wine users - Mar 2007 - Re: World Of Warcraft and Wine... A success story

MCR <mcr.mameSFILT@gmail.com> wrote in
news:cYovh.4006$h15.379@newsfe29.ams: 
> Toby Newman wrote:
>> On 2007-01-29, MCR <mcr.mameSFILT@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I thought I would share a success story with everyone that
>>> seemed really 
>>>   complicated, but in fact was the easiest solution I have found
>>>   yet. 
>>>
>>> I have a Windows partition which is not used much now EXCEPT to
>>> play games.  My son loves WoW and continiously nags me to play
>>> it.  Booting into Windows all the time was a pain and I had no
>>> success following any of the guides...  Wine worked but it
>>> seemed to hang (I waited an hour). 
>>>
>>> Anyway 'just for a laugh' decided to try and run WoW from
within
>>> my Windows partition and it worked!  I am so impressed, my son
>>> can play WoW without any issues and I don't have to reboot into
>>> Windows so much. It's a shame about San Andreas tho ;)
>> 
>> So: Running WoW from within Wine using files copied into your
>> linux file structure didn't work, but running WoW within Wine
>> using files installed on a windows partition which is mounted as
>> FAT32 does work? Is that right?
>> 
> 
> Yes.  Except that its NTFS not FAT32.  I have no idea why
> following the guide didn't work (In fact I followed 2 guides,one
> of them had me downloading DLL files too),  I admit to being a
> little new to all this, and have followed guides before, like the
> one to enable NTFS drives and running virtual machines.   Maybe it
> is a solution for other people too who are trying to do the same
> thing. 
Congratulations for "thinking beyond the square" and getting this game
to work properly - if only for your son's pleasure and your sanity :)

This probably should be read in 'comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine' too 
so I'm x-posting it over to there, with follow-up to set to there 
also.

Cheers.

-- 
dee

Mike Dee wrote:
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>>> So: Running WoW from within Wine using files copied into your
>>> linux file structure didn't work, but running WoW within Wine
>>> using files installed on a windows partition which is mounted as
>>> FAT32 does work? Is that right?
>>>
>> Yes.  Except that its NTFS not FAT32.  I have no idea why
>> following the guide didn't work (In fact I followed 2 guides,one
>> of them had me downloading DLL files too),  I admit to being a
>> little new to all this, and have followed guides before, like the
>> one to enable NTFS drives and running virtual machines.   Maybe it
>> is a solution for other people too who are trying to do the same
>> thing. 
> 
> Congratulations for "thinking beyond the square" and getting this
game
> to work properly - if only for your son's pleasure and your sanity :)
> 
> This probably should be read in 'comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine'
too
> so I'm x-posting it over to there, with follow-up to set to there 
> also.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
Thank you.  The reason I mentioned it wasnt to gloat, although I am 
pretty pleased with myself.. ha ha.. it was because I cannot be the only 
one who has this game and has Windows as a dual boot.  The only small 
issue is that Beryl cannot be running with the accelerated window 
manager, but switching to Metacity while leaving beryl running is good 
enough.

I also have NTFS read/write access to my C partition (obviously I guess) 
using NTFS-3g
-- 
MCR
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