wine users - Apr 2009 - WoW, and most other games, do not run under Wine.

I've recently installed Wine onto my ubuntu intrepid ibex box and I'm
having endless issues when it comes to running games. Right now, I'm
specifically trying to play World of Warcraft and I am receiving graphical
issues that cause the game to be unplayable. These bugs are widespread and i
cannot see anything in the game's window. The laptop is running on an Intel
GMA965Q. I've played games on Windows with this laptop with 0 issues.

Here is a screenshot:

[img]https://dl-web.getdropbox.com/get/Photos/Screenshot.png?w=1dae0265.png[/img]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 5:22 PM, hawtpawkithero
<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> I've recently installed Wine onto my ubuntu intrepid ibex box and
I'm having endless issues when it comes to running games. Right now, I'm
specifically trying to play World of Warcraft and I am receiving graphical
issues that cause the game to be unplayable. These bugs are widespread and i
cannot see anything in the game's window. The laptop is running on an Intel
GMA965Q. I've played games on Windows with this laptop with 0 issues.
Intel drivers on Linux are horrible, which is 99% likely your problem.


-- 
-Austin

Have you tried disabling Desktop Effects (also known as Compiz)? Wine tends
to have some graphical issues with these turned on.
https://help.ubuntu.com/7.10/desktop-effects/C/compiz-configure.html

I got an error trying to view your picture.



On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:22 PM, hawtpawkithero <wineforum-user at
winehq.org>wrote:
> I've recently installed Wine onto my ubuntu intrepid ibex box and
I'm
> having endless issues when it comes to running games. Right now, I'm
> specifically trying to play World of Warcraft and I am receiving graphical
> issues that cause the game to be unplayable. These bugs are widespread and
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> cannot see anything in the game's window. The laptop is running on an
Intel
> GMA965Q. I've played games on Windows with this laptop with 0 issues.
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Well it did fix the strange graphical glitches, but now the entire window is
just plain, solid black. Any other ideas?


Justin wrote:
> Have you tried disabling Desktop Effects (also known as Compiz)? Wine tends
> to have some graphical issues with these turned on.
> https://help.ubuntu.com/7.10/desktop-effects/C/compiz-configure.html
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> I got an error trying to view your picture.
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> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:22 PM, hawtpawkithero <wineforum-user at
winehq.org>wrote:
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> > I've recently installed Wine onto my ubuntu intrepid ibex box and
I'm
> > having endless issues when it comes to running games. Right now,
I'm
> > specifically trying to play World of Warcraft and I am receiving
graphical
> > issues that cause the game to be unplayable. These bugs are widespread
and i
> > cannot see anything in the game's window. The laptop is running on
an Intel
> > GMA965Q. I've played games on Windows with this laptop with 0
issues.
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> > Here is a screenshot:
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hawtpawkithero wrote:
> trying to play World of Warcraft and I am receiving graphical issues that
cause the game to be unplayable
I can not view your screen shot, but a couple things to check:

Intel video cards do not often work well in Linux due to lack of good 
drivers and they are not often good for newer/high graphics requirement 
games in general. If you have an Nvidia card available and can add it to 
your laptop you might want to try using it with current drivers and see 
if that helps.

Are you adding -opengl to the end of the command line when you start the 
game -or- have you added it to a file to run the game in opengl 
automatically per one of the WoW how-to's? If you have not done one or 
other of those then you are likely to have many graphics issues in game.