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

[chuanshi]

I'm having the exact same problem, but I don't want to reinstall WoW

tell me how it goes (=

[Koradji]

Not good.
Reinstalling doesn't work.

Repair.exe. doesn't say anything wrong with the files.

Someone on the WoW forum was concerned that despite being able to get into the game, they got the "submitting" message and others in their guild didn't.
Do people for whom it works get the "Submitting non-personal system specifications" message flash by, just after logging in, before entering the game?
This message is completely new to me, i didn't see it in my successful logins since the tuesday patch, it's only turning up now.

[Are`awn]

After login a message flashes very briefly about "submitting non-personal information" then "downloading" and the screen starts flickering lots. if i run in a window, the window simply goes black instead. X doesn't crash.

Reporting same problem here. Attempting to fix by upgrading my nvidia drivers, and wine to 0.9.7. This all occured after applying the patch.

[Are`awn]

Seems like non linux users are having issues with this 'submitting non-personal' info issues, to...

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/threa ... post720798

This other thread seems to have more info:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/threa ... post720377

[Koradji]

I'm using wine 0.9.7, and nvidia 1.0.8178

It worked for me after the tuesday patch, like from 24 hours ago to 12 hours ago. But doesn't work from (about) 4 hours ago.

I'm really wondering whether to keep my account.
Even if i do get in, won't it just be the regular dying to 5 second lag spikes, trans-pacific latency, being killed while stuck looting, and an hour or so a day just waiting for the mailbox and trade skills to work.

Reinstalling wine and wow is more fun than waiting for mail to respond.

[Koradji]

Seems like non linux users are having issues with this 'submitting non-personal' info issues, to...

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/threa ... post720798

This other thread seems to have more info:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/threa ... post720377

lol, don't bet too hard on them being windows users. Auslag, for example, is my AH alt on a server i don't play any more.
I really want them to tell me how to cancel this submitting thing.
Of course, i can't say the others with issues use windows or not.

Hypothesis: this is an oceania server issue, the clock is wrong so it's not starting the game.
difficult to test.

Hypothesis: a successful "submitting personal details" from a windows machine will make the problem go away, as it will never ask again.
Calling my brother to test.

[dennisharrison]

Ok I had to register just to post here, because I was reading this trying to get wow working on wine. I thought I was messing something up or missing that one line in a config file ;p

I am having the exact same problem.
Under opengl I get a memory error that 0x00000000 was write protected or whatever the first block of memory is.
Under direct3d I get nothing. After it says downloading and the screen goes black I can sit there for an hour and its no use.

I think the game won't let us in because it can't grab system information from us.
Because on the blizzard forum everyone is saying its scanning their computer for information. While they are prepared to take sys info from windows and macos they aren't prepared for linux, and wine says unrecognizeable query when this happens.

So .... we may be screwed until someone writes a program or a patch for wine to send some faked systeminfo (or am I totally wrong?) what the hell man ... this is the last reason I have windows on my computer. Everything else I use kubuntu for.
Is there anyone here who has WoW working currently?

dennis

[Koradji]

Neuron back on page 8 said they have Wow working at the moment.

I also noticed that the same call to my brother will check whether it's the oceania server clock. I wish he was awake.

Another Hypothesis: My mozilla+activeX isn't working properly.
testing that while i wait for my brother to wake up.

[dennisharrison]

I am going to log in from windows box and then go to another windows box and log in with the same account to see if it still pops up. Will let you know if thats how to bypass in 20 minutes or so.

[Koradji]

Mozilla re-installed as per b1f30's instructions, so i'll rule out activex for now.

[cynyr]

still tries to "submit personal info" here.. looks like we are going to need a patch or something to do it

[Koradji]

Logging in from my brothers machine in the hope that stopped the "Submitting" thing,
the log in from his windows box worked. logging in again from mine afterwards still fails the same way. :(

Anyone else have ideas?

[dennisharrison]

well ... I guess I can start reading on how to capture all information sent from wow.exe and see what commands it sends to a windows machine and what it expects back .. and then find someone who is knowledgeable enough with scripts and capturing packets in linux and find some way to send some expected information back from a dummy file somewhere. I think I have the gist of it?

So anyone know of any easy to use debugging programs for linux and windows? ;p
perferably ones that will save a log that is somewhat formated.

Does anyone here have cedega? and is it not working with it either?

Cause ill pay the 5 a month ... noooo problem, IF it works.

dennis

[tindalos]

When I had
SET ffxGlow "0"
in my Config.WTF I also got the same black screen on logon, I changed that to
SET ffxGlow "1"
and everything started working great

[dennisharrison]

So does WoW run for you right now?

[tindalos]

So does WoW run for you right now?

Yes, I'm playing it at this very moment

[cynyr]

Yes, I'm playing it at this very moment

what version of wine are you using? i set that in Config.wtf and it make a difference. are you using openGL or DX?

[Koradji]

When I had
SET ffxGlow "0"
in my Config.WTF I also got the same black screen on logon, I changed that to
SET ffxGlow "1"
and everything started working great

Unfortunately, that does not fix anything for me.

[dennisharrison]

Yes can you please post your system information?
like what videocard
sound system
linux distro
wine version
patches applied to wow
wine setting
how did you install wow?

and so on and so forth ... please? ;p

[cynyr]

a 6600GT
alsa
gentoo
0.9.7
wow-fix-patch
????
wine installer.exe form a loopback mounted dvd iso

[Koradji]

ok, the ffxGlow thng did work for me, i was wrong, but...

It didn't work with the default fresh install Config.wtf, i had to copy a Config.wtf from an old install, and make the above change.

So, somehow blizzard broke the config files. And it's not a fix for people who have fresh installs, fresh installs will still be broken.

Here's my Config.wtf for people having this trouble with fresh installs:

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SET gxRefresh "60"
SET hwDetect "0"
SET movie "0"
SET readTOS "1"
SET gxMultisampleQuality "0.000000"
SET readEULA "1"
SET gxColorBits "24"
SET gxDepthBits "24"
SET gxResolution "1280x1024"
SET SmallCull "0.010000"
SET frillDensity "48"
SET farclip "777"
SET Gamma "0.600000"
SET realmName "Khaz'goroth"
SET MusicVolume "0.40000000596046"
SET SoundVolume "0.90000003576279"
SET MasterVolume "0.80000001192093"
SET AmbienceVolume "0.10000000149012"
SET uiScale "1"
SET minimapZoom "2"
SET mouseSpeed "1"
SET cameraPitchMoveSpeed "90"
SET cameraYawMoveSpeed "180"
SET cameraPitchSmoothSpeed "45"
SET cameraYawSmoothSpeed "180"
SET cameraDistanceMaxFactor "1"
SET minimapInsideZoom "1"
SET gxVSync "0"
SET trilinear "1"
SET gameTip "39"
SET M2UsePixelShaders "1"
SET EnableMusic "0"
SET ffxDeath "0"
SET UnitNameNPC "1"
SET shadowLevel "0"
SET alphaLevel "0"
SET specular "1"
SET pixelShaders "1"
SET accountName "Auslag"
SET guildMemberNotify "1"
SET assistAttack "1"
SET cameraSmoothTrackingStyle "2"
SET AutoInteract "1"
SET lastCharacterIndex "1"

Hopefully people find a better way around

[dennisharrison]

how do you apply a .patch file?
specifically the wow patch ;p
its for the minimap right?

Thanks for the config file man, I will try it as soon as I get home!

EDIT: Spelling

[tindalos]

Yes can you please post your system information?
like what videocard
sound system
linux distro
wine version
patches applied to wow
wine setting
how did you install wow?

and so on and so forth ... please? ;p

$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/cards/*
Model: GeForce 6600 GT
IRQ: 58
Video BIOS: 05.43.02.23.04
Card Type: PCI-E
Model: GeForce 6600 GT
IRQ: 66
Video BIOS: 05.43.02.23.04
Card Type: PCI-E

$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA Linux x86_64 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-8178 Wed Dec 14 16:58:07 PST 2005
GCC version: gcc version 3.4.4 (Gentoo 3.4.4-r1, ssp-3.4.4-1.0, pie-8.7.

$ uname -srvmpio
Linux 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 #4 Mon Dec 26 16:59:47 EST 2005 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

$ ./wine
Wine 0.9.7

No special settings for Wine, and WOW was originally installed on a WinXP box, I simply copied the install dir over to my linux system

Current patches I am running against Wine

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diff --git a/libs/wine/mmap.c b/libs/wine/mmap.c
index 3d25f26..5b13038 100644
--- a/libs/wine/mmap.c
+++ b/libs/wine/mmap.c
@@ -164,6 +164,26 @@ static int try_mmap_fixed (void *addr, s
 
 #endif  /* (__svr4__ || __NetBSD__) && !MAP_TRYFIXED */
 
+static void *get_anon_mmap_null_address(size_t size)
+{
+    static int got_override = 0;
+    static void *low_alloc_ptr = NULL;
+    void * current_low_alloc_ptr;
+
+    if (!got_override)
+    {
+            low_alloc_ptr = (void*)0x10000000;
+            got_override = 1;
+            //printf("gaak!\n");
+    }
+
+    current_low_alloc_ptr = low_alloc_ptr;
+
+    if (low_alloc_ptr)
+        low_alloc_ptr += size;
+
+    return current_low_alloc_ptr;
+    }
 
 /***********************************************************************
  *		wine_anon_mmap
@@ -212,6 +232,9 @@ void *wine_anon_mmap( void *start, size_
             return start;
 #endif
     }
+    if ((start == NULL) && !(flags & MAP_FIXED))
+       start = get_anon_mmap_null_address(size);
+
     return mmap( start, size, prot, flags, fdzero, 0 );
 #else
     return (void *)-1;
diff --git a/loader/preloader.c b/loader/preloader.c
index 1ca6d83..4016907 100644
--- a/loader/preloader.c
+++ b/loader/preloader.c
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ static struct wine_preload_info preload_
 {
     { (void *)0x00000000, 0x00110000 },  /* DOS area */
     { (void *)0x7ffe0000, 0x01020000 },  /* shared user data + shared heap */
-    { (void *)0x00110000, 0x1fef0000 },  /* PE exe range (may be set with WINEPRELOADRESERVE), defaults to 512mb */
+    { (void *)0x10000000, 0x00f00000 },  /* PE exe range (may be set with WINEPRELOADRESERVE), defaults to 512mb */
     { 0, 0 }                             /* end of list */
 };
 
-- 
diff --git a/dlls/opengl32/wgl.c b/dlls/opengl32/wgl.c
index 04eb40f..b2011f0 100644
--- a/dlls/opengl32/wgl.c
+++ b/dlls/opengl32/wgl.c
@@ -149,11 +149,11 @@ inline static Display *get_display( HDC 
 }
 
 
-/* retrieve the GLX drawable to use on a given DC */
+/* retrieve the X drawable to use on a given DC */
 inline static Drawable get_drawable( HDC hdc )
 {
-    GLXDrawable drawable;
-    enum x11drv_escape_codes escape = X11DRV_GET_GLX_DRAWABLE;
+    Drawable drawable;
+    enum x11drv_escape_codes escape = X11DRV_GET_DRAWABLE;
 
     if (!ExtEscape( hdc, X11DRV_ESCAPE, sizeof(escape), (LPCSTR)&escape,
                     sizeof(drawable), (LPSTR)&drawable )) drawable = 0;
@@ -566,8 +566,6 @@ BOOL WINAPI wglMakeCurrent(HDC hdc,
       }
       TRACE(" make current for dis %p, drawable %p, ctx %p\n", ctx->display, (void*) drawable, ctx->ctx);
       ret = glXMakeCurrent(ctx->display, drawable, ctx->ctx);
-      if(ret && type == OBJ_MEMDC)
-          glDrawBuffer(GL_FRONT_LEFT);
   }
   LEAVE_GL();
   TRACE(" returning %s\n", (ret ? "True" : "False"));
-- 

[cynyr]

Here's my Config.wtf for people having this trouble with fresh installs:

copping that ^^^ fixed it for me

[prg]

what is this about mozilla and ActiveX? i don't have that installed and patching works fine. i'm using 0.9.7 and it also worked with 20050930.
also i don't have that msvcp60.dll around, just mfc42.dll
when starting a patch wine says something like "the app needs some activex control, do you want to install it? [yes] [no]"
it doesn't matter if i click yes or no, it works anyway and asks again the next time.

what am i doing wrong?