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

[willskills]

Hi guys, sorry if this has been posted before. I finally have vent & WoW sound together. It works pretty much like it says in the wiki, but I had to do 1 more thing to get it to work. I had to check ESound in the driver list, as well as OSS, in my winecfg sound tab.

In ventrilo I have my device input and output set to ESound, and the mixer as ALSA. Running Ventrilo first, and then WoW, both with aoss.

In my Sound options in System > Prefs, I have everything set to ALSA, using my default soundcard (my logitech usb headset)

Hooray \o/

[BongoBob]

Hello everyone.

I installed WoW fine and dandy, and made the tweaks and am using opengl,
but I have a problem. I get a pretty solid framerate, except for just
about every 5 seconds, it completely freezes. To test my theory that
OpenGL is the problem, when I run glxgears, it freezes about every 5
seconds.

Can anyone help me out with this?

System Specs:
Ubuntu 6.10
Custom 2.6.20.4 kernel
AMD AthlonXP 2000+
786MB RAM
GeForce 6600GT AGP4X graphics card.
Wine Version 0.9.34

Thanks in advance

[Tholin]

But honestly all of these different solutions are arcane at best. I do most of them and can still only start the game once every 10 tries. I found it to be an excellent excuse to stop playing altogether...

hehe. Either that or go buy an nVidia card... Or dual-boot with Windose. Thanks for your reply

[willskills]

What driver do you have installed for your card? Do you have the 2 required *.dll's in /drive_c/windows/system ?

Have a look at the howto again!

[earthmeLon]

Hey guys.

I have given up on getting WoW to run decently on my Radeon 200M, so I'm not trying on my desktop. It's got a 9550, and I'm running into a new problem.

Now whenever I run WoW, only 3/4 of the screen gets rendered, and everything is pushed to the left. I've added an attachment so that you can see what I am talking about.

I think it might have something to do with my Dual Monitor configuration, but I can't figure out what to do.

Thanks in advance :]

[spaceghoti]

Hey guys.

I have given up on getting WoW to run decently on my Radeon 200M, so I'm not trying on my desktop. It's got a 9550, and I'm running into a new problem.

Now whenever I run WoW, only 3/4 of the screen gets rendered, and everything is pushed to the left. I've added an attachment so that you can see what I am talking about.

I think it might have something to do with my Dual Monitor configuration, but I can't figure out what to do.

Thanks in advance :]

If you take your system out of dual monitor mode, does it still do this?

Are you able to put WoW into Windowed Mode so you can adjust its size and position on the desktop? If you can't do it from within WoW, you can set it up in winecfg.

I realize these are workarounds rather than solutions, but without seeing your xorg.conf file I can't do much else.

[hetzz]

Hello

Been readin this thread over and over again for the last 2 days. At first i tried to get wow running with 2 monitors, after 2 days of failure i gave up. I knew i had wow running last time i tried ubuntu+wow. So i thought it would be no problems goin back to one screen, rather playing wow with one screen than not playing at all

At first it just hard froze the computer directly when the wow-window showed up. After testing with the "fix-all" commando i got so far ive accually ran around(cheering and beeing happy) then it all froze again

Config.wtf

SET gxColorBits "24"
SET gxDepthBits "24"
SET gxResolution "1024x768"
SET gxRefresh "60"
SET hwDetect "0"
SET fullAlpha "1"
SET lodDist "100.000000"
SET SmallCull "0.040000"
SET DistCull "500.000000"
SET trilinear "1"
SET frillDensity "32"
SET farclip "477"
SET specular "1"
SET pixelShaders "1"
SET particleDensity "1.000000"
SET unitDrawDist "300.000000"
SET movie "0"
SET readTOS "1"
SET realmList "eu.logon.worldofwarcraft.com"
SET readEULA "1"
SET readScanning "-1"
SET readContest "-1"
SET gxMultisampleQuality "0.000000"
SET accountName "lol"
SET locale "enGB"
SET realmName "Twisting Nether"
SET gxWindow "1"
SET mouseSpeed "1"
SET DesktopGamma "1"
SET Gamma "1.000000"
SET lastCharacterIndex "1"
SET profanityFilter "0"
SET MusicVolume "0.40000000596046"
SET SoundVolume "1"
SET MasterVolume "1"
SET cameraYawMoveSpeed "180"
SET cameraYawSmoothSpeed "180"
SET cameraDistanceMaxFactor "1"
SET gameTip "2"
SET AmbienceVolume "0.60000002384186"
SET statusBarText "1"
SET uiScale "1"
SET UnitNameNPC "1"
SET autoSelfCast "1"
SET SoundOutputSystem "1"
SET SoundBufferSize "150"
SET gxApi "OpenGL"

xorg.config

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "ATI Technologies, Inc. RV350 AP [Radeon 9600]"
	Driver      "fglrx"
	Option	    "VideoOverlay" "on"
	Option	    "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
        Option       "Capabilities" "0x00000800"
        Option       "UseFastTLS" "off"
        Option       "KernelModuleParm" "locked-userpages=0"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

I had during the dualmonitor-tests similar problems as earthmelon, (in vlc and screensaver also ^^)


edit: with further testing i think the problem has to do with the sound in some way. Started wow, and waited for it to freeze... nothing happend. I was surprised it didnt, and started Rhythmbox, at first wow just dropped to low fps.(no sound at all at this moment, though a song was playing and sound was activated in wow) I thought maybe this would be solved if i turned off all sounds in wow (usally i play with no sound i wow and music) First i turned off Rhythmbox and then i went to turn of the sound in wow. When ive unchecked all boxes it all froze again

[Harkainos]

Did I miss TBC installation? Didn't see anything here. Granted my eyes are probably bleeding from all the reading.

Do I copy all the CD's from both games into the same folder, then run the install? If i have it already installed on my NTFS drive can i just install the first group of CD's then copy the rest into the folder?

[Cloudy]

:[

The game keeps freezing on me at the login screen. I tried all the fixes for it listed both here in this topic and in the wiki HowTo; I guess it just wasn't meant to be.


EDITFASE: I got it to work by changing into the WoW directory and then running

WINEDEBUG="fixme-all" wine WoW.exe -opengl

Though I'm not holding my breath to see if it works again at 1pm when my realm is back up.

[Robotriot]

hey. I just got ubuntu yesterday.. and im trying it out today.. I followed all the instructions even the ones to vastly improve game proformance.. but im getting very low FPS.. I have the latest drivers for my nvdia GeForce.. I got wine.. Is there something im missing??