help with warcraft please launcher problem

Nick687 · Post by **Nick687** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 5:35 pm

i have read everything i can find relating to this and i got nothing

i have ubuntu 11.04
wine 1.3.15
amd athlon x2 dual core QL-60
ati radeon graphics card 3100 i belive

at first i was running wine 1.2 and i got the water glitch. trolled for a while and updated the version to 1.3 now WoW wont load after pushing the play button on the loader. after more looking i fount that wine 1.3.26 will work but i cant find the download and 1.3.27 isnt available yet.....so my question is how do i skip the launcher and load wow manually

dardack · Post by **dardack** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 5:57 pm

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Nick687 <[email protected]> wrote:

i have read everything i can find relating to this and i got nothing

i have ubuntu 11.04
wine 1.3.15
amd athlon x2 dual core QL-60
ati radeon graphics card 3100 i belive

at first i was running wine 1.2 and i got the water glitch. trolled for a
while and updated the version to 1.3 now WoW wont load after pushing the
play button on the loader. after more looking i fount that wine 1.3.26 will
work but i cant find the download and 1.3.27 isnt available yet.....so my
question is how do i skip the launcher and load wow manually

Yea the Launcher is finicky, sometimes it works (I mean works as in launches
wow.exe after hitting play) and sometimes it doesn't. Just do a
WINEPREFIX="/path/to/wine/wowprefix" wine /path/to/WoW/Wow.exe

Works perfectly fine. I even have a script because of the double walking
bug (ie gnome or ubuntu send multiple key presses when holding down a button
or something, I don't remember specifics, just how to fix it) and to delete
my cache for NPCSCAN:

! /bin/bash

xset -r 25
xset -r 24
xset -r 39
xset -r 26

rm -r /home/<user>/Programs/WoW/Cache/

WINEPREFIX="/home/<user>/.wineWow" wine /home/<user>/Programs/WoW/Wow.exe

xset r 25
xset r 24
xset r 39

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Sincerely,

MacNean C. Tyrrell
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dardack · Post by **dardack** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 5:57 pm

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 6:56 PM, MacNean Tyrrell <[email protected]> wrote:

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Nick687 <[email protected]> wrote:

i have read everything i can find relating to this and i got nothing

i have ubuntu 11.04
wine 1.3.15
amd athlon x2 dual core QL-60
ati radeon graphics card 3100 i belive

at first i was running wine 1.2 and i got the water glitch. trolled for a
while and updated the version to 1.3 now WoW wont load after pushing the
play button on the loader. after more looking i fount that wine 1.3.26 will
work but i cant find the download and 1.3.27 isnt available yet.....so my
question is how do i skip the launcher and load wow manually

Sorry for got to add. When there's a patch, just hit the restart from
wow.exe, it will load the patch fine. Then just close Laucher and run
Wow.exe direct again.

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MacNean C. Tyrrell
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Nick687 · Post by **Nick687** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 9:36 pm

that didnt work. i used wine tricks to download the trial version of wow and it didnt put it in a normal spot ,the path was
file system\proc\1552\fd\3\drive_c\program files\world of warcraft\wow.exe
so i loaded it up with graphic settings on low and it works fine....frame rate is good...no problems with graphical glitches....everything except for the water.....no idea how to fix this...wow 3.3 with wine 1.3.15 got a platinum rating

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:39 pm

On 9/5/11 7:36 PM, Nick687 wrote:

that didnt work. i used wine tricks to download the trial version of wow and it didnt put it in a normal spot ,the path was
file system\proc\1552\fd\3\drive_c\program files\world of warcraft\wow.exe

Interesting. What is the user's home directory set to? Should be (for
most Linux distributions) /home/<username> For MacOSX 10.5/10.6/10.7 it
is /Users/<username> This looks like a corrupted user home directory
setting under either operating system.

James

Nick687 · Post by **Nick687** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:52 pm

home directory is normal....another odd thing i found was the installation moves randomly. it will be File System\proc\1552\ect. on one launch....then when i try to launch it again i get a 'file not' found so i have to manually track it down to launch it

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 11:07 pm

On 9/5/11 8:52 PM, Nick687 wrote:

home directory is normal....another odd thing i found was the installation moves randomly. it will be File System\proc\1552\ect. on one launch....then when i try to launch it again i get a 'file not' found so i have to manually track it down to launch it

Then something is not right with Wine. It should read the value of
$HOME and then put the .wine directory immediately beneath it.

What Linux distribution did you state you are using?

James

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 7:21 am

On 09/05/2011 10:36 PM, Nick687 wrote:

that didnt work. i used wine tricks to download the trial version of wow and it didnt put it in a normal spot ,the path was
file system\proc\1552\fd\3\drive_c\program files\world of warcraft\wow.exe
so i loaded it up with graphic settings on low and it works fine....frame rate is good...no problems with graphical glitches....everything except for the water.....no idea how to fix this...wow 3.3 with wine 1.3.15 got a platinum rating

It is not uncommon for the WoW launcher to stop working off and on, it
has happened several times. Right now the process seems to be to start
the launcher and let it check for and apply any patches, then close the
launcher and through either command line or graphical interface (system
monitor or something similar) terminate the launcher and wine server
that still show as running. Then navigate by either command line or
through your graphical file system to the WoW folder and click on
wow.exe to run the game. You may be able to make a second shortcut from
your desktop for the wow.exe so you don't have to navigate to it each
time, but I have read WoW forum posts saying that doesn't work in all
distros right now. I have been doing this for wine 1.3.23 - 1.3.27 if
it helps to know the wine versions.

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 7:23 am

On 09/05/2011 11:52 PM, Nick687 wrote:

home directory is normal....another odd thing i found was the installation moves randomly. it will be File System\proc\1552\ect. on one launch....then when i try to launch it again i get a 'file not' found so i have to manually track it down to launch it

Ahh, I had not read the rest of the thread when I posted earlier. Looks
like you have some wine install issues as well. The launching info may
still be useful to you once those are fixed.

Nick687 · Post by **Nick687** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 12:42 pm

so the trick to installing warcraft is to not use winetricks....after three installs it kept going under proc\ect....i went to the site and got the setup file and ran it using wine 1.3.27 and now its in the right spot (finally) it is downloading the 10 gigs or so now for the update. as for my wine issues when i updated from 1.3.15 to 1.3.27 the terminal gave me a warning there was binary left from 1.0 so i completely uninstalled everything tracked down a straggler file that was messing with the installs.....(wine-gecko?)and had to reinstall.....from what i can tell everything is preforming properly and in its right spot now....now i just have to wait to test for the water issue and if its still there i give up....thanks for the help all

ubuntu 11.04

dardack · Post by **dardack** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 1:34 pm

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Nick687 <[email protected]> wrote:

so the trick to installing warcraft is to not use winetricks....after three
installs it kept going under proc\ect....i went to the site and got the
setup file and ran it using wine 1.3.27 and now its in the right spot
(finally) it is downloading the 10 gigs or so now for the update. as for my
wine issues when i updated from 1.3.15 to 1.3.27 the terminal gave me a
warning there was binary left from 1.0 so i completely uninstalled
everything tracked down a straggler file that was messing with the
installs.....(wine-gecko?)and had to reinstall.....from what i can tell
everything is preforming properly and in its right spot now....now i just
have to wait to test for the water issue and if its still there i give
up....thanks for the help all

ubuntu 11.04

What water issue? I know they updated water, but if you use the -openGL
flag, you can't change sunspots/water settings I believe.

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Sincerely,

MacNean C. Tyrrell
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tparker · Post by **tparker** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 1:41 pm

On 09/06/2011 02:34 PM, MacNean Tyrrell wrote:

What water issue? I know they updated water, but if you use the
-openGL flag, you can't change sunspots/water settings I believe.

I don't think you can change them even without the -opengl flag, I think
they need dx10+ to work. I don't use the flag and haven't had any water
issues.

Nick687 · Post by **Nick687** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 2:02 pm

when ever my toon touches any kind of water (fountain, lake, pool, ect) the game crashes...in advanced graphics options it only gives me a DirectX9 option =\

dardack · Post by **dardack** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 2:29 pm

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Nick687 <[email protected]> wrote:

when ever my toon touches any kind of water (fountain, lake, pool, ect) the
game crashes...in advanced graphics options it only gives me a DirectX9
option =\

You will only get d9 in wine, as d10/11 isn't coded in yet from what I

understand of wine. First thing I'd try is using the opengl flag (2 places,
either in your WoW/WTF/Config.wtf Set gxApi "OpenGL", or from the command
line run of wow.exe, wine Wow.exe -opengl).

Also, what graphics card are you using, what drivers/version?

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MacNean C. Tyrrell
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Nick687 · Post by **Nick687** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 2:54 pm

dardack wrote:On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Nick687 <[email protected]> wrote:

when ever my toon touches any kind of water (fountain, lake, pool, ect) the
game crashes...in advanced graphics options it only gives me a DirectX9
option =\

You will only get d9 in wine, as d10/11 isn't coded in yet from what I
understand of wine. First thing I'd try is using the opengl flag (2 places,
either in your WoW/WTF/Config.wtf Set gxApi "OpenGL", or from the command
line run of wow.exe, wine Wow.exe -opengl).

Also, what graphics card are you using, what drivers/version?

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MacNean C. Tyrrell
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you sir are a genius.....altering the config.wtf file worked like a charm. my problem is fixed finally after two days...and since you asked i have ati radeon 3100 with the most recent official drivers

dardack · Post by **dardack** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 3:09 pm

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Nick687 <[email protected]> wrote:

dardack wrote:
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Nick687 <[email protected]>
wrote:

when ever my toon touches any kind of water (fountain, lake, pool, ect)
the
game crashes...in advanced graphics options it only gives me a DirectX9
option =\

You will only get d9 in wine, as d10/11 isn't coded in yet from what I

understand of wine. First thing I'd try is using the opengl flag (2
places,
either in your WoW/WTF/Config.wtf Set gxApi "OpenGL", or from the command
line run of wow.exe, wine Wow.exe -opengl).

Also, what graphics card are you using, what drivers/version?

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Sincerely,

MacNean C. Tyrrell
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you sir are a genius.....altering the config.wtf file worked like a charm.
my problem is fixed finally after two days...and since you asked i have ati
radeon 3100 with the most recent official drivers

IMO everyone running wow in wine shoudl use the opengl flag. Without it,
wine is converting the directx commands to opengl, creates extra layer of
stuff, that can cause issues. I used to crash randomly without the opengl
flag.

Yea I hear the ati drivers are btter now then they ever have been for linux,
but I still buy machines with nvidia inside just because of linux support.
So sometimes the wine/graphic issues are related more towards Intel first,
ATI second, then nvidia (ie more problems in that order).

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MacNean C. Tyrrell
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