WoW, and most other games, do not run under Wine.

hawtpawkithero · Post by **hawtpawkithero** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:22 pm

I've recently installed Wine onto my ubuntu intrepid ibex box and I'm having endless issues when it comes to running games. Right now, I'm specifically trying to play World of Warcraft and I am receiving graphical issues that cause the game to be unplayable. These bugs are widespread and i cannot see anything in the game's window. The laptop is running on an Intel GMA965Q. I've played games on Windows with this laptop with 0 issues.

Here is a screenshot:

Any and all solutions are greatly appreciated. Thanks!

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:34 pm

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 5:22 PM, hawtpawkithero
<[email protected]> wrote:

I've recently installed Wine onto my ubuntu intrepid ibex box and I'm having endless issues when it comes to running games. Right now, I'm specifically trying to play World of Warcraft and I am receiving graphical issues that cause the game to be unplayable. These bugs are widespread and i cannot see anything in the game's window. The laptop is running on an Intel GMA965Q. I've played games on Windows with this laptop with 0 issues.

Intel drivers on Linux are horrible, which is 99% likely your problem.

--
-Austin

Justin · Post by **Justin** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:36 pm

Have you tried disabling Desktop Effects (also known as Compiz)? Wine tends
to have some graphical issues with these turned on.
https://help.ubuntu.com/7.10/desktop-ef ... igure.html

I got an error trying to view your picture.

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:22 PM, hawtpawkithero <[email protected]>wrote:

I've recently installed Wine onto my ubuntu intrepid ibex box and I'm
having endless issues when it comes to running games. Right now, I'm
specifically trying to play World of Warcraft and I am receiving graphical
issues that cause the game to be unplayable. These bugs are widespread and i
cannot see anything in the game's window. The laptop is running on an Intel
GMA965Q. I've played games on Windows with this laptop with 0 issues.

Here is a screenshot:

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https://dl-web.getdropbox.com/get/Photo ... ae0265.png[/img]<https://dl-web.getdropbox.com/get/Photo ... %5B/img%5D>

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hawtpawkithero · Post by **hawtpawkithero** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:43 pm

Well it did fix the strange graphical glitches, but now the entire window is just plain, solid black. Any other ideas?

Justin wrote:Have you tried disabling Desktop Effects (also known as Compiz)? Wine tends
to have some graphical issues with these turned on.
https://help.ubuntu.com/7.10/desktop-ef ... igure.html

I got an error trying to view your picture.

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:22 PM, hawtpawkithero <[email protected]>wrote:

I've recently installed Wine onto my ubuntu intrepid ibex box and I'm
having endless issues when it comes to running games. Right now, I'm
specifically trying to play World of Warcraft and I am receiving graphical
issues that cause the game to be unplayable. These bugs are widespread and i
cannot see anything in the game's window. The laptop is running on an Intel
GMA965Q. I've played games on Windows with this laptop with 0 issues.

Here is a screenshot:

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https://dl-web.getdropbox.com/get/Photo ... ae0265.png[/img]<https://dl-web.getdropbox.com/get/Photo ... %5B/img%5D>

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Warren Dumortier · Post by **Warren Dumortier** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 7:47 am

2009/4/8 hawtpawkithero <[email protected]>:

Well it did fix the strange graphical glitches, but now the entire window is just plain, solid black. Any other ideas?

Justin wrote:
Have you tried disabling Desktop Effects (also known as Compiz)? Wine tends
to have some graphical issues with these turned on.
https://help.ubuntu.com/7.10/desktop-ef ... igure.html

I got an error trying to view your picture.

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:22 PM, hawtpawkithero <[email protected]>wrote:

I've recently installed Wine onto my ubuntu intrepid ibex box and I'm
having endless issues when it comes to running games. Right now, I'm
specifically trying to play World of Warcraft and I am receiving graphical
issues that cause the game to be unplayable. These bugs are widespread and i
cannot see anything in the game's window. The laptop is running on an Intel
GMA965Q. I've played games on Windows with this laptop with 0 issues.

Here is a screenshot:

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https://dl-web.getdropbox.com/get/Photo ... ae0265.png[/img]<https://dl-web.getdropbox.com/get/Photo ... %5B/img%5D>

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Maybe you ran WoW not in opengl mode, run it with "WoW.exe -opengl".
Everybody reports it runs fine, but IMO the crash when using DirectX
should be fixed!

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 9:07 am

hawtpawkithero wrote:

trying to play World of Warcraft and I am receiving graphical issues that cause the game to be unplayable

I can not view your screen shot, but a couple things to check:

Intel video cards do not often work well in Linux due to lack of good
drivers and they are not often good for newer/high graphics requirement
games in general. If you have an Nvidia card available and can add it to
your laptop you might want to try using it with current drivers and see
if that helps.

Are you adding -opengl to the end of the command line when you start the
game -or- have you added it to a file to run the game in opengl
automatically per one of the WoW how-to's? If you have not done one or
other of those then you are likely to have many graphics issues in game.