World of Warcraft with Wine [OUTDATED]

[ffadmraven]

Ok, I found out what my problem was. for some reason when I copied the first disk, it didn't copy the DirectX folder. I copied it over and now the installer seems to be running just fine.

[realistic]

I had a somewhat similar problem when installing.
Apparently the easiest way is to copy your installation from a windows machine but is it possible to install via wine as well.

As I don't have a windows machine handy i chose to copy all five Cd's to my computer and start the installer locally.

When all files have been copied you start the installer the same way you tried to start the game. CD into the directory where the files are, and simply go "wine installer" or whatever the name is.

I tried this now.
I copied the files yesterday already, and I quit after that.
Now I try to run WoW just as you said it, and then I get the following message :

martijn@dagobah:~/wow install$ wine Installer.exe
martijn@dagobah:~/wow install$ err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
Missing symbol {Error%dOpening%s}! (SymbolTable::UnmappedSymbolSubstitution)
Missing symbol {ContactTechSupport}! (SymbolTable::UnmappedSymbolSubstitution)
fixme:font:CreateScalableFontResourceW (1,0x1121e208,0x1121a308,(nil)): stub
Application tries to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.

I know already that the display isn't set good.
Where can I change it? I tried almost every wine file to see if it is the good one.
(found the right file yesterday, but don't know anymore where it is)

It would be nice if you can help me

[realistic]

Well, fixed that problem now to
Only don't know anymore how.

Now I've got another problem :

martijn@dagobah:~/.wine/drive_c/World of Warcraft$ wine WoW.exe -opengl
err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!

Does this mean that it matters that I don't have an opengl video card?
My current is an Ati Radeon 9200SE 256MB.

I'm planning to buy an Nvidia 256 MB (don't know exact type).
Would it help if I do that?

And if not : What do I have to do that make the game works?

[GIBson3]

Well, fixed that problem now to
Only don't know anymore how.

Now I've got another problem :

martijn@dagobah:~/.wine/drive_c/World of Warcraft$ wine WoW.exe -opengl
err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!

Does this mean that it matters that I don't have an opengl video card?
My current is an Ati Radeon 9200SE 256MB.

I'm planning to buy an Nvidia 256 MB (don't know exact type).
Would it help if I do that?

And if not : What do I have to do that make the game works?

The Radeon 9200SE is OpenGL Compatible... though the ATI drivers are not the Friendliest out there... as for the Error are you using the ATI Drivers?

[ffadmraven]

Ok, now I've come up with 2 more problems. the first is video, it is really jerky, and my mouse and keayboard appear to be lagging. the other one, is that it won't apply some of the patches. Any ideas out there?

[realistic]

The Radeon 9200SE is OpenGL Compatible... though the ATI drivers are not the Friendliest out there... as for the Error are you using the ATI Drivers?

I'm not sure what drivers I'm using.
I've got the drivers that were installed when I installed Ubuntu, after that, I didn't upgrade my drivers anymore.
I'll take a look for a new driver that supports openGL

[nevyndarkdawn]

Squiddish - I got the unable to compile error and managed to fix it by doing

export CC=gcc

before running ./configure

[trorion]

When I launch it crashes (d3d, opengl, noflag with WoW.exe; Launcher.exe will give an error, launcher then crash) gives me a feedback manager (maybe I should send it to Blizzard explaining that I need them to start supporting WoW though linux...). Looks to me like it's a problem with my GLX? If so is there a way I can patch without removing the existing wine? If not how can I completely remove wine before attempting again?

trorion@desktop:~$ wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/World\ of\ Warcraft/WoW.exe --enable-opengl
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
err:opengl:process_attach Could not create default context.
fixme:advapi:SetSecurityInfo stub
fixme:powrprof:DllMain (0x7cf10000, 1, (nil)) not fully implemented
fixme:ntdll:NtPowerInformation Unimplemented NtPowerInformation action: 11
fixme:powrprof:DllMain (0x7cf10000, 0, (nil)) not fully implemented
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x7fb0eef4,0x00000000), stub!
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
fixme:dbghelp:sffip_cb NIY on 'C:\build\buildWoW\WoW\bin\Wow.pdb'

[trorion]

When I launch it crashes (d3d, opengl, noflag with WoW.exe; Launcher.exe will give an error, launcher then crash) gives me a feedback manager (maybe I should send it to Blizzard explaining that I need them to start supporting WoW though linux...). Looks to me like it's a problem with my GLX? If so is there a way I can patch without removing the existing wine? If not how can I completely remove wine before attempting again?

trorion@desktop:~$ wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/World\ of\ Warcraft/WoW.exe --enable-opengl
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
err:opengl:process_attach Could not create default context.
fixme:advapi:SetSecurityInfo stub
fixme:powrprof:DllMain (0x7cf10000, 1, (nil)) not fully implemented
fixme:ntdll:NtPowerInformation Unimplemented NtPowerInformation action: 11
fixme:powrprof:DllMain (0x7cf10000, 0, (nil)) not fully implemented
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x7fb0eef4,0x00000000), stub!
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
fixme:dbghelp:sffip_cb NIY on 'C:\build\buildWoW\WoW\bin\Wow.pdb'

This problem was caused by a bad video driver. My video card was nVidia and I used the How To at http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthre...+latest+nvidia now my problem is gone. Smokin' action!

[slag]

For those people having the following problem:

Application tries to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.

Try running the following command before compiling wine from source.

sudo apt-get build-dep wine

I had wine running perfectly a week ago, and I'm getting the above error now. I realized that I forgot to build the wine dependencies, and that's the ONLY different step. Give it a try, I'm almost sure it will resolve the problem. When compiling wine there was a warning about the X-developer libraries, and I think build-dep wine gets those installed for you.