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

[WaterwineFear]

Can anybody help me with installing command and conquer? i cannot for the life of me get it working through wine etc.

[Tweak42]

Can anybody help me with installing command and conquer? i cannot for the life of me get it working through wine etc.

This thread is for World of Warcraft. Try searching the wine appdb, and searching or making a new thread (with an appropriate title) in the ubuntu wine forum.

[iStewart]

Can anybody help me with the cursor bug in Wrath of the Lich King?
I have already downloaded the custom hw patch textfile but i need the custom cursor file. Does anybody have this file? The site where to download is offline...

[pugs]

So just starting out with this. Finally got Wow up and running. First time around I tried following the guide and installing wine from the "Ubuntu Software Center"...that did not go very smoothly. This time I got the latest version I believe. I thought I was getting 1.5 but in winecfg it says its 1.6-rc5. Anyway installed wow from scratch through the downloader. It starts and runs fairly well but I have a problem with sound. Its just glitchy/echoy or something. Not sure how to describe it. Its there but just not working quite right. I have tried some different settings on SET SoundBufferSize but that doesnt seem to change anything. I have found some other sites that say to switch audio to OSS or ALSA but I have no option to do that and not sure how to get the option. Another said to use "padsp wine WoW.exe". That doesnt seem to do anything. I tried running "padsp winecfg" and end up with this:

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libpulsedsp.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libpulsedsp.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
p11-kit: couldn't load module: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The system is an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.6 Ghz with an Nvidia GTS8800 graphics card and 8 gigs of ram. The Nvidia driver is 304.88 I believe. Running ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS 64bit version.

I am just messing with this...if I cant play WoW I really dont care. I left the game months ago. Was just trying to see if I could get it up and running well enough to play. Honestly it seems to play pretty well other than the sound.

One other question in Graphics settings alot of settings are set to LOW and it says I cannot increase them any higher because I dont have a shader model 3 graphics card or some such. Is that from running in OpenGL mode?

[Crossbow]

Well, I'm making another go at this. When I first upgraded to 13.04, the game played but the graphics were terrible - they froze and all the plants were purple. I tried switching from nVidia-173 to 313. The GUI crashed. I tried versions 310 and 304. Apparently 173 is the only one I can use. That does not make sense but there it is. So I'm back at 173 and now the game doesn't play even with that. Here's what happens"

anna@anna-desktop:~$ wine "C:\\Program Files\\World of Warcraft\\WoW.exe" -opengl
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 14: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x148c000 0 0x189fee4 4
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x189f140,0x189f740): stub
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x32c00c,0x32c60c): stub
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x32c00c,0x32c60c): stub
fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do!
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x199e36c,0x199e96c): stub
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x199e36c,0x199e96c): stub
fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do!
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x199e36c,0x199e96c): stub
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x199e36c,0x199e96c): stub
fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do!
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x199e36c,0x199e96c): stub
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x199e36c,0x199e96c): stub
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x189f0c8,0x189f6c8): stub
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x189f0c8,0x189f6c8): stub
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x189ed08,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x189eba8,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x189f08c,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x189efec,0x00000000), stub!
X Error of failed request:  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  153 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  27 (X_GLXCreatePbuffer)
  Serial number of failed request:  1110
  Current serial number in output stream:  1111
anna@anna-desktop:~$

Graphics card information:

Graphics Processor: GeForce 8300 GS
VBIOS Version: 60.86.49.00.19
Memory: 512 MB

Bus Type: PCI Express x16
Bus ID: ?@??
PCI Device ID: Unknown
PCI Vendor ID: Unknown
IRQ 16

X Screens: Screen 0

Display Devices: None

System Information:

Operating System: Linux-x86
NVIDIA Driver Version: 173-14-37

X Server Information:

Display Name: anna-desktop:0

Server Cersion Number: 10.0
Server Vendor String: The X.Org Foundation
Server Vendor Version: 1.13.4 (11304000)

NV-CONTROL Version: 1.16

Screens: 1

[Tweak42]

Is it possible the 8300 GS card is bad?
Also with the gui crashing, have you tried distro without Unity 3D, like Xbuntu or Unity 2D on 12.04 or earlier and seeing if you can get 304 drivers to work.

Well, I'm making another go at this. When I first upgraded to 13.04, the game played but the graphics were terrible - they froze and all the plants were purple. I tried switching from nVidia-173 to 313. The GUI crashed. I tried versions 310 and 304. Apparently 173 is the only one I can use. That does not make sense but there it is. So I'm back at 173 and now the game doesn't play even with that. Here's what happens"

anna@anna-desktop:~$ wine "C:\\Program Files\\World of Warcraft\\WoW.exe" -opengl
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 14: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x148c000 0 0x189fee4 4
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x189f140,0x189f740): stub
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x32c00c,0x32c60c): stub
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x32c00c,0x32c60c): stub
fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do!
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x199e36c,0x199e96c): stub
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x199e36c,0x199e96c): stub
fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do!
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x199e36c,0x199e96c): stub
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x199e36c,0x199e96c): stub
fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do!
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x199e36c,0x199e96c): stub
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x199e36c,0x199e96c): stub
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x189f0c8,0x189f6c8): stub
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x189f0c8,0x189f6c8): stub
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x189ed08,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x189eba8,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x189f08c,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x189efec,0x00000000), stub!
X Error of failed request:  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  153 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  27 (X_GLXCreatePbuffer)
  Serial number of failed request:  1110
  Current serial number in output stream:  1111
anna@anna-desktop:~$

Graphics card information:

Graphics Processor: GeForce 8300 GS
VBIOS Version: 60.86.49.00.19
Memory: 512 MB

Bus Type: PCI Express x16
Bus ID: ?@??
PCI Device ID: Unknown
PCI Vendor ID: Unknown
IRQ 16

X Screens: Screen 0

Display Devices: None

System Information:

Operating System: Linux-x86
NVIDIA Driver Version: 173-14-37

X Server Information:

Display Name: anna-desktop:0

Server Cersion Number: 10.0
Server Vendor String: The X.Org Foundation
Server Vendor Version: 1.13.4 (11304000)

NV-CONTROL Version: 1.16

Screens: 1

[Crossbow]

Is it possible the 8300 GS card is bad?
Also with the gui crashing, have you tried distro without Unity 3D, like Xbuntu or Unity 2D on 12.04 or earlier and seeing if you can get 304 drivers to work.

I don't know how to change from Unity 3d to 2D. But a few days ago I was able to play the game and it functioned PERFECTLY. Better than it has in the past year. But now I can't play it again. So confused. I think there are gnomes elves in my computer.

What I know from this is that at least the game is installed correctly, and the version of Unity I am using should be working with it.

Edit: Just tried again and got a popup that says:

Error while loading application settings by key: 'gui_sudo'. File or path does not exist: "/usr/bin/kdesudo"
Please, go to the q4wine options dialog and set it.

Then it opened q4wine, but I don't understand what I'm supposed to do. In fact I don't really understand what KDE is but I didn't think I used it.

[Crossbow]

Any ideas?

I am really missing this game today. I had a terrible week and I really want to kill some imaginary stuff.

I've got a new error:

anna@anna-desktop:~$ wine "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\wow.exe"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 14: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 14: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 14: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 14: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 14: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x1505000 0 0x191fee4 4
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x191f14c,0x191f74c): stub
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x32c00c,0x32c60c): stub
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x32c00c,0x32c60c): stub
fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do!
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x1a1e36c,0x1a1e96c): stub
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x1a1e36c,0x1a1e96c): stub
fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do!
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x1a1e36c,0x1a1e96c): stub
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x1a1e36c,0x1a1e96c): stub
fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't know what to do!
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x1a1e36c,0x1a1e96c): stub
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x1a1e36c,0x1a1e96c): stub
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x191f0c8,0x191f6c8): stub
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x191f0c8,0x191f6c8): stub
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x191ed08,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x191eba8,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x191f08c,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x191efec,0x00000000), stub!
*** Error in `C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\wow.exe': corrupted double-linked list: 0x7dca9420 ***

Most notably: *** Error in `C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\wow.exe': corrupted double-linked list: 0x7dca9420 ***

[Crossbow]

I'm going completely nuts here. Sunday the game loaded and played flawlessly. Monday I didn't get on the computer. Today... the game will not load again. I changed NOTHING. The last thing I did Sunday was log out of the game and shut down the computer normally. Haven't touched the thing since then.

[Tweak42]

I'm going completely nuts here. Sunday the game loaded and played flawlessly. Monday I didn't get on the computer. Today... the game will not load again. I changed NOTHING. The last thing I did Sunday was log out of the game and shut down the computer normally. Haven't touched the thing since then.

Excluding software and drivers, the only thing I can deduce from that is you may have flaky hardware. It could be something as simple as a hard drive cable or a bad sector of ram or maddening like a motherboard that works 99% of the time. Have you tried a different (other than ubuntu) linux install?