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Dianne - I'm not familiar with what firestarter would have to do with your issue but I'd say that the line I've highlighted above has a bit to do with your issue.

Start poking there and if you...

A search would return

wine WoW.exe -opengl

along with information to put

SET gxAPI "OpenGL" in your WoW Config.wtf file...

Turn Desktop Effects OFF

For the last 10 posts regarding ATI or Intel - please use the thread tools to search this thread for all posts made by myself.

The road you travel has been gone down before numerous times and it...

No - it is recommended in several install and performance guides that you turn compiz/3d desktop effects off when running WoW

So which tweaks?

As an ATI user in most cases you MUST USE the wine registry tweak.
Additionally run the game in openGL mode.

Make sure you launch the game with: wow Wine -opengl

and in...

What video card are you running? What version of Wine? What version of Ubuntu?

For wine at command prompt: wine --version
You can check About Ubuntu I believe for your version of Ubuntu
And...

Glade to see you've made a lot of progress in a few short hours!
Did you do the OpenGL framerate tweak for Wine?

ATI & Intel Users - I cannot stress enough that you need to pay attention to the excellent thread posted by Sammi here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=579378

Before posting your issue...

Sorry to hear you are having this issue - it is highly common with ATI hardware.

That being said - your answer is here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4577714&postcount=1507

See the...

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Meh... Said it better in my own blog in fewer words. If you care, links in the sig.

*sigh* http://www.wowwiki.com/Linux/Wine/Troubleshooting#ATI_no_Object_Textures.2FModels

Crashes HOW?

Locks up the pc?
Locks up the game?
Reports an error?
Gives Wine output at the command line?

Last night I had to go and remove .mpq files with a 2 in their name.

So if...

Tooting my own horn but I like my rant:
http://zaksubuntuswitch.blogspot.com/2008/03/amdati-linux-vendors-can-you-hear-me.html

In brief it describes all that is wrong with hardware, software, and...

Built by self

Intel P4 3.0GHz (HT) on Intel 865 Series motherboard
1G PC3200 in 4 x 512 in dual channel mode
ATI 9600XT 128MB in AGP 8X w/ a Zalman copper cooler

Fast Writes are off
Pixel...

Are you certain you have 3D acceleration enabled and working appropriately for your video card?

This:
"err:d3d:WineD3D_CreateFakeGLContext Can't find a suitable iPixelFormat
err:d3d:InitAdapters...

See the same links posted above - even if you dont have ATI some of these fixes are worth trying on intel and nvidia.

You will find the combination of ATI fixes found here very helpful.
http://www.wowwiki.com/Linux/Wine
http://www.wowwiki.com/Linux/Wine/Troubleshooting

Run wow from the command line using: wine $path$/Wow.exe -opengl

Where $path$ is the path to your Wow .exe file.

Additionally if you look at the last few posts someone has recently gotten an...

My write up stinks compared to: http://gaming.gwos.org/doku.php/wine:winestuff#advanced_stuff

Best of Luck!

If you go to the main wow thread under this forum for installing WoW with Wine someone recently regressed as far back as Wine 0.9.29 to get it working with the intel X3100 (i915)

This may be a bug...

I know of the script you speak of and I've never gotten it to work for me, but I didn't try very hard either. I found this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=522334

And I'll look elsewhere...

Congrats!



1) Possibly a newer wine than .47 will resolve these issues since you went to 0.47 and regressed to .29 through your testing.

2) See answer to 1)

3) See answer to 1)

Edit: Gee-Whiz what is in the water!? Windows and Linux. Apples and Oranges. blah blah blah


SET gxApi "OpenGL" & since you mention having VSync on: SET gxTripleBuffer "1"

See if either...

intel onboard video chip - the i915 - if you take a look on the Wine AppDB and around here in general there are very few persons who have the holy grail of getting this combination to work.
...

People please stop trying to make the "in Windows" argument and compare it to your experience with Ubuntu. Apples and Oranges.

Ahem... Now, look at your WoW Config.wtf file...

movie "0"...