World of warcraft in wine

[johwes]

Hello there.

I'm having a problem with world of warcraft. I cant really say if its driver related or wine related and thought i'd ask here to get some tips.

Anyway i'm running 64-bit ubuntu hardy heron
My machine is

8 Gb ram
Core 2 Duo CPU
NVIDIA 8800 GT

Anyway to the problem at hand. I ran the install inside wine. Worked like a charm. Fired up the game in opengl mode also worked like a charm. Logg in and i can play for a random amount of time before my computer crash (and i mean really crash i need to power off my computer since i cant reach back to Xwindows in anyway, my monitor even goes into sleep mode). I've tried the drivers from both ubuntu and the beta from nvidia. Running wine 1.0-rc1.

Any tips to either generate some debug output or tips in some direction would be awsome.

/J

[vitamin]

Hello there.

I'm having a problem with world of warcraft. I cant really say if its driver related or wine related and thought i'd ask here to get some tips.

Anyway i'm running 64-bit ubuntu hardy heron
My machine is

8 Gb ram
Core 2 Duo CPU
NVIDIA 8800 GT

Anyway to the problem at hand. I ran the install inside wine. Worked like a charm. Fired up the game in opengl mode also worked like a charm. Logg in and i can play for a random amount of time before my computer crash (and i mean really crash i need to power off my computer since i cant reach back to Xwindows in anyway, my monitor even goes into sleep mode). I've tried the drivers from both ubuntu and the beta from nvidia. Running wine 1.0-rc1.

Any tips to either generate some debug output or tips in some direction would be awsome.

Wine should not be able to crash system - it's a user application. You might have problems with driver an/or hardware.
Driver leaking memory and overheating video card is the most likely cause of such crashes.

[David Gerard]

2008/5/16 vitamin <[email protected]>:

johwes wrote:

I'm having a problem with world of warcraft. I cant really say if its driver related or wine related and thought i'd ask here to get some tips.
Anyway i'm running 64-bit ubuntu hardy heron
My machine is
8 Gb ram
Core 2 Duo CPU
NVIDIA 8800 GT
Anyway to the problem at hand. I ran the install inside wine. Worked like a charm. Fired up the game in opengl mode also worked like a charm. Logg in and i can play for a random amount of time before my computer crash (and i mean really crash i need to power off my computer since i cant reach back to Xwindows in anyway, my monitor even goes into sleep mode). I've tried the drivers from both ubuntu and the beta from nvidia. Running wine 1.0-rc1.
Any tips to either generate some debug output or tips in some direction would be awsome.

Wine should not be able to crash system - it's a user application. You might have problems with driver an/or hardware.
Driver leaking memory and overheating video card is the most likely cause of such crashes.

Overheating in general. ACPI and temperature monitoring in Linux is a
hair-tearing problem in general because all the hardware assumes
Windows.

(I have a Compaq N410c laptop, whose DSDT file (ACPI config) is
notoriously buggy in Linux. Running Picasa for Linux (the one that
comes with its own copy of Wine) would routinely use enough CPU to
overheat the box and make it shut down. I took to running ktemperature
(which displays CPU temperature in the system tray, and works on both
KDE and GNOME) to keep an eye on it - the machine just wasn't slowing
down the CPU properly when it got hot.)

So - run ktemperature to monitor the CPU, don't know if the
temperature of the video card can be monitored by the system ...


- d.

[johwes]

Hrm overheating. I have no clue. It doesnt feel like it though since it can crash after 2 seconds as easily as 5 minutes. I've almost never been able to play for as long as 5 minutes. But i will check the temperature. nvidia settings allows temperature to be monitored. i'll just play in windowed mode and check if it goes into critical. Thanks alot for all your tips.

/j

[johwes]

Well ran nvidia settings and checked now. The temperature ofcourse went up with about 4 degrees celsius. Then after less than 10 seconds of play crashed. But wine being a user application it shouldnt be able to crash the computer so i guess i need to go over to the nvidia forums and look for help there.

Thanks again.

/J

[David Gerard]

2008/5/16 johwes <[email protected]>:

Well ran nvidia settings and checked now. The temperature ofcourse went up with about 4 degrees celsius. Then after less than 10 seconds of play crashed. But wine being a user application it shouldnt be able to crash the computer so i guess i need to go over to the nvidia forums and look for help there.

Hmm, maybe it wasn't the temperature then? Who knows


- d.

[johwes]

I headed over to the nvidia linux forums. It seems that they are having problems with their driver. Atleast in some hardware scenarios. From what i could glean it affects people mostly with dual core systems. Theres some suggestions for people having problems.

If you are using the latest driver from nvidia and are having stability problems AND you are running some kind of dual core system. Try passing theese arguments to your bootloader "maxcpus=1 idle=poll" without the quotes.

The post can be found here
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=58498

This has been a known issue for some time now so lets hope nvidia finds the problem soon.
Thanks for the help!

/J