wine users - May 2008 - Ubuntu Hardy + Wine + WoW = corrupted graphics

Hello all,

I've got a laptop w/ an "Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS,
943/940GML"
graphics card (I know, Intel sucks) running Ubuntu Hardy and Wine 
0.9.61~winehq0~ubuntu~8.04-1.

I've had problems getting World of Warcraft to run under wine before, so 
when I upgraded to Hardy I thought I would try it again.  At least in 
the past I could run WoW using the built-in d3d engine (instead of 
opengl) and it would be usable, just not fast.  But now things have 
gotten a /LOT/ worse.  I get lots of video problems:

- Blue flickering whenever a window or icon underneath the wine window 
scrolls or updates itself, or whenever I click the mouse in the wine window.

- Moving the wine window around causes bits of itself to be left behind 
on the desktop underneath, both on the desktop and in the windows of 
other applications.

- The wine window loses it's window decorations if moved or 
minimized/restored.

- When WoW is run full-screen the icons from the gnome panel underneath 
keep redrawing themselves over the wine display.

This only seems to happen when I'm running the game (happens in both 
-opengl and -d3d).  This doesn't happen at all if I just run something 
simple like winecfg or regedit.

I  have screenshots to show what I'm talking about.

- This image shows the garbage left behind on the desktop whenever the 
wine window is moved around the screen:

http://www.tiem.utk.edu/~peek/tmp/wine/wow-desktop-1440.jpg

- This image shows the flickering that takes place whenever a window 
underneath the wine window changes and redraws itself.  (In this case 
the large blue square you see in the lower-left is an xterm window 
running ls.):

http://www.tiem.utk.edu/~peek/tmp/wine/wow-flicker-1280.jpg

Has anyone else had problems like this?

Does anyone know a solution?

Thanks for your help,

Michael

If you are under hardy, you can try by stopping compiz.
To do this go to the "Appearance" panel and switch "Visual
effects" to "none", you might also try by typing in a terminal:
[code] metacity --replace [/code]

Compiz and wine are not really good friends and produce strange graphical
behavior.

did that solve the problem?

No im having the same problems and when I tried to do that fix it was already
torned to none.  Im having to run wow under D3D and it is horrible.  I am
getting 3-5 FPS  [Crying or Very sad] .  This has been happening for the last
few wine versions released .

Tlarhices wrote:
> If you are under hardy, you can try by stopping compiz.
> To do this go to the "Appearance" panel and switch "Visual
effects" to "none", you might also try by typing in a terminal:
> [code] metacity --replace [/code]
>
> Compiz and wine are not really good friends and produce strange graphical
behavior.
>   
That did it!  Thanks!

Michael

Michael Peek wrote:
> 
> I have these artifacts where items and characters in the game are white
silhouettes, and the map doesn't work.
> 

Try editing your "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WTF\Config.wtf"
file and add the following line:

SET M2UseShaders "0"


Michael Peek wrote:
> I have heard that both of these problems are in the video driver for x11
for Intel-based video cards.  Is this true?

Probably.  From what I've seen and read to date, nVidia seems to be the only
manufacture that provides a good GL solution on Linux.  I do hope this changes.
I like to have options when shopping.