WoW: >100% CPU Usage by Justin on Saturday November 26th 2011, 14:18 when running wow on the newest wine release it always uses at least 95, usually 105% cpu usage (according to top) using the latest nvidia drivers for my machine on fedora 15 graphics set to low (but should be unnecessary, the machine has a gt120m, core 2 duo, 4GB ram) any idea of any tweaks that might fix this? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: WoW: >100% CPU Usage by Justin on Saturday November 26th 2011, 14:18

cant install game... by theodore smith on Friday October 9th 2009, 17:26 ive tried so hard to get the game to install but cant seem to get wine to open it. when i type "wine '/media/cdrom0/Installer.exe'" i get a tab in toolbar that says opening installer.exe then it goes away and nuthing happens. what do i do. [post new] [reply to this]

X Error of failed request: GLXBadDrawable by Angel on Thursday August 6th 2009, 13:39 Hi, i'm getting this messages when i try to run WoW.exe X Error of failed request: GLXBadDrawable Major opcode of failed request: 154 (GLX) Minor opcode of failed request: 5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent) Serial number of failed request: 506 Current serial number in output stream: 506 It is a fresh install. wine version 1.1.26 in kubuntu 9.04x64. with kernel 2.6.28-11. video:Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Xorg Driver : (II) Module intel: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.6.0, module version = 2.6.3 Module class: X.Org Video Driver ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 5.0 Kernel Driver: filename: /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko license: GPL and additional rights and filename: /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/kernel/drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.ko license: GPL and additional rights Thanks in advance. angel [post new] [reply to this]

3.2.0 broken on 64bit for me by Andreas Jellinghaus on Wednesday August 5th 2009, 15:08 on 32bit it works fine for me (kubuntu 9.04 with wine 1.1.26 package), I tested walking around in dalaran and thunderbluff and AH so far only. but the same files don't work on 64bit for me (copied with rsync), within seconds I get a crash due to some mpq internall file corruption. since I copied the working .wine/drive_c/ to the 64bit computer, I guess something inside wow corrupts the data, rather than a really broken file. [post new] [reply to this]

Launcher kinda broke by Ralph on Friday July 24th 2009, 2:33 I am running Ubuntu 9.04 I think I am running Wine 1.1.24 [I'm not at my linux box at the moment]. The only "main" issue I have is the WOW launcher/advertisment thing with the "play" button. all the buttons are there, all the launcher art work is there. What isn't is the advertisments, and news updates [the "active" stuff]. I get a grey box [Its to small to see what is inside of it]. I hit the play button and the game lauches and plays great. I have sat up a "menu" link to WOW's exe file. I can yse that to play the game. just curious as to if there is a "fix" for the launcher. I am running in openGL. Though I had to start the game and log in to create the config.wtf file [a point missing in many post about the config.wtf that it's not there at the start of the game. Others WOW is running great in 1980 by 1080 mode. I did have the wad key problem, fixed that by turning off repeatable keys in ubuntu. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Launcher kinda broke by NiceBloke on Friday July 24th 2009, 4:12

• RE: Launcher kinda broke by Ralph on Friday July 24th 2009, 6:19

HW cursor fix by Andrew Comminos on Monday July 20th 2009, 0:32 Hello everyone, I've updated the hardware cursor patch/hack for 3.1 :) Check it out here, but it may corrupt your installation :( . If it does, use the repair tool. ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7643957&postcount=82 [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: HW cursor fix by Andrew Comminos on Monday July 20th 2009, 13:07

Much better performance with 2.6.31 and ATI by gwydion.dot on Sunday July 19th 2009, 6:08 I tested the last days WoW with some kernel versions. 2.6.28 (last supported kernel by ati): 10-player raids: playable (sometimes laggy as hell) 25-player raids: not playable 2.6.29 (need patch to use ati driver): 10-player raids: playable (sometimes laggy as hell) 25-player raids: not playable 2.6.30 (need patch to use ati driver): 10-player raids: playable 25-player raids: playable(no fps drops when fighting) [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Much better performance with 2.6.31 and ATI by gwydion.dot on Sunday July 19th 2009, 6:09

by Gary on Wednesday July 15th 2009, 13:58 I have posted a bug in regards to a battle.net username conversion incompatiablity with wine, there is a new deal with battle.net allowing you to merge all your blizzard related games into one account, which is a email address, and when you use that account information to login to world of warcraft, it crashes with a vb C++ runtime error, but when connecting with a regular account it seems to be unaffected. I'm unable to play the game at all at the moment, just throwing this out there..bug ID is 19330 thanks [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: by NiceBloke on Thursday July 16th 2009, 2:10

• RE: by JK Wood on Sunday July 19th 2009, 2:16

• RE: by Trae McCombs on Thursday July 23rd 2009, 20:20

"Play" button doesn't start WoW by Atupo-Maruru on Sunday July 12th 2009, 6:56 Ok, the game installs and updates without any problems, and it also opens the start screen flawlessy, but when I press the "Play" button, the windows closes, but the game does not start. Anyone else who has this problem, or who knows a solution to it? OS: Fedora 11 Wine: 1.1.23 [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: by Tasha on Friday October 28th 2011, 15:47

cant accept EULA with the new WOW installer by nick on Thursday July 9th 2009, 22:52 When running the newly downloaded installer from the Wow website. After the title install screen you are expected to scroll to the end of the end user agreement license and the "accept" button is supposed to become click-able (it is grayed out). but the button does not change and I am unable to accept... anyone else have this problem? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: cant accept EULA with the new WOW installer by nick on Thursday July 9th 2009, 23:30

PTR patch installer bug + fix by Paul Romeril on Tuesday July 7th 2009, 20:30 After installing the PTR client, patches needed to be downloaded, however thedownloader crashed immediately upon reaching a certain %(depending on patch), however this can be curcumvented my immediately launching the connection info, and then closing it, and ignoring the error message. [post new] [reply to this]

CONFIRMED - Fancy shadows work fine in d3d using latest wine 1.1.25 ! by Niko on Saturday July 4th 2009, 8:50 CONFIRMED - Fancy shadows work fine in d3d using latest wine 1.1.25 ! [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: CONFIRMED - Fancy shadows work fine in d3d using latest wine 1.1.25 ! by Josh on Sunday July 19th 2009, 10:25

SLI by Cory park on Friday July 3rd 2009, 16:07 i have two 9800gtx....game runs fine with no lag about 30 fps in dal. when i enable sli the fps stays the same and i end up geting shutters. dose anyone els have this problem. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: SLI by Xpander on Saturday July 11th 2009, 11:49

1.1.24 and shadows by Chris Messina on Thursday June 25th 2009, 22:05 Hey all, Long time lurker and WoW player. I run WoW using the -opengl flag, the latest version of the Nvidia drivers direct from nvidia, and have never been able to get fancy shadows working. I understand that it's not supported in opengl, even under Windows. I have noticed that with this latest release, 1.1.24, that fancy shadows do actually work running under directx, then I read that the gentleman above (Jun 24) has actually gotten the fancy shadows working in OpenGL, without doing anything out of the ordinary to his Wine install. I guess my question is, has anyone else been able to get fancy shadows working with running WoW in opengl mode? If so, I'm dying to find out what the trick was. I've tried changing the different video settings in winecfg to no avail. Thanks! -Chris [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: 1.1.24 and shadows by Robert Andersson on Saturday June 27th 2009, 18:59
• RE: 1.1.24 and shadows by Lev Abashkin on Wednesday July 1st 2009, 2:12

WoW crashes at startup after updating Kernel to 2.6.27.25 by Charles Myers on Thursday June 25th 2009, 16:05 Today, Linux kernel v2.6.27.25 was released and downloaded via the system update tool. Upon rebooting and reinstalling the nVidia drivers, I found that WoW crashes almost immediately after starting. The program starts to load itself and appears in my window list, but it throws up one of its WoW error messages and offers to send the results to Blizz. The error message itself reads: ERROR #132 (0x85100084) Fatal Exception PRogram: C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\wow.exe Exception: 0x80000101 (unknown exception) at 0073:7575D832 I am in the process of trying to compile the newest version of WINE (1.1.24, as of this writing), so I am hoping the newest version will help things. But in the mean time, is anyone aware of this problem? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: WoW crashes at startup after updating Kernel to 2.6.27.25 by Bryan on Friday June 26th 2009, 13:02

ATI Status? by Andreas Jellinghaus on Thursday June 25th 2009, 4:01 Hi. I'm a happy user of WoW under linux ever since it was released in Europe. Thanks to all wine developer for allowing me to play this with linux! Currently it works great ony my machines: all with ubuntu 9.04, running 64bit, with nvidia graphic cards. However one machine is getting real old and about to die, and I get the impression right now ATI cards the recommended thing to buy in general. So I wonder: will I still run into big problems with an ATI card, fglrx driver, ubuntu 9.04, linux, latest wine and WoW? or is the problem rather small (i.e. no problem, or simply set a few config file entries or registry keys to fix it)? Can someone report how well it works for you? Thanks! Andreas [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: ATI Status? by Lev Abashkin on Tuesday June 30th 2009, 4:47

CD permission by Mason on Sunday June 21st 2009, 21:56 whenever i try to install wow off the disk it says i dont have permission... what do i do? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: CD permission by Darth Buh on Monday June 22nd 2009, 15:24

Error #132 (Wine 1.1.23) by Pete on Wednesday June 17th 2009, 9:42 I am unable to load World of Warcraft (3.1.x, with BC and WoLTK). Every time that I try I am only getting Error #132, and nothing happens (Details to follow). There are a number of other sites that have reported the 132 error but with older versions of Wine. What is really strange to me is that everything was working neigh flawlessly until I updated from Wine 1.1.22. Here are the Details Desktop Hardware: AMD (64-bit) dual core CPU 4GB RAM AMD 780G chipset with ATI Radeon HD3200 Graphics Desktop Software: 64-Bit Kanotix "Excalibur" (Based on Debian 5 Lenny) Latest FGLRX Graphics Drivers 64-Bit Wine 1.1.23 Laptop: AMD (64-bit) dual core CPU 2GB RAM ATI Radeon HD3100 Graphics Laptop Software: 32-Bit Kanotix "Excalibur" (Based on Debian 5 Lenny) Latest FGLRX Graphics Drivers 32-Bit Wine 1.1.23 The launcher works fine, so I know that I have the latest and greatest patch from Blizzard. OpenGL is being forced via registry hack, and I have already modified the config.wtf file on the desktop to a working state. The laptop does not have one yet, as the game needs to runonce before it is created. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Error #132 (Wine 1.1.23) by Adys on Wednesday June 17th 2009, 9:44

Help to update the howto by gwydion.dot on Tuesday June 16th 2009, 11:19 Some time went away and it's time to update the howto section. If something is wrong or not any longer needed please tell it to me. Greets [post new] [reply to this]

Fix for WoW crash upon start by Jeff Mings on Thursday June 11th 2009, 22:02 Hello! One of the often suggested fixes solved my WoW crashing problem. Upon launch, it was crashing every time. I added the wildly popular backbuffer value in a new string with regedit and all works again! Fire up Regedit and create this string: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D] OffScreenRenderingMode="backbuffer" Aloha, -Jeff [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Fix for WoW crash upon start by Peter Hoff on Friday June 12th 2009, 3:33

• RE: Fix for WoW crash upon start by Jeff Mings on Sunday June 14th 2009, 1:47

• RE: Fix for WoW crash upon start by Cheos on Tuesday June 16th 2009, 4:16

• RE: Fix for WoW crash upon start by Wesley on Sunday June 21st 2009, 16:35

by kerin on Monday June 8th 2009, 0:05 My game crashes a lot - no WoW error message, it just closes as if I killed wineserver or pressed alt+f4. System is Ubuntu Jaunty x64 and Wine 1.1.22 with an nVidia GTX260 gpu; I have three gigs of ram. The console message reads thus: err:heap:HEAP_ValidateInUseArena Heap 0x110000: in-use arena 0x19bef4c0 next block has PREV_FREE flag err:heap:HEAP_ValidateInUseArena Heap 0x110000: bad back ptr 0xffaa5d28 for arena 0x19bef568 wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0x20e249a9 at address 0x7bc459d4 (thread 1f39), starting debugger... err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code c0000005 flags 0 addr 0x7bc459d4 It often crashes when I enter a large city, but not always - and sometimes it crashes in the wilderness. I tend to get between thirty minutes to two hours of play to a crash, although it tends to be closer to two. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: by Alexander Q on Thursday July 9th 2009, 15:00

Run animation issues, strange texture clipping by kerin on Friday June 5th 2009, 16:57 I'm running WoW on Jaunty and Wine 1.1.22 with an nVidia GTX260 gpu (, and have a couple of weird issues that (while they don't affect gameplay) kind of bother me. Firstly, if I run forward using WASD my character runs normally for a few seconds before entering a sort of "stuttering" pattern, as if I was pressing and then releasing the key very quickly. Movement speed is unaffected, and if I tap to move left or right without releasing the W key the movement glitch stops until I release and re-press W. There is no issue with mouse-based movement. Secondly, shadows tend to occasionally clip into the ground, and the red circle under targets sort of interleaves with the background. Not sure what's up there, but this isn't nearly so annoying as the running issue. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Run animation issues, strange texture clipping by Xpander on Saturday June 6th 2009, 7:16

• RE: Run animation issues, strange texture clipping by kerin on Saturday June 6th 2009, 17:48

• RE: Run animation issues, strange texture clipping by Xpander on Saturday June 6th 2009, 17:57

• RE: Run animation issues, strange texture clipping by Luke Toppin on Monday September 28th 2009, 7:40

Graphics Crash While Flying by James Holby on Tuesday June 2nd 2009, 20:14 Everything runs fine in OpenGL, I have the graphics set to full. No problems in any raid setting, load times are fast, tons of addons. However I have problems flying, where the graphics will go crazy fill up the screen with lines everywhere and then WoW will crash. Has anyone else had a similiar problem? Using a Nvidia 8600 GT, 6GB Ram, AMD 64 [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Graphics Crash While Flying by NiceBloke on Friday June 5th 2009, 16:14

• RE: Graphics Crash While Flying by James Holby on Friday June 5th 2009, 18:25

• RE: Graphics Crash While Flying by Erik Van Vogt on Sunday June 21st 2009, 23:46

• RE: Graphics Crash While Flying by James Holby on Friday June 26th 2009, 16:29

Cleaning up by Ken Sharp on Sunday May 31st 2009, 20:44 There are five maintainers here, between you, you should be able to keep control of these comments. Remove useless ones. Any useful data should be put into Notes or HOWTOs. [post new] [reply to this]

Out of memory crash by Julien Carsique on Tuesday May 26th 2009, 18:42 Hello, Since I upgraded to Jaunty, I have memory crashes raised by OpenGPL. I have 4GB memory and wow doesn't seem to take more than 2GB. Removing all my addons only lightly increase time before a crash raise. Crashes are also more frequent at some places or moments: flying in the Crystal Forest, while raid against a Boss, ... There are sometimes some freeze-like from 10s to 1min before crash happens. Here is a typical wow crash report (Not enough memory): pastebin.com/f3ab1fd8a [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Out of memory crash by NiceBloke on Friday June 5th 2009, 16:15

wine 3.1 suggestions by Jeff Mings on Wednesday May 20th 2009, 13:29 Although these may be covered elsewhere, I could not find these suggestions, which may save you a lot of time. -If you see only a blank screen at the WoW login screen (where you enter your account name and password) make sure that D3D is disabled for the game under Wineconfig. I.e., under Graphics > Direct3D, set Vertex Shader Support to none. -For a launcher option dialogue box that is blank, minimize it (by right-clicking in your task bar / tray, like the one in Gnome, and then restore it. You should be able to see the options. -Under the same options under Downloader Preferences, turning off Download while Playing may keep WoW 3.1 from randomly quitting. Aloha, -Jeff Mings [post new] [reply to this]

3.1.2 Launch Issue by Geoffrey Boian on Tuesday May 19th 2009, 13:56 So, I just updated to 3.1.2 and now I can't launch the game. This is the terminal output I'm getting. X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 153 (GLX) Minor opcode of failed request: 3 (X_GLXCreateContext) Value in failed request: 0x21 Serial number of failed request: 136 Current serial number in output stream: 136 Not quite sure what to do, I'm fairly new to Linux. Thanks in advance for any help. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: 3.1.2 Launch Issue by Matt Goff on Sunday May 24th 2009, 19:11
• RE: 3.1.2 Launch Issue by Ax on Sunday June 14th 2009, 5:58

• RE: 3.1.2 Launch Issue by Vinny on Tuesday June 16th 2009, 10:29

• RE: 3.1.2 Launch Issue by Mike on Sunday June 21st 2009, 22:56

• RE: 3.1.2 Launch Issue by Ax on Tuesday June 16th 2009, 16:01

• RE: 3.1.2 Launch Issue by Vinny on Wednesday June 17th 2009, 11:46

Now HTML in the launcher by Jan-Hendrik Palic on Tuesday May 19th 2009, 9:08 Hi, it is not really a WoW related problem. I have no html output, for example in the launcher or while patching to read the patchnotes. Everytime, these applications are executed, I were asked to install gecko. I installed gecko through the automatism, but I still do not have any html output. Beside this, launcher says, that the http:// address cannot be found. I do not think, that this could be a plain DNS problem, because WoW is running like a charm. ;-) Any hints? Best regards Jan [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Now HTML in the launcher by Jan-Hendrik Palic on Thursday May 21st 2009, 8:44

UPDATE to by Dr.Destrukto on Thursday May 14th 2009, 1:30 Here is the link to the WOW downloader and installer, this will do ALL the work for you with a little input. As I said before make sure to remove all WOW files from the wine "C" drive, if you have install or attempted to install wow before. Most of the files are located under c:/user/Public/Application Data and also Games. After you download the installer save the file under wine's "C" drive. Right click and open with WINE, it takes a min sometimes. You should see the WOW installer come up with three download and install options. Start at the beginning and follow the prompts as far as your add-ons go. During the installs it may ask you if you want to choose were to install the files for WOW, CLICK NEXT. It will put the files into C:/user/public/games it won't work if you choose to install the files into C:/Program files... yes I tried. Any way like I said before this way takes more time, but it's work 4 times in a row on different machines. As this program downloads WOW it install them also so DO NOT try to start the game with out letting the installer load every last patch or it will crash! Good luck, PM me if you have questions. www.worldofwarcraft.com/account/download/clients/pc/InstallWoW.exe "If your running wine on a mac, change the /pc/ to mac in the link and that will download the correct version for your mac." [post new] [reply to this]

possible fix... a little work, but worth a try. by Dr.Destrukto on Thursday May 14th 2009, 0:55 OK... I reinstalled WOW by using a downloaded installer from the wow website... which of course I didn't have at the time I'm writing this! I will get the link posted ASAP. Basically after removing all traces of WOW out of the wine "C" drive, after several failed attempts of installing and running it. This installer will download and install the main WOW game as well as the two add-ons, burning crusade and wrath of the Lich King, if you have the already loaded them into your account. I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 32bit on an Acer laptop ATI graphics and 64bit version on a AMD Quad-CORE, PC-Chips MoBo w/NVIDIA on-board, graphics card and wine 1.21, both worked fine AFTER I installed WOW this way. Also I haven't had to install any extra DLL files after installing WOW this way, but every computers different! I'll have the link posted by tomorrow. A WORD OF CAUTION: This will take a couple days depending on your internet connection! If ti freezes, close the APP and restart. IT will install ALL patches up to 3.1.... [post new] [reply to this]

Missing Character Textures by Wesley on Wednesday May 13th 2009, 15:11 So i recently upgraded to Jaunty- and while I was going to install the latest ATI drivers, I was informed that my card had suddenly been downgraded to a legacy driver (lame). However, I tried running Wow under the Open Source drivers and it really ran just fine! The only issue is that certain character textures are missing, and only on the character i'm playing as. It's like the character is semi-see through. I know theres a good chance theres nothing that can be done about this because i'm using the open source drivers but I just wanted to make sure. Thanks! [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Missing Character Textures by Dr.Destrukto on Thursday May 14th 2009, 0:33
• RE: Missing Character Textures by Wesley on Sunday May 17th 2009, 12:51

Crash (?) after 2-3 seconds after game start. by Dawid Niedźwiedzki on Monday May 11th 2009, 12:05 Hello Everyone. I have some problem. Login into the game, and the choice of my character are correct. But when the game is loaded, then after 2-3 seconds after game start the monitor becomes black and the computer hangs (I can not do anything on it, even the keyboard shortcuts). I must have to restart the computer using the "RESTART" button. Some entries from my \WTF\config.wtf: SET ffxDeath "0" SET ffxGlow "0" SET M2UseShaders "0" SET gxApi "opengl" I using Wine 1.1.21, in windowed mode. Ubuntu 9.04 on GNOME. Sorry for my English. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Crash (?) after 2-3 seconds after game start. by kk on Wednesday May 13th 2009, 19:04

• RE: Crash (?) after 2-3 seconds after game start. by kk on Wednesday May 13th 2009, 19:32

• RE: Crash (?) after 2-3 seconds after game start. by Dr.Destrukto on Thursday May 14th 2009, 0:41

• RE: Crash (?) after 2-3 seconds after game start. by hn0mad on Monday May 18th 2009, 2:15
• RE: Crash (?) after 2-3 seconds after game start. by Jeffrey Langemeier on Saturday June 6th 2009, 2:27

by Charles Myers on Saturday May 9th 2009, 17:40 It seems from time to time WoW has masive slowdowns that last for a few seconds. The FPS drops from about 50-60 to about 12. I've researched this on the Internet and found several, inconclusive attempts to fix the problem. My specs are as follows: GeForce 7800 GTX (using latest nVidia installer) 3.5gig RAM Intel Duo Core @ 3 ghz each WINE 1.1.15 Fedora 10 (w/ everything up to date) As far as WINE and WoW config is concerned: I'm not running it in WINE desktop. I do not have Shaders enabled. I'm running WoW in windowed mode @ 1680x1050. I'm running WoW in OpenGL mode. I've had my system monitor up while WoW is running and I noticed during the slowdowns my memory usage stays at a constant ~20% while my 2 CPUs jump up to 100% usage, each. I have tried the following: Added SET timingMethod "1" Reduced graphic settings to the bare minimum. Deleted WTF folder and set WDB folder to read-only. Setting ulimit to a max of 3000000. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: by JumaX9 on Monday May 11th 2009, 15:11

• RE: by Charles Myers on Monday May 11th 2009, 15:25
• RE: by Charles Myers on Saturday June 20th 2009, 16:09

• RE: by Charles Myers on Saturday June 20th 2009, 18:46