WoW and some other games crash on starting.

[TorcpU]

So I tried earlier playing Warcraft 3 FT through wine on sabayon 4.2
It crashed after the splash screen on the starting.

I tried also Diablo 2 LoD.
It crashed when trying to start.

I tried World Of Warcraft.
It crashed when trying to start.
Still does when I have my fresh install now.

WOWS CRASH DUMP:
http://pastebin.com/m6733f1df


So what could be the problem?
I got ATI hd3850 and it has the 9.6 latest kernel supporting drivers.

PS. Tried running them in opengl

[wolfden]

Gaming in linux isn't that great of an experience and I also find wine is just another let down. I dual boot for gaming as it's just easier and better all the way around. WinXP makes a great gaming OS.

For wow are you following the gentoo guide?
http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/World_of_Warcraft/Wine

[elempjr]

Actually, WoW is a GREAT experience on 'nix once it is established and tweaked. I have played on my brother's box. The hardest thing to get working are the mods. We first played on his M$ partition. It was smooth to some extent with a bit of lag... between 14 and 23 fps. Then we switched to his linux partition. 50+ fps STEADY! Seemingly NO lag, NO input lag either. The only trouble HE had was whenever he went into the battlegrounds or a raid, he would have to log out of WOW after entering and log back in to re-enable his mods.

I know I will have to find out what he did. I plan to do this on my box soon. When I have the detailed information/setup, I will be happy to post, put a link, or create some sort of script or something to be helpful as i know my gloating doesn't really help.

I'm merely saying i have seen it done with INCREDIBLE success!

Also, have you tried running it on a virtual M$ OS machine through sabayon??? That might be the way to 'tweak' it with the most success and without the need to dual boot

[amoebios]

I've tried what i could find on tweaking Wine, but didn't get far. Then i tried CrossOver Games and it just started installing before i even knew what was happening. After hours of downloading and installing (about 6 GB) i was already playing, but i had a glitch, which resulted from an outdated driver. My ATI card is too old and not supported, that means it wouldn't work on Windows at all. (i still have Win XP, but it just sits there, rotting, waiting for a program that's not available on Linux. And it's horrible for gaming; it gets, depending on the game, sluggish and unresponsive, sooner or later. Maybe it's just me, but i guess that may depend on the drivers and hardware.)

[elempjr]

after i get it working on MY new/used machine, i'll tell you exactly what i did, like i said; i will need to contact my buddy and dig in his system for a while and possibly mimic that. For now though (after i find the dvd drive for this laptop) i will be emulating M$ just for the purpose of WOW, aparently WoTLK plays well on his system too; just the glitch where he needs to log after entering raid or bg to re-initialize his mods

by the time i get it working, hopefully someone will have already posted a better solution

[elempjr]

I finally put some more time/effort into this. After using S5 for a while now, i decided to check out WoW on Wine. It worked ALMOST directly out of the box. I installed wine, went into winecfg from a terminal window; put in my desired configuration and exited wine. Afterwards, i downloaded the WoW installer onto my machine. I then proceeded to run the blizzard installer from wine in a terminal window.

My directory structures are all default layout, your's may be different if you set your's up differently than default

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bigdaddy@Black-Top ~ $ cd Downloads
bigdaddy@Black-Top ~/Downloads $ wine InstallWoW.exe


The Blizzard update screen may lock up and turn grey from time to time. If this happens, you may need to kill the process and initiate things first by trying to use the "Blizzard Updater.exe" manually from wine, then if not, try running Wow.exe from Wine, give it a few seconds (like 30 before giving up on each step). If that doesn't initiate things again, run a wine command line (wine cmd) and try running the patch-version-to-whatever-the-new-etc.exe or any of the above mentioned files. All of these are found in your default "World of Warcraft" directory.

Follow any instructions and put up with the seemingly endless patch updates (from wow). Afterwards be sure to change to your desired resolution and graphics from in-game.

If you have trouble getting sound, there are some values that you can add/change in your "config.wtf" file found in: "/wow_directory_of_your_choosing/WTF/Config.wtf"
for example, mine is in: /~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft/WTF/Config.wtf

Remember, the directory ".wine" is a hidden directory for those of you who don't know. You can type it in the terminal window with the dot or hit ctrl+h in your gnome file manager to see hidden files.

PLEASE, only take this advice AT YOUR OWN RISK!

What was easiest for me was to open a terminal window and type:

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gedit ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/World\ of\ Warcraft/WTF/Config.wtf


(the "back-whack" symbol is to 'pre-empt' a space on the command line, hitting the 'tab' key after entering a letter or two (case sensitive!) of the directory as you type will get much better results.

after entering this command, a gedit window opens and you can then backup your config file first!!! (save it as Config.wtf.original or something then reopen the Config.wtf file.

Once inside the Config.wtf file, try adding two lines to the bottom of the page EXACTLY as i have them and then save as Config.wtf (with a capital "C")

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SET Sound_SoundOutputSystem "1"
SET Sound_SoundBufferSize "150"


after saving/closing gedit, try running the game again. If it doesn't work, there are online resources available through googling that go into more details about these issues or if you can't find it, i can try to help also there are resources available for using your game discs to install instead of downloading the installer. You will still suffer through WoW patch updates with these methods though. Also, remember to install all of your favorite mods and configurations manually in your /World of Warcraft/Interface/Addons folder. I haven't tried any of the "auto mod updaters" and don't intend to.

Remember to be patient as some of the steps will need to be "re-initiated manually" for things to work through patch updates!

good luck!
and happy gaming