World of Warcraft

The Old God N’Zoth has been unleashed from his titan wrought prison, and an ancient corruption has taken root across Azeroth, turning friends into foes and trapping warriors’ minds in nightmare visions of a hopeless future. As despair and madness consume the land, the heroes of the Horde and the Alliance will need to fight for their sanity—and the fate of their wounded world in this content update.

ShadowLands is live. Sylvanas and the Jailer in together, to bridge the world of the dead with Azeroth.

Application Details:

Version:	9.1.5
License:	Retail
URL:	http://www.worldofwarcraft.com
Votes:	231
Latest Rating:	Platinum
Latest Wine Version Tested:	7.0-staging

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Test Results

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What works

Installed the battle.net, logged in and installed the game from the app, as if it was Windows. It worked like a charm.

What does not

Workarounds

What was not tested

I haven't tried my hand at some kind of addon manager, in order to update them automatically. So I'm just updating them manually.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

GPU: Nvidia
Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

Everything above Wine 6.1 was borked. 6.0 worked, albeit with some minor audio glitches, and 5.0.5 worked flawlessly for me. At the beginning, I was getting a blank screen with sound, but it was solved after adding -d3d11 to the command line in the battle.net app.

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Show	Gentoo Linux x86_64	Jan 25 2022	7.0-staging	Yes	Yes	No	Platinum	b0nt4kun
Show	Gentoo Linux x86_64	Jul 18 2021	6.12-staging	N/A	Yes	No	Platinum	b0nt4kun
Current	Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal" (+ variants like Kubuntu)	May 06 2021	5.0.5	Yes	Yes	No	Platinum	Pablo Lucero
Show	openSUSE Leap 15.2	Apr 06 2021	6.5-staging	Yes	Yes	No	Platinum	Alberto
Show	Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal" (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Feb 05 2021	6.1-staging	Yes	No	No	Garbage	Maia Everett

Known Bugs

Bug #	Description	Status	Resolution	Other apps affected
44210	GNUTLS_CIPHER_CHACHA20_POLY1305 is not work	UNCONFIRMED		View
46410	Screen flickering in WoW	NEW		View
46416	World of Warcraft dx12/vkd3d crashes soon after login (RADV)	NEW		View
46978	World of Warcraft shows ghost images when turning	UNCONFIRMED		View
47471	World of Warcraft 8.2.0 freezes when entering New zone Nazjatar (directx 12)	NEW		View
47731	World of Warcraft BFA Crash with error 132 Memory could not be read.	UNCONFIRMED		View
49170	WoW (World of Warcraft) shows colored grass and mosaic effects	UNCONFIRMED		View
49233	World of Wacraft (WoW) slow fps with the dx11 modern renderer	UNCONFIRMED		View
49423	Added input lag in World of Warcraft and other games	UNCONFIRMED		View
49497	WoW (World of Warcraft) crashes with multithreaded modern renderer	UNCONFIRMED		View
49639	World of Warcraft Shadowlands (wow) has a fly screen effect	UNCONFIRMED		View
49682	World of Warcraft (WoW) Shadowlands Beta with strange "shadows" in DX11Modern&DX12	UNCONFIRMED		View
49781	World of Warcraft (WoW) Shadowlands stays black with DX12	UNCONFIRMED		View
50614	World of Warcraft Retail (WoW) crashes with 6.1-staging	UNCONFIRMED		View
52585	Multiple applications need NtQueryDirectoryObject to return multiple entries (Cygwin shells, WinObj 3.01)	UNCONFIRMED		View

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HowTo / Notes

Comments

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NTFS vs ext4
by b0nt4kun on Monday December 13th 2021, 9:43

Hi, I've been running WoW on wine since vanilla. Since I used to need Windows to proceed with updates, WoW was installed on a NTFS partition (was even FAT32 at first). So currently the partition where WoW files are located (as well as Diablo III, Battle.net, etc.) is mounted with ntfs-3g. I'm not experiencing any specific issue with my setup, however, since I don't even have Windows installed anymore, I was wondering if anyone had experience running WoW on ext4 partition. More specifically, I'm interested to know:
- if there is any issue/side effect from running WoW on ext4 rather than NTFS (a long time ago I saw something about WoW being confused with ext4 permissions);
- if there is any performance difference (loading time for example).
Any feedback would be appreciated :)

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RE: NTFS vs ext4
by Pavel R on Wednesday January 19th 2022, 1:48

Never actually tried to run it from NTFS, used to run from ext3/ext4 partitions since 2011 without any issues. Obviously, can't compare performance, but never experienced any issues with it. In general, ext4 is faster than NTFS.

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RE: NTFS vs ext4
by b0nt4kun on Tuesday January 25th 2022, 4:29

Thank you for the feedback. I finally took the time to perform the swap from ntfs to ext4. I don't really see any performance difference, but at least no issue neither.

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by Hamidreza on Sunday May 16th 2021, 9:56

How can i instal wow??or other apps.plz upload a video to help

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RE:
by Jon on Wednesday June 30th 2021, 15:45

Sorry, no video but you just install Battle.net first: appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=28855

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Crashing in 6.1 - 6.6
by spaceman on Saturday April 17th 2021, 10:48

I was getting the crash in 6.5 and after upgrading to 6.6 today, on Debian Buster.
ACCESS_VIOLATION : error 132: ERROR #132 (0x85100084) Fatal exception!
The instruction at "0x000000018000396a" referenced memory at "0x000000000000000 0".
The memory could not be "read".

I'm a little embarrassed to report for anyone else who experiences this issue, that I resolved it, in 6.6 by suffixing my commandline with -d3d11. so:
env WINEPREFIX="/full/path/to/ WoW prefix/" wine '/full/path/to/World of Warcraft/_retail_/Wow.exe' -d3d11

This may have fixed my problems with 6.5, but reading a bug report I was waiting for 6.6 which was patched to fix a similar issue.

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