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cant play after updating to ubunto 11.10

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I recently updated my Ubunto from 11.04 to 11.10 and I can no longer play windows games via wine.
However I can still launch and use Steam, but I cant play any of the games there, Steam shows the "preparing to launch..." message but the game never launches.
Also with World of Warcraft the game launcher opens up, I can see the news and all, but when I push the play button the launcher closes and the game doesn't show up.

I was wondering if anyone had a similar issue on using wine on ubunto after updating and if they found a work around it :P
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On 10/18/2011 07:48 PM, madmaxfh wrote:
Also with World of Warcraft the game launcher opens up, I can see the news and all, but when I push the play button the launcher closes and the game doesn't show up.
This happens very often with WoW. The work around for the issue is to
run Wow.exe instead of launcher.exe. You will still need to start up the
launcher occasionally for the program to patch when needed, after
patching completes close the launcher and go back to using Wow.exe to play.
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Post by madmaxfh »

Thanks for the tip, Launching via wow.exe worked :) however I find it strange that I used to be able to play via launcher before :S

And I still cant play on steam :(
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Post by JuanPabloCuervo »

madmaxfh wrote:Thanks for the tip, Launching via wow.exe worked :) however I find it strange that I used to be able to play via launcher before :S

And I still cant play on steam :(
Oneric its a nightmare LOL

the only people having good experience with Oneric
are Microsoft workers hired to "update" Ubuntu. LOL

http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.ph ... e7b1&f=103
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cant play after updating to ubunto 11.10

Post by Frédéric Delanoy »

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 08:05, JuanPabloCuervo
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madmaxfh wrote:
Thanks for the tip, Launching via wow.exe worked :) however I find it strange that I used to be able to play via launcher before :S

And I still cant play on steam :(
Oneric its a nightmare LOL

the only people having good experience with Oneric
are Microsoft workers hired to "update" Ubuntu. LOL

http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.ph ... e7b1&f=103
Unity is a nightmare IMNSHO.
You should probably try using XFCE or gnome-classic (by installing
gnome-classic-fallback IIRC)
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I tried gnome classic and it made everything worse, now I cant even play WoW using the wow.exe and the launcher doesn't launches.

Steam still opens but cant play anything there.
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On 10/21/2011 09:19 AM, madmaxfh wrote:
I tried gnome classic and it made everything worse, now I cant even play WoW using the wow.exe and the launcher doesn't launches.

Steam still opens but cant play anything there.
Did you reinstall your video driver after updating your OS?
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Post by madmaxfh »

Well I had nvidea driver 270 before update and after I got 280 so I'm guessing ubunto updated it automatically during the update.
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Post by deckoff »

I seem to have the same problem - I cant start a game different than Civ2. Really old games - Caesar3, Zeus crash. I run unity 2D, the driver was updated and the video is intel 8xx - famous for having stability issues. Any suggestions, I will try with Kubuntu now and report :) 11.04 worked for me
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Post by deckoff »

Same results with both Kubuntu and ubuntu - no of my games will run the way they used to...
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Post by dimesio »

Have any of you folks with problems after upgrading Ubuntu tried renaming ~/.wine and reinstalling all your apps to a clean wineprefix?
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Re: cant play after updating to ubunto 11.10

Post by vitamin »

madmaxfh wrote:I recently updated my Ubunto from 11.04 to 11.10 and I can no longer play windows games via wine.
Please check what gcc version Wine compiled with for your distro. If it' gcc 4.6 then it's the known problem with gcc4.6. Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables to CC options then recompile Wine manually.
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