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

[dolphine]

Hello!

I have just installed wine and WoW on Ubuntu 8.04. My graphic card is ATI x1950 PRO.

The only problem is that everytime I move from outdoor to indoor, the screen goes crazy with flickering and graphic shearing. It is ok as long as I stay only indoor or outdoor, but then the game is not really playable.

After reading some pages on this page, I have tried:

1. adding to config.wtf
SET M2UseShaders "0"

2. turning off visual effect on Appearance Preferences

3. adding to xorg.conf
Option "Capabilities" "0x00000800"
Option "UseFastTLS" "off"
Option "KernelModuleParm" "locked-userpages=0"

4. installing the addon ApplyToForehead

5. turning off "Allow Pixel Shader" in winecfg (since my wine version does not have "Enable desktop double buffering" so I can't follow this suggestion https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wo...20to%20Outdoor)

After reading 10-12 pages on this thread and some thread on wine forum, I got more confused than wiser. Can someone please suggest a remedy to my problem?

Thanks!

[paintbalforjesus]

hey, sorry if someone has already had this issue, but I can't read through 188 pages to find it, and it didn't show up a google search, at least not one with a solution that works for me.

I installed Ubuntu on my roommates computer and he wants to run wow on it, wow is currently the only thing he uses his vista boot for. I just copied his wow installation over from his vista partition, and after a bit of trouble shooting got everything working except the sound. There is no sound in the game ever. In wine I've checked both ALSA and OSS and if I click test on the panel it works, but in wow it doesn't. All other sound works fine. I'm not on his computer right now, so I can't give much more information, will try to give more later.

[budde]

@budde
Try running top or htop (pretty version) in a terminal in the background. Alt-tab to it when WoW slows down to check if some other process is running wild with system resources.

@JuryZ
Don't know much about Intel, and I don't think this really helps you any, but WoW usually distorts because of bad drivers installs.

@Zorthanis
Don't know what graphics card you have, but the same goes for your distortions.

I ran top to see what was going on and the only thing I found was that WoW was at the top of the list (which I suppose is normal) and then xorg at about 40% of CPU usage. Can that be the issue?

Any help is appreciated!

[Fear_]

I am pretty much a linux noob, but thought I'd post what I believe to be a useful tip that helped me get WoW running well.

When you are changing the settings in your config.wtf file, set the resolution to whatever is native in your screen:

SET gxResolution "<your native resolution>"

I couldn't get to the WoW login screen with more than 2-3 fps until I did this. I am running ubuntu 8.04 that is the AMD64 flavor. Nvidia 8800 GTS.

[ludek_cortex]

Hello!
(searching 188 pages is kinda useless so please, understand me)
My system is Ubuntu 8.10. I have very wierd/annyoing "bug". When I try to enter Winterspring (or logging in in Winterspring) my PC is getting hardlock and I have to reset. I've done all things form "troubleshooting" (xorg, wine's reg and game config edit; disabled pixel shader) but I still can't play in Winterspring (I had similar problem with patch 2.4.3 near Dalaran dome). Can someone help me?

My PC:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7200 @ 2.53GHz
1GB of RAM
Ati Radeon X300 (128 mb)
Fglrx driver 8.10 (the one from Ubuntu repos)
Wine 1.1.10

Oh and I play on virtual desktop (800x600) with game set to fullscreen

[SLOVED]
It was fault of QuestHelper addon

[SketchyLlama]

Hi,

I'm having a problem with one of the methods described early in this thread.

#!/bin/sh
 
 sudo X :3 -ac &   # Launches a new X session on display 3 
 cd "/home/(username)/Documents/Games/World of Warcraft"   # Goto WoW dir 
 sleep 2   # Forces the system to have a break for 2 seconds 
 DISPLAY=:3 /usr/X11R6/bin/wine WoW.exe -opengl   # Launches WoW

This works almost perfectly. It fixes my video issues, and dramatically increases my framerate among other bonuses (like automatically changing resolution).
I'm losing audio completely though whenever I run it this way, even through external applications (music player). I've tried enabling the ALSA and OSS audio drivers through winecfg and checked driver emulation and acceleration is set to full. Is there anything else that could be causing audio to disappear?

Be gentle, I've only been using Ubuntu for two weeks, and am still learning the ropes.


Thanks in advance,
Paul.

[gfg]

Hi! For those of you having sound problems I might have a solution, although I had a slightly different problem with stuttering audio. What I did was first to select oss in winecfg, with "padsp winecfg". After that I added padsp in front of wine at the WoW shortcut, so that it reads "padsp Wine....". Hope this can help you out.

[+cPu+90^/3PH]

has anyone ran wow under ubuntu/macbook ?

[+cPu+90^/3PH]

I just finish installing WOW, BC and WOTLK. and when i run the wow.exe i see the intro and then i need to accept the eula but the window where it is shown is black and the background is also black so i cant click in the accept or ok button. here is the output of wine when running wow:

wine "C:\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe"
err:service:load_reg_multisz Error 1804 while reading value L"DependOnService"
err:service:scmdatabase_load_services Error 1804 reading registry key for service L"TVersityMediaServer" - skipping
fixme:advapi:SetSecurityInfo stub
archive Data\enUS\patch-enUS.MPQ opened
archive Data\patch.MPQ opened
archive Data\expansion.MPQ opened
archive Data\lichking.MPQ opened
archive Data\common.MPQ opened
archive Data\common-2.MPQ opened
archive Data\enUS\locale-enUS.MPQ opened
archive Data\enUS\speech-enUS.MPQ opened
archive Data\enUS\expansion-locale-enUS.MPQ opened
archive Data\enUS\lichking-locale-enUS.MPQ opened
archive Data\enUS\expansion-speech-enUS.MPQ opened
archive Data\enUS\lichking-speech-enUS.MPQ opened
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x39edbc,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x39ecac,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x39f2d8,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x39f434,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x39f5a0,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x39f59c,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x39f530,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x39f520,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x39f018,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x39f150,0x00000000), stub!
failed to open C:/World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x39df1c,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x39df44,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_CONNECT_TIMEOUT (5000): STUB
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW INTERNET_OPTION_SEND/RECEIVE_TIMEOUT
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_CONTEXT_VALUE; STUB
fixme:imm:ImmAssociateContextEx (0x20024, (nil), 16): stub

by the way im running wow on MacBook intel 1gig ram

thanks for your help

[+cPu+90^/3PH]

i just ran wow using the following :

wine "C:\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe" -d3d

and everything was ok but!!! after i press the second accept of the eula my macbook died... so im trying again :S