wine users - Sep 2011 - Re: Wine and WoW Cataclysm Patch 4.0 troubleshooting thread

Ok, after several hours, I installed the nVidia drivers from their own website,
and then (this was the bit that took longest) I installed Wine 1.3.28 from the
PPA. I had a go at building 1.3.29 from sources, but it complained about not
having 32 bit development libraries. I looked around and all I could find was to
install wine-deps from the PPA so I figured if I was going to do that, I might
as well go the whole hog and install Wine directly from the PPA.

It took AGES! But that's a different matter.

I now have two worries:

1) Wine complains that it cannot initialise OpenGL.
2) When running the game, Wine complains that it cannot emulate DirectX9 without
OpenGL.

Now obviously the first is a big problem, but the second is also worrying
because I already changed Config.wtf to use OpenGL, so why is Wine trying to
emulate DirectX9??

glxgears works fine and gives me 5k FPS (even though it says it is synched to
the monitor refresh rate).

So, one thing at a time. Does anyone have any idea why Wine can't run
OpenGL?


@dardack: Yes I was the one with the 7600 GS. I know it's a bit old, but
it's been running WoW fine for ages. I recently had to rebuild my old PC
after my laptop died (including new monitor) and then had to shell out more cash
for new mobo, CPU and RAM for this PC. We really need to buy a new car because
the wife's has become more expensive to fix than to junk, and my car looks
like it's developed a leak in the fuel system somehow (it's LPG). I
really cannot afford new graphics cards. It would be cheaper to pay for a
Windows 7 license and run the game under Windows. Which was what I was doing
before the old mobo died.

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 3:31 PM, JontomXire <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> Ok, after several hours, I installed the nVidia drivers from their own
website, and then (this was the bit that took longest) I installed Wine 1.3.28
from the PPA. I had a go at building 1.3.29 from sources, but it complained
about not having 32 bit development libraries. I looked around and all I could
find was to install wine-deps from the PPA so I figured if I was going to do
that, I might as well go the whole hog and install Wine directly from the PPA.
>
> It took AGES! But that's a different matter.
>
> I now have two worries:
>
> 1) Wine complains that it cannot initialise OpenGL.
> 2) When running the game, Wine complains that it cannot emulate DirectX9
without OpenGL.
>
> Now obviously the first is a big problem, but the second is also worrying
because I already changed Config.wtf to use OpenGL, so why is Wine trying to
emulate DirectX9??
>
> glxgears works fine and gives me 5k FPS (even though it says it is synched
to the monitor refresh rate).
>
> So, one thing at a time. Does anyone have any idea why Wine can't run
OpenGL?
>
When you ran the nvidia installer, did you click yes to install
Nvidia's opengl 32bit libraries?
>
> @dardack: Yes I was the one with the 7600 GS. I know it's a bit old,
but it's been running WoW fine for ages. I recently had to rebuild my old PC
after my laptop died (including new monitor) and then had to shell out more cash
for new mobo, CPU and RAM for this PC. We really need to buy a new car because
the wife's has become more expensive to fix than to junk, and my car looks
like it's developed a leak in the fuel system somehow (it's LPG). I
really cannot afford new graphics cards. It would be cheaper to pay for a
Windows 7 license and run the game under Windows. Which was what I was doing
before the old mobo died.
>
>
Even in windows, with the changes to the engine, it's still not gonna
run awesome except on low settings, just saying.
>
>
>
>


-- 
Sincerely,

MacNean C. Tyrrell