wine-1.3.29 There's a small update to World of Warcraft today. When I run launcher.exe under Wine, it keeps crashing. I read on this forum that doing "winetricks ie7" would solve the problem, but at the end of installing IE7, the setup program says: Setup was unable to install the latest Windows Internet Explorer updates. After you restart your computer....etc. etc. It gives me a restart now and restart later button. When I clicked the restart now button, I got a message saying that Regsvr32.exe had crashed. I did "winetricks ie7" again, and although I got the same message at the end, i didn't get told about a Regsvr32.exe crash. I then ran Launcher.exe again and got another crash, but a different one. Whereas before it seemed very much like a crash in Wine and I got a dump in the terminal window I was running from, this crash seems more like a crash on Launcher.exe and I get the Blizzard "there has been a crash do you want to report it" window. Does anyone have any ideas?
On 11/05/2011 08:33 AM, JontomXire wrote:> wine-1.3.29 > > > There's a small update to World of Warcraft today. When I run launcher.exe under Wine, it keeps crashing.I just tried the launcher to test this on my machine. It did crash with a 'send to Blizzard' bug report that was a generic memory error and I did not get any errors in terminal. I sent the Blizzard report, restarted the launcher and the second time it did go through. I do still have to use wow.exe to play the game, not the launcher. You may just have to keep restarting and let the launcher grab more of the patch each time until you get it all. Sorry I didn't see a fix. Wine 1.3.30 openSuse 11.4
I kicked off the background downloader and that worked fine. It also showed me that I already had most of the patch downloaded, so I guess it's been doing it for the last few weeks. Also, on my Windows box, even after Launcher had finished, background downloader reported that the patch still wasn't fully downloaded. So I don't think that's relevant. Whatever it is that Launcher is trying to do must be unrelated to the patch download.
On 11/23/2011 05:58 PM, madmaxfh wrote:> I have the same issue with the launcher runing wine 1.2 and ubunto 11.10 :( >update to a newer wine version, if the launcher still fails use it as needed to patch then close it down and run the game from wow.exe
actually I need it to download the whole game not just a patch and the posters above say wine 1.3 hasent fixed that issue
> Ah, sorry. I saw the post on the email list and didn't have any thread > history with it. Wish I could help but so far I've been lucky and the > downloader has worked fine. Can you still get around the launcher by > using the downloader.exe or is it tied to the launcher now?I've tried using downloader.exe but I have exactlly the same crash, with blizzard bug report has I have with the launcher.exe
Disabling peer-to-peer worked for me too, but I was not satisfied with having to race against a crash to uncheck the peer-to-peer option. The downloader stores its settings in the wine registry, and they can be changed before launching it. Steps to disable peer-to-peer via wine registry: 1) wine regedit 2) Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Blizzard Entertainment\Blizzard Downloader 3) Make a value named "Disable Peer-to-Peer" (without quotes) if such a value doesn't exist 4) Assign "1" to this value Someone more familiar with the wine registry could write a one-liner to be the copy-paste terminal solution for solving this problem.
I worked a bit more on this with another wine enthusiast. This one-liner should accomplish the same thing as my previous post: Code: wine reg add "HKCU\Software\Blizzard Entertainment\Blizzard Downloader" /v "Disable Peer-to-Peer" /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /f Cheers