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

[Tapanez]

Uh, a few days without using Ubuntu and WoW doesn't works as before, appears is problem with the new version o Wine 0.9.61?? Login screen seems slow, very slow, and without touching anything!

[ferod]

Wow... *expression, not the game*. Just swapped to hardy from windows xp, was surprised to find after doing the usual setup i was hitting 100 fps outside and 50 in cities, it's generally 70 outside and 20 in cities >.<.

Tap check your config, my wow reverted back to direct3d for some reason and I couldn't get past the login screen due to lag >.<.

[Osharu300zx]

Ok, I'm new to Linux in general. My little bro thought it would be fun to give me a comp with Ubuntu on it and make me learn it.

I'm having a problem with the shift key not linking with my mouse click (Such as trying to link an item, or open an item for socketing) Does anyone know why this might be?

[freyyr890]

I believe that's a Wine 0.9.59 bug. You can try updating Wine to 0.9.60 or 0.9.61 either by adding the official wine repository to your sources.list, or by building it from source.

Check http://www.winehq.org/site/download-deb for details on adding the wine repository to your apt sources.

[freesitebuilder]

I'm trying to install and run WoW for my son - I already had wine installed, and I can run other apps in wine OK.

I get the following message when I try to run:
Details: Text ended just after a '\' character. (The text was 'env WINEPREFIX="/home/dianne/.wine" wine "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft Trial\Launcher.exe" ֐紇h缀C:\')

system info:
Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+
Memory : 775MB (483MB used)
Operating System : Ubuntu 8.04
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : GeForce4 MX 440/AGP/SSE/3DNOW!
Version : 1.5.8 NVIDIA 96.43.05
Direct Rendering : Yes
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : VIA8233A - VIA 8233A
-Input Devices-
Macintosh mouse button emulation
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
Power Button (FF)
Power Button (CM)
Sleep Button (CM)
PC Speaker
GenPS/2 Genius Mouse

wine 1.0~rc1


I have a USB cable modem, I've installed Firestarter and set the preferences as specified in the how-to, but I see error messages during start-up that Firestarter can't find the specified devices (eth0, eth1). Firestarter shows that it's active.

TIA for any help on this - I really don't know what I'm doing, as you can no doubt tell!

[Resonance378]

"C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft Trial\Launcher.exe" ֐紇h缀C:\')

Dianne - I'm not familiar with what firestarter would have to do with your issue but I'd say that the line I've highlighted above has a bit to do with your issue.

Start poking there and if you could provide a bit more information as to how you have WoW installed (did you follow the guide at the start of this Thread? ) it would help immensely.

[mccord]

Ok, I'm new to Linux in general. My little bro thought it would be fun to give me a comp with Ubuntu on it and make me learn it.

I'm having a problem with the shift key not linking with my mouse click (Such as trying to link an item, or open an item for socketing) Does anyone know why this might be?

yeah it seems the shift click bug is back :/
getting the same with wine-1.0-rc1
edit: seems to be the addon 'wim' (instant messenger like addon) that is acting up, linking items in normal whispers is working!

@freesitebuilder:
could you try "/home/dianne/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft Trial/Launcher.exe"
instead of: "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft Trial\Launcher.exe"

[Sammi]

wine "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe"

or

wine "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Launcher.exe"

is actually the optimal way of starting WoW if you've installed it by running the installer in Wine and not just copying over

Wine sets the working directory right when you launch Windows apps this way.

[freesitebuilder]

I've corrected the launcher command, WoW starts. When I click "play" the screen resolution changes, panels remain and the rest of the screen goes black. Disk and network activity for about one minute, then nothing - system monitor shows process as zombie.

I installed using https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WorldofWarcraft instructions - which is why I installed Firestarter, until now I've left the firewall at default settings.

[pedro_orange]

Try appending the -opengl flag to your launcher command.

So you'd have something like:

wine "/home/pedro/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft/WoW.exe" -opengl

I presume your card supports direct rendering?

glxinfo | grep rendering

BTW: Hope the Swindon Users day went well & I heard you on Ubuntu-Uk Podcast! Wh00p!

Don't leave your son on WoW for too long! It's super addictive!