World of Warcraft and wine

[alving2012]

Hi all

i have a HP Media center (M 1195): P4 @3.2GHz, 1536 Meg ram, ATI Radeon HD5450, Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid).

i was running World of Warcraft with out any problems, until i tried to install Diablo 3.
found out i needed to upgrade wine to at least ver 1.5.5 from ver 1.4 that i had.
I downloaded the source files and tried to install it.
Had to uninstall ver 1.4 first.
When i uninstalled ver 1.4, it uninstalled playonlinux. wine-gecko and winetricks as well.

Finally got version 1.5.5 installed. Reinstalled playonlinux, winetricks and wine-gecko.

Tried to play WoW.
When the launcher opens it checks and does all updates with no problems.
When i click Play, the launcher closes and doesnt open the game.

When i open WoW.exe, the game opens, i log-in, it says connecting, then success, then connected.
Most times it crashes here with error about “fglrx_dri.so” or “Unhandled Exception Error”.
On occasion i have gotten to the character screen, when i select a character and click “enter world”,
the bar gets about 1/2” from full and the game locks up.
no error message, no nothing.
The only way i can get out is to Alt-F4.

If anyone has any suggestions, or has had the same problem...
any help will be greatly apprecaited.

if more info is needed, let me know.

Thanks
alving

[qparis]

PlayOnLinux is not supported here. You must use plain wine.

Ensure that your drivers are well installed

[alving2012]

ok. should i uninstall PlayOnLinux? as in its not needed to run the game.
or because its just not supported in this forum.

i was reading another thread that said,
when installing wine to run games, it should be installed using the command.
"./configure -opengl"

i have the following lines in the Config.wtf file:
SET SoundOutputSystem "1"
SET SoundBufferSize "150"
SET gxApi "OpenGL"

should i uninstall wine, then reinstall using the -opengl?
does it make a difference?

thanks again in advance
alving

[dimesio]

ok. should i uninstall PlayOnLinux? as in its not needed to run the game.
or because its just not supported in this forum.

If you didn't use POL to install the game and aren't using it to run it, there is no need to uninstall it just to get help here. If you did use POL to install it, in order to get help here you need to post the POL log from the install to verify that the Wine used was unmodified and that no unnecessary overrides were applied.

Most times it crashes here with error about “fglrx_dri.so”

That indicates a problem with your graphics driver. Try reinstalling, and make sure you also have 32 bit opengl installed if your OS is 64 bit.

You should also read through the AppDB howto for WoW. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=24878

[alving2012]

i didnt use the POL to install the game.
i used downloader from WoW website.

as far as i know im only running a 32 bit system.
will check and post.

thanks
alving

[alving2012]

WELL DUH!!!

dont i feel like a fool.
the 32 bit system is i386, and AMD64 for 64 bit system.

mine is i386.

with everything i have been reading saying that my game should be running.
i think im just going to uninstall everything, , and start all over again.

[alving2012]

ok. i think im more confused now than when i started.

i uninstalled wine 1.5.5 with make uninstall.
then checked to see if it was gone...

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allyn@allyn-HP:~$ sudo apt-cache policy wine
[sudo] password for allyn: 
wine:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1.2.3-0ubuntu1~ppa2~lucid1
  Version table:
     1.2.3-0ubuntu1~ppa2~lucid1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
     1.2.2-0ubuntu2~lucid1 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/universe Packages
     1.2.1-1ubuntu1~lucidppa1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/scottritchie/build-tests/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
     1.1.42-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages
allyn@allyn-HP:~$ which wine
/usr/bin/wine
allyn@allyn-HP:~$ wine --version
wine-1.4
allyn@allyn-HP:~$ sudo apt-cache policy wine-gecko
wine-gecko:
  Installed: 1.2.2-1ubuntu1~lucid1
  Candidate: 1.2.2-1ubuntu1~lucid1
  Version table:
 *** 1.2.2-1ubuntu1~lucid1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.2.2-0ubuntu2~lucid1 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/multiverse Packages
     1.2.1-1ubuntu1~lucidppa1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/scottritchie/build-tests/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
     1.1.42-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/multiverse Packages
allyn@allyn-HP:~$ sudo apt-cache policy winetricks
winetricks:
  Installed: 0.0+20120308~ppa1
  Candidate: 0.0+20120308~ppa1
  Version table:
 *** 0.0+20120308~ppa1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
allyn@allyn-HP:~$ 

but why does apt-cache say installed = none and wine --version now says 1.4?

will apt-cache say nothing installed if i compiled it???

im just starting to figure out compiling source codes,
it is possible i compiled ver 1.4 and i dont remember. but i dont think i did.

i tried the Launcher.exe again with same effect.
when i tried Wow.exe i actually got in,
unfortunately it was on a friends account.
my time card expired the day before.

is it possible to have 2 versions of wine installed?
Wow works with version 1.4,
but ive heard i need at least version 1.5.6 to run Diablo 3.

thanks
alving

[dimesio]

will apt-cache say nothing installed if i compiled it???

Yes. Package managers only track packages.

is it possible to have 2 versions of wine installed?

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-5d2fd50 ... 59e67c465f