Anyone in the Warhammer Online beta?

[mivo]

The closed Warhammer Online beta has been running for some time. I'm curious if any of you are/were in it and if you tried to run it under Linux/Wine? :)

[antzen]

I'd like an answer to this as well. Not much info while googling it... My OS of choice is Ubuntu and I'm planning to kill my WoW account and go into WAR.. but I'm a bit hesitant since I don't know whether it'll run on my box or not..

[ajackson]

I tried to get in the closed beta but never heard anything back, hopefully they will have an open beta as well so linux users can try it out then.

[pedro_orange]

I heard on the grapevine this game will use directx10.....

[MemoryDump]

I put my name on the list for an invite.. never got one .. yet :(
anybody care to share? ;)

[ajackson]

I heard on the grapevine this game will use directx10.....
No game manufacturer is dumb enough to go entirely directx10 as that would rule out XP users, there maybe directx10 enhancements like Lord of the Rings Online and Age of Conan are supposed to have. But there will be a directx9 version of Warhammer or it really will be the biggest flop in history.

[MemoryDump]

No game manufacturer is dumb enough to go entirely directx10 as that would rule out XP users
MS might be.. :lolflag:

[dpw2atox]

I have a friend who is in WAR beta and he said he was able to launch WAR in Wine 1.0 RC3 without issues and log in as well. He said he had a few performance issues though and some other graphical issues where characters wouldn't display, etc. From what he said though it sounds promising.

[Viter]

I would like more answers too :)

[soaro77]

No game manufacturer is dumb enough to go entirely directx10 as that would rule out XP users, there maybe directx10 enhancements like Lord of the Rings Online and Age of Conan are supposed to have. But there will be a directx9 version of Warhammer or it really will be the biggest flop in history.

Ummm apparently this game manufacturer is that dumb then. I just downloaded the beta game and tried to run it under Wine and got a message that I need to download the newer version of DirectX from Microsoft. I run WoW under Wine perfectly and I believe it uses DirectX 9 so Warhammer must use DirectX 10.

Here is the exact message:

"Warhammer requires later DirectX components than are installed. Warhammer Installer will now exit.

Don't panic, you will be brought to Microsoft's Direct X page for a Web Install of the latest DirectX.
Please rerun the Warhammer Installer after DirectX Installation."

[Muffinabus]

It doesn't use DirectX 10 >_<

[ajackson]

Ummm apparently this game manufacturer is that dumb then. I just downloaded the beta game and tried to run it under Wine and got a message that I need to download the newer version of DirectX from Microsoft. I run WoW under Wine perfectly and I believe it uses DirectX 9 so Warhammer must use DirectX 10.
Well directx 10 is not available for XP and there are plenty of people using XP in the beta.

The problem is more likely to be that wine's version of directx 9 isn't up fully with the version this game needs (the last Microsoft release was June 2008 ).

[fepple]

It is DX9

It runs under Wine, and plays fine except for it doesnt draw Charcters/Mobs properly instead shows them as a pile on their side in the ground. There is a bug with shadows that is common to other games but thats minor.

The patcher stopped working for some users. Though we've only heard of this happening on ubuntu and are looking into why

The WineHQ page has more details on it:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=13139&iTestingId=29100

[SBFC]

And if any of you actually want to be able to play the game in Wine I strongly recommend signing up at Wine's Bugzilla site and voting for the bug that prevents characters from rendering. There are over 30 votes and the game hasn't even come out yet.

Not only that, but considering the game runs fine aside from the character model issue speaks volumes about Wine's progress.

Bug #14608 <http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14608> (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14608)

I played during the closed beta and IMO it is a very fun game. Anxious for it to come out. Just a heads up that Destruction outnumbers Order by 1.5 to 2.

[andyvy]

Ran WAR last weekend for 3 day trial beta. Startup video is slugish, almost annoying, but after it passes the game runs fine. If they add an option to bypass video then I'll have zero issues.

I'll post some screenshots this Sunday when open beta starts.

(Didn't see any characters not displaying problems but I did experience slight terrain Clipping issues where the ground under me would turn black for a split second. In some areas it flickers like that but usually passes in seconds.)


WAAAAGH!!

[FrozenFOXX]

Anyone that's able to run it would you list what steps you used to get it to run? Apparently I and many others running Ubuntu are having it hang on a PersistStorage error.

I'm running Kubuntu 8.04 64-bit, Wine 1.1.4, edited my patch.cfg to replace the FQDN with the IP, and it just hangs at PersistStorage_Init, will not display the window or anything. Reportedly this is just happening with Ubuntu.

[eggplant37]

Anyone that's able to run it would you list what steps you used to get it to run? Apparently I and many others running Ubuntu are having it hang on a PersistStorage error.

I'm running Kubuntu 8.04 64-bit, Wine 1.1.4, edited my patch.cfg to replace the FQDN with the IP, and it just hangs at PersistStorage_Init, will not display the window or anything. Reportedly this is just happening with Ubuntu.

I got the final version by UPS today. It comes with 2 DVDs to install. I followed the instructions at http://howto.landure.fr/gnu-linux/install-directx-9-0c-on-linux-using-wine to get DirectX 10 installed after first installing 9.0c. I, too, am using Hardy 64-bit with all latest updates via update-manager installed and running wine 1.1.4.

The installer will run but appears to crap out with the following errors before opening up a dialog for the user to select which directory he'd like to install to:

eggplant@nheeghee:~$ wine /media/cdrom/setup.exe
fixme:service:ChangeServiceConfig2W STUB: 0x110b80 2 0x33fe00
eggplant@nheeghee:~$ fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on Logitech USB Headset, disabling mixer
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,0,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,0,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,14,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,28,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,42,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,56,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,70,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,85,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,99,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,113,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,127,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,141,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,155,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,170,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,184,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,198,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,212,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,226,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,240,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,255,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,255,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,233,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,212,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,191,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,170,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,148,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,127,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,106,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,85,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,63,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,42,2): stub!
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x1002a,0x00ffffff,21,2): stub!
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {03c036f1-a186-11d0-824a-00aa005b4383} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {03c036f1-a186-11d0-824a-00aa005b4383} could be created for context 0x1
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000000 at address 0x2ad70cb (thread 0027), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000000 in 32-bit code (0x02ad70cb).
Register dump:
CS:0023 SS:002b DS:002b ES:002b FS:0063 GS:006b
EIP:02ad70cb ESP:0033d548 EBP:0033d5d0 EFLAGS:00010282( - 00 - RIS1)
EAX:00000000 EBX:00000000 ECX:00000000 EDX:00000071
ESI:0033e3fc EDI:0033e31c
Stack dump:
0x0033d548: 88fbac09 0033d5a0 0033e3fc 0033d5d0
0x0033d558: 0033e31c 00000000 00000000 0033d5c4
0x0033d568: 02b2ce75 ffffffff 0033d5c4 02b28568
0x0033d578: 00000000 02ada33d 88fbac95 00010056
0x0033d588: 00000000 7ee1c64c 00000000 3f800000
0x0033d598: 00000000 3f800000 00000000 3f800000
Backtrace:
=>1 0x02ad70cb in nsisdirselect (+0x170cb) (0x0033d5d0)
2 0x02afb95f in nsisdirselect (+0x3b95f) (0x0033d604)
3 0x7edfabb8 in user32 (+0xaabb8) (0x0033d644)
4 0x7edfe133 in user32 (+0xae133) (0x0033d684)
5 0x7ed857d7 DefDlgProcA+0x87() in user32 (0x0033d6b4)
6 0x7edf8dba WINPROC_wrapper+0x1a() in user32 (0x0033d6e4)
7 0x7edf949e WINPROC_wrapper+0x6fe() in user32 (0x0033d724)
8 0x7edfe262 CallWindowProcA+0x52() in user32 (0x0033d764)
9 0x02afded8 in nsisdirselect (+0x3ded8) (0x0033d784)
10 0x02affa7e in nsisdirselect (+0x3fa7e) (0x0033d840)
11 0x02afdfd1 in nsisdirselect (+0x3dfd1) (0x0033d860)
12 0x02b001a1 in nsisdirselect (+0x401a1) (0x0033d8c8)
13 0x02b0022e in nsisdirselect (+0x4022e) (0x0033d8e8)
14 0x7edf8dba WINPROC_wrapper+0x1a() in user32 (0x0033d918)
15 0x7edf949e WINPROC_wrapper+0x6fe() in user32 (0x0033d958)
16 0x7edfeca5 in user32 (+0xaeca5) (0x0033de28)
17 0x7edff89a in user32 (+0xaf89a) (0x0033de68)
18 0x7edc0d71 in user32 (+0x70d71) (0x0033dec8)
19 0x7edc402d in user32 (+0x7402d) (0x0033df28)
20 0x7edc449a SendMessageW+0x4a() in user32 (0x0033df68)
21 0x7ed8afec in user32 (+0x3afec) (0x0033e138)
22 0x7ed8c216 CreateDialogIndirectParamAorW+0x36() in user32 (0x0033e158)
23 0x7ed8c341 CreateDialogIndirectParamA+0x41() in user32 (0x0033e188)
24 0x02afc041 in nsisdirselect (+0x3c041) (0x0033e1fc)
25 0x02afc2d5 in nsisdirselect (+0x3c2d5) (0x0033e2c4)
26 0x02acf5c4 in nsisdirselect (+0xf5c4) (0x00000010)
27 0x00000000 (0x00000000)
0x02ad70cb: movl 0x0(%eax),%ecx
Modules:
Module Address Debug info Name (112 modules)
PE 400000- 444000 Deferred setup
PE 2ac0000- 2b6f000 Export nsisdirselect
PE 10000000-10006000 Deferred system
ELF 7b800000-7b93c000 Deferred kernel32<elf>
\-PE 7b820000-7b93c000 \ kernel32
ELF 7bc00000-7bca6000 Deferred ntdll<elf>
\-PE 7bc10000-7bca6000 \ ntdll
ELF 7bf00000-7bf03000 Deferred <wine-loader>
ELF 7db89000-7dbab000 Deferred mpr<elf>
\-PE 7db90000-7dbab000 \ mpr
ELF 7dbab000-7dbfa000 Deferred wininet<elf>
\-PE 7dbb0000-7dbfa000 \ wininet
ELF 7dbfa000-7dc39000 Deferred urlmon<elf>
\-PE 7dc00000-7dc39000 \ urlmon
ELF 7dc39000-7dc6d000 Deferred libxslt.so.1
ELF 7dc6d000-7dd8c000 Deferred libxml2.so.2
ELF 7dd8c000-7de5e000 Deferred oleaut32<elf>
\-PE 7dda0000-7de5e000 \ oleaut32
ELF 7de5e000-7de62000 Deferred libgpg-error.so.0
ELF 7de62000-7deaf000 Deferred libgcrypt.so.11
ELF 7deaf000-7debf000 Deferred libtasn1.so.3
ELF 7debf000-7dec7000 Deferred libkrb5support.so.0
ELF 7dec7000-7def9000 Deferred libcrypt.so.1
ELF 7def9000-7df6e000 Deferred libgnutls.so.13
ELF 7df6e000-7df91000 Deferred libk5crypto.so.3
ELF 7df91000-7e01e000 Deferred libkrb5.so.3
ELF 7e01e000-7e047000 Deferred libgssapi_krb5.so.2
ELF 7e047000-7e07a000 Deferred libcups.so.2
ELF 7e0a5000-7e0f1000 Deferred msxml3<elf>
\-PE 7e0b0000-7e0f1000 \ msxml3
ELF 7e0f1000-7e126000 Deferred winspool<elf>
\-PE 7e100000-7e126000 \ winspool
ELF 7e126000-7e131000 Deferred libgcc_s.so.1
ELF 7e245000-7e248000 Deferred libkeyutils.so.1
ELF 7e248000-7e25b000 Deferred msimg32<elf>
\-PE 7e250000-7e25b000 \ msimg32
ELF 7e26d000-7e281000 Deferred userenv<elf>
\-PE 7e270000-7e281000 \ userenv
ELF 7e281000-7e295000 Deferred oleacc<elf>
\-PE 7e290000-7e295000 \ oleacc
ELF 7e295000-7e2eb000 Deferred riched20<elf>
\-PE 7e2a0000-7e2eb000 \ riched20
ELF 7e2eb000-7e2ff000 Deferred midimap<elf>
\-PE 7e2f0000-7e2ff000 \ midimap
ELF 7e2ff000-7e326000 Deferred msacm32<elf>
\-PE 7e310000-7e326000 \ msacm32
ELF 7e326000-7e3e9000 Deferred libasound.so.2
ELF 7e3ea000-7e401000 Deferred msacm32<elf>
\-PE 7e3f0000-7e401000 \ msacm32
ELF 7e401000-7e436000 Deferred winealsa<elf>
\-PE 7e410000-7e436000 \ winealsa
ELF 7e436000-7e4c8000 Deferred winmm<elf>
\-PE 7e440000-7e4c8000 \ winmm
ELF 7e4c8000-7e4db000 Deferred shfolder<elf>
\-PE 7e4d0000-7e4db000 \ shfolder
ELF 7e509000-7e50c000 Deferred libcom_err.so.2
ELF 7e51f000-7e552000 Deferred uxtheme<elf>
\-PE 7e530000-7e552000 \ uxtheme
ELF 7e552000-7e55b000 Deferred libxcursor.so.1
ELF 7e55b000-7e560000 Deferred libxfixes.so.3
ELF 7e560000-7e563000 Deferred libxcomposite.so.1
ELF 7e563000-7e569000 Deferred libxrandr.so.2
ELF 7e569000-7e571000 Deferred libxrender.so.1
ELF 7e571000-7e576000 Deferred libxxf86vm.so.1
ELF 7e576000-7e579000 Deferred libxinerama.so.1
ELF 7e579000-7e599000 Deferred imm32<elf>
\-PE 7e580000-7e599000 \ imm32
ELF 7e599000-7e59e000 Deferred libxdmcp.so.6
ELF 7e59e000-7e5b6000 Deferred libxcb.so.1
ELF 7e5b6000-7e5b8000 Deferred libxcb-xlib.so.0
ELF 7e5b8000-7e69f000 Deferred libx11.so.6
ELF 7e69f000-7e6ad000 Deferred libxext.so.6
ELF 7e6c5000-7e75d000 Deferred winex11<elf>
\-PE 7e6d0000-7e75d000 \ winex11
ELF 7e780000-7e7a1000 Deferred libexpat.so.1
ELF 7e7a1000-7e7cb000 Deferred libfontconfig.so.1
ELF 7e7cb000-7e7e0000 Deferred libz.so.1
ELF 7e7e0000-7e850000 Deferred libfreetype.so.6
ELF 7e850000-7e853000 Deferred libxau.so.6
ELF 7e868000-7e881000 Deferred version<elf>
\-PE 7e870000-7e881000 \ version
ELF 7e881000-7e894000 Deferred libresolv.so.2
ELF 7e894000-7e8b3000 Deferred iphlpapi<elf>
\-PE 7e8a0000-7e8b3000 \ iphlpapi
ELF 7e8b3000-7e917000 Deferred rpcrt4<elf>
\-PE 7e8c0000-7e917000 \ rpcrt4
ELF 7e917000-7ea09000 Deferred ole32<elf>
\-PE 7e930000-7ea09000 \ ole32
ELF 7ea09000-7eaca000 Deferred comctl32<elf>
\-PE 7ea10000-7eaca000 \ comctl32
ELF 7eaca000-7eb24000 Deferred shlwapi<elf>
\-PE 7eae0000-7eb24000 \ shlwapi
ELF 7eb24000-7ec3e000 Deferred shell32<elf>
\-PE 7eb30000-7ec3e000 \ shell32
ELF 7ec3e000-7ec90000 Deferred advapi32<elf>
\-PE 7ec50000-7ec90000 \ advapi32
ELF 7ec90000-7ed2e000 Deferred gdi32<elf>
\-PE 7eca0000-7ed2e000 \ gdi32
ELF 7ed2e000-7ee77000 Export user32<elf>
\-PE 7ed50000-7ee77000 \ user32
ELF 7ee77000-7ee82000 Deferred libnss_files.so.2
ELF 7ee82000-7ee8b000 Deferred libnss_compat.so.2
ELF 7ee8f000-7eea3000 Deferred lz32<elf>
\-PE 7ee90000-7eea3000 \ lz32
ELF 7efc3000-7efe8000 Deferred libm.so.6
ELF 7efe8000-7f000000 Deferred libnsl.so.1
ELF f7cf6000-f7cfa000 Deferred libdl.so.2
ELF f7cfa000-f7e49000 Deferred libc.so.6
ELF f7e4a000-f7e62000 Deferred libpthread.so.0
ELF f7e66000-f7e70000 Deferred libnss_nis.so.2
ELF f7e7a000-f7fb0000 Deferred libwine.so.1
ELF f7fb2000-f7fd1000 Deferred ld-linux.so.2
Threads:
process tid prio (all id:s are in hex)
0000000c
0000001b 0
00000015 0
00000013 0
00000012 0
0000000e 0
0000000d 0
0000000f
00000014 0
00000011 0
00000010 0
00000018
0000001d 0
0000001c 0
0000001a 0
00000019 0
00000024
00000025 0
00000026 (D) C:\windows\temp\setup.exe
00000029 15
00000027 0 <==
Backtrace:
=>1 0x02ad70cb in nsisdirselect (+0x170cb) (0x0033d5d0)
2 0x02afb95f in nsisdirselect (+0x3b95f) (0x0033d604)
3 0x7edfabb8 in user32 (+0xaabb8) (0x0033d644)
4 0x7edfe133 in user32 (+0xae133) (0x0033d684)
5 0x7ed857d7 DefDlgProcA+0x87() in user32 (0x0033d6b4)
6 0x7edf8dba WINPROC_wrapper+0x1a() in user32 (0x0033d6e4)
7 0x7edf949e WINPROC_wrapper+0x6fe() in user32 (0x0033d724)
8 0x7edfe262 CallWindowProcA+0x52() in user32 (0x0033d764)
9 0x02afded8 in nsisdirselect (+0x3ded8) (0x0033d784)
10 0x02affa7e in nsisdirselect (+0x3fa7e) (0x0033d840)
11 0x02afdfd1 in nsisdirselect (+0x3dfd1) (0x0033d860)
12 0x02b001a1 in nsisdirselect (+0x401a1) (0x0033d8c8)
13 0x02b0022e in nsisdirselect (+0x4022e) (0x0033d8e8)
14 0x7edf8dba WINPROC_wrapper+0x1a() in user32 (0x0033d918)
15 0x7edf949e WINPROC_wrapper+0x6fe() in user32 (0x0033d958)
16 0x7edfeca5 in user32 (+0xaeca5) (0x0033de28)
17 0x7edff89a in user32 (+0xaf89a) (0x0033de68)
18 0x7edc0d71 in user32 (+0x70d71) (0x0033dec8)
19 0x7edc402d in user32 (+0x7402d) (0x0033df28)
20 0x7edc449a SendMessageW+0x4a() in user32 (0x0033df68)
21 0x7ed8afec in user32 (+0x3afec) (0x0033e138)
22 0x7ed8c216 CreateDialogIndirectParamAorW+0x36() in user32 (0x0033e158)
23 0x7ed8c341 CreateDialogIndirectParamA+0x41() in user32 (0x0033e188)
24 0x02afc041 in nsisdirselect (+0x3c041) (0x0033e1fc)
25 0x02afc2d5 in nsisdirselect (+0x3c2d5) (0x0033e2c4)
26 0x02acf5c4 in nsisdirselect (+0xf5c4) (0x00000010)
27 0x00000000 (0x00000000)


I have no idea what the problem could be.

[oedipuss]

Anyone that's able to run it would you list what steps you used to get it to run? Apparently I and many others running Ubuntu are having it hang on a PersistStorage error.
Same here. Nothing could make it get past that, except closing wine's virtual desktop, at which point the patcher appears (with some easily bypassed errors). It's no solution, however, it will terminate after 20 seconds, since I suspect wine thinks it's an unresponsive app that didn't shut down when you told it to.
I think the PersistStorage message is unrelated and just happens to be the last thing displayed.

[FrozenFOXX]

From what we can tell, the PersistStorage error has to do with the HTTP request for the patcher. You HAVE to run the game from the patcher, either .exe or .bin we don't know yet since people seem to have success with either depending on their setups.

I can get to the patcher login but unfortunately no matter how fast I am with entering my info it tanks without message. As a special note, apparently you shouldn't need to run the Setup.exe since all it does is create shortcuts, the warpatcher.exe/bin does everything else you need.

Still attempting to get it to run, considering winetricks but I don't want to completely bork something.

[oedipuss]

Still attempting to get it to run, considering winetricks but I don't want to completely bork something.

Just create another wine prefix with wineprefixcreate -p /wherever/winewar
and install directx or whatever in it. I think you have to edit the winetricks script to alter its wineprefix, but it's easy to find.
You can run anything from that prefix by exporting WINEPREFIX=/wherever/winewar, or just by typing "WINEPREFIX=/wherever/winewar wine myprog.exe" .

I tried changing the server address to its IP in patch.cfg , but the patcher still didn't start normally, and when it did (by closing the window) it couldn't connect at all.

PS: check out the manpages for wineprefixcreate and WINEPREFIX just to be sure you know what you're doing .. I don't think there's a way to uninstall directx or other non-recommended components in case you install them in the wrong prefix.

[FrozenFOXX]

Just create another wine prefix with wineprefixcreate -p /wherever/winewar
and install directx or whatever in it. I think you have to edit the winetricks script to alter its wineprefix, but it's easy to find.
You can run anything from that prefix by exporting WINEPREFIX=/wherever/winewar, or just by typing "WINEPREFIX=/wherever/winewar wine myprog.exe" .

I tried changing the server address to its IP in patch.cfg , but the patcher still didn't start normally, and when it did (by closing the window) it couldn't connect at all.

PS: check out the manpages for wineprefixcreate and WINEPREFIX just to be sure you know what you're doing .. I don't think there's a way to uninstall directx or other non-recommended components in case you install them in the wrong prefix.

Tried it, used winetricks to install directx 9.0c and gecko, still no worky. Absolutely zero change. :(

Mikee on the appdb page recommends recompiling wine with this guide: http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit. Unfortunately there's no knowing if that'll work yet as he's the only one who got it to work that way.

Wouldn't mind getting CrossOver Games for this but unfortunately it doesn't look like that does it either.

[oedipuss]

Yeah I know, I meant that as a way to safely try things with wine, without messing up your original .wine dir.

Just tried compiling wine 1.1.5, doesn't work either, same stuff.

[Maelgwyn]

I haven't been able to get Warhammer Online to run *at all* in WINE -_-'
When I get home I'll edit this post and stick in the command-line garble in the vain hope somebody can understand it!

[buntunub]

Getting Game to run.
by Mikee on Sunday July 27th 2008, 10:43
Copy winhttp.dll to the system32 directory.
wine warpatch.exe

Seems this hack gets the game running...

[Maelgwyn]

Seems this hack gets the game running...

Awesome thanks for that, I'll give it a go!

[Maelgwyn]

err, where do I find winhttp.dll? :P

*edit* found it!

However it still doesn't run :(
nik@taonga:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Warhammer Online$ wine warpatch.exe
fixme:shdocvw:PersistStorage_InitNew (0x135e18)->(0xd953d0)
nik@taonga:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Warhammer Online$

It just hangs on that fixme: for a little while, then nothing further happens and it goes back to command prompt =/