wine users - Dec 2009 - wine: '/home/WoW/.wine' is a 32-bit prefix, it cannot be use

Hey

I am running World of Warcraft via wine on Fedora x86_64.  I have the 32bit
versions of all the necessary packages needed to run World of Warcraft, but
unless I remove my ~/.wine directory before i launch World of Warcraft I will
get this error message.

% wine Wow.exe -opengl
wine: '/home/WoW/.wine' is a 32-bit prefix, it cannot be used with wow64
Wine.


Anyone know where in ~/.wine the option is being set for a 32-bit prefix?  It
worked fine for like 2 weeks and then suddenly started getting that error
message.

If you are having this issue and need a quick fix, just delete the ~/.wine
directory..  I would like to find a way to launch World of Warcraft without
having to remove the wine directory tho because when I remove it all my ventrilo
settings are erased and I have to re-enter all the server info every time I
launch vent.

Richie086 wrote:
> 
> wine: '/home/WoW/.wine' is a 32-bit prefix, it cannot be used with
wow64 Wine.
> 

Remove 64 bit Wine. It is not ready for use.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533806

On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 17:08 -0600, Richie086 wrote:
>
> If you are having this issue and need a quick fix, just delete the
> ~/.wine directory..  I would like to find a way to launch World of
> Warcraft without having to remove the wine directory tho because when
> I remove it all my ventrilo settings are erased and I have to re-enter
> all the server info every time I launch vent.
> 
Use different wine prefixes for wow and ventrilo.


Martin

You probably will have to remove you ".wine" folder if you swap
between 32bit and 64bit you can do this by using "rm -R .wine"

then use as "sudo yum erase *wine*"  this will remove all current wine
version,
after this install wine 32bit with the following command:
"sudo yum install wine.i686 wine-alsa.i686"

Once it is finished the installation, you can run the command
"winecfg" with your normal user name, and set the windows version on
XP.

Then do the following to get your sound to work:
In " .wine/user.reg " you can add :
[Software\\Wine\\Drivers]
"Audio"="pulse"

Also the new version of World of Warcraft requires new C++ or something in
either way you can fix it by downloading:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/confirmation.aspx?familyId=200b2fd9-ae1a-4a14-984d-389c36f85647&displayLang=en

Install this package wine should have no problems with it.

After this open in your World of Warcraft folder the following file name
"Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest".

Find the following line:

Code:
<assemblyIdentity type="win32" name="Microsoft.VC80.CRT"
version="8.0.50727.4053" processorArchitecture="x86" 
publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b"></assemblyIdentity>



and change this line to:

Code:
<assemblyIdentity type="win32" name="Microsoft.VC80.CRT"
version="8.0.50727.762" processorArchitecture="x86"
publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b"></assemblyIdentity>



This worked for me perfectly to run WoW, hope it helps for you!