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World of Warcraft 3.2.x



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NameWorld of Warcraft
Version3.2.x
License Retail
URLhttp://www.worldofwarcraft.com
Votes 191
RatingSilver
Wine Version1.1.33
OSS ATI Driver!
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Maintainers of this version:
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Description
Patch 3.2, Call of the Crusade
Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)

What works

Logging in, playing, having fun, and exiting the game. Simply put basic game play.


What does not
Nothing to my knowledge.


What was not tested
Installation of the game, as it takes ages, so i copied from my other operating system.


Additional Comments

1.8ghz AMD sempron 3100
2GB DDR PC 3200 Ram
nVidia 6200 512 RAM

I used many tweaks from the how-to section to get better FPS. I also play in windowed mode and the game seems to have better FPS with that. I get around 40-55 FPS on average (~30 in a city).
Test Results
DistributionTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?RatingSubmitter
CurrentMandriva CookerNov 19 20091.1.33 N/A Yes Gold Ireneusz Gierlach 
ShowSlamd64 12.xNov 18 20091.1.33 N/A Yes Gold JK Wood 
ShowMandriva 2009.1 'Spring'Nov 17 20091.1.33 No Not installable Garbage Paul Chitescu 
ShowUbuntu 9.10 "Karmic" x86_64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Nov 16 20091.1.32 Yes No Garbage Roland Bernier 
ShowUbuntu 9.10 "Karmic" x86_64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Nov 13 20091.1.32 Yes Yes Platinum Iksf 

Known bugs
Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
11674 Dual-core not being correctly supported in World of Warcraft (WOW) NEW View
17088 World of Warcraft new Launcher: Options panel grey&black, unusable NEW View
20280 Sparkle effect scaled incorrectly to be huge (World of Warcraft) UNCONFIRMED View
20643 World of Warcraft launcher tries to change folder permissions (Not a Wine bug) UNCONFIRMED View

 
Logout issues.
As more mods are enabled there is a noticeable increase in the amount of time between the logout timer doing its final tick and actually being presented with the character selection screen. Lowering your addon count will fix this, the time seems to be directly proportional the the amount of ram used by mods, hence things like quest helper and atlas loot will cause up to 30-40 second delays, this is of course running with the -opengl argument. Haven't tried with directX, haven't had it work properly, ever, this may just be me, feel free to try, in fact please... try. Investigation is under way, for now try use as few mods as possible and be patient, it may look like its frozen but I promise you WILL eventually see the logout screen. Also, after about 30 seconds pressing [escape] seems to help. But that may just be a placebo.

 
HOWTO

Installing World of Warcraft in Wine

NOTE: It is HIGHLY recommended for ATI users to use the latest Catalyst package found at ati.amd.com. As of release 9.8, this fixes TONS of bugs.

Preliminary Steps:

NVIDIA/ATI: Make sure you have the proprietary driver for your video card installed, or WoW will not run. Once they are installed, check to see if Direct Rendering is enabled by typing

glxinfo | grep "direct rendering"

Into terminal. If it returns direct rendering: Yes, you're good to go!

Step 1: Install methods

Currently, you MUST downgrade to wine 1.1.26 or lower to install WoW due to regressions. If you are using the stable version, you need not worry. (Maybe it's just my computer, I don't know)

You can install World of Warcraft in wine through a variety of methods, such as using the CD or automatic downloader. If you wish, you may simply run it from a Windows partition, it's your choice ultimately.

Once WoW is installed, you may upgrade back to the newer version.

Step 2: Configuring

The suggested way to run World of Warcraft in wine is using OpenGL. Although you lose hardware cursor functionality and shadow detail, you will often gain tons of FPS this way. Operation without the opengl flag is often unreliable and will not start with some cards. If you wish, you can install a hack for hardware cursor like functionality here. You can either edit your WTF/Config.wtf in your World of Warcraft directory to include (note that this file is only created after you have logged in once, skip to option 2 if you haven't):

SET gxApi "opengl"

Or simply add -opengl to the end of your WoW launcher. (Recommended for first run after CD or download)

Step 3: Tweaks and Troubleshooting

You should be good to go! If you are experiencing any other issues, read on.

Stuttering while walking

This is caused by a bug in the latest Xserver release. This should be fixed by the next round of distribution releases this fall. In the mean time, you can disable key repeat by going to System/Preferences/Keyboard in Gnome.

Sound issues

If you cannot get any sound at all, try deleting your .wine directory (backup needed files!).

No sound with ALSA

"Those who have that problem with ALSA, just kill Pulseaudio." ~ Thanks to Xpander

Try OSS.

No sound with OSS

Try ALSA/Jack.

No sound with JACK

Try ALSA or OSS.

No sound with Pulse Audio

"well for those users with a distro using pulse audio (for ex. Ubuntu) if you set wine to OSS the sound for WoW works great, and if you add padsp before wine pulseaudio wraps the OSS sound (like alsa-oss but better) and you can use vent, music etc at the same time :)" ~ Thanks to Patrick Arman

ex:

 padsp wine /path/to/wow/WoW.exe -opengl


If you have sound stuttering in a distro using Pulseaudio (like Ubuntu), then you may have to fully uninstall  Pulseaudio and use ALSA directly. Be warned however that you may loose some system sound capability (such as login music and error sounds). If you want PulseAudio back, then its easy to reinstall. Just follow your distro's instructions on their troubleshooting pages.

ATI issues

- Special effects used in quests such as "Maintaining the Sunwell Portal" as well as other quests in WOTLK that uses this "out of phase look", will not work without a special setting in the Config.wtf, scroll down!

- Turn OFF the desktop special effects if you experience poor performance.

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Mouse cursor slow

This is because Blizzard has not implemented OpenGL hardware cursor functionality in the Windows version. However, there is a patch here that simulates a real hardware cursor.

Graphic corruption

Scroll down and try the registry tweak, if that does not work, reinstall the driver. 

Corruption when doing "Maintaining the Sunwell Portal" and WOTLK 'flashback' Quests:

Add this to your config.wtf file:

SET ffxNetherWorld "0" ~ thanks to Adys


White Minimap Indoors

AMD has fixed this problem with Catalyst 9.8. Cheers to AMD!

source: http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058

Game Flickers in Windowed mode and is unplayable:

Some older ATI cards have this problem when using advanced desktop effects such as Compiz Config or Beryl. It also tends to happen with the standard high-desktop effects built into Ubuntu. If you want to play this game in Windowed mode, set your desktop effects to "Basic".

Performance issues

Make SURE you have installed the latest ATI driver 9.1. This driver has fixed a few performance issues in game as well as added more options for the aticonfig command. Also, turning off Full Screen Glow helps.

Graphical and Icon corruption:

This tweak doesn't seem to be required as of Catalyst 9.8 - Andrew

Note that this used to be a tweak needed to boost FPS, but is apparently not needed anymore for non-ATI users.

  1. Open the registry editor and navigate to the following key

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\

  2. Highlight the wine folder in the left hand pane by clicking left on it. The icon should change to an open folder

  3. Right-click on the wine folder and select [NEW] then [KEY]

  4. Replace the text New Key #1 with OpenGL

  5. Right-click in the right hand pane and select [NEW] then [String Value]

  6. Replace New Value #1 with DisabledExtensions (Notice it's case sensitive!)

  7. Then double click anywhere on the line, a dialog box will open.

  8. In the value field type GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object

    Please note that after using this tweak, the icon pictures may misplace themselves. For example, the icon for "gold" will look like and icon for an orb.

NVIDIA issues

GLXBadDrawable

Make sure triple-buffering is turned off. ~ Thanks to DRH

Low FPS

Try installing Nvidia 180.44 Drivers, you will notice good improvement

INTEL issues

 Unfortunately, Intel does not make its own drivers for their cards for Linux. Their Windows drivers aren't even that good to start with.

For World of Warcraft to work properly, you need to look for an Open Source Intel Driver that gives you direct OpenGL rendering support.

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There are no known Issues with Intel Cards, apart from bad FPS on certain drivers.

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Other issues

Open Source Graphics Drivers:

If you have low frames with your Open Source drivers, then try the proprietary drivers for ATI and Nvidia. The Open Source Drivers have a lot of performance issues at the moment.

FPS stutter

Set farclip (the view distance slider) to 777 (about midway on the slider) ~ Thanks to Andrew

Bad FPS in general:

Please make sure that you are not suffering from high latency, as this will cause some FPS problems. If the small 'computer' icon shows you more than 600ms, or if it is red, then you are having high latency. Please check with your ISP.

If you play from Africa, you should not be experiencing more than 500ms to European servers. South Americans and Australians should not be having more than 400ms to the USA servers. Please check this and make sure that your connection is stable.

Mouse cursor jumps

"If I show the hide buttons on my Gnome panel and hide the panel before I start the game, then the mouse behaves normally. The hide button isn't visible in-game." ~ Thanks to NV

Please note that the mouse will not be perfectly smooth in OpenGL mode because Blizzard Entertainment does not support Hardware Cursor in OpenGL with the Windows version of the game. However, there is a patch available here

Hard Drive Thrashing

There is no solution yet. It seems it is a windows problem too when you are using more then 4GB RAM.

No fancy shadows available

This will not work until Blizzard add it for OpenGL (Windows version). ~ Thanks to Raphael HuerzelerEmaJukka Tastula

Lags/Stuttering

"Tried the setting "Reduce input lag" and that helped incredibly much for me and the same for the first person I told to try it. Definetly not a placebo." ~ Thanks to Anders Aa.

Low FPS

Disable screen glow effect and the lighting effect. ~ Thanks to Ram

Try to run the game with the -opengl argument in the terminal. ~ Thanks to Fluffles

Ati Users: Make sure you have the latest drivers!

Bad graphical corruption in certain areas

  • Find the following registry entry:

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D\

  • Add a new key (type String) and name it 'OffscreenRenderingMode'

  • Double click the new key and add the value 'pbuffer'

Dalaran and/or other areas cause crashes

This is due to WoW running 32-bit (there is no 64-bit client) and trying to allocate more than roughly 4GB of memory for advanced textures. This is a bug in Wine, since wine, by default, reserves 4096MB (the maximum for 32bit systems) of virtual memory to mimic the win32 memory layout. WoW allocates progressively more memory for textures and this forces the display drivers (which are loaded in the same section of memory) to quit with an GL_OUT_OF_MEMORY error.

Dalaran is a good example of this. Dragonblight and Icecrown may also suffer from this bug.

A possible workaround includes trying is to force Linux to use less memory than what you have, or to make it think it has less memory (eg, limit it to 3GB). The preferred way to do this is to add the mem=3G (for 3GB) or mem=2G (For 2GB) flag to your kernel boot parameters.

How to do this can be found in your particular distro's documentation.

Some people have reported it to work, whilst for others it has not. You may need to sacrifice the advanced textures if you try this.

Linux kernel:

Please make sure that you keep your kernel up to date at ALL times! It seems that with each new release of the Linux kernel, the performance of games under Linux improves. This is probably because the kernel is beginning to handle heavy graphics and multimedia much better now.

Please remember to reinstall your video drivers after installation of a new kernel. Failure to do so may result in not being able to start the graphical user interface and/or prevent games from running.


 
Problems to note:

Hardware Cursor OpenGL:

HARDWARE CURSOR:

Currently the only way to have a hardware cursor in OpenGL is using the patch here.

The new "OpenGL" option in the Launcher seems to be nothing more than an option that disables OpenGL in the config.wtf and enables Direct3d.

Go back to these posts please an voice your support! But guys, please don't "/signed" as this will indicate it as a petition. Rather just say "wtb HW Cursor" or something :) .

European:

http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=7190890758&postId=71901443539&sid=1#0

 American:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=13593920180&postId=135927070884&sid=1#0

 Asian:

No thread yet. Can an Asian user please make one, and post it so we can link it here. It does not have to be in English!

Pixel Buffers ATI:

The problematic pixel buffer support in fglrx has been fixed in version 9.8 of Catalyst. Upgrade your fglrx if you are still experiencing this problem.

 

Patch 3.0.9

The OpenGL option is clearly not available in the new Launcher. We are not sure if it is because it did not do what Blizzard intended or whether they are trying to send a message. However, there might be a good chance that there will be future OpenGL support for the Windows platform.

The bad software cursor has been fixed.

Please just keep posting on the Hardware Cursor request on the suggestion forums, because they have been rather quite lately. inform your friends and gain their support!

HW Cursor update:

NEW EUROPEAN!!! Go an voice your support again please!

http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=8246455348&postId=82455334590&sid=1#0




 
Raiding

RAIDING:

Note: that the performance of raids can sometimes be attributed to the quality of your graphics card and its driver... plus various other aspects. If you experience trouble raiding on Linux, it is advised that you do so on Windows until your issues are fixed.

In General:

If you are using a graphics card with 128 MB of memory then you should set everyting to low when raiding, as this will consume less graphics memory.

If you are using a 32bit/64bit processor that is not faster than 1.5Ghz, then raiding will be difficult. Dual-core processors are recommended.

If you are using a graphics card with DDR1 memory, then do not expect the performance to be good at all, even with all the settings set to low. Recommend setting it to 800x600 rez if its a problem.

ATI Users: be sure that your desktop effects are set to BASIC, as this will consume less GPU speed which you cant afford to go to waste right now.

Those who use Ventrilo, your PTT is broken. Please go to the Ventrilo page in the WineAPP DB for more info.

DISABLE QUESTHELPER!!! This goes for all those who play WoW and not just the Linux people. Various other addons could cause drops in fps and freezes/disconnects. BE SURE THAT ALL YOUR ADDONS ARE UPDATED!

TANKING

Currently raiding as a TANK in end game raids, Naxx25, eoe25 os25 vualts25 no probs, i have no problems with sound or video in anyway i get no fps lag at all, all 10 mans and naxx25 have been cleared on ubuntu with no crashes, leveling, battle grounds, spells and arena are all working fine. Ubuntu 10.8 64bit wine 1.1.1, wow 3.0.8. Like i said i Main tank end game raids no problem at all, wish vent played just as nice. ^_^

DPS'ing (melee and ranged)

MELEE: I have DPS'ed with a feral druid in Naxx 25man, OS25man and Malygos 25 man, as well as all 10man instances. I have found Malygos impossible, but that is just my graphics card. I have also found the white minimap annoying. Other than that, I have not noticed anything out-of-the-ordinary related to WINE. Nvidia users should not be experiencing any problems.

RANGED: When respeccing to ranged in a 10man, I havent found anything wierd wrong. What I have noticed is that the clicking can be a bit strange at times. As I said, Nvidia users should not be having problems.

HEALING:

Healers need a very fast graphics card and have to be using an Nvidia graphics card. It is impossible to raid with an ATI card seriously.

ALL Priests: When doing military quarter in Naxx, you need to have a fast graphics card if you are mind-controlling. It is absolutely important that this is done... you dont want to wipe your raid because of lagg.

The reason why a fast graphics card is needed for healers is so that they can have a mouse that has a decent speed. If you are using the WINE HW-cursor tweak, then it should be okay... but dont expect to be able to raid properly if you still have lag.

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HARDWARE RELATED:


NVIDIA: Make sure Vsync is disabled, unless the screen is tearing. If Vsync is enabled, disable tripple buffering.

AMD/INTEL dual/quad-core: May experience difficulties if WoW is only utilizing 1 of the cores.

Nvidia Sound System: May stutter with Pulseaudio. Kill pulsausio in the process manager.

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If You have any additional information you wish to have mentioned here, please post so that we may update!


 
Update for the HowTo section
Dear WINE-Gamers, if you play World of Warcraft please check the HowTo section before. If a tweak is no longer needed (or a new tweak is needed), please tell this information to an app maintainer. So we can clean this section asap.

 
How to get World Of Warcraft 3.2. to work on wine 1.1.29

Open the wine configurator program.

The text and graphics display on the menu won't work (everything gray) unless you uncheck the 'Alow pixel shader' option in the Direct3D section of the graphics tab.

The sound won't work if you have the os set to Vista, but sound will work perfectly if you set the os to XP (I haven't tried other windows versions).

 

The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.

WoW doesnt start
by Marc Boettcher on Thursday November 12th 2009, 16:32
It was about time after almost 1,5 years to fresh install Ubuntu. I also did some hardware upgrades. I opted for 9.10 64 bit. Right after the installation was finished I downloaded the latest ATI drivers and installed them....aticonfig --initial -f ...Reboot. glxinfo | grep rendering shows a big fat YES. Next step was to add the wine ppa. Next thing in line sudo apt-get clean...and all the rest of it. Wine installed. First run of wine configuration also done...

since I played WoW on my previous Ubuntu installation I already have:

SET gxAPI "OpenGL"

in my Config.wtf

However....

wine WoW.exe

results in:

X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 136 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent)
Serial number of failed request: 236
Current serial number in output stream: 236

Nothing else done on my Ubuntu installation other than described above. Anyone have an idea what that could be?

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World of Warcraft Client Patch 3.2.2a
by Sean on Thursday November 12th 2009, 0:21
There seems to be a problem with the launcher in the latest 3.2.2a patch. Every time the launcher is started, it changes the permissions on the Game folder to disallow read and write access to the folder's owner. I have to reset permissions, and start wow from wow.exe, not the launcher. Does this problem occur in windows or is this only happening in wine?

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Running WoW gives display error
by A.J. Bonnema on Tuesday November 10th 2009, 11:03
Hi All,

After a successful installation under Fedora 11 using Wine version 1.1.32 of WoW 3.2 from a downloaded client, running WoW.exe doesn't work. As I am using a 64 bit AMD processor (and 64 bit Fedora), i used wine32. I am quite sure that the video driver is installed correctly and has hardware-rendering and glxinfo confirms this (Direct Rendering: Yes). Also, I can play Linux games that need direct rendering.

However, WoW will not run:

bash-4.0$ wine32 "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe"
err:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo couldn't initialize OpenGL, expect problems
fixme:advapi:SetSecurityInfo stub
archive Data\expansion.MPQ opened
archive Data\lichking.MPQ opened
archive Data\common.MPQ opened
archive Data\common-2.MPQ opened
archive Data\enGB\locale-enGB.MPQ opened
archive Data\enGB\speech-enGB.MPQ opened
archive Data\enGB\expansion-locale-enGB.MPQ opened
archive Data\enGB\lichking-locale-enGB.MPQ opened
archive Data\enGB\expansion-speech-enGB.MPQ opened
archive Data\enGB\lichking-speech-enGB.MPQ opened
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x39ed54,0x00000000), stub!
err:d3d_caps:WineD3D_CreateFakeGLContext Can't find a suitable iPixelFormat.
err:d3d:InitAdapters Failed to get a gl context for default adapter
err:d3d:WineDirect3DCreate Direct3D9 is not available without opengl
err:d3d_caps:WineD3D_CreateFakeGLContext Can't find a suitable iPixelFormat.
err:d3d:InitAdapters Failed to get a gl context for default adapter
err:d3d:WineDirect3DCreate Direct3D9 is not available without opengl

The output is exactly the same if I add -glopen to the statement.

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Possible new tweak?
by Ireneusz Gierlach on Sunday November 8th 2009, 17:08
I recently stumbled upon interesting tweak, for Morrowind, which also improved performance in WoW (from ~20 to ~35 and up FPS on lowest settings for me) and I was wondering if anyone can confirm this.

What I did was I changed the registry accordingly:
(right click new string value call it whats in the first "" and then double click that new string value and change it to what's in the second "")
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D]
"OffscreenRenderingMode"="pbuffer"
"RenderTargetLockMode"="textex"
"UseGLSL"="enabled"
"VideoMemorySize"="512" //change this to your video ram size mine is 512


Why I need this confirmed is:
1. It sayd Direct3D and I use OpenGL and I don't see why it would affect it.
2. I recently had magnitude of updates and I'm on Mandriva Cooker 2010.1 and perhaps there was something in those updates.

Thanks to anyone who tries, and I wish to hear from you :D

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-opengl not working on eee
by Christoph Haag on Sunday November 8th 2009, 16:02
I tried to use WoW on my eee 1000h.
It actually does run but it is very slow with d3d.

When trying to start it with -opengl it does not start (critical error)
Pic: omploader.org/vMnE3aw
The full error is: omploader.org/vMnE3bA/wow.txt


00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

wine 1.1.32-1
xf86-video-intel 2.9.1-1
xorg-server 1.7.1-1
kernel26 2.6.31.5-1

Should I open a bugreport?

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Crash in wine-1.1.32
by Andrew on Thursday November 5th 2009, 21:50
opengl mode - nvidia drivers 1.90.42. Debian running Linux kernel 2.6.31-1-amd64.

Only seems to happen when i switch workspaces in KDE from the workspace WoW is running in to another one - and only after running WoW for a few hours.


wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000018 at address 0x7e3bc09e (thread 0009), starting debugger...

opening bug with the full output.

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Shiny new problems on Karmic (ubuntu 9.10)?
by Peter Seebach on Saturday October 31st 2009, 0:04
Using the Jaunty apt source from BudgetDedicated, WoW blows up instantly when I try to start it:

err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code c0000005 flags 0 addr 0x7ec00a06

This hardware was running wine okay under Jaunty. I can't find anything relevant googling around. Have current (190.42, same as I had before) nVidia drivers. I'm assuming it's karmic-specific, but I haven't found anything yet. WoW then sits around consuming 100% CPU without doing anything.

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Info about patch 3.2.2a
by Anders Johansen on Thursday October 29th 2009, 16:32
I had to manually download patch 3.2.2a because of an error with the client "Failed to apply patch".

If anyone else get this error, just find a mirror online and download the patch.

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by Brian van den Berg on Friday October 23rd 2009, 4:54
What should happen with Wine if MS releases a DirectX for populair Linux Distributes(Ubuntu,Debian, etc...?
post feedback

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  • RE: by joseph on Monday November 9th 2009, 19:20
For Latest Test!
by Brian van den Berg on Friday October 23rd 2009, 4:49
I want to know your Specs of your PC, the most thing i need to know if u have AMD or Intel Processor and ATI or Nvidia Graphics Drivers

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Open source ATI drivers
by Sean on Wednesday October 14th 2009, 17:03
For those interested, I managed to get WoW working with the open source ATI drivers (x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati 6.12.4) in Gentoo with good preformance. I switched to the Open source driver when ATI discontinued support for their older chipsets. To get the game working, you must set HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\OpenGL -> DisabledExtensions to "GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object;GL_ARB_vertex_program" or you will have bad graphical corruption. Also make SURE you are using the latest version of x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati as older versions have very poor preformance. My video card is "ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]"(64MB). I get good preformance in the old world (kalimdor and eastern kingdoms @ 35-60 fps), and the game is "playable"(18-30 fps) for questing and 5 man dungeons in outland and northrend(I even get nearly 10 fps in dalaran during high traffic hours!). I have not tried any raiding with the open source driver, as my video card is not really good enough for it. I have uploaded a screenshot which will hopefully show up soon. The game works in both fullscreen and windowed modes, I am currently running at 800x600 in a window with most game settings turned pretty far down(this card never preformed very well at high resolutions even with the fglrx driver) I have very few problems with this driver (excepting the white minimap indoors), and would suggest trying it if you have an older r200 or r300 chip, as gentoo has masked fglrx versions that work with these older chips.

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OpenGL hardware cursor out of the box
by Freddie Tilley on Saturday October 10th 2009, 3:38
Is it me or does the new wow 3.2.2 support a opengl hardware cursor now? Can anybody else confirm this?

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Agree is grayed out
by garnold on Friday October 2nd 2009, 10:21
I am running Wine 1.0.1 an have just installed WoW. The install went well but now I can't get the patches to install. I get the installer but when I have to agree to the terms I scroll down to do so and never get the agree button option?

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"glxinfo | grep rendering" maybe sometimes lie
by mario n on Wednesday September 30th 2009, 16:01
im trying a lot of things to correct my fps issue (another topic below)
im in the way to install the latest drivers from nvidia (dont know why ubuntu take so long) so first i remove the ones i had been using.
it cross my mind if wow could run without the property graphics drivers from nvidia, if so how good?
well the answer is, it could get to the login screen at like 1 frame every 5 seconds an the cpu at 100%, dont try to enter the world... wait give a second i will try now, enter the username and password was hard, it takes a 5 seconds delay, i can chose the character but a black screen after that
the oddly part is that i put "glxinfo | grep rendering" in a console and i get a "direct rendering: Yes"
it should say NO, dont you think?

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by Xpander on Friday September 25th 2009, 7:29
how much video memory u have?
i have same issue sometimes when switching zones, fps drops heavily, so i look on the ground like 5 sec and then its gone..
also same happens on windows, i bet its the old G80 chip bug, i hae 8800GTS with 320MB memory

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  • RE: by Xpander on Friday September 25th 2009, 7:30
    • RE: by mario n on Friday September 25th 2009, 10:28
      • RE: by Xpander on Friday September 25th 2009, 12:02
        • RE: by mario n on Saturday September 26th 2009, 6:55
          • RE: by mario n on Saturday September 26th 2009, 6:56
            • RE: by Michael Jenkins on Saturday September 26th 2009, 11:41
              • RE: by mario n on Monday September 28th 2009, 11:39
                • RE: by Michael Jenkins on Tuesday September 29th 2009, 12:56
                  • RE: by mario n on Wednesday September 30th 2009, 9:49
                    • RE: by Michael Jenkins on Thursday October 1st 2009, 9:39
FPS drop a lot after a 60-120 seconds of play
by mario n on Wednesday September 23rd 2009, 9:52
I dont know if it is normal, or if anyone had experience this?
After 60 or a little more seconds of playing my FPS drop from 66-77 to 22-24, the difference is visible in low resolutions,but still playable. on the other side, if put the highest resolution the game go from enjoyable to not playable in a matter of 60+ seconds.
I dont know nothing about drivers or wine, but maybe some buffer is not handling well, and start filling up after a few seconds, lol, you are good to smile, i just dont know what im talking about.
i use ubuntu 9.04 32-bit, nvidia drivers from ubuntu 180, wine 1.29

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Today's Patch - WoW-3.2.0.10314-to-3.2.2.10482
by NiceBloke on Wednesday September 23rd 2009, 1:47
Is anyone else having problems with the patch today?

Firstly, the actual download would just hang and not actually start the download. So I grabbed the patch from a filesharing site.

Then, I ran the downloader (WoW-3.2.0.10314-to-3.2.2.10482-enGB-downloader.exe) and that scanned the downloaded patch, got to 100% and then just hung again.

The console output ended like this:

List of UPNP devices found on the network :
desc: 192.168.0.1:5431/dyndev/uuid:0000e068-80a0-00e0-50a0-4898000808e0
st: urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:InternetGatewayDevice:1

Found valid IGD : 192.168.0.1:5431/uuid:0000e068-80a0-00e0-50a0-489802086048/WANPPPConnection:1
ExternalIPAddress = 90.220.144.*** (I've hidden my IP here)
InternalIP:Port = 127.12.34.56:3724
external 90.220.144.***:3724 TCP is redirected to internal 127.12.34.56:3724 '1'

So, I can see there is some redirection going on - but I've never had this problem downloading patches before.

Can anyone offer any advice?

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Anybody can answer me?
by Danieru on Thursday September 17th 2009, 17:29
Well, I searched for help, but nobody can help me, the bug only happens to me.

I hope that anybody can help me. TryWoW.exe (the demo of WoW) crashes, so even I can install the game.

There is some screenshots below that explain my problem.

My system:

Intel Dual Core 2.2 Ghz.
1 GB RAM.
Graphic card Nvidia 8800.
Ubuntu 9.04. Kernel 2.6.
Lastest nvidia drivers installed and working.
Wine 1.29.

Before, I ran WoW very nice. But now cannot.

Please, help.

Thanks!

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WoW crash
by Greg Vaughan on Tuesday September 15th 2009, 22:18
Hi

In game I was unable to Glyph my secondary spec so I deleted the Cache and WTF folders... as per the Help section :(

Now I cannot get them remade as the thing crashes I guess this is due to no OpenGl setting but as I can't login I don't have the file to modify...

I am using nVidia 8600 with the 180.x drivers on Linux Mint and Wine 1.01 (I was using 1.29 and downgraded using Synaptic in case that was an issue)

More Info...

At first it would just switch to an 800X640 resolution then crash with an unable to access memory error... I then unticked "Full Screen"
in Options on the launcher which allowed the WotLK cinema to run... but then it crashes straight after that...

The Folders Cache and WTF have been remade in my WoW folder but WTF is empty (as expected cause I can't log in) Cache has a WDB Folder in it which in turn has two Folders enUS and enUSxxxx these are empty...
I ran a repair from Blizzard to see if it would do anything and maybe it created these...

Any thoughts as to what may be the issue would be appreciated...

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  • RE: WoW crash by Greg Vaughan on Tuesday September 15th 2009, 22:30
    • RE: WoW crash by Luke Toppin on Wednesday October 7th 2009, 3:53
Nvidia problems after wow 3.2
by Naught on Tuesday September 15th 2009, 4:24
ASUS P5QSE plus, I Core2 Quad,4Gb, Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX+, Ubuntu 9.04
MSI P45D3 Platinum, I Core2 Duo, 4Gb, GeForce 8800 GTX, Ubuntu 9.04

I have been running WoW under wine for a couple of years now without any (to me disturbing) problems. After the latest patch I have run into some very anoying problems (or rather one problem multiple times);

I experience the "Dalaran type" crashes several other ppl report, however after multiple such crashes my GPU has actually died. This has happened 3 times, twice on two different GeForce 9800 GTX+ cards and once on a GeForce 9800 GTX card on 2 different computers. The graphics cards have been replaced (waranty) but after the second replaced 9800 card crashed (always directly after a WotLK crash) and was replaced, I have been loth to run WoW.

I have not found any other posts that would indicate that this has happened to others so I would be very interested in knowing if others have experienced this.
Anyone with ideas as to why this may have happened? The cards do not appear to run excessively hot (68-72C).
Runing WoW under windoze does not (so far) seem to affect the cards.

I will test run WoW on the new replacement 8800 card under wine to see if the same thing happens again, but would like to have someone give me some hints as to what to try in order to find out what may be happening. Else if the card dies it will have been sacrificed for no good.

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WoW installation fails with 1.29. Even Crossover Games cannot do it
by Danieru on Friday September 11th 2009, 7:28
Well, i'm a little disappointed with this version of wine. Last year I ran WoW with 1.11 and it worked fine. But, for sure, it must have a bug in this version (i believe).

When I run TryWow.exe (the trial version of WoW, downloadable from Blizzard page) appears several messagebox without any message, then, when finished the update, Wine crashes.

Although can sound incredible, CrossOver Games demo also crashes and shows the same errors.

Here some images at different step of installation.

img193.imageshack.us/img193/1456/popupafteraceept.png

img182.imageshack.us/img182/1526/popupbeforeinstall.png

img38.imageshack.us/img38/3964/popupwheninstalling.png

The final message, Wine crashes

img200.imageshack.us/img200/9650/pantallazoprogramerror.png

Any help? Thanks!

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Frequent Disconnect
by Daniel Teichman on Saturday September 5th 2009, 1:37
I'm running the latest version of WotLK client and the latest stable release of WINE. Reducing graphics settings and switching between OpenGL and DX doesn't seem to keep me from getting periodically disconnected. This does not occur when I run the game off my Windows partition.

This is particularly game-breaking because the disconnect is not graceful. I am free to roam around while the client doesn't know about the disconnect. Moreover, I have to forcibly kill the client as it will attempt to notify the server of my exit. Logging back in has at least a few minutes' delay.

On a side-note: The full screen glow effect does not work in DX mode.

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Crashes, causes Ubuntu Logout.
by Terry Johnson on Thursday September 3rd 2009, 1:21
I went from 1.1.26 to 1.1.28 yesterday. No changes in my WoW startup that's always worked fine. Now my wow freezes on startup half the time. When I get it to work, and I close wow when done, it causes Ubuntu to autologout. Been at it for hours, any help would be appreciated!

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Crashes on Startup
by Alexander Dixon on Tuesday September 1st 2009, 16:32
I was getting quite frustrated as a first time Linux user trying to get everything going. After sticking with it I got the game all installed but I kept getting error #132 crashes. Tried blizzards website which was of no help as far as specifics go because it's a general error. Turning off Allow Pixel Shader (If supported by hardware) off fixed this problem. I'm not sure if something else was related I am running a Nvidia 8600gt video card so I'm sure my hardware supports it.

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Almost Perfect, FPS issue
by Christopher B. Pye on Monday August 31st 2009, 0:50
The game runs great, but it regularly reduces its framerate down to 1fps, and the only way to fix this is a restart. It does it no matter where I am, but it seems to happen faster in Shattrath (I do not yet have WotLK). The framerate is typically 50+ FPS, even in Shat.

Slackware 12.2, WINE 1.1.28, NVIDIA drivers are about 174, I think.

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Intel and WoW
by Andrew on Friday August 28th 2009, 12:17
Hey there,

I have already successfully installed wow and the cursor mod on my laptop and am now attempting to do it for a friend of mine. On my laptop i run an nvidia card and had no problems installing wow or the cursor patch.

On this second computer however, it has a Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset. The problem is that the display is extremely buggy when i get into wow and the cursor does not show up at all. I've tried rolling back my driver and didn't see any change after doing so.

glxinfo | grep render returns the following.

Failed to initialize GEM. Falling back to classic.
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset 20090326 2009Q1 RC2 x86/MMX/SSE2

I'm going to keep toying with it but any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Andrew

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Problem
by guillaume on Thursday August 27th 2009, 3:14
Hello,

I've installed WoW but the login screen is buggy as you can see on this picture :
www.pici.se/pictures/large/CiQmdKRiV.png

I have an intel graphic card.

Anyone know how to fix it ?

Thanks

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  • RE: Problem by Andrew Comminos on Thursday August 27th 2009, 3:50
Ubuntu 9.04 = flawless
by Richard Mahoney on Wednesday August 26th 2009, 20:05
It runs flawlessly, it's virtually identical to Windows with the added bonus of being almost immune to keyloggers!

I made a executable shortcut on my Desktop called "Wow.sh" with this in it:
aoss wine "/media/Media/World of Warcraft/Wow.exe" -opengl

Platinum, indeed.

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very low fps
by Steve Michalis on Wednesday August 26th 2009, 10:21
i have taken the game ready and working from my windows installation, and i haven't changed anything except updating addons. when i run it, even with the lowest settings available, like all sliders to the left and every effect deactivated, the image is still choppy. my gfx card is a 8600gts and i think that it shouldnt be a problem of the gfx card in any case, i think it is strong enough for this game. i mean it worked better in the past with an even weaker gfx card, it doesn't make sense now for it to not work well :/// also, either switching to opengl does nothing good, or i am doing something wrong. i mean, i tried to switch to opengl, and what happened is that a 4x antialiasing option got activated in my resolution dropdown menu, lowering my fps further(and disabling it didnt help the fps either), and after switching to opengl mode i couldn't alt-tab anymore :/

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Installs, but won't run
by Michael on Wednesday August 26th 2009, 6:43
I have a fresh install of LinuxMint 7 (23bit Gnome) and the latest NVidia driver (180). I installed Wine 1.1.28 and was able to successfully install WoW including patching to 3.2.x. The WoW Launcher comes up okay, but when I click "Play" it resizes my display and then crashes. I downgraded to Wine 1.1.27 since I read that there were some regressions with 1.1.28, but the behavior didn't change.

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odd install
by chris on Tuesday August 25th 2009, 21:39
OK, Here is my story. I followed this tutorial, checked the graphics driver, no prob. Installed 1.1.23 as tutorial recommended. After figuring out how to unhide the dvd mount, it installed fine. Here is my interesting problem. The directory I chose to install was the normal c/prog/world of war/. I started the install and walked away for an hour. I come back and its installed no prob. To verify it installed i check the .wine/c_drive/Program_Files/....and there is no World of Warcraft directory....SO i cant find the WoW.exe HOWEVER, when I autorun from the DvD, WoW.exe starts and continues to update like its installed fine. Where is this mysteriously installed if not in /home/.wine/c_drive....etc

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by Kevin on Tuesday August 25th 2009, 13:27
Found this page on core selection for WoW. Don't know if it helps with the whole 1 core problem. Perhaps someone with a little more knowledge than I could check it out.

forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=1778017311

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by cody on Monday August 24th 2009, 10:44
I'm using Linux mint 7 I installed WoW and its patches using wine 1.1.27
other versions I use have not been able to succeed I also used Blizzard downloader. Good luck

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  • RE: by Daniel on Monday August 24th 2009, 11:55
    • RE: by cody on Monday August 24th 2009, 15:17
      • RE: by Daniel on Monday August 24th 2009, 19:28
      • RE: by Daniel on Monday August 24th 2009, 19:28
        • RE: by cody on Monday August 24th 2009, 22:02

by Daniel on Sunday August 23rd 2009, 18:52
I don't have Windows. I have to do with a Linux machine. I'm using Linux Mint 7, and I remember now I have a usb stick with Fedora 11. I'm gonna try it when I get home. I'm at work right now :(

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  • RE: by Peter Hoff on Sunday August 23rd 2009, 20:23
    • RE: by Daniel on Monday August 24th 2009, 9:26
      • RE: by gwydion.dot on Monday August 24th 2009, 12:45
Patch 3.2.0 fails to install!
by Daniel on Sunday August 23rd 2009, 7:37
I've download the client (3.0.1.8874) and it was installed ok. Wow started to download patch 3.2.0, the process went ok too. Then the installer opened a dialog and the computer froze at 70% of the instalation. I've restarted the computer, clicked repair in wow and it said it was all ok. So I've clicked the patch again and this time it didn't lockup, but I got message box again at 70% saying "the update could not be applied. The file "C:\Games\Wow\WoW-3.2.0-enUS-patch.exe" appears to be corrupt. You may need to download this file again.". So I did. I've download the patch directly from a web site, but Ive got the same result with this file again. I've read in the Blizzard's forunms this 70% mark is when the installer starts to copy things. And I also read ppl are having this problem in windows when the program could not get writing rights.Thers another hint I'm trying now, that some guy updated the client to 3.0.3 and then applied the big 1.2 gb patch. Let's hope for the best.

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HOWTO
by Andrew Comminos on Thursday August 20th 2009, 15:25
A How to Install WoW section has been added to help newbies install WoW :)

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Catalyst 9.8
by Andrew Comminos on Tuesday August 18th 2009, 13:38
Attention all ATI users!

AMD has released Catalyst 9.8 for Linux today, and it includes tons of improvements for the WoW in wine (e.g white minimap fixed, no longer needing registry tweaks, performance boost). Upgrading to this version is highly recommended.

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Black screen with WoW cursor
by ben on Monday August 17th 2009, 21:17
I installed brand new Ubuntu then brand new Wine, downloaded WoW and it installed without so much as a hiccup. Go to fire up WoW and it runs through the intro cinematic, then where the normal "accept these terms" screens should be just show as a black screen with the WoW gauntlet cursor. I've tried changing settings in my config file but no luck. Any ideas anyone? Thanks a ton!

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cannot install WoW
by Luuka DeMinstrelle on Monday August 17th 2009, 10:15
hey guys, Luuka here. I just recently updated to version 1.1.27 of Wine on Suse 11/1, KDE 4.3. I'm having a great issue even trying to install the damn game. I keep getting cannot install terrain.mpq files, which stops the whole installation. I tried the online installer and the CD installer, same trouble.

What could I be doing wrong? I would be so happy to have an issue other than that, but I can't even install the game, much less than play it! Some help would be appreciated.

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Sorry WINE, Not Quite Good Enough
by Joey Lee on Friday August 14th 2009, 18:36
Well I been happy with games like Sim City 4 and UT2004, but when it comes to WoW, WINE doesn't quite cut it. The game runs much slower then on windows and I am unable to use certain graphics features, the water and fog also look really bad and the textures won't go up to their highest resolution. I have tried several tweaks like the hardware curser and the firegl drivers, but that only solves about 1/10th of the problems.

Because this is my most played game, I am going back to windows as my main os, linux is remarkable software, it is more stable, but because of this one game, I cannot stay on it, sorry guys, I am still locked in microsoft's corperate hold, I am a big gamer and linux isnt much on gaming, even with wine.

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Render Errors in OGL and Flipped Screen in D3D
by TV on Wednesday August 12th 2009, 4:41
Hi,

i cannot get it to work. When starting with option "-opengl", i get render errors like "spikes", flashing textures, missing objects and no mouse cursor.

When using Direct3D, the rendering looks good but the whole scene is flipped by 180 degrees.

Any ideas what to do?

Wine: 1.1.27 (from Scott Ritchie's Repository), also tried latest stable version
Linux: Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04
Fglrx: Catalyst 9.5
System: AMD Phenom II X4 940, Sapphire Radeon HD4870, ASRock AOD790GX, 4GB OCZ Reaper DIMM DDR2-1066

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Crash
by Hickin on Tuesday August 11th 2009, 11:49
I sometimes get wow to crash. Dont really know if it depends on wow or wine but i get this error before I start submitting things to blizzard:

fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x39dab8,0x00000000), stub!
failed to open C:/Program Files/World of Warcraft/Data/Interface/Icons
failed to open C:/Program Files/World of Warcraft/Interface/Icons

In the error which is sent to blizzard it mention diffrent mounts/weapons/iteams so i seems to me that my wow crashes since these things are to close to my char. and cant be displayed and therfor my wow crashes. But Im only guessing.

// Hickin

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  • RE: Crash by Hickin on Tuesday August 11th 2009, 11:51

by Josh on Friday August 7th 2009, 14:43
If I delete the cache files in Cache/WDB using the repair tool, there is a noticably long delay just after the loading screen disappears and the game comes up, in which everything is frozen, often with my character half faded-in as the freeze happens as everything is "appearing".

err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x5979a24 "?" wait timed out in thread 0028, blocked by 0040, retrying (60 sec)

The above appears in the console. Then after a few more seconds the game continues to load and everything works fine. Starting the game when it already has cache files created does not causes this delay, however before 3.2 I never had this problem even when I deleted the cache. Can anyone confirm if this happens in Windows, or if its a wine-only problem (albeit a minor one).

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3.2
by Andrew on Friday August 7th 2009, 10:06
Works more or less the same as 3.1 for me, which is to say pretty well. Most video settings maxed, running with vsync enabled, so capped at 60FPS.
40-60FPS outdoors, 15-25 in crowded areas of Dalaran. Sometimes dips to less than 15FPS in 25 man raids during battles, but certainly playable.
Why does the game frequently get downrated based on the individual's hardware performance, which has nothing to do with WINE?

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Problems with 3.2
by Luis Alvarado on Thursday August 6th 2009, 7:08
Many problems regarding crashes of the game, lag, fps drop and others are not the fault of wine but the fault of the 3.2 patch which Blizzard already mentions in the information box when you login or in several places in the official forums.

This problems should not be pointed to Wine's Fault but to the 3.2 problems that came with it. Blizzard is working hard on this to fix several problems like the ones mention in this page.

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