; Color depth to use on multi-depth screens
"ScreenDepth" = "24"
; Name of X11 display to use
;;"Display" = ":0.0"
; Allow the window manager to manage created windows
"Managed" = "Y"
; Use a desktop window of the given size
"Desktop" = "1024x768"
; Use XFree86 DGA extension if present
; (make sure /dev/mem is accessible by you !)
"UseDGA" = "Y"
; Use XShm extension if present
"UseXShm" = "Y"
; Enable DirectX mouse grab
"DXGrab" = "Y"
; Use XVidMode extension if present
"UseXVidMode" = "Y"
; Use XRandR extension if present
"UseXRandR" = "N"
; Create the desktop window with a double-buffered visual
; (useful to play OpenGL games)
"DesktopDoubleBuffered" = "Y"
; Code page used for captions in managed mode
; 0 means default ANSI code page (CP_ACP == 0)
"TextCP" = "0"
; Use this if you have more than one port for video on your setup 
; (Wine uses for now the first 'input image' it finds).
;; "XVideoPort" = "43"
; Use this to make your X server execute all commands
; sequentially rather than buffering commands. Will make
; everything really SLOW but can be nice for debugging.
;; "Synchronous" = "Y"
; Enable the FPS count on the TransGaming HUD (also activates the HUD)
;; "ShowFPS" = "Y"
; Enable memory statistics on the TransGaming HUD (must have ShowFPS activated)
;; "ShowMem" = "Y"
; How much Video RAM does your card have?
"VideoRam" = "32"
; How much AGP memory should be used for vertex data (about 1/2 your AGP aperature size)
"AGPVertexRam" = "32"
; Use NV_VAR (enabled by default)
;;"NV_VAR" = "Y"
; Use ARB_VBO (enabled by default, NV_VAR takes precendence)
;;"ARB_VBO" = "Y"

this is the config file when in windowed mode which works fine what do i need to edit to make it work in fullscreen or do i need to edit something else like my xorg.conf file

[pharaoh]

Jedi, you're doing it to yourself with the window. Comment this line out

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; Use a desktop window of the given size
"Desktop" = "1024x768"

You're telling it to run in a window of that size. Also, does your video card really have 32 megs of ram?

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; How much Video RAM does your card have?
"VideoRam" = "32"

See if this fixes where your keystrokes are going to as well.

[jedi_master_ss]

i said that was the configuration that worked in windowed mode

when i change

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; Allow the window manager to manage created windows
"Managed" = "Y"
; Use a desktop window of the given size
"Desktop" = "1024x768" 

to

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; Allow the window manager to manage created windows
"Managed" = "N"
; Use a desktop window of the given size
;;"Desktop" = "1024x768" 

that is when the fullscreen shows correctly however it doesn't recognize the keystrokes


unless i'm misreading dell's specs i have

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CARD (CIRCUIT), GRAPHICS, NVIDIA, 32M, NV34, 5150

which means i do have 32M of video ram

[jedi_master_ss]

i just realized why it wasn't recognizing the keystrokes, the windows manager is what controled where the keystrokes were going so after only

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; Allow the window manager to manage created windows
"Managed" = "Y"
; Use a desktop window of the given size
;;"Desktop" = "1024x768"

it worked fine
thanks for indirectly showing me where my problem was

[KoffKoff]

Is anybody more than me having problem installing the new europeen version? (don't know if it's the same version in the us).
Anyway when i try to run the Installer.exe i get:

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cedega World\ of\ Warcraft\ Open\ Beta\ Installer/Installer.exe 
/usr/lib/transgaming_cedega//winex/bin/wine: can't exec '"/home/Data/Various/World of Warcraft Open Beta Installer/Installer.exe"': invalid exe file

Anyone els that have experienced this or solved it?

[jedi_master_ss]

first of all why are u trying to use open beta when the full release (US) has been out since Nov 23

[sir_tez]

first of all why are u trying to use open beta when the full release (US) has been out since Nov 23

Because he's in Europe, maybe?

[neuron]

first of all why are u trying to use open beta when the full release (US) has been out since Nov 23

Because he's in Europe, maybe?

there is no open beta anymore, europe never had one, and the europe version is actually 1.2 atm I believe, they are using newer code than the US version is (using em for testing atm).

he's not gonna get anywhere with that version.

[KoffKoff]

first of all why are u trying to use open beta when the full release (US) has been out since Nov 23

Because he's in Europe, maybe?

there is no open beta anymore, europe never had one, and the europe version is actually 1.2 atm I believe, they are using newer code than the US version is (using em for testing atm).

he's not gonna get anywhere with that version.

Okay but where can you get the europeen version then and does that one have the same error?

If i can get this one installed I think I can patch it to the latest version

There is one beta stage left and that is the final beta stage and that one I'm in.

[neuron]

first of all why are u trying to use open beta when the full release (US) has been out since Nov 23

Because he's in Europe, maybe?

there is no open beta anymore, europe never had one, and the europe version is actually 1.2 atm I believe, they are using newer code than the US version is (using em for testing atm).

he's not gonna get anywhere with that version.

Okay but where can you get the europeen version then and does that one have the same error?

If i can get this one installed I think I can patch it to the latest version

There is one beta stage left and that is the final beta stage and that one I'm in.

http://wowtorrents.de.vu/
I'm in the final beta aswell , not open yet though. Grab the EN version from that site, 1.1.2 and the patch, I have it installed on a windows box and linking the data/* files over to save some space. But it should work to install aswell.

www.transgaming.org's forum and games database (and wiki link) has some more info.

[KoffKoff]

http://wowtorrents.de.vu/
I'm in the final beta aswell , not open yet though. Grab the EN version from that site, 1.1.2 and the patch, I have it installed on a windows box and linking the data/* files over to save some space. But it should work to install aswell.

www.transgaming.org's forum and games database (and wiki link) has some more info.

Thanks for the links =)

[KoffKoff]

okej I've now downloaded the file you pointed me to and when i try to run it i get

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$ cedega -use-pthreads no World\ of\ Warcraft\ 1.1.2\ Installer-enGB/Installer.exe        
/usr/lib/transgaming_cedega//winex/bin/wine: can't exec '"World of Warcraft 1.1.2 Installer-enGB/Installer.exe"': error=21

I get the same error message without -use-pthreads and if i try to run the patch,
is this a known bug, is there a workaround (I don't have acces to any win comp at the moment).

PS. why does cedega imply that i should use "-use-pthreads no" if i encounter problems all the time and what escactly does it do?

Thanks for all the help I've gotten so far
/KoffKoff

[neuron]

don't know, sorry, I copied from a windows install.

[jedi_master_ss]

i had actually used the US install disks in cedega and it worked fine the first time (to install it) and to those that were saying that europe has a newer version than the states, you are mistaken the US servers are using 1.2.1 now

[KoffKoff]

Didn't really do a search before posting the problem

Anyway you need to have exec mount option to be able to run exe files, so I'm currently installing it now.

[EDIT] Installation and patching went fine, but when i tried ti start it i got the same d3d error wich i had with previous cedega 4.1.0 (I know run 4.2) and i couldnt run it in opengl mode since WoW then complained about it couldnt get d3d working any tips fixes or workarounds, i dont mind if im running ogl or d3d only as long as it is working.
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[neenee]

hm.. i'm glad such a thread exists - i hope to read that it works without
problems before i get my copy - around the 14th - europe release.

i'm still on windows at the moment.. WoW will decide what i do probably

good luck everyone.

[Moos3man]

Native linux World of Warcraft client

Its out there. or at least is was

http://www.learninglinux.com/postp734.html#734

And be sure to sign the petition.

For those who want *proof* i can suply screenshots from the beta client

http://www.corps.nl/~berger/Screenshot.png

i know the image is old (i took it this summer)
and yes its running on amd64 with 32 bit emulation[/b]

[neenee]

i'd prefer to see shots of the final/latest version

[Moos3man]

The reason i float this is to prove they had linux binaries.

After 0.9.1 they did not include linux binaries in the semi public beta's
for that reason i dont have any proof / screens of those versions
I have the binaries of 0.9.1 to prove my story

[kezzla]

Using pharaoh's config I run wow fine .. I'm on amd64 3200 /1GB (64-bit mode) with cedega 4.2-r1. I copied my windowsxp wow install as he did to transgaming directory and just ran cedega wow.exe..started right up ! I have a 6800GT and D3D doesn't run as good as when I try opengl. It's just not as "smooth" as it is in windows. Is this to be expected using cedega ? I'm trying really hard to use linux exclusively..and wow is my only stipulation at the moment I'd like to have AA and AF all turned up like I do in windows..Considering my hardware I *should* be able to do this ??

[nazgum]

ugh just hearing the fact there might have been a linux client and it never got brought through depressed the hell out of me tonite..

how did you get a hold of the binaries? were they part of the closed beta and no one noticed them?

[kezzla]

AMEN to this:

ugh just hearing the fact there might have been a linux client and it never got brought through depressed the hell out of me tonite..

Would sure kick arse to have native linux support

[ikshaar]

Little disgression...

I have 2 installs of WoW one Windows, one Linux (cedega). I also use cosmos but every time I changed something in one interface, it's not in the other one. Is there a config file that I should copy from one to the other to have the interface configuration identical...

I copied the interface folder, that's not it.

[antonlacon]

*\World of Warcraft\WTF\ should contain all of your configuations.