World of war-craft and nvidia

Open forum for end-user questions about Wine. Before asking questions, check out the Wiki as a first step.
Forum Rules
Locked
Sub-Zero5
Level 1
Level 1
Posts: 8
Joined: Wed Apr 08, 2009 2:17 pm

World of war-craft and nvidia

Post by Sub-Zero5 »

Whats up?

OK, So wine was running wow great, today tho it get this error

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/2936/screenshotf.png


its probley because of my recent update with nvidia to the latest version. (180) So what should i do revert back to the old version or is there a fix?

Thanks Bye.
austin987
Wine Developer
Wine Developer
Posts: 2383
Joined: Fri Feb 22, 2008 8:19 pm

World of war-craft and nvidia

Post by austin987 »

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Sub-Zero5 <[email protected]> wrote:
Whats up?

OK, So wine was running wow great, today tho it get this error

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/2936/screenshotf.png


its probley because of my recent update with nvidia to the latest version. (180) So what should i do revert back to the old version or is there a fix?

Thanks Bye.





Are you running that from a windows partition? Don't do that.

--
-Austin
Sub-Zero5
Level 1
Level 1
Posts: 8
Joined: Wed Apr 08, 2009 2:17 pm

Re: World of war-craft and nvidia

Post by Sub-Zero5 »

austin987 wrote:On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Sub-Zero5 <[email protected]> wrote:
Whats up?

OK, So wine was running wow great, today tho it get this error

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/2936/screenshotf.png


its probley because of my recent update with nvidia to the latest version. (180) So what should i do revert back to the old version or is there a fix?

Thanks Bye.





Are you running that from a windows partition? Don't do that.

--
-Austin
Sorry im a complete noob, what do ya mean?
austin987
Wine Developer
Wine Developer
Posts: 2383
Joined: Fri Feb 22, 2008 8:19 pm

World of war-craft and nvidia

Post by austin987 »

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Sub-Zero5 <[email protected]> wrote:
austin987 wrote:
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Sub-Zero5 <[email protected]> wrote:
Whats up?

OK, So wine was running wow great, today tho it get this error

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/2936/screenshotf.png


its probley because of my recent update with nvidia to the latest version. (180) So what should i do revert back to the old version or is there a fix?

Thanks Bye.






Are you running that from a windows partition? Don't do that.

--
-Austin
Sorry im a complete noob, what do ya mean?





Are you running WoW from where you installed it under windows?

--
-Austin
Sub-Zero5
Level 1
Level 1
Posts: 8
Joined: Wed Apr 08, 2009 2:17 pm

Re: World of war-craft and nvidia

Post by Sub-Zero5 »

austin987 wrote:On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Sub-Zero5 <[email protected]> wrote:
austin987 wrote:
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Sub-Zero5 <[email protected]> wrote:
Are you running that from a windows partition? Don't do that.

--
-Austin
Sorry im a complete noob, what do ya mean?





Are you running WoW from where you installed it under windows?

--
-Austin
Ouch! Yes i am. I reverted back to my old driver for nivdia and i can play wow now but i would love to play it with the latest one installed.

Thanks For your help.
loltsy
Level 2
Level 2
Posts: 20
Joined: Sat Jun 21, 2008 7:31 am

Re: World of war-craft and nvidia

Post by loltsy »

Sub-Zero5 wrote: Ouch! Yes i am. I reverted back to my old driver for nivdia and i can play wow now but i would love to play it with the latest one installed.

Thanks For your help.
It appears to me you're trying to run the game in D3D mode. This hasn't worked since the 180 drivers came out so you have the option of using OpenGL or stay with the old driver version.
Locked