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dhris · Post by **dhris** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 9:48 pm

Has anybody noticed a massive performance hit with the latest Wine? I'm having a real problem with poor performance since the upgrade. Sometimes it slows down completely and never recovers. Anyone else having this problem or do I need to look at my own configuration?

dhris · Post by **dhris** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 11:07 pm

I located the source of my performance problem. It seems that the upgrade erased my registry tweak, which I had done awhile ago:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_an ... istry_Edit

Not sure why it did that, but that was my problem. I just put it back as per the instructions in the link and it now works fine again. Of course, we can argue about whether this can be properly called a "tweak" since the game was not really playable without it. But anyway, I hope this helps someone.

CCMCornell · Post by **CCMCornell** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:31 pm

I'm trying to log into my account now but I'm running into a problem. After authenticating, I see a "Downloading" dialog and the program freezes. A short while later it crashes. I thought maybe it was trying to download the partial patch for 2.2 so I downloaded it from a mirror listed on wowwiki.com and placed it in my Patches directory but the same thing is still happening. I'm using wine 0.9.39.

Anyone else run into this?

marcaias · Post by **marcaias** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:43 pm

CCMCornell wrote:I'm trying to log into my account now but I'm running into a problem. After authenticating, I see a "Downloading" dialog and the program freezes. A short while later it crashes. I thought maybe it was trying to download the partial patch for 2.2 so I downloaded it from a mirror listed on wowwiki.com and placed it in my Patches directory but the same thing is still happening. I'm using wine 0.9.39.

Anyone else run into this?

Same issue here. Using wine-0.9.42 here. Also downloaded the patch, and ran launcher.exe and let it do its thing, but still no go.

ConVicTioN · Post by **ConVicTioN** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:47 pm

Edit your wtf/Config.wtf file and remove the following line:

SET gxApi "opengl"

Then let it load in d3d then you can put the switch back on.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/threa ... 1&pageNo=1

superk · Post by **superk** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:48 pm

Ya, Same here.... must be something that they did today, since I was able to logon last night. I am going to reboot my other box into that unmetionable OS's name, and see what it does. Maybe that will give some insight as to what its suppose to do.

edit: ok, on that OS, it said downloading and then logged in. I am going to copy the 'data' folder from there and overwrite the one on my linux partition, and see if that works /shrug

marcaias · Post by **marcaias** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:50 pm

ConVicTioN wrote:Edit your wtf/Config.wtf file and remove the following line:

SET gxApi "opengl"

Then let it load in d3d then you can put the switch back on.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/threa ... 1&pageNo=1

Thank you. You are a saint.

ConVicTioN · Post by **ConVicTioN** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 12:00 am

I have updated the wiki with this information

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_an ... ading_echo

superk · Post by **superk** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 12:02 am

heh sweet. thanks!

saved me 2 min of copying for nothing

riz4 · Post by **riz4** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 11:53 am

hello,

I have 2 Problems with WoW on Gentoo atm:

with wine >0.9.39 i cant alt-tab out of WoW without loosing sound - it completely turns of and sometimes the client crashes - happens with oss and alsa. so i use wine-0.9.39 with alsa and opengl (nvidia 100.14.11) with config from gentoowiki. but with this version when i try to change volume in gnome the client crashes too. so i have to adjust my volume on my external amplifier. any idea how to solve this? i didnt try d3d yet, since it was always a bit flaky.

with my setup i cant use PTR client - it simply wont start and freeze my X.

thx, riza

bobber205 · Post by **bobber205** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 9:24 pm

After I mount my ntfs windows partition the game run as its running from my windows partition.

Could that be the problem for:

Bad tearing: Vert Sync IS on. I am getting sometimes higher framerates than in Windows, but the tearing is annoying.
No sound. I have tried both OSS and ALSA with Config.wtf
My mouse feels jittery.

I am using nvidia's drivers btw.

Devrethman · Post by **Devrethman** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 10:39 pm

I just installed WoW again (I used to play it on windows, quit about a year ago, am now back) along with Burning crusade. This time i decided I'd try the WINE thing, and whever I start it I get this error

This application has encountered a critical error:

ERROR #121 (0x85100079) Version Mismatch
Program: C:\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe

DBFilesClient\AreaTable.dbc has wrong number of columns (found 21, expected 27)

WoWBuild: 6080

Anybody know what's up?

bobber205 · Post by **bobber205** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 10:48 pm

Are you completely updated on Wine? If so, try uninstalling then reinstalling.

Growlizing · Post by **Growlizing** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:27 pm

bobber205 wrote: My mouse feels jittery.

I am using nvidia's drivers btw.

My mouse is absolute sh** too. Anyone know of a fix? Don't care about the original WoW-skinned hand, as long as my mouse doesn't have the same fps as the game. Is it possible to fix this? Because in some areas, my comp is only capable of ~15 fps, and that sucks when I try to click stuff when the mouse-cursor has the same fps. Really hard to hit the buttons in the low-spikes (10 fps at the lowest).
Using opengl-mode (ofc). Anyone else has a 6600gt card to compare with?

dhris · Post by **dhris** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:35 pm

Growlizing wrote:
bobber205 wrote: My mouse feels jittery.

I am using nvidia's drivers btw.
My mouse is absolute sh** too. Anyone know of a fix? Don't care about the original WoW-skinned hand, as long as my mouse doesn't have the same fps as the game. Is it possible to fix this? Because in some areas, my comp is only capable of ~15 fps, and that sucks when I try to click stuff when the mouse-cursor has the same fps. Really hard to hit the buttons in the low-spikes (10 fps at the lowest).
Using opengl-mode (ofc). Anyone else has a 6600gt card to compare with?

I have that card, and generally get much better performance than you apparently are. But anyway, when performance dips, the mouse goes with it. I believe that's just the way it is under Wine at the moment. Several posts back, somebody was talking about submitting a patch implenting a hardware cursor, but I don't know what the current status of that is.

vputz · Post by **vputz** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:39 pm

Because in some areas, my comp is only capable of ~15 fps... (10 fps at the lowest)....Using opengl-mode (ofc). Anyone else has a 6600gt card to compare with?

No, but my 8800GTS gets down to 12-15 fps in places...

b1f30 · Post by **b1f30** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:41 pm

Still using a patched wine-0.9.22 with amazing success, Gentoo + AMD64 + nVidia 6800GS.

On a random side note, WoWAce has some sweet addons that you can update using svn.

*shrug*

Growlizing · Post by **Growlizing** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 7:00 am

Because in some areas, my comp is only capable of ~15 fps... (10 fps at the lowest)....Using opengl-mode (ofc). Anyone else has a 6600gt card to compare with?

With that said, the performance is the same in windows... only my mouse doesn't lag there. Other specs are 1,5gb ram, and an athlon xp 2800. And another thing that's weird, is that I only get ~3 fps gain from running it in 800x600 compared to my lcd's native: 1680x1050. Is this normal too? Goes for both win and gentoo.

b1f30 · Post by **b1f30** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:43 pm

Growlizing wrote:
Because in some areas, my comp is only capable of ~15 fps... (10 fps at the lowest)....Using opengl-mode (ofc). Anyone else has a 6600gt card to compare with?
With that said, the performance is the same in windows... only my mouse doesn't lag there. Other specs are 1,5gb ram, and an athlon xp 2800. And another thing that's weird, is that I only get ~3 fps gain from running it in 800x600 compared to my lcd's native: 1680x1050. Is this normal too? Goes for both win and gentoo.

The latest-greatest nVidia drivers were making my box do the same thing - so I just downgraded the drivers, tuned all my game settings to about 'medium', and all is well.

YMMV of course. The whole Gentoo/wine/WoW thing has been very experimental from day 1, so please continue to try different drivers and versions of each.

Again, I've had great success with an older patched version of wine (0.9.22), and nVidia drivers that are easily a year old.

*shrug*

ShakyJake · Post by **ShakyJake** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:58 pm

ConVicTioN wrote:Edit your wtf/Config.wtf file and remove the following line:

SET gxApi "opengl"

Then let it load in d3d then you can put the switch back on.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/threa ... 1&pageNo=1

I'm having the freezing at "Downloading" window, but my Config.wtf does NOT have SET gxApi "opengl" to begin with.

Any other ideas? I deleted the WTF all together and it's still doing it. And it did work not too long ago (I occasionally two-box and haven't logged in on the Linux box in a couple of weeks). My system is running on a 7300GS video card set up with nVidia twinview and xinerama. I normally have the game set to load up in windowed mode since the screen is squashed in full screen mode.

dj-x-cess · Post by **dj-x-cess** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 7:39 am

ShakyJake wrote: I'm having the freezing at "Downloading" window, but my Config.wtf does NOT have SET gxApi "opengl" to begin with.

Any other ideas? I deleted the WTF all together and it's still doing it. And it did work not too long ago (I occasionally two-box and haven't logged in on the Linux box in a couple of weeks). My system is running on a 7300GS video card set up with nVidia twinview and xinerama. I normally have the game set to load up in windowed mode since the screen is squashed in full screen mode.

I had the same freeze at "Downloading". I don't have SET gxApi "opengl" in my Config.wtf, instead I start the game using "-opengl" as parameter for WoW.exe
Might be you do the same?

bobber205 · Post by **bobber205** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 5:43 pm

I haven't had the problem yet (do you guys all have BC?) but have you tried setting it to "d3d" instead of "openGl"

dan22 · Post by **dan22** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 9:02 pm

Hello,

I'm running wine 0.9.39 with Xorg 7.2.0, when I start up WoW with gxApi "opengl" set in Config.wtf my screen looks like the following image. Would anyone know how I can fix this?

dan@home ~ $ glxinfo | grep rend
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 946GZ 4.1.3002 x86/MMX/SSE2

http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/6915 ... 103wl2.jpg

ShakyJake · Post by **ShakyJake** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 5:24 pm

dj-x-cess wrote:I had the same freeze at "Downloading". I don't have SET gxApi "opengl" in my Config.wtf, instead I start the game using "-opengl" as parameter for WoW.exe
Might be you do the same?

That was it! I totally forgot I had my program icon launch WoW.exe with -opengl parameter. I just opened up a console and did wine WoW.exe and now it works fine.

Thanks!

ikshaar · Post by **ikshaar** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 7:32 pm

riz4 wrote:with wine >0.9.39 i cant alt-tab out of WoW ...

Hmm alt-tab is sooo windows

Use your workspace instead, it's much cleaner way to work. ctrl-alt-right and ctrl-alt-left. Or direct shorcut ctrl-alt-#. See the shorcut settings of your desktop (gnome, kde, etc.).

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