Wine/Troubleshooting
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Troubleshooting Wine tries to address the common issues people are having with running World of Warcraft using Wine on Linux. Important note: Make ABSOLUTELY SURE you run the latest Wine version, as well as the latest version of your graphic card drivers. If you don't, and encounter errors that have been fixed in newer versions... you're out of luck.
Can't see the installer tomes on the Wrath DVD
Most distros automounter programs don't include the "unhide" option for UDF filesystems. It will most likely be mandatory to remount manually.
On Fedora 9, the exact command that would need to be run (as root) would be
mount -o remount,unhide /dev/sr0
This will be different based on where your distro places the DVD drive. An easy way to check would be to run the mount command and choose the relevant device (which will typically be sr# or cd#).
Can't see/open Installer.exe from Wrath DVD
Tested on Ubuntu 8.10, I couldnt open Installer.exe from the DVD.
The (unpretty) way to solve this:
sudo -i # Login as root, afaik this doesn't work with sudo.
chown -R root /home/<username>/.wine # Change ownership of .wine folder to root
WINEPREFIX="/home/<username>/.wine" wine /media/cdrom/Installer.exe # Install WotLK
chown -R username /home/<username>/.wine # Change ownership back
logout # logout as root
Be sure to edit <username> to your username!
Cannot accept EULA
Upgrade to the latest version of wine.
This can also be a driver issue. If you are still having trouble try running xorg with the VESA driver.
Config.wtf
Main article: Config.wtf
Sound corruption
If you have problems with sound stuttering you may have to increase or decrease the sound buffer a bit. It's configured by changing the value of the SET SoundBufferSize line in wtf/Config.wtf. Anything from 50 to 250 may cure your problem. Bear in mind that excessive buffer size may create audio sync issues.
You may try the following option as well:
SET SoundOutputSystem "1"
UI corruption
If you experience corrupt icons or interface textures, you then you may need to set the UIFaster parameter in wtf/Config.wtf
Use it like this:
Set UIFaster "x"
Where x equals:
0 – This turns off all UI acceleration 2 – Enables partial UI acceleration only. 3 – Enables all UI acceleration.
Example:
Set UIFaster "2"
The value 2 usually corrects this problem.
The value "1" is for internal use and should never be set on a live WoW setup. You have been warned.
Crashes from indoor to outdoor
If WoW crashes each time your character moves from outdoors to indoors, try disabling double buffering. Unchecking Enable desktop double buffering under the Graphics tab in winecfg should work.
Winecfg
Audio driver
If you experience stuttering, bad sound or no sound what so ever, then you must try a few things in winecfg. Just type winecfg in a terminal, press enter, and the winecfg window should appear and you should go to the audio tab. Alsa is preferable.
Also, refer to the Voice chat section for information on getting multiple audio streams working with OSS and ALSA (more than one program using audio at once). It will save you grief should you ever want to listen to music and chat on Ventrilo or Teamspeak while playing, and similar.
You may also try ticking "Driver Emulation". Remove it again if it doesn't help.
If you hear no audio at all and set the Windows emulation to Vista, try setting it to XP (or lower if that does not work. XP should be your safest bet though if sound still does not work and you want to try out other settings).
Other tweaks
Glitch every 3-5 sec
If you see a noticeable graphical studder every 3 to 5 seconds or so for this you need to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add something like:
Option "UseFastTLS" "2"
to the Video card "Device" Section. This of course is normally a problem with the proprietary Linux Drivers for ATI cards.
Another possibility is a problem with the default kernel scheduler. I noticed many people have this problem with a NVIDIA card. Readjusting the scheduler will fix these issues:
echo 21 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_features echo 25000000 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_batch_wakeup_granularity_ns echo 4000000 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_min_granularity_ns
Installer.exe and RAM type
On certain systems there is a problem with RAM and the WoW Installer. On a Core2 Duo 6400 with DDR2-800, setting the RAM to DDR2-533 in BIOS allowed the installer to work flawlessly the first time. It's easy to confuse this issue with a CD/DVD problem because the installer will complain about a checksum error.
Stuttering every 15sec and flickering line fix for Linux kernels 2.6.24 with CFS scheduler
On some distributions like Arch Linux World of Warcraft stutters exactly every 15 seconds. You will also notice a flickering bar on the top of your screen.
The instructions are taken from shazeal from this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=42779
The best solution to solve this problem is to recompile your kernel with the option CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG. After booting that kernel, you can tune it via sysctl and the problem is gone. This is an example of doing this on Arch Linux, it will be different on other distributions.
Step 1: Recompiling the kernel
First, fetch the newest source tree via ABS as root
sudo abs
Then copy /var/abs/core/kernel26 to your home directory
cp -R /var/abs/core/kernel26 ~
Now open up the file config, search for the line "# CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG is not set" and replace it with "CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y". Next open the file PKGBUILD, go to the md5sums and comment out the third one(or replace it with ne new m5dsum of config) so it looks like this:
md5sums=('3f23ad4b69d0a552042d1ed0f4399857'
'9d435f1a3b56d74265d9eb7c49060ff4'
#'817294b52dc1f0acb1a8616fe792f29a'
'ae7370a442115f2c7ee45d0123f617e3'
'25584700a0a679542929c4bed31433b6')
Open a terminal, cd into the directory and call "makepkg". That will, depending on your machine, take a looong time. After its done, install the new package via pacman -U to your system. I suggest to add the package kernel26 to your HoldPkg or IgnorePkg list.
Step 2: Tune your kernel
Tuning your kernel is much easier. Just add the following lines to your /etc/sysctl.conf:
# World of Warcraft stutter and flickering line fix kernel.sched_features=21 kernel.sched_batch_wakeup_granularity_ns=25000000 kernel.sched_min_granularity_ns=4000000
Save it, and reboot. World of Warcraft should now run without silly stuttering and flickering.
Wine source patches
Memory exhaustion (preloader.c)
As of 3.0.2, an unknown bug is causing repeated crashes on some nVidia cards, all related to memory corruption or exhaustion. See comments in bug 16131 to find and apply the patch and for more information. You will need a clone of the wine.git repository.
Nvidia-specific issues
TwinView
You know that you have this problem if World of Warcraft does not display correctly, and you have TwinView enabled. To fix this, set the in-game video settings to "Windowed Mode", and "Maximized". Unfortunately, you will not be able to set the resolution at the video settings, so: set the appropriate resolution by changing gxResolution in Config.wtf to your liking (this looks just like running in fullscreen). E.g.:
SET gxResolution "1280x1024"
Alternatively, if you by any chance cannot access the in-game video settings you can force these settings by enabling:
SET gxWindow "1" SET gxMaximize "1"
ATI-Specific issues
ATI no Object Textures/Models
Some ATI user have the problem, that character and object models are hidden. It seems to appear with newer ATI drivers. To solve the problem, add the following line to the Config.wtf
SET M2UseShaders "0"
ATI enter game world crash
For users with an ATI video card: certain cards have trouble rendering games and video in opengl using current flgrx drivers which will cause your computer to hard locks when you attempt to enter a domain. This error will occur just after character creation/selection, as the game environment is loading, or possibly after a short period of play. In order to fix this error, add the following lines of code to your xorg.conf file in the ATI device section:
Option "Capabilities" "0x00000800" Option "UseFastTLS" "off" Option "KernelModuleParm" "locked-userpages=0"
This is where you find the file:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
The section should look something similar to this after editing:
Section "Device" Identifier "aticonfig-Device[Amity wine]]ver "fglrx" Option "Capabilities" "0x00000800" Option "UseFastTLS" "off" Option "KernelModuleParm" "locked-userpages=0" EndSection
Note: this has been tested and also works with NVidia cards.
Common errors
Can't eject the CD
If you've got the disk space, the easiest solution would be to rip the entirety of disc 1, and the Installer Tome #.mpq files from the remaining discs to some folder on your computer (like ~/wow/), then run the installer from there.
Waiting for files to close...
This message appears during patching when certain files are open (Launcher.exe, Wow.exe, etc). To make sure you don't have any of those files open, try killall -9 wineserver && killall -9 wine to close all wine applications. If this didn't do anything, open winecfg and change the Windows version to Windows NT 4.0. If it still doesn't work, you may have more luck with other Windows versions.
Failed to find a suitable display device.
This is usually direct3d in cause. You may try to overwrite the d3d9.dll, or use the builtin one if you're already overwriting it. Try switching between gxApi opengl and d3d as well. Also, if using OpenGL, ensure that glx is loaded in the Module section of your xorg.conf file.
Your 3D accelerator card is not supported by World of Warcraft. Please install a 3D accelerator card with dual-TMU support.
There is a 99% chance that this is due to the drivers. If you just got a new graphic card or reinstalled the OS, you might be using outdated drivers. Distribution drivers are usually weeks or even months behind the current ones. It's strongly recommended to use the official ones (nVidia, ATI).
This error can also happen on 64-bit Linux distributions if you're using the proprietary drivers as packaged by the distribution. Some distributions put the 32-bit versions of the libraries in a separate package. Since Wine uses the 32-bit libraries even on 64-bit systems, Wine won't support accelerated OpenGL without them. Look for a package that's named similarly to the driver package, but includes a note about being 32-bit. For example, on 64-bit Debian, if you're using the "nvidia-glx" libraries, you want to also install "nvidia-glx-ia32".
If you have just updated your system's kernel or video drivers, you may simply need to restart your computer.
err:module:import_dll Library OPENGL32.dll
You get the following error on startup:
err:module:import_dll Library OPENGL32.dll (which is needed by L"C:Program Files/World of Warcraft/wow.exe") not found err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:/Program Files/World of Warcraft/wow.exe" failed, status c0000135
Solution : check that /usr/local/lib/wine/opengl32.dll.so has ownership of root:root and permissions -rwxr-xr-x, if it does not then you may have not been super user when you ran the "make install" command. become superuser and repeat the make install command as shown in the howto. Do not just change the ownership/permissions of opengl32.dll.so as probably all the other files are wrong too, so do a make install.
Error #134 "Unable to associate local address with socket..."
The socket is already bound to an address, or the parameter is a listening socket. You need to make sure your loopback interface is up, by running:
ifconfig lo up
or
sudo ifconfig lo up
