WoW gfx problems

[leojreimroc]

a Clean wine prefix mostly solves the problem, but however you can lock your camera view distance to close.

Hi again

I'm pretty new to Linux, only a few months. I tried to research what exactly a wine prefix is, but I don't quite get it. Could you explain to me exactly what this means, or point me the way to a good guide/explanation?

Greatly appreciated, as all your help so far

Thanks

[b2bwild]

To creat a new wine prefix
use this command

wineprefixcreate --prefix ~/.wowine

.wowine is the name of new prfiex
To execute wow under this prefix

env WINEPREFIX=~/.wowine wine wow.exe

to configure this prefix

env WINEPREFIX=~/.wowine winecfg

to edit registry

env WINEPREFIX=~/.wowine regedit

EDIT:
and get winetricks install
directx9, vcrun2008, vcrun2008sp1, allfonts, allcodecs, gecko, flash, fakeie6
in your new prefix. install all these using winetricks only

[leojreimroc]

Been away for a few days, gonna install wow on the new prefix and give an update soon. Hope it helps.

[leojreimroc]

To creat a new wine prefix
use this command
.wowine is the name of new prfiex
To execute wow under this prefix
to configure this prefix
to edit registry


EDIT:
and get winetricks install
directx9, vcrun2008, vcrun2008sp1, allfonts, allcodecs, gecko, flash, fakeie6
in your new prefix. install all these using winetricks only

Finally got around to doing this, and it's still no go. As soon as I put the view distance to full, the glitches came back. I made the new prefix, dragged my Wow folder into it and started it from there. Is that what I was supposed to do?

[leojreimroc]

Upon searching a bit more, I found that more people are having this problem. It seems it might be just a problem with wine. So I guess I'll just tune the graphics for now so that I can still play until a fix is found. Thanks for all the help.

[b2bwild]

I made the new prefix, dragged my Wow folder into it and started it from there. Is that what I was supposed to do?

Not that way, it will run in the default .wine prefix

You have to launch it from terminal or launcher.
and command should be
cd into wow folder.

cd /somewhere/wow

env WINEPREFIX=~/.newprefix wine wow.exe

Upon searching a bit more, I found that more people are having this problem. It seems it might be just a problem with wine. So I guess I'll just tune the graphics for now so that I can still play until a fix is found. Thanks for all the help.

May be but not me, that means not all the people get the problem which means you can troubleshoot it out.

[leojreimroc]

Not that way, it will run in the default .wine prefix

You have to launch it from terminal or launcher.
and command should be
cd into wow folder.





May be but not me, that means not all the people get the problem which means you can troubleshoot it out.

Hey again. Started the game from the terminal following your instructions, and the same thing happens. It happened in Dragonblight, where the game seems to crash the fastest when I have settings to full.


ERROR #132 (0x85100084) Fatal Exception
Program: Z:\home\joelcormier\.wowine\drive_c\Program Files\World of Warcraft\wow.exe
Exception: 0xC0000005 (ACCESS_VIOLATION) at 0073:7E118AE0

The instruction at "0x7E118AE0" referenced memory at "0x75000010".
The memory could not be "read".

[b2bwild]

Do you have specular lighting, full screen glow effect, and multisampling enabled?

prefer to dont use them, becase glows and lighting are so intence in northrend.
wine doesnt support that much shaders, specially multisampling gives some troubles. if you using multisampling you neeed
Multisampling=enabled registry string in Wine/Direct3D

[leojreimroc]

I tried shutting all of these off. I assume multisampling is off if it's at 1X?

Same issues unfortunately.

[b2bwild]

Yes, multisampling will be off on 1X.
Btw, What Wine version you are using?