WoW WotLK Beta cant install

Boktai1000 · Post by **Boktai1000** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:45 pm

With the recent release of the WotLK Beta, after running the installer and scrolling all the way through the EULA, the Accept button remains grayed out. The game works fine, if you were to install it on a Windows partition and then copy it over you would be able to execute the game. Even though this is just a Beta it would prob be a good idea to start working on how to fix this because more and more people are going to be getting in, and the installer for the retail game will probably work in a similar way also.

Here is a SS of the problem - http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/8178/w ... ll1wy0.jpg

The beta is closed, but anyone is able to download the client, so for testing purposes heres the links if you need them.

Torrent - http://wotlkwiki.info/WotLK-Beta-3.0.1- ... er.torrent

US Blizz Downloader - http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/download ... -enUS.html

EU Blizz Downloader - http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/download ... -enGB.html

Its a pretty big download, about 1.9gb. The Torrent and the US Blizz Downloader are identical, the Torrent just uses a client of your choice and the Blizz Downloader uses its own client. The EU Downloader dosnt have torrent yet, only via Blizz Downloader.

Wine Version 1.1.1, Ubuntu 8.04.1 (Fully Updated)

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 2:07 pm

Boktai1000 wrote:

With the recent release of the WotLK Beta, after running the installer and scrolling all the way through the EULA,
the Accept button remains grayed out.

I assume you tried this, but just asking to be sure - did you click on
the agree button just to test that it didn't work? Fairly often I will
have buttons through wine, and in Linux outside of wine, that show as
gray and look disabled until I actually click on them, then they work fine.

Blizzard has gone out of their way to make WoW Linux friendly even
though they do not officially support it, I would be surprised if this
were (or stayed) a major problem. I will free up some drive space and
give it a try on my Ubuntu system, I do agree that early testing is in
our best interest.

Boktai1000 · Post by **Boktai1000** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 2:18 pm

I'm going to try to click the button as soon as I finish installing on my XP Partition, one thing I forgot to mention, you might need WoW + BC already installed to install this, I had both already on my Ubuntu and XP partition so it didn't say anything to me but the beta is a standalone client, and will install to a separate folder which will let you have your live realm install and beta install at the same time. Again I'm not 100% sure if you need them because I already had both pre-installed. I'll edit this post if the button works but I think I tried clicking it and it didn't, will retry though after.

Edit: Clicking the grayed out Accept button was no go, I tried pressing Enter, Scrolling down the EULA with the scroll wheel, the side bar, and page down then trying to click Accept and nothing worked, so the only logical answer seems to be something has to be fixed/changed in Wine in order to get this to work.

Xlorep DarkHelm · Post by **Xlorep DarkHelm** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:12 am

Boktai1000 wrote:With the recent release of the WotLK Beta, after running the installer and scrolling all the way through the EULA, the Accept button remains grayed out. The game works fine, if you were to install it on a Windows partition and then copy it over you would be able to execute the game. Even though this is just a Beta it would prob be a good idea to start working on how to fix this because more and more people are going to be getting in, and the installer for the retail game will probably work in a similar way also.

Here is a SS of the problem - http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/8178/w ... ll1wy0.jpg

Wine Version 1.1.1, Ubuntu 8.04.1 (Fully Updated)

I have exactly the same issue currently.

The beta is closed, but anyone is able to download the client, so for testing purposes...

Not quite true. You need to have WoW Burning Crusade installed to be able to install the beta client at all. To have that, you need to have gotten the Burning Crusade client, which will install if you have an active WoW account... so complex and kinda difficult to test the problem I think, unless the person already has a WoW Burning Crusade install going.

My plan right now, is to install WoW's client on my WinXP laptop, then follow up by installing the Beta client as well. From that, I then will copy the installed Beta client back to my desktop, which hopefully will circumvent this problem entirely. The only problem is this is a royal pain to get all working.

I have so far gotten the beta client copied over to my laptop, and am getting the regular client's installer downloaded to then put it also on my WinXP system.

Xlorep DarkHelm · Post by **Xlorep DarkHelm** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 7:49 pm

Someone posted a good work-around to install the beta client with WINE on the official beta forum for WoW:

Source

It's a problem with the HTML controls.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13321

I got it to install by using ies4linux, shudder. http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Installation

Run BC once using ies4's wineprefix to create the proper registry entries, then run the wrath installer using ies4's prefix, then move wrath to your regular wineprefix and create shortcuts as necessary.

$ WINEPREFIX=~/.ies4linux/ie6 wow
$ WINEPREFIX=~/.ies4linux/ie6 /path/to/Wrath/Installer
$ mv ~/.ies4linux/ie6/drive_c/Program\ Files/Wrath ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Wrath

$ cat ~/bin/wrath

#!/bin/bash

cd /home/<me>/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Wrath\ of\ the\ Lich\ King\ Beta/

wine explorer /desktop=wow,1440x900 Launcher.exe "$@"&

Boktai1000 · Post by **Boktai1000** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 7:49 pm

Yea I wasn't sure if you did or not. Here's the client if anyone needs it.

WoW - http://a.wirebrain.de/wow/torrent/wowcl ... er.torrent

BC - http://a.wirebrain.de/wow/torrent/WoW-B ... er.torrent

You'll need to install WoW, BC then the WotLK beta, in that order. All clients/patches are free for anyone to download and install, no cd-key required, the only thing needed to pay for is the account. For more mirrors, patches, etc, here's a link to the wowwiki were I got these links.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Patch_mirrors

lordbelgar · Post by **lordbelgar** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:29 am

Thank you Xlorep DarkHelm, that work-around works like a charm