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

[Faud]

OK, so I followed this HOWTO and when I open WoW it goes to the cinematic, and right before I get to the login screen, Ubuntu restarts itself, and I end up at the login screen. can someone please help me?

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First of all, please post what kind of hardware you're running Wine + WoW with - It's much easier to help you with that kind of info...

Thank you FlatLux
Dethis
Also please post your version of WINE as well as your config.wtf file.

[Dethis]

First of all, please post what kind of hardware you're running Wine + WoW with - It's much easier to help you with that kind of info...

I am running the latest version of Wine and I'm installing WoW from a trail CD

I will edit this post with my hardware when I get home.

I think that I have a Gateway 507GR

EDIT:

My comps specs/hardware

http://www.dealtime.com/xPF-Gateway-507GR

[clikc]

I am using CrossOver. I get my patches from here and install them with CrossOver.

http://a.wirebrain.de/wow/

ok, so i see that they have windowz and mac downloads, i'm asumeing that i have to download the windows version and copy the files, which files would i copy, and is there a command that i run for it to install?

thanks in advance.

[fedex1993]

i heard that people running WoW on linux they where banning the accounts because some of there trackable programs to check and see if they whre running cheats and macros and those coultnd be run on ubuntu

[American_Outcast]

ok, so i see that they have windowz and mac downloads, i'm asumeing that i have to download the windows version and copy the files, which files would i copy, and is there a command that i run for it to install?

thanks in advance.

I can't help you to much with wine. Sorry. This is what I do with CrossOver, maybe this will give you some ideas.

I download the patches. Each patch I install needs to have the previous patch installed. WoW is funny that way. With CrossOver there is an option to "Install Windows Programs." I install the patches in the same bottle as WoW. Thats it. I did use Wine sometime ago and I think it would be similar in that. If you do a search here at the forum or Google for " Installing WoW patches in Wine, " or something like that, you should be able to some up with something.

[American_Outcast]

i heard that people running WoW on linux they where banning the accounts because some of there trackable programs to check and see if they whre running cheats and macros and those coultnd be run on ubuntu

I haven't heard of anybody getting banned. They may have been banned for other reasons, but I have been running WoW for awhile with CrossOver and they are well aware of that fact. (Long story, but there was a few telephone incidents with tech support.) I have had no problems with CrossOVer, WoW and Ubuntu

Now I do believe Cedega has had some issues in the past with WoW but from my understanding they try and resolve the issue as a fast as they can and Blizzard does work with them.

[tisto]

I have dependencies problems when trying to install whine. I get this:

sudo apt-get install wine
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
wine: Depends: binfmt-support (>= 1.1.2) but it is not installable
Depends: libaudio2 but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

Any can help me resolve this?

[hikaricore]

i heard that people running WoW on linux they where banning the accounts because some of there trackable programs to check and see if they whre running cheats and macros and those coultnd be run on ubuntu

As Outcast said above me here, this is FALSE.

The issue was with Cedega users and only Cedega users and was due to a flaw in the way Blizzard's "Warden" software acted in the WineX environment. False positives were cleared up (some of them anyway) within a few weeks. Go Blizzard go! Fail your userbase at common sense. lol

[American_Outcast]

I have dependencies problems when trying to install whine. I get this:

sudo apt-get install wine
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
wine: Depends: binfmt-support (>= 1.1.2) but it is not installable
Depends: libaudio2 but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

Any can help me resolve this?

Try this instead.

Go to Applications>Add/Remove

Then when that window pops up do a search in the top left and type in wine. Try installing it that way first and see if that works better.

Edit: If it says it is installed then uninstall it and reinstall it.

[ImNeat]

I'm getting a strange color issue with WoW which renders the game impossible to play. Also getting extremely poor FPS (6ish).

I attached an image to give an idea of the problem.

Any suggestions? Thanks!
(Intel X3100 IGP; Gutsy)