Unusual hard problem, WoW won't start!

frostig · Post by **frostig** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:13 am

Hi,

I have a kind of annoying and what it seems like unusual problem while trying to play the game World of Warcraft. I think I have done everything that people have recommended others to try out, have been googling around for some hours now.

My graphic card is: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 4770 [RV740] and I have installed the drivers for it. The funny thing is that my brother uses the exact same graphic card and for him it worked out of the box, we even installed ubuntu from the exact same CD.

Can it be anything else in my hardware maybe that changes from his?

The output by running Wow.exe is the following (or after some motherboard changes about pipelines being enabled in the PCIE section it wont even load that much!):

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archive Data\enGB\patch-enGB.MPQ opened
archive Data\patch.MPQ opened
archive Data\enGB\patch-enGB-2.MPQ opened
archive Data\enGB\patch-enGB-3.MPQ opened
archive Data\patch-2.MPQ opened
archive Data\patch-3.MPQ opened
archive Data\expansion.MPQ opened
archive Data\lichking.MPQ opened
archive Data\common.MPQ opened
archive Data\common-2.MPQ opened
archive Data\enGB\locale-enGB.MPQ opened
archive Data\enGB\speech-enGB.MPQ opened
archive Data\enGB\expansion-locale-enGB.MPQ opened
archive Data\enGB\lichking-locale-enGB.MPQ opened
archive Data\enGB\expansion-speech-enGB.MPQ opened
archive Data\enGB\lichking-speech-enGB.MPQ opened
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x192ee20,0x00000000), stub!

And there it stops, it starts a process named Wow.exe and doesn't do anything more.

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2382 ?        00:00:02 WoW.exe

This is incredible annoying. What follows now is a list of things that I've tried (in no particular order):

- Disabling Compiz
- Changing the xorg.conf
- Enabling openGL mode for wow, and everything else that should contain in the config.wtf to run smoothly.
- Made that regedit fix.
- Crying out loud and get angry
- Updating wine to developer version
- and a lot more I cant remember, even did unplug the ethernet cable.. and now I'm probably going to reinstall the ****ing piece of crap and see if it's gonna work. (I wonder why blizzard didn't release a native linux client (they had one in the beta atleast..)).

This is my xorg-config (yes its changed but the default didn't work either):

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Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	DefaultDepth	24
	SubSection "Display"
		Virtual	3200 1080
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load	"glx"
EndSection

 Section "Device"
   Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]"
   Driver      "fglrx"
   Option       "Capabilities" "0x00000800"
   Option       "UseFastTLS" "off"
   Option       "KernelModuleParm" "locked-userpages=0"
 EndSection

This is a new clean install of ubuntu and I can't get this working. The thing is everything else works, I run spotify over wine (music streaming application). Althrough steam seems to not be able to update itself everything else seems to work.

I really don't want to run windows and I'm getting really annoyed at these small problems you have every time you want to change system for good. Right now, if I got this to work I would never need a windows system and my world would be saved!

Btw, one of my screens seems to flicker a bit when starting it.. :O

Peace,
Frostig.

frostig · Post by **frostig** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:23 am

New update: HoN doesn't even run thou it's a native client! The screen is just all black and I don't know why. Maybe there is need for some changes to the graphics-config.

frostig · Post by **frostig** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:51 am

[QUOTE=asdfoo;9652195]are you using wine-1.2?
open a terminal and type `wine --version`

also, there was a recent kernel bug affecting Blizzard products due to the copy protection they use.
please also type `uname -a`[/QUOTE]

Yes, I use wine 1.2:

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markus@solaris:~$ wine --version
wine-1.2

But I noticed something really strange now, I googled my graphic card and found some report for it under linux and when I did chek my status for it, the GPU load seems to be working really really hard:

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Default Adapter - ATI Radeon HD 4770
                            Core (MHz)    Memory (MHz)
           Current Clocks :    750           800
             Current Peak :    750           800
  Configurable Peak Range : [500-830]     [800-850]
                 GPU load :    99%

I wonder why it sais that my GPU have 99% load since I'm not using anything in particular. I even tried to put my visual effets by compiz back to 'normal' and it still is at 99% load.

Source for the article is availble here: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a ... 4770&num=5

Maybe this has something to do with it?

Post by **dimesio** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 8:03 am

It's clearly not a Wine problem, since you're having problems in Linux, too. Ask for help through the support channels for your graphics card.

Cheer Xiao · Post by **Cheer Xiao** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 8:50 am

Make sure you're using the proprietary graphics card driver instead of
the open-source alternative. I had a similar with HoN before. Check
System -> Hardware Drivers if you're using GNOME.

frostig · Post by **frostig** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 9:10 am

Make sure you're using the proprietary graphics card driver instead of
the open-source alternative. I had a similar with HoN before. Check
System -> Hardware Drivers if you're using GNOME.

I am

.

Make sure you're using the proprietary graphics card driver instead of
the open-source alternative. I had a similar with HoN before. Check
System -> Hardware Drivers if you're using GNOME.

But maybe someone with with a lot of knowlegde can solve my problem? =)[/code]

FrÃ©dÃ©ric Delanoy · Thu Jul 29, 2010 9:58 am

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 16:10, frostig <[email protected]> wrote:

Make sure you're using the proprietary graphics card driver instead of
the open-source alternative. I had a similar with HoN before. Check
System -> Hardware Drivers if you're using GNOME.
I am .

Make sure you're using the proprietary graphics card driver instead of
the open-source alternative. I had a similar with HoN before. Check
System -> Hardware Drivers if you're using GNOME.
But maybe someone with with a lot of knowlegde can solve my problem? =)[/code]

Did you check the AppDB?
Did you try a specific prefix for WoW? See Wine FAQ for more information.

frostig · Post by **frostig** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:05 pm

FrÃ©dÃ©ric Delanoy wrote:On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 16:10, frostig <[email protected]> wrote:

Make sure you're using the proprietary graphics card driver instead of
the open-source alternative. I had a similar with HoN before. Check
System -> Hardware Drivers if you're using GNOME.
I am .

Make sure you're using the proprietary graphics card driver instead of
the open-source alternative. I had a similar with HoN before. Check
System -> Hardware Drivers if you're using GNOME.
But maybe someone with with a lot of knowlegde can solve my problem? =)[/code]
Did you check the AppDB?
Did you try a specific prefix for WoW? See Wine FAQ for more information.

Yep, and yes. I've done everything by the book since I installed my brothers computer and game

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Sat Jul 31, 2010 9:33 pm

frostig wrote:

Make sure you're using the proprietary graphics card driver instead of
the open-source alternative. I had a similar with HoN before. Check
System -> Hardware Drivers if you're using GNOME.

I am .

Make sure you're using the proprietary graphics card driver instead of
the open-source alternative. I had a similar with HoN before. Check
System -> Hardware Drivers if you're using GNOME.

But maybe someone with with a lot of knowlegde can solve my problem? =)[/code]

You were told this by dimensio: Go to the Ubuntu forums, since it
appears you are using Ubuntu, and ask for help. This is not a Wine issue.

James McKenzie