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

[lilbugleboy09]

I'm having problems with wine itself...
I've tried installing it 3 different ways but it won't appear in my home folder with the hidden files or when i try to find it with the terminal.
help please?

[hikaricore]

I'm having problems with wine itself...
I've tried installing it 3 different ways but it won't appear in my home folder with the hidden files or when i try to find it with the terminal.
help please?

Have your run:

winecfg

From a terminal?


It will create the .wine directory in your home folder if it doesn't already exist.

Normally it is created upon the installation of the wine deb package if I'm not mistaken.

[lilbugleboy09]

oh wow thanks

[lilbugleboy09]

Ok, new question.
After starting and downloading the patches I get an "Unable to start up 3D acceleration" message.
is it my ATI card? is there anything i can do about it?

[Sammi]

Ok, new question.
After starting and downloading the patches I get an "Unable to start up 3D acceleration" message.
is it my ATI card? is there anything i can do about it?

Here are two good links with info on ATI::
http://www.albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI

ATI haven't made the best drivers for Linux, so your mileage may vary.

[lilbugleboy09]

ENVY ERROR: ATI's Legacy driver does not support your operating system

I thought Envy was supposed to find the appropriate driver?
Stupid ATI...

[Wakkarnc]

Ok, I'm having some really weird issues. I downloaded Wow just fine, and installed it, no problems. Now, when I try to run the game itself, it keeps giving me some trouble. The Wow tab opens on the taskbar, but I can't see anything inside the window, regardless of how long I wait. In Terminal, I keep getting some different error messages, depending on what tweaks I try to run in winecfg to make it run. It seems it is the audio that keeps messing with it.

Now, when I run OSS Driver, Hardware Acceleration: Full, Default Sample Rate: 22050, Default Bits Per Sample: 8. It gives me this message:

 fixme:advapi:SetSecurityInfo stub
fixme:powrprof:DllMain (0x7c870000, 1, (nil)) not fully implemented
fixme:ntdll:NtPowerInformation Unimplemented NtPowerInformation action: 11
fixme:powrprof:DllMain (0x7c870000, 0, (nil)) not fully implemented
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33ede4,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f328,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f5ec,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f5ec,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f05c,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 113 (SPI_SETMOUSESPEED)
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_GetAvailableTextureMem (0x1b4c60) : stub, simulating 64MB for now, returning 64MB left
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f05c,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 112 (SPI_GETMOUSESPEED)
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 113 (SPI_SETMOUSESPEED)
err:wave:DSDB_MapBuffer Could not map sound device for direct access (Input/output error)
err:wave:DSDB_MapBuffer Please run winecfg, open "Audio" page and set
"Hardware Acceleration" to "Emulation".
err:wave:DSDB_MapBuffer Could not map sound device for direct access (Input/output error)
err:wave:DSDB_MapBuffer Please run winecfg, open "Audio" page and set
"Hardware Acceleration" to "Emulation".
fixme:sync:CreateIoCompletionPort (0xffffffff, (nil), 00000000, 00000000): stub.

Now, I highlighted the parts I guess is the important feedback. However, when I do as the error message tells me and sets it to Emulation, it spams the entire Terminal with this untill I kill Wow.exe

 fixme:dsound:DSOUND_MixOne problem with underrun detection (mixlen=16384 < primary_done=42336)
fixme:dsound:DSOUND_MixOne problem with underrun detection (mixlen=16384 < primary_done=42336)
fixme:dsound:DSOUND_MixOne problem with underrun detection (mixlen=16384 < primary_done=42336)
fixme:dsound:DSOUND_MixOne problem with underrun detection (mixlen=16384 < primary_done=42336)
fixme:dsound:DSOUND_MixOne problem with underrun detection (mixlen=16384 < primary_done=42336)
fixme:dsound:DSOUND_MixOne problem with underrun detection (mixlen=16384 < primary_done=42336)
fixme:dsound:DSOUND_MixOne problem with underrun detection (mixlen=16384 < primary_done=42336)
fixme:dsound:DSOUND_MixOne problem with underrun detection (mixlen=16384 < primary_done=42336)
fixme:dsound:DSOUND_MixOne problem with underrun detection (mixlen=16384 < primary_done=40572)
fixme:dsound:DSOUND_MixOne problem with underrun detection (mixlen=16384 < primary_done=40572)

And alot of different values on the end there. I don't know why this is happening, because I have had Wow on this excact partition before, and it never gave me any hassle. Any help would be great.

EDIT: I think this is more of a general Wine issue, I just tried to wine DWI (a StepMania client) and it gave this error-message upon start-up:

 Unable to initialize sound

EDIT2: WTF! I tried using the ALSA driver instead, now it doesn't give me the error message, but instead freezes at the loading screen while making a sound that sounds like static. This is really confusing me... Any help would be great.

[Sammi]

@Wakkarnc
Have you tried using aoss like the howto explains?

[Enverex]

Hopefully after 0.9.40 you can use Wine's own ALSA driver but we'll see how that goes for now.

Although Wakkarnc, did you actually set the hardware option to Emulation like it said?

[zsteele]

Hopefully after 0.9.40 you can use Wine's own ALSA driver but we'll see how that goes for now.

Although Wakkarnc, did you actually set the hardware option to Emulation like it said?

I'm getting better performance out of the EsounD driver, but the ALSA driver works ok too.

The OSS driver, however, produces absolutely no audio.