WoW Freezes Only When Trying to Log Into Existing Character, Works Fine WhenCreating a New Character

[Anchovie]

When starting World of Warcraft using Cedega 4.4.3, I was able to log in and play fine when starting a new character. However when I try to log in to an existing character who sits inside Orgrimmar, the game freezes on loading screen, it's the screen after you selected your character and clicked on Enter World, the one with the blue progress bar. There's music and the mouse moves, but no other response, the only way out is Ctrl + Alt + Backspace.

I tried to run it in OpenGL with all the fixes suggested in the documentation, same problem except the mouse freezes as well, only way out is Ctrl + Alt + Backspace.

Game runs fine in Windows XP.

I'm using Mobility Radeon 9000 64MB and its latest driver (8.18.6), 512MB RAM.

Anybody have any ideas?

[a12ctic]

Radeon

theres your problem

[Anchovie]

I found the source of the error...

err:ntdll:display_wait_error Timeout. Retry with 60 secs: crit=0x417930f4 name="X11DRV_CritSection" ec=531 cc=531
err:ntdll:display_wait_error backtrace="0x4006373a,0x4006331f,0x40062d0f,0x40062cb2,0x400ca7b4,0x417429d9,0x41742ef1,0x4"...
err:ntdll:display_wait_error   crit (0x417930f4): lc 2 rc 2 ot 2 sem 8708 spin 0

Hope this will help you guys better access my problem.

[a12ctic]

do you have yuor ati drivers configured correctly? (they arent simple to set up)

[Anchovie]

Yes, I followed the HOTO located here with a fresh reinstall of Ubuntu.

anthony@anthony:~/wow$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: FireMV 2400 PCI DDR Generic
OpenGL version string: 1.3.1014 (X4.3.0-8.18.6)
anthony@anthony:~/wow$ glxgears
8316 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1663.172 FPS
8305 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1660.826 FPS
8304 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1660.792 FPS
8304 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1660.730 FPS
anthony@anthony:~/wow$ fgl_glxgears
Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
1069 frames in 5.0 seconds = 213.800 FPS
1260 frames in 5.0 seconds = 252.000 FPS
1270 frames in 5.0 seconds = 254.000 FPS
1252 frames in 5.0 seconds = 250.400 FPS

[Rye]

I hate to be a downer but you will not be able to play WoW on that hardware. I'm currently using a P4 2GHz, 1024 MB of RAM, GF4 Ti4200 (it gets slightly better FPS in linux than my newer 9800 pro) and get ~5k in glxgears. My FPS is around 30+ if I'm in the middle of nowhere but it is constantly dropping below 5 fps while raiding (1-2 FPS while fighting Nefarian); and I have the graphics settings set as low as possible.

So if you can, I suggest you upgrade your hardware like I'm about to

[a12ctic]

he has a laptop unfortunatly...

[Anchovie]

Game runs fine in Windows. Guess the lesson of the day is never try to emulate Windows programs under Linux. Use native Linux programs instead.

[a12ctic]

Game runs fine in Windows. Guess the lesson of the day is never try to emulate Windows programs under Linux. Use native Linux programs instead.

have you ran any heavy open gl games in linux? and are you running wow like this? Just because they run on windows doesnt mean theyll work on linux, especialy with a ati video card

cedega WoW.exe -opengl

[DarkPhoenixTSi]

His hardware shouldn't cause that many problems. I have basically the same HW that he was, with a larger video RAM on a Intel Mobility Chipset (HP 1.4GHz CeleronM, 512 MB ddr2700 Ram, Intel 900M Video, set to full tilt) The only time I ever have probles is in IronForge. And everyone else I know runs into the same problem at Lagrimar and IronForge. And that is with 256MB Video RAM and 2GB RAM, on a 3.0ghz P4. Sorry for jackin' the thread.