wine users - Nov 2008 - Problems running vanilla WoW

Heya,

I'm new to all things linux and wine, so forgive my noobiness.

I've installed World of Warcraft in wine by extracting the cds to the same
directory and ran install.exe; that ran fine besides an error at the end saying
that it couldn't add WOW to my add/remove programs.

When I try to run it however from ~/.wine/drive_c/wow/WoW.exe I get the
following:


Code:
# wine WoW.exe

X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for
operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 155 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 3 (X_GLXCreateContext)
Value in failed request: 0x21
Serial number of failed request: 440
Current serial number in output stream: 440




No idea what any of this means, but the program doesn't open, and no idea
what to do next. (I also can't find the guide I followed to install wine and
WoW, bah)

Note that this is just the vanilla World of Warcraft, without TBC or WotLK
expansions.  Trying to get it working in Linux before getting started raiding
again.

Other programs such as the repair utility run fine, it's just WoW.exe that I
get the errors for.

Does anybody have any idea what could be wrong?  I'm using FC9 clean install
with Gnome, more information can be provided if you tell me how to provide it.

And what version of Wine are you using?
That will be helpful information you can find out the version by running winecfg
its listed on the about page.

As I do not get that error I when I installed WoW on wine 1.0 or even wine 1.1.8

Try running WoW this way

wine Wow.exe -opengl

hope it helps

Mindez wrote:
> Heya,
> 
> I'm new to all things linux and wine, so forgive my noobiness.
> 
> I've installed World of Warcraft in wine by extracting the cds to the
same directory and ran install.exe; that ran fine besides an error at the end
saying that it couldn't add WOW to my add/remove programs.
> 
> When I try to run it however from ~/.wine/drive_c/wow/WoW.exe I get the
following:
> 
> 
> Code:
> # wine WoW.exe
> 
> 
> 
This suggest you are running Wine as root user, do not do this.
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-96bebfa287b4288974de0df23351f278b0d41014[/quote]