[How-To] Wine 0.9.25,World Of Warcraft

[=Kevin=]

Since I've had lots of success with the new Wine and World Of Warcraft, I'd be delighted to share my experience to help others

This guide is about setting up Wine 0.9.25 and World Of Warcraft. I trust you to know how to use the Terminal, if you can't.. it's found under Applications->Accesoires->Terminal. You can copy&paste into the Terminal by just selecting the code here and copy'ing it with Ctrl+C, pasting into the Terminal is done with the keycombo Shift+Insert.

Have fun, and hopefully after you've read this guide, happy gaming!

Note: you should have your graphical drivers installed correctly, refer to other guides on this forums for howto's on NVIDIA/ATI cards.


1.Setting up Wine 0.9.25

First of all, make sure we are in the /home/yourname directory:

cd ~

Now we need to download the new Wine archive:

wget http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-0.9.25.tar.bz2

Let's extract the archive:

tar xvj wine-0.9.25.tar.bz2

This will create a new directory named wine-0.9.25,let's go in:

cd wine-0.9.25

Now we are going to configure,make and install it:
1st step, configuring:

./configure

2nd step, making (aka compiling, this will take long, like 30 minutes)

make depend && make

Final step,installing your freshly compiled Wine:

sudo make install

Now you have your own compiled Wine installed! That wasn't so hard, was it?

2.Configuring Wine

Fire up your terminal and enter:

winecfg

We need to adjust some minor things here according the sound.
Move to the Audio Tab.
NOTE:If it crashes as soon as you're trying to reach the Audio tab, do the following:

sudo mv /usr/local/libs/wine/winearts.drv.so /usr/local/libs/wine/winearts.drv.so.backup

Now your audio tab should work, so let's move to it!
In the Audio Tab, uncheck the ALSA Driver box and check the OSS Driver box. Also we need to change the Hardware Acceleration from the dropdown box to Emulation.
Click Apply and close your winecfg, we are done here!

3.World Of Warcraft

If you have World Of Warcraft already installed, good!Ignore the installing part

If you don't have it installed yet, then let's do something about it!
Copy everything from the CD's to a folder on your hard-drive, starting with CD1. Overwrite when asked. If everything is copied to your disk, open up your terminal:

cd yourfolder     (changed "yourfolder" to the name you've given the map)
wine Install.exe

This should launch the installer and you should be able to normally install the game.

Now it's time to edit your Config.wtf. First, we need to the folder where you've installed WoW.(normally ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/World\ Of\ Warcraft). Then we need to edit the Config.wtf file in the WTF folder. We'll also backup the Config.wtf should things go wrong.

cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/World\ Of\ Warcraft/WTF/
cp Config.wtf Config.wtf.backup  
gedit Config.wtf

Edit your values or add these values to match the following:

SET SoundOutputSystem "1"
SET SoundBufferSize "100"
SET gxApi "OpenGL"

Save the file and exit. Now you're able to run WoW by giving the following command:

wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/World\ Of\ Warcraft/WoW.exe

But as you can see, this is not very efficient, so let's make a launcher!

sudo gedit /usr/local/bin/wow

Paste the following inside:

#!/bin/sh

wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/World\ Of\ Warcraft/WoW.exe

Now you are able to start World Of Warcraft by entering

wow

into the terminal!

If this all went fine, you will be able to play World of Warcraft freely, with good fps!

Only thing not working is the minimap inside dungeons,towns etc., it will just go blank. This is a known bug and there is no workaround yet.

This is my first guide, so be gentle

Happy WoW'ing & Greets,

Keviin, Gnome Mage, Spinebreaker EU-Realm

[Drezliok]

Cool, I had every thing else but the launcher set up. I'll do that when I get the chance.

[=Kevin=]

Glad I could helpe

[deaz]

Hey, i would like to thank you for making this guide tho i didn't get it to work

When i get to "winecfg" i get this:

err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
The X11 driver is missing.  Check your build!
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
The X11 driver is missing.  Check your build!

Hope you can help me out here

- deaz

[scotty2hott2k]

you could just add the official wine repo's for ubuntu to your apt sources then update then upgrade wine to the latest version, beats the hell out of compiling it each time

[deaz]

I DID do that afterwards, but still same problem.

[=Kevin=]

@deaz,

Do you have your video drivers correctly installed?

[deaz]

@deaz,

Do you have your video drivers correctly installed?

Yes, the fglrx driver works perfectly with my ati radeon mobility x600 card.

[mots]

im experiencing exactly the same problem with an ati mobility x700

[appdx]

when I try to do

cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/World\ Of\ Warcraft/WTF/
cp Config.wtf Config.wtf.backup  
gedit Config.wtf

I get

cp: cannot stat `Config.wtf': No such file or directory

If I try to just play it after the cut-scene I get this

fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_CONTEXT_VALUE; STUB
Exceeded max nr indirect texture lookups
DRM_I830_CMDBUFFER: -22