Talk:World of Warcraft/Wine
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[edit] The hard drive Space Problem, with ubuntu 6.06 and WINE 9.23
After following this wonderful resource and successfulling installing WoW (from my original install disks, copied to a directory on my HD) under WINE (9.23) in ubuntu (6.06), logging in to my account (sound and video seem to work well), initiating the patch download and successfully downloading the file, I am now getting the blizzard downloader's "not enough space on your hard drive" error.
I have tried the modification to the TMP and TEMP WINE registry keys, but it did not help. My keys were set to "C:\windows\temp", which exists in my file system under home\kkellyc\.wine\c_drive. I made sure that C: was mapped to this in the winecfg as well. And that about exhausts my limited understanding of the situation. I suspect that there is now a difference associated with wine 9.23 than changes the registry - these environment variables were not located in the registry tree where the HowTwo described them.
Any insight would be appreciated. If there is simply a different way to manually apply the patch, I'm game. I am just typing "wine wowpatchfilename.exe" at the terminal, and it launches blizzard's downloader which gives me the error message.
Thanks! --Kelly 11:47, 18 October 2006 (GMT)
- Assuming that you are not in fact out of HD space (sorry, I had to ask!), did you try installing with a previous version of wine + the registry workaround? If that works, then something has changed in 0.9.23 and we should definitely mention it. --Dhris 20:21, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
- I have the exact same problem with the 1.11.x-to-1.12.0 patch. I don't know if the 2.0.1 patch will prove difficult too. Using wine-0.9.25. --Franky999 02:19, 2 January 2007 (UTC) (edit: I also created and set the registry keys AND I have enough disk space.)
[edit] Hello everybody
Hello everybody,
I updated the HowTo. And since it has been accepted in the gameing comunity I want to thank everybody that made this possibele and enlarged the acceptance. I hope we will continue on this in future. And maybe more ppl then me use this discussionpage to improve the Hopwto. ease give feadback what you think about it here or on the Forums WoW support thread.
Have fun! --Legine 11:13, 9 November 2005 (GMT)
One important thing:
I am not on the Mailinglist. Please if you have anything to say say it here. thx.
--Legine 16:46, 6 May 2005 (GMT)
[edit] adding stuff to this Howto
Hi. I recognized that a lot of How tos are written in a fassion of a Link collection and I done now this or that... Now this type of howtos give a basic Idea of what the interesnt has to look at. But does not show him the nowledge You have.On this how to people come here with the intension to play a game. They want to play it now and not read 20 pages of links. So please.
- If you supply information. Try to give a short expanation when to use it if they are an addition.
- If you provide Links. Backround Information, explanation on bugs. etc. Try to point out with one or two sentences why the Article you build into is interesting. Better try to point to the interesting part. which makes it easier to rate the Artikle you have pointed to for importancy.
- If you are to lazy to do this, haveing no time or whatever please at least add to the todo list so others can step in and improve the stuff you see here.
It would be great if you could do this. I think the reader of this HowTo will appreciate it, and the Quality of this article rises. Thanks for your Contributions made so far and made in the future. --legine 23:18, 8 Jun 2005 (GMT)
[edit] TODO List
No actuall changes planned
[edit] ReWrite
I've used this howto and also contributed to this howto. It is however getting very messy. It's not clear what to do any longer. Some things are new, some things are old and not needed to be done.
I suggest this document should get rewritten/cleansed of old information. E.g. Drop all the < 0.9.7 stuff. If someone needs it, it's in the history of this document (or copy the doc and refer to that for older versions). Don't mention any cedega things in this document, there is a special page for cedega. A nother example is the OSS/Alsa issue. Wine claims their alsa support is pretty good, yet here it's claimed that OSS support is better. What truely is better? (Besides, 'just try and see') On a side note, I had lots of problems with wine 1.9.x and wine. I now play in cedega, if this is still the case, it should be mentioned so.
I don't know if someone should just do the changes, or it needs to be voted on, it is however important that it starts happening, because the page is getting hopeless.
- I'd suggest just doing the changes, that's what I did with my initial rewrite (before that, it was a horrible jumbled mess of a HOWTO. It had all the info, just in an arbitrary order, tucked in between lots of useless info). I don't think enough people check these pages to even have any sort of vote, and if worst comes to worst, there's always the history feature. People'll thank you once it's done ;) On the same note, I think this talk page needs to be purged sometime soon, it's starting to get pretty full of uselessness by itself :) -- irCuBiC 08:26, 15 March 2006 (GMT)
- Well I dont have time nowadays so I just bump in on occasions. The wikki is constanty evolving, so I think it is doing great. From my part if you like to keep the version numbers up to date go for it.
- Well I would like to get rid of the wifiy statement in line 2, and the TODO List is way to old I emptied it from above. The most disturbing thing I find Is why the damn wikify is in there. It looks splended in my eyes and I read hardly about any complains that the wikki cant be followed (thx to all the people working on it). (Honestly I dont have time to read a lot at the moment.) So are there hmm needs in wikifying or can we just dump that line. thx.
--Legine 16:43, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
- I've got some free time, so I'll help out with the cleanup process. I'd love to rid that wikify tag...
Jaker 18:52, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Sound
I have to start by saying thanks this did help me out alot!
and actually this tutorial/guide were the reason I finaly decided to get rid of my windows partition (and windows) once and for all. It's all gentoo from here on.
Though I experianced one problem, which I currently have not got to work, and that is the sound driver system, I can't seem to find the file reffered to as "your wine config file" this could be one of many things, I have not got it, I have not searched in the right place *still somewhat new to linux in general and gentoo in particular* or just the fact that I'm really tired right now :P
well if anyone could hint me in the right direction here I would appriciate it, btw, my sound is working, but it just sort of burst short dots of music which is rather anoying so at this point I just inactivated the sound, but it would be cool to get it working.
THANK you for one of the most awsome resources ever, way to go!
Hi
This comes through changes in wine. I am now updating wine. (And I think I delete The Cadega Part it is only in the way). --Legine 08:15, 9 November 2005 (GMT)
Great!
Once again thanks that solved the problem and it's all working now! Great work, I love this resource it's well written and the contents are great. Just wanted you to know that you solved my problems (again) --Qrikko 19:01, 14 November 2005 (GMT)
[edit] MMO Markets
Buying money and Items with real money is prohibit by Blizzard. If you use these Methods to boost your account you can be banned from the game permanently.
[edit] Touch-up of HOWTO
I've "touched up" the HOWTO a bit after having problems following it myself when I tried to install the game. IMO, it is much easier to follow now, and more free from outdated and/or misleading information.
I also took the liberty of adding a new patch for wine-0.9.4 that prevents a crash that has happened with me and a few other people. I'm not sure if it's absolutely needed for everyone, so I put it in the troubleshooting section, but if wine-0.9.4 is completely unusable without it, please feel free to merge it into the installing/patching procedure. I have no idea myself, but I know I had to use it to make 0.9.4 work. =) -- irCuBiC 10:40, 5 January 2006 (GMT)
thx for makeing the HowTo up to date. --Legine 14:38, 5 January 2006 (GMT)
[edit] 100% CPU usage but nothing happens
Nevermind, it was a general wine problem - i deleted the ~/.wine directory and it worked...
-212.99.208.67 17:26, 6 February 2006 (GMT)
[edit] Overall result
Even after getting it to work, the overall result I get from all these efforts is not so great. The only driver which provides decent results is OSS (not possible to redirect that with aoss). I tried jack (with low-latency preempt patches), but for every graphic operation and local network operation I get latency spikes - the jack-alsa plug only works for aplay. Alsa drivers just result in too much delay between video and audio.
So to play WoW, I have to quit all programs using audio devices, stop all background processes (such as emerge). And then I still end up with the buffer underruns that occur in windows also (during loading times), just that with OSS those result in a crashing, earsplitting noise-sound, that may stop on its own or may require a restart of WoW.
In summary, I think, as long as you have a Windows system to dual-boot, there's nothing much to gain by the whole operation (other than the learning experience).
-212.99.208.67 07:48, 9 February 2006 (GMT)
hmm, I think you havent tried to run a compile process on windows in backround? I wish you fun with that. On my computer I can run emerge in backround. It works okey the game sucks a bit because my fps drops from 20 to 10. But hell I do a compile process.
Sound is of course an issue. The coppingcan henced quite good with the set Param in wtf.config. Of course you should not nicen your process if you do run more then one thingy at the same time that of course wont help, bc the sheduller corrects your settings in the backround :(
The bufferunderuns are a tweaking thing that also some Windos people are experienceing.
I have the advantage that I can use other backrounds on my comp in the backround (email browser). And do some fastswitching between them.
Of course thats my experience... I wish you fun while dualbooting (takes ages here :D ) --Legine 11:20, 3 March 2006 (GMT)
[edit] concerning wine-0.9.10
wine-0.9.9 should work with the current patch, but with wine-0.9.10 we will need a new patch, since there have been major changes in wine/dlls/opengl32/wgl.c - well, no need to create one now. It's just for preparation. wine-0.9.10 will be out in probably less than 3 weeks :)
[edit] opengl.dll and glu32.dll missing
I just followed this really nice guide but unfortunately WoW.exe complains about OPENGL.DLL and GLU32.DLL missing. i installed Mozilla and Active X as advised by the HOWTO but it seems that there are dlls missing?! Can anyone tell me what is wrong? Thanks! --Snipes
- Did you emerge Wine with +opengl? 84.160.155.247 13:57, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
- for an opengl plugin there is USE="glut" needed.
[edit] Mozilla/ActiveX not actually required
The article section "Installing Active X for the new Patchsystem" is not actually required on a fresh install of wine (at least 0.9.27 and above). The patcher will ask to install Gecko, but if you click cancel it will still patch the game, just not showing anything above the progress bar except a white window. The patch will 100% successfully apply, however. Tested on amd64 Gentoo, >=wine-0.9.27, both with and without Burning Crusade installed. No Mozilla/Gecko/ActiveX mucking around required. --broken_chaos 07:08, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Confirmed on wine-0.9.42, hit yes to install Gecko to see everything.
[edit] intel 945GMA graphics vs. WoW?
Anyone has this combination? I have such problem:
wine WoW.exe -opengl doesn't work, related to this bug (same err): http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11131 wine WoW.exe -directx works OK, but gives terrible performance when rendering outside sceneries (anywhere you can see sky), its around 5-8fps.
Someone told me that perfromance under openGL is ok, has someone managed to get it working? please report kernel version, mesa version, xf86-video-i810 version.
big thanks
Hello, as far as I know the linux intel drivers do not have any good OpenGL support, therefore the game won't run under OpenGL. I have the same problem on my laptop and have not been able to fix this yet.
[edit] SVG icon alternative
There is a much nicer icon at KDE files
-- memeyou@memeyou.net
[edit] TODO: Add torrent files to the download section
Can you add torrent files to the download section? That way, one can starb grabbing stuff immediately.
