wine users - Mar 2007 - World of Warcraft problem with Wine 0.9.31

I use Ubuntu 6.10 and just yesterday an update was offered of Wine 0.9.31 which
I accepted
(Maybe its my Windows roots, where every update has to be performed to keep it
secure).
I then found that World of Warcraft was crashing out. Unfortunately my Nvidia
drivers mean
that Metacity/Wine/Whatever does not redraw the screen, so I cannot actually
read the error,
but it is a WoW crash as such, caused by Wine and not a generic Wine error, One
window does
re-draw and it is a crash report made by Blizzard so I can make out their offer
to send the
report. Anyway,  Anyone know if this is a known issue with the latest wine or do
I report it
somewhere?  If it's a known issue I will patiently wait for another update
and boot into
everyone's hated OS in the interim for my WoW fix.  What I am asking here is
basically is
anyone else having this issue?

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MCR
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On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:25:30 +0000, mcr wrote:
> by Blizzard so I can make out their offer to send the report. Anyway, 
> Anyone know if this is a known issue with the latest wine or do I report
> it somewhere?  If it's a known issue I will patiently wait for another
> update and boot into everyone's hated OS in the interim for my WoW fix.
> What I am asking here is basically is anyone else having this issue?
 There seem to be some DirectX regressions in the latest wine. I'd
recommend switching back to 0.9.30 for now.
 Other regressions I've spotted so far:
 Freedom Force vs. the Third Reich used to run, though the buttons were
rendered incorrectly -- now crashes when the menu comes up.
 Morrowind had a big improvement in startup time (used to sit there for
about 2 and a half minutes before it did anything, 0.9.31 only takes 45
seconds) but it now crashes as soon as a loaded game starts.

 Half-Life 2 still runs fine, though.

 I'm thinking I'll try to do a regression test to figure out what patch
broke this stuff so I can alert the developers, but I haven't had a chance
yet. (I only installed 0.9.31 yesterday when the Ubuntu build was ready)


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