WoW not running under Wine

solecs · Post by **solecs** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 5:28 am

Hey, I installed Wine the other day on my Crunchbang linux machine. Trying to completely switch over to linux. I have a no install version of WoW that I used on my Windows xp machine and it worked great, besides the low frame rate but the laptop I was using is old (Dell Inspiron 1525). I then try to us it under Wine I can't even see the login screen for WoW, I can hear the sounds and everything just no display. Anyone know why this is happening on Linux? Do I lose some graphical power when running under Wine?
Any explanation would be great,
Thanks in advance.

Morten Kleven · Post by **Morten Kleven** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 6:54 am

Do you run the game under opengl. What graphics card are you using?
On Apr 10, 2012 12:29 PM, "solecs" <[email protected]> wrote:

Hey, I installed Wine the other day on my Crunchbang linux machine.

Trying to completely switch over to linux. I have a no install version of
WoW that I used on my Windows xp machine and it worked great, besides the
low frame rate but the laptop I was using is old (Dell Inspiron 1525). I
then try to us it under Wine I can't even see the login screen for WoW, I
can hear the sounds and everything just no display. Anyone know why this is
happening on Linux? Do I lose some graphical power when running under Wine?

Any explanation would be great,
Thanks in advance.

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tparker · Post by **tparker** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 11:55 am

On 4/10/2012 6:28 AM, solecs wrote:

Hey, I installed Wine the other day on my Crunchbang linux machine. Trying to completely switch over to linux. I have a no install version of WoW that I used on my Windows xp machine and it worked great, besides the low frame rate but the laptop I was using is old (Dell Inspiron 1525). I then try to us it under Wine I can't even see the login screen for WoW, I can hear the sounds and everything just no display. Anyone know why this is happening on Linux? Do I lose some graphical power when running under Wine?
Any explanation would be great,
Thanks in advance.

Please post the video card and driver version you are using, the version
of wine you are using, an any error messages you get when starting the
game from command line.

liam2034 · Post by **liam2034** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 10:22 pm

It happened to me a few days ago, then somehow it went back to normal so I've no idea what was the problem.