Bizarre Black and White Visual Error with WoW

[bleutyler]

Good day everybody.

I have a bizarre visual error/bug with WoW in Wine. Attached are screen shots. The summary of the error is: other players are completely white models. No textures, just white polygons. Their Weapons are displayed properly, so are the shoulder pads and cloak. Also, the ground that all characters stand on is black. The polygons the characters stand on just become black, but will restore properly when the character moves/jumps. NPCs look fine, they display properly. Druid forms as well, look fine. My character, looks fine. But other NPCs are just a white form. Check out the screen shots, out of this world (I used purple blocks to conceal names and stuff, my character is the human male in the center with the red and white shield. He displays fine.

Oh, and the minimap breaks when I am in an instance.

No crashes or anything, the game plays just fine.

I am surfing the web for settings in wine and WoW that could fix this, but I am posting here to see if anyone has insight on this error.

Thank you for reading.

[cwwilson721]

What version of wine? Get/install newest.

Are you running in opengl mode? If not, do it.

What videocard/chip?

[bleutyler]

Yes, of course, i should have stated that it is the latest wine (apt-get says it is the latest, --version says it is 1.2)

Specifications Dell Inspiron 1750 notebook:
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T6500 (2.1GHz / 800MHz FSB / 2MB)
RAM: DDR2 SDRAM 3Gb
Harddisk: SATA 320GB, 5400rpm
Optical drive: 8X CD / DVD Burner (Dual Layer DVD + /-R Drive)
Graphics card: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X4500HD
Audio: High Definition Audio 2.0
Wireless Card: Wireless 1397 802.11g

Running Ubuntu 10.04, it is up-to-date as well.

If it is relevant, I use Fluxbox to run the game, as I was experiencing bizarre crashes and mouse problems when running in GNOME.

--opengl tag on wine changes nothing. Actually, for the first 30 seconds of gameplay, all other players are just floating hats (seriously)

I have been on the website of Intel to get updates on the driver of the Graphics Card. They do not have Linux updates.

[cwwilson721]

The issue is your Intel Graphics.

IT WONT WORK

Search the forum, then you'll see why. Try "Intel WoW"

[bleutyler]

cwwilson,

I begrudgingly accept your answer that Intel has not been keeping up-to-date with Open GL.

Thank you.

I have found other threads with some other advice, which I will try. If they do not work, I will mark the thread as closed.

[bleutyler]

cwwilson,

I begrudgingly accept your answer that Intel has not been keeping up-to-date with Open GL.

Thank you.

I have found other threads with some other advice, which I will try. If they do not work, I will mark the thread as closed.