Howto: WOW with Wine (help.ubuntu.com/community/WorldofWarcraft)

[AntonK]

I installed WoW: Burning Crusade, the game runs okay, connects to a server alright, but when I try to create a character the game just shuts down without giving any error msg Is it the problem with the server or with the game running on ubuntu? Cause I tried to run on a different server and it proceeds to a character creation panel but as soon as I try to change something (like a race) te game shuts down

Anyone had this problem? How to fix it?

More info:

WoW: Burning crusade 2.2.3. (7359)
OS: Ubuntu 7.10
Wine 9.48

[sammael666]

Hi,

Can anyone tell me what I need to change to make my WoW installation on Ubuntu Gutsy look like it should?

If you take a look at the attached image you will see that in windows the background is faded ( as it should be ) whereas in the Linux screenshot it's not - only the trees show correctly.

I'm using the restricted drivers. My card is an NVidia 8600 GT.

is there any workaround known for this? i have exactly the same problem on exactly same card on exactly same distro

[dirtmaster88]

I followed this guide and everything went pretty smooth until it stopped working today. I can load up wow and see the login screen but everything is froze and it stops responding. Eventually I have to force quit to get out. I'm using nvidia drivers with dual monitors and wine 0.9.48. This is what I get when i run wow from the command line by typing wine /home/nlubbers/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/World\ of\ Warcraft/WoW.exe

fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on MPU-401 UART, disabling mixer
fixme:advapi:SetSecurityInfo stub
fixme:powrprof:DllMain (0x7c100000, 1, (nil)) not fully implemented
fixme:ntdll:NtPowerInformation Unimplemented NtPowerInformation action: 11
fixme:powrprof:DllMain (0x7c100000, 0, (nil)) not fully implemented
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33eda8,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33ecd0,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f5ac,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f5a4,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f580,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 113 (SPI_SETMOUSESPEED)
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 113 (SPI_SETMOUSESPEED)
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_CONNECT_TIMEOUT (5000): STUB
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW INTERNET_OPTION_SEND/RECEIVE_TIMEOUT not supported on protocol 4
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_CONNECT_TIMEOUT (5000): STUB
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW INTERNET_OPTION_SEND/RECEIVE_TIMEOUT not supported on protocol 4
fixme:reg:GetNativeSystemInfo (0x374029c4) using GetSystemInfo()
fixme:process:IsWow64Process (0xffffffff 0x7a2ce4a4) stub!
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_CONTEXT_VALUE; STUB
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_CONTEXT_VALUE; STUB

This is my config.wtf

SET readTOS "1"
SET readEULA "1"
SET readScanning "-1"
SET readContest "-1"
SET locale "enUS"
SET hwDetect "0"
SET gxColorBits "24"
SET gxDepthBits "24"
SET gxResolution "1280x800"
SET gxRefresh "60"
SET gxMultisample "1"
SET gxMultisampleQuality "0.000000"
SET fullAlpha "1"
SET SmallCull "0.040000"
SET DistCull "500.000000"
SET trilinear "1"
SET frillDensity "32"
SET farclip "477"
SET specular "1"
SET pixelShaders "1"
SET particleDensity "1.000000"
SET unitDrawDist "300.000000"
SET movie "0"
SET expansionMovie "0"
SET realmList "us.logon.worldofwarcraft.com"
SET readTerminationWithoutNotice "-1"
SET coresDetected "1"
SET showToolsUI "1"
SET patchlist "us.version.worldofwarcraft.com"
SET realmName "Draenor"
SET gxApi "opengl"
SET gxWindow "1"
SET gxCursor "0"
SET Gamma "1.000000"
SET Sound_VoiceChatInputDriverName "ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback"
SET Sound_VoiceChatOutputDriverName "ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback"
SET Sound_OutputDriverName "ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback"
SET Sound_MasterVolume "1"
SET Sound_SFXVolume "1"
SET Sound_MusicVolume "0.40000000596046"
SET Sound_AmbienceVolume "0.60000002384186"
SET gameTip "10"
SET uiScale "1"
SET ffxDeath "0"
SET ffxGlow "0"
SET mouseSpeed "1.5"
SET cameraYawMoveSpeed "180"
SET cameraYawSmoothSpeed "180"
SET cameraDistanceMaxFactor "1"
SET profanityFilter "0"
SET ChatMusicVolume "0.30000001192093"
SET ChatSoundVolume "0.40000000596046"
SET ChatAmbienceVolume "0.30000001192093"
SET Sound_EnableAllSound "0"
SET OutboundChatVolume "1"
SET InboundChatVolume "1"
SET VoiceActivationSensitivity "0.40000003576279"
SET UnitNameNPC "1"
SET SoundOutputSystem "1"
SET SoundBufferSize "150"

[posterberg]

I experiance the same problem with the lagging mouse...has anyone had the same issue /or already solved it?

I have solved it... By running in windowed mode. Don't know why but I get lagging as soon as I run in fullscreen mode even when the resolution is the same...

[jack handy]

has anyone with an ATI card tried installing WoW with the updated driver? i dont want to take the time to reinstall if the freezing at log-in screen thing still happens.

[Joebob06]

front243

When it freezes up how much time to you give it before killing the wow process? I've killed the process once where when I thought it locked up and restarted the game. When in all actuality it just needed a min. to catch up.

Joseph
ps. on a side note, turning off Vertex shaders in the Video settings with 8.40.3 driver will jump the frame rate from about 10fps to 30fps.

[jack handy]

i'm so close! yet a little too far..

below are screenshots of my login screen and my ingame screen. something seems to be missing

here's as much info as i can possibly think of:

fglrxinfo:

$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon X1400
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6958 Release

xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Generic Video Card"
	Driver		"fglrx"
	Busid		"PCI:1:0:0" 
	Option "Capabilities" "0x00000800"
 	Option "UseFastTLS" "off"
 	Option "KernelModuleParm" "locked-userpages=0"
	
EndSection

i've tried this part with Composite = 0 and 1. same result.

Section "Extensions"
	Option		"Composite"	"0"
EndSection

Config.wtf

SET gxApi "opengl"
SET ffxDeath "0"
SET ffxGlow "0"
SET SoundOutputSystem "1"
SET SoundBufferSize "150"
SET readTOS "1"
SET readEULA "1"
SET readScanning "-1"
SET readContest "-1"
SET locale "enUS"
SET hwDetect "0"
SET gxColorBits "24"
SET gxDepthBits "24"
SET gxResolution "1024x768"
SET gxRefresh "60"
SET gxMultisampleQuality "0.000000"
SET gxFixLag "0"
SET fullAlpha "1"
SET SmallCull "0.040000"
SET DistCull "500.000000"
SET trilinear "1"
SET frillDensity "24"
SET farclip "500.000000"
SET specular "1"
SET pixelShaders "1"
SET particleDensity "1.000000"
SET unitDrawDist "300.000000"
SET movie "0"
SET expansionMovie "0"
SET realmList "us.logon.worldofwarcraft.com"
SET readTerminationWithoutNotice "-1"
SET coresDetected "2"
SET showToolsUI "1"
SET Sound_OutputDriverName "SigmaTel STAC9200"
SET patchlist "us.version.worldofwarcraft.com"
SET realmName "Staghelm"
SET gameTip "3"

any change i make in the Video settings while in-game seems to crash the game.

i have also made the registry change.


any ideas?

[jack handy]

UPDATE: everything working now.

downloaded Apply to Forehead add-on to stop the video settings crash..

then disabled all Shaders.

yay! i'm so happy!

[Forks Holder]

Hello,
I use OpenSUSE 10.3, and i've tried to install WOW by this guide.
ְAfter i did all right, Installed world of warcraft, i have lunched it with wine.
The sound worked, But the graphics didn't.
Also, It screwed up my resulution and made it to VERRY big.

If anyone can PLEASE help me, I DON'T WANT TO INSTALL WINDOWS =[

Thanks,
Forks Holder.

Edit:
My graphics card is Intel915 GM

[Maelgwyn]

Hi guys - I've just followed the how-to and it seems to be running fine. However () I want to use the updates/patches that are on my other pc instead of having to download the whole freaking lot again... I've copied *all* the patches etc across but the Blizzard Updater doesn't seem to recognise them... Any help pls?