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

[MurnShaw]

cpu, ram, video card) and Wine and video driver versions

lol glad to see I'm not the only one with the problem. My specs are below:

Pentium 4D 3.2 Ghz
1Gb Kingston Ram
ATI Radeon Pro 9800 SE
Wine Version 0.9.34
Video Driver Info: display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9800 SE Generic
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6011 (8.28.8)

I've found that if I delete the interface folder and the config.wtf it'll let me log on without crashing. But I have to do it every time I want to play. For example, if I log off and decide to log on again, I'd have to delete the interface folder and the config.wtf file again.

[Farflungfish]

Log in, after several seconds it locks up, no keyboard control. Only a crappy mouse floating about

AMD64 Clawhammer (feel the power!)
2GB Corsair 3200
ATI Radeon 9800 PRO (agp)
K8S-MAX (with sis_agp disabled)
Wine Version 0.9.34
200gb Western Digital

I think im running the open source drivers, though im not 100%, but more than likely also the latest ones. Oh, though im not sure if my problem with completely related to these, though i did have the lockup after EULA. This is actually the first day i have installed and got wow running, so it might be completely coincidental.

[MurnShaw]

I just installed the newest ati drivers from the amd site (version 2.0.64) and it still locks up. Just a heads up.

[Even]

Yep, I was running fine until the latest patch. Another ATI user out in the cold.

[jcronkhite]

@Sammi - Thanks for the tips. I almost got there; I was SO CLOSE! But WoW would lock up in 10 seconds as others have described in the past. So what I did instead was created a dual boot of WinXP and Feisty 5. Ubuntu will be my primary OS while XP will simply be my game console (like an old Nintendo or something ). In any case, I can now install other Windows games and if I want a real computer I'll load the Linux side of the drive. Thanks as usual for the help! We n00bs need it!

[huwbie]

Another one with hard locks..

System specs

P4 3.2ghz
1GB Ram (Kingston)
ATI X800XT PE
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON X800 XT Platinum Edition Generic
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6011 (8.28.8)


I can get it to run in D3D mode, but with huge gfx glitches.. hopefully a fix will come about soon! I dislike playing on windows lol

[geekpower73]

System specs

Intel M 1.86 Ghz
1 Gb RAM
Radeon Mobility X600
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON X600 Generic
OpenGL version string: 2.0.5814 (8.25.18 )

wine-0.9.34

It appears the problem is not dependent of a specific ATI driver version.

[PrairieShaman]

I have corrupt CDs? yikes.. how does that happen I just bought them...

Ive been trying to get WOW working on ubuntu for a few weeks now and gave up the downloading of the files because the blizzard downloader only gets up to about 10k/sec when its running its fastest and I downloaded a bit torrent version of the install files that was 3.16gb and when I finally finished downloading it the archive manager told me it was a corrupt file and couldn't be uncompressed.

I left my blizzard downloader on over night last night and its still only at 5% downloaded today.. at this rate I will have the game downloaded in about 3 weeks when I have the cd's right next to me that I paid a good $35 to get.

And just for the record I have

2.80ghz Intel
2gb Ram
nVidia GeForce 6800 GT OC 256mb AGP
Wine version 0.9.33

[Moeru]

I've only experimented with Feisty on my laptop. Haven't tried WoW on it, but other than general instability that one can expect from a beta, there shouldn't be anything specific stopping WoW from running on it that I know of. What error output are you getting?

Just a hard system lock. No chance to actually see the errors

I went back to Edgy since its working fine in there

[warewolf55]

It's fairly evident that the problem is with the ATI drivers, regardless of version. Has anyone gotten WoW to work with an ATI card after the 2.0.12 update? There are over 8 million players, some have to have an ATI card and some of those have to be Linux users. I can scarcely find any information elsewhere where users are having problems.