wine users - Nov 2011 - wine 1.32 / gentoo linux / amd 5700 gpu / xorg driver / wow

hello community,

i try to run world of warcraft within the environment mentioned above. i am
using a 64bit environment with multilib with 3.0.6 kernel.

when i start 
wine Wow.exe -OpenGL
i receive the following message at the end

> 
> ...
> archive Data\art.MPQ opened
> fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32ecac,0x00000000), stub!
> fixme:d3d_caps:wined3d_guess_card No card selector available for GL vendor
4 and card vendor 0000.
> fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32eb6c,0x00000000), stub!
> err:wgl:X11DRV_wglCreatePbufferARB ((nil)): unexpected iPixelFormat(0)
<= 0, returns NULL
> err:wgl:X11DRV_wglCreatePbufferARB ((nil)): unexpected iPixelFormat(0)
<= 0, returns NULL
> err:wgl:X11DRV_wglCreatePbufferARB ((nil)): unexpected iPixelFormat(0)
<= 0, returns NULL
> err:wgl:X11DRV_wglCreatePbufferARB ((nil)): unexpected iPixelFormat(0)
<= 0, returns NULL
> err:wgl:X11DRV_wglCreatePbufferARB ((nil)): unexpected iPixelFormat(0)
<= 0, returns NULL
> 

a message box come up which tell me that wow could not start 3d acceleration.

i use the open-source driver as described in the gentoo documentation.
when i check the 3d capabilities all seems to be fine.

celsius ~ # glxinfo | grep rendering
direct rendering: Yes

glxgears is working and showing about 1400.000 fps.

eselect opengl list shows the open source driver
Available OpenGL implementations:
[1] xorg-x11 *

did i miss something to configure for wine?
did i made a mistake or forgot something in the setup for my gpu?

regards

--tecuma

On 11/18/2011 04:58 PM, tecuma wrote:
> i use the open-source driver as described in the gentoo documentation. 
> when i check the 3d capabilities all seems to be fine.

In many cases the open-source drivers are not up to running windows 
games through Wine even if they work for Linux native games and/or other 
3d programs. Try using the latest proprietary driver available for your 
card.

hello tparker,

thank you for your info.

indeed this solved the problem. i have had to 
- install the proprietary adm driver
- rebuild the fglrx module (for whatever reasons there was a reported
incompatibility message seen in xorg.log)

after this wow is running fine.

i am not able to mark my thread as solved. if someone can do this maybe it is a
help to other people.

regards

--tecuma