SegFault with World of Warcraft

AapoAlas · Post by **AapoAlas** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 4:32 am

Hello!

A rather new wine user here. I'm running a 64bit ArchLinux and have installed wine and practically all 32bit libs, so as far as I know, I shouldn't have a problem there.

I'm trying to play World of Warcraft, but when starting the game up, it complains about Segmentation Fault and something about the LD_LIBRARY_PATH.http://pastebin.com/m7d89e8d4
There is the output when normally executing WoW.exe with wine while in the World of Warcraft folder.

On the #WineHQ channel a friendly guy tried to help me and told me to execute the WoW.exe with "/opt/wine/bin/wine" command. So I did, and ended up with the following output.
http://pastebin.com/m6082159b

More about my machine (can be seen on my signature too):
I have a GeForce 9800M GT video card and have the newest beta-version drivers for it (nvidia-beta 177.x and nivida-utils-beta 177.x). The driver being beta shouldn't really matter, 'cause this problem was present even when I had the newest stable drivers.

The World of Warcraft installation I am using is the newest Burning Crusade -patch and it has been copied straight from my Windows computer. Don't know if that could be an issue, though.

Hmm, what more... Oh well, I suppose that's about all.

Oh, except for the thing that my wine has been able to run Heroes 3 and Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 (only cinematics, though), so my wine is at least somehow working.

-AapoAlas

Chris MacKay · Post by **Chris MacKay** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 10:13 am

You can't just copy WoW from your Windoze side to Wine and have it work. Seg faults and errors will plague you, and the odds of making it work are nil.

You actually need to go through the installation and patching process under Wine as if it were a brand new installation. That way Wine can use it's own registry, etc, to make a proper, working installation.

Chris.

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Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 04:32:53 -0500
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Wine] SegFault with World of Warcraft

Hello!

A rather new wine user here. I'm running a 64bit ArchLinux and have installed wine and practically all 32bit libs, so as far as I know, I shouldn't have a problem there.

I'm trying to play World of Warcraft, but when starting the game up, it complains about Segmentation Fault and something about the LD_LIBRARY_PATH.http://pastebin.com/m7d89e8d4
There is the output when normally executing WoW.exe with wine while in the World of Warcraft folder.

On the #WineHQ channel a friendly guy tried to help me and told me to execute the WoW.exe with "/opt/wine/bin/wine" command. So I did, and ended up with the following output.
http://pastebin.com/m6082159b

More about my machine (can be seen on my signature too):
I have a GeForce 9800M GT video card and have the newest beta-version drivers for it (nvidia-beta 177.x and nivida-utils-beta 177.x). The driver being beta shouldn't really matter, 'cause this problem was present even when I had the newest stable drivers.

The World of Warcraft installation I am using is the newest Burning Crusade -patch and it has been copied straight from my Windows computer. Don't know if that could be an issue, though.

Hmm, what more... Oh well, I suppose that's about all.

Oh, except for the thing that my wine has been able to run Heroes 3 and Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 (only cinematics, though), so my wine is at least somehow working.

-AapoAlas

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loltsy · Post by **loltsy** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 1:15 pm

Chris MacKay wrote:You can't just copy WoW from your Windoze side to Wine and have it work. Seg faults and errors will plague you, and the odds of making it work are nil.

Actually my experience tells me that WoW does not create any magic install time registry keys it can't rebuild at runtime if not present in the system. I have tarred up the dir and copied to a completely different system great many times and it always works be it windows or wine. There are no "product ids" or other nonsense since it requires a subscription anyway.

The install takes about an hour so I've done everything to avoid it and so far I've been successful every time.

I'd try a clean ~/.wine first and then checking the libs since it's likely an incompatible/missing/broken library/setting somewhere in the system that is crashing it.

Chris MacKay · Post by **Chris MacKay** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 6:06 pm

Could be you're right. I've managed to do so in Windows, but couldn't do it in Wine. Everything else I run in Wine works nicely, so I figured it's WoW's problem.

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Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 13:15:10 -0500
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Wine] Re: SegFault with World of Warcraft

Chris MacKay wrote:
You can't just copy WoW from your Windoze side to Wine and have it work. Seg faults and errors will plague you, and the odds of making it work are nil.
Actually my experience tells me that WoW does not create any magic install time registry keys it can't rebuild at runtime if not present in the system. I have tarred up the dir and copied to a completely different system great many times and it always works be it windows or wine. There are no "product ids" or other nonsense since it requires a subscription anyway.

The install takes about an hour so I've done everything to avoid it and so far I've been successful every time.

I'd try a clean ~/.wine first and then checking the libs since it's likely an incompatible/missing/broken library/setting somewhere in the system that is crashing it.

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