wine users - Jul 2010 - Unusual hard problem, WoW won't start!

Hi, 

I have a kind of annoying and what it seems like unusual problem while trying to
play the game World of Warcraft. I think I have done everything that people have
recommended others to try out, have been googling around for some hours now.

My graphic card is: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 4770 [RV740] and I have
installed the drivers for it. The funny thing is that my brother uses the exact
same graphic card and for him it worked out of the box, we even installed ubuntu
from the exact same CD.

Can it be anything else in my hardware maybe that changes from his?

The output by running Wow.exe is the following (or after some motherboard
changes about pipelines being enabled in the PCIE section it wont even load that
much!):


Code:
archive Data\enGB\patch-enGB.MPQ opened
archive Data\patch.MPQ opened
archive Data\enGB\patch-enGB-2.MPQ opened
archive Data\enGB\patch-enGB-3.MPQ opened
archive Data\patch-2.MPQ opened
archive Data\patch-3.MPQ opened
archive Data\expansion.MPQ opened
archive Data\lichking.MPQ opened
archive Data\common.MPQ opened
archive Data\common-2.MPQ opened
archive Data\enGB\locale-enGB.MPQ opened
archive Data\enGB\speech-enGB.MPQ opened
archive Data\enGB\expansion-locale-enGB.MPQ opened
archive Data\enGB\lichking-locale-enGB.MPQ opened
archive Data\enGB\expansion-speech-enGB.MPQ opened
archive Data\enGB\lichking-speech-enGB.MPQ opened
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x192ee20,0x00000000), stub!



And there it stops, it starts a process named Wow.exe and doesn't do
anything more.

Code:
2382 ?        00:00:02 WoW.exe



This is incredible annoying. What follows now is a list of things that I've
tried (in no particular order):

- Disabling Compiz
- Changing the xorg.conf
- Enabling openGL mode for wow, and everything else that should contain in the
config.wtf to run smoothly.
- Made that regedit fix.
- Crying out loud and get angry
- Updating wine to developer version
- and a lot more I cant remember, even did unplug the ethernet cable.. and now
I'm probably going to reinstall the ****ing piece of crap and see if
it's gonna work. (I wonder why blizzard didn't release a native linux
client (they had one in the beta atleast..)).

This is my xorg-config (yes its changed but the default didn't work either):


Code:
Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	DefaultDepth	24
	SubSection "Display"
		Virtual	3200 1080
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load	"glx"
EndSection

 Section "Device"
   Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]"
   Driver      "fglrx"
   Option       "Capabilities" "0x00000800"
   Option       "UseFastTLS" "off"
   Option       "KernelModuleParm" "locked-userpages=0"
 EndSection



This is a new clean install of ubuntu and I can't get this working. The
thing is everything else works, I run spotify over wine (music streaming
application). Althrough steam seems to not be able to update itself everything
else seems to work.

I really don't want to run windows and I'm getting really annoyed at
these small problems you have every time you want to change system for good.
Right now, if I got this to work I would never need a windows system and my
world would be saved!

Btw, one of my screens seems to flicker a bit when starting it.. :O

Peace,
Frostig.

New update: HoN doesn't even run thou it's a native client! The screen
is just all black and I don't know why. Maybe there is need for some changes
to the graphics-config.

> Make sure you're using the proprietary graphics card driver instead of
> the open-source alternative. I had a similar with HoN before. Check
> System -> Hardware Drivers if you're using GNOME.

I am :(.

> 
> Make sure you're using the proprietary graphics card driver instead of
> the open-source alternative. I had a similar with HoN before. Check
> System -> Hardware Drivers if you're using GNOME.

But maybe someone with with a lot of knowlegde can solve my problem? =)[/code]

Fr??d??ric Delanoy wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 16:10, frostig <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > > Make sure you're using the proprietary graphics card driver
instead of
> > > the open-source alternative. I had a similar with HoN before.
Check
> > > System -> Hardware Drivers if you're using GNOME.
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > I am :(.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > Make sure you're using the proprietary graphics card driver
instead of
> > > the open-source alternative. I had a similar with HoN before.
Check
> > > System -> Hardware Drivers if you're using GNOME.
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > But maybe someone with with a lot of knowlegde can solve my problem?
=)[/code]
> > 
> 
> Did you check the AppDB?
> Did you try a specific prefix for WoW? See Wine FAQ for more information.

Yep, and yes. I've done everything by the book since I installed my brothers
computer and game :)