wine + wow launcher = frustration

hi guys,

I'm having some issues with wine. I'm just going to copy and paste my originial post from another forum :)



Hi guys,

I've just installed WoW using wine, but I can't get it to run. When I try to run the launcher I get an error message saying 'launcher couldn't be executed for some reason. Pleas close all other applications and try again.' And when I try to open WoW.exe I get an error saying a certain intruction accessed some bit of memory that could not be read.

I don't think this is a permissions issue, although I could be wrong. I have kdemod running on arch , so using dolphin, i navigated to the home folder right clicked on the .wine folder, scrolled down to 'root actions' and changed the permissions so the owner could read, right, and execute; then I gave the permissions of the .wine folder and everything within to my normal user. After all of this I am still experiencing issues.

I read the post here *** I'm not allowed to post url's on these forums*** and used winetricks to install the suggested apps, which also didn't help.

I have run the blizzard repair tool, and this did not work either.

Thanks for any help!

I deleted the world of warcraft folder on wine's virtual c drive, so I could try the blizzard world of warcraft installer. It runs fine, untill it progresses past the first stage, which is to download world of warcraft files. When it completes a little window pops up that says 'Failed to download world of warcraft installer. Please close all applications and try again.'

Interesting...



Ok, I uninstalled wow, and wine. Then re installed wine, and then wow up to the point that I was at previous. I did all of the manual patches up to the current one and I still get the same error.


Thanks for any responces!

What Wine version do you use?

EDIT: Version of the WoW patch is also interesting to know :)