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

[Mousekavich]

I tried doing the fourth step but I'm getting this message.

<name>@Upstairs-2:~/Desktop/WOW_Install$ wine Installer.exe
wine: could not load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\Installer.exe": Module not found
<name>@Upstairs-2:~/Desktop/WOW_Install$

Instead of using the Terminal to install, just go into your WOW_Install$ folder on your desktop. Double-click Installer.exe. That ought to start the process.

[Pt.Shannon]

Instead of using the Terminal to install, just go into your WOW_Install$ folder on your desktop. Double-click Installer.exe. That ought to start the process.

I looked through the folder and didn't see the Installer.exe, is there someway to find it or is it hidden. If so, how do you find it?

[BombeNissen]

No models ingame

I just got Wine running on Kubuntu 8.04 beta, and everything seems to run just perfectly. Copyed WoW from my external Harddrive just to save the time of Installing it again.

Now, I've added the lines to the Config.wtf to get wow to run OpenGL instaed of D3D, but Im kinda missing every single model there is in the game.
When I log in all I see is a black background ( where the portal should be) and If I create a new char the chars are missing and there's still a black background.

Also in the game, I can see the name plates of NPC's and also the ground, but no visibel NPC's buildings or anything else.

Im not sure what to do so I'm kinda hoping that someone knows

My config.wtf

SET locale "enGB"
SET coresDetected "2"
SET hwDetect "0"
SET gxResolution "1024x768"
SET gxRefresh "60"
SET gxMultisampleQuality "0.000000"
SET gxFixLag "0"
SET videoOptionsVersion "1"
SET pixelShaders "1"
SET accountName "#########"
SET movie "0"
SET expansionMovie "0"
SET readTOS "1"
SET readEULA "1"
SET readTerminationWithoutNotice "1"
SET showToolsUI "0"
SET Sound_OutputDriverName "System Default"
SET realmList "eu.logon.worldofwarcraft.com"
SET patchlist "eu.version.worldofwarcraft.com"
SET SmallCull "0.070000"
SET DistCull "500.000000"
SET farclip "177"
SET particleDensity "1.000000"
SET spellEffectLevel "0"
SET groundEffectDensity "24"
SET Sound_VoiceChatInputDriverName "System Default"
SET Sound_VoiceChatOutputDriverName "System Default"
SET realmName "Bloodhoof"
SET cameraPitchMoveSpeed "90"
SET cameraPitchSmoothSpeed "45"
SET gameTip "54"
SET UnitNameNPC "1"
SET xpBarText "1"
SET playerStatusText "1"
SET partyStatusText "1"
SET targetStatusText "1"
SET displayFreeBagSlots "1"
SET minimapZoom "0"
SET questFadingDisable "1"
SET lockActionBars "1"
SET enableCombatText "1"
SET ShowTargetCastbar "1"
SET minimapInsideZoom "0"
SET gxVSync "0"
SET gxCursor "0"
SET Gamma "1.000000"
SET groundEffectDist "70"
SET uiScale "0.69999998807907"
SET useUiScale "1"
SET SlideBarConfig "anchor=right;position=204"
SET checkAddonVersion "0"
SET Sound_EnableSFX "0"
SET Sound_EnableAmbience "0"
SET Sound_EnableMusic "0"
SET Sound_MasterVolume "1"
SET Sound_SFXVolume "1"
SET Sound_MusicVolume "0.40000000596046"
SET Sound_AmbienceVolume "0.60000002384186"
SET ffxGlow "0"
SET cameraView "3"
SET readScanning "-1"
SET readContest "-1"
SET gxWindow "1"
SET textureFilteringMode "0"
SET lod "1"
SET baseMip "1"
SET weatherDensity "0"
SET ffxDeath "0"
SET shadowLOD "0"
SET gxColorBits "24"
SET gxDepthBits "24"
SET profanityFilter "0"
SET DesktopGamma "1"
SET CombatLogRangeParty "2000"
SET CombatLogRangePartyPet "2000"
SET CombatLogRangeFriendlyPlayers "2000"
SET CombatLogRangeFriendlyPlayersPets "2000"
SET CombatLogRangeHostilePlayers "2000"
SET CombatLogRangeHostilePlayersPets "2000"
SET CombatLogRangeCreature "2000"
SET SoundOutputSystem "1"
SET SoundBufferSize "150"
SET gxApi "OpenGL"
SET lastCharacterIndex "1"

fglrxinfo

display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon X1400
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7412 Release

[Mousekavich]

I looked through the folder and didn't see the Installer.exe, is there someway to find it or is it hidden. If so, how do you find it?

That is a possibility, but it is kinda unlikely. If you think it's hidden just open up the folder and press "Control H" on your keyboard to display any hidden files.

If it still doesn't show up then that means that you didn't copy over the files properly. There are two ways to do this:

A: If you're using the 1 disk WOW install method then just try recopying all files and folders from the disk into your desktop directory

B: If you're using a multiple-disk WOW install method, then copy all the files from the first disk over. After that copy over the Installer_Tome file from all the other disks but NOTHING ELSE from these disks.

Then try to move on to step 4 and see if it works for you.

[Resonance378]

No models ingame

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...postcount=1507

See the last 2 links in that post. Pay attention to the last one called 'troubleshooting'. You answer is there.

*mumbles something about reading the last 20 posts before posting issues*

[iheartubuntu]

I followed all instructions and successfully installed WoW on a P4 system with a 512mb nVidia card. It works great ands very fast.

My sister just bought a DELL 1525n Inspiron laptop computer. It has 4GB of memory and has an Intel X3100 integrated video card. It can do OpenGL and she was told by the DELL rep that WoW should work fine on this system.

Ive installed both WoW and Burning Crusade for her, did all the updates and now when she goes to run the game, it freezes up the computer. You can hear the "accept or decline" click sound, but WoW never comes up and the screen locks after trying to resize itself for the game.

I cant edit any "Config.wtf" file, because there is none. She never got to the point where she could see her characters, because of all the updates, thus no config file.

Much help or direction on this would be very appreciated! Thanks!

[iheartubuntu]

On the WoW troubleshooting page, under the "ATI enter game world crash" section, I followed the tips there and added the last three option lines to the xorg.conf file... like this..

Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel X3100"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "Capabilities" "0x00000800"
Option "UseFastTLS" "off"
Option "KernelModuleParm" "locked-userpages=0"
EndSection

She can get the game menu screen to come up with the options and play button and clicks play, but when clicking play, we can hear the agreement screen clicking sound again, but the screen is dark. Not dark like off, but dark like the agreement screen just isnt coming up. The game no longer freezes the computer, and we are able to see the little cursor.

But still, we are stuck with no agreement screen to click ACCEPT and move on.

[iheartubuntu]

I decided to check the WINE version on her system. It was 0.9.46 via Automatix. I upgraded it to the latest one 0.9.59 and now the game doesnt work. When clicking WoW, she gets an error message:

Error #132 (ox85100084) Fatal Exception.

The memory could not be "read".

[iheartubuntu]

It appears my sisters new laptop has the dreaded X3100 video card

[iheartubuntu]

First off, I want to thank donnyblaze1 and his little "howto" right here...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...postcount=1498

As previously stated earlier today (frantically) I posted how i couldnt get WoW to work and found out my vid card X3100 is the same as Donny's.

I could never edit my config file, because I was never able to get into the game itself. I ended up copying several items out of the WoW folder on my desktop ubuntu system (where WOW works) and pasting them into the laptop where WOW didnt work. I copied everything (folders included) except the big update files and the big data directory.

I then edited the config file with Donny's config settings. This bypassed the agreement screen (where the game was hanging on me) and got me into the login page.

Right now the game does work on a Dell Inspiron 1525n system with 4GB memory, but it is slow and lags. We have high speed connection as well.

I'll be looking for solutions to increase framerate now so the game is more enjoyable.