i had wow running fine (thanks to my friend who is now not reachable)

it was running off of wine, everything was fine, until i used all the updates.


now i do wineboot like always, it has the opening screen, and then when i hit "play"

it goes away, i know its not running anymore because the cpu dropped to almost zero.


what do i do to fix this?


please be very detailed because i don't know linux that well yet

Dear Moses,
I have no idea what 'wow' is but do know that wine can be flakey. I would uninstall all wine and then reinstall Wine version 1; the idea being to keep it simple.

Fred.

wow is World of Warcraft if I'm not mistaken,

one thing you can try to do is run the executable directly,
this may give you better debugging information as to whats wrong.

If you are able to get to a terminal you can run wine from the command line:
hit Alt + F2 and type any of the following that might work
gnome-terminal
xfce4-terminal
xterm

once you get one of those up you can go to the directory where WoW exists (probably 'Program Files')
this will bring you to the 'Program Files' directory
and list the contents with ls

look for anything resembling world of warcraft and go into that directory with cd [directory name]

or whatever the exe file is for WoW.

when wine tries to run it will spit out a lot of information what you want to post are any error messages or most of the output.

good luck!

Note: I am not an expert on wine and only got WoW working on linux once, but I do know that without some command line error messages, no one has a chance of solving the issue, but reinstalling wine is a good shot in the dark.

here is what the terminal said



env WINEPREFIX="/home/lefto/.wine" wine "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Launcher.exe" [lefto@chaos ~]$ env WINEPREFIX="/home/lefto/.wine" wine "C:\Program F of Warcraft\Launcher.exe"
failed to open C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WTF
failed to open C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WTF
fixme:shdocvw:PersistStreamInit_Load (0x138690)->(0x32d9e0)
fixme:shdocvw:OleControl_FreezeEvents (0x138690)->(1)
fixme:shdocvw:OleControl_FreezeEvents (0x138690)->(0)
fixme:shell:IShellLinkA_fnGetPath (0x138c98): WIN32_FIND_DATA is not yet filled.
fixme:shell:IShellLinkA_fnGetPath (0x138c78): WIN32_FIND_DATA is not yet filled.
fixme:shell:IShellLinkA_fnGetPath (0x138c78): WIN32_FIND_DATA is not yet filled.
fixme:shell:IShellLinkA_fnGetPath (0x138c78): WIN32_FIND_DATA is not yet filled.
fixme:shell:IShellLinkA_fnGetPath (0x138c78): WIN32_FIND_DATA is not yet filled.
fixme:shell:IShellLinkA_fnGetPath (0x138c78): WIN32_FIND_DATA is not yet filled.
fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub!
fixme:dwmapiwmIsCompositionEnabled 0x32c734
0[160698]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\nssutil3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[160698]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\smime3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[160698]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\sqlite3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[160698]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\plds4.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[160698]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\ssl3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[160698]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\xpcom.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[160698]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\plc4.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[160698]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\nspr4.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[160698]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\nss3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[160698]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\xul.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[160698]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\freebl3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyAddrChange (Handle 0x23fe848, overlapped 0x23fe850): stub
0[160698]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\plugins\npnul32.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[160698]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\softokn3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[160698]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\nssdbm3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[160698]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\nssckbi.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[160698]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\js3250.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_QueryStatus (0x138730)->((null) 1 0x32cd44 (nil))
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x138730)->((null) 25 2 0x32cd58 (nil))
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x138730)->((null) 26 2 0x32cd58 (nil))
fixme:shdocvw:ClientSite_GetContainer (0x138730)->(0x32cd9c)
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x138730)->({000214d1-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} 37 0 0x32ce58 (nil))
fixme:shdocvw:HttpNegotiate_BeginningTransaction (0x12c858)->(L"" L"" 0 0x32ce90)
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x138730)->((null) 29 2 0x32d424 (nil))
fixme:shdocvwocHostUIHandler_GetDropTarget (0x138730)
fixme:shdocvw:ClientSite_GetContainer (0x138730)->(0x32d20c)
fixme:shdocvw:InPlaceFrame_SetStatusText (0x138730)->(0x60043971)
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x138730)->((null) 25 2 0x32d118 (nil))
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x138730)->((null) 26 2 0x32d118 (nil))
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_CONNECT_TIMEOUT (10000): STUB
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW INTERNET_OPTION_SEND/RECEIVE_TIMEOUT 10000
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x138730)->((null) 21 2 (nil) (nil))
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x138730)->((null) 28 2 0x32deac (nil))
0[160698]: NPN Logging Active!
0[160698]: General Plugin Logging Active! (nsPluginHostImpl::ctor)
0[160698]: NPP Logging Active!
0[160698]: nsPluginHostImpl::ctor
fixme:resource:GetGuiResources (0xffffffff,0): stub
fixme:font:ExtTextOutW flags ETO_NUMERICSLOCAL | ETO_NUMERICSLATIN | ETO_PDY unimplemented
fixme:shdocvw:OleInPlaceObject_InPlaceDeactivate (0x138690)
fixme:mshtml:HlinkTarget_SetBrowseContext (0x15b8f0)->((nil))
fixme:shdocvw:OleObject_Close (0x138690)->(1)
fixme:shellllCanUnloadNow stub
[lefto@chaos ~]$ fixme:advapi:SetSecurityInfo stub
archive Data\enUS\patch-enUS.MPQ opened
archive Data\patch.MPQ opened
archive Data\expansion.MPQ opened
archive Data\common.MPQ opened
archive Data\common-2.MPQ opened
archive Data\enUS\locale-enUS.MPQ opened
archive Data\enUS\speech-enUS.MPQ opened
archive Data\enUS\expansion-locale-enUS.MPQ opened
archive Data\enUS\expansion-speech-enUS.MPQ opened
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x3aed80,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:d3d:init_format_fbo_compat_info Internal format of WINED3DFMT_R8G8B8 not supported as FBO target, and no fallback specified.
fixme:d3d:init_format_fbo_compat_info Internal format of WINED3DFMT_A8R8G8B8 not supported as FBO target, and no fallback specified.
fixme:d3d:init_format_fbo_compat_info Internal format of WINED3DFMT_X8R8G8B8 not supported as FBO target, and no fallback specified.
fixme:d3d:init_format_fbo_compat_info Internal format of WINED3DFMT_R16G16B16A16_UNORM not supported as FBO target, and no fallback specified.
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x3aeb84,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x3af284,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x3af398,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x3af55c,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x3af558,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x3aefdc,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x3af114,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:d3d:init_format_fbo_compat_info Internal format of WINED3DFMT_R8G8B8 not supported as FBO target, and no fallback specified.
fixme:d3d:init_format_fbo_compat_info Internal format of WINED3DFMT_A8R8G8B8 not supported as FBO target, and no fallback specified.
fixme:d3d:init_format_fbo_compat_info Internal format of WINED3DFMT_X8R8G8B8 not supported as FBO target, and no fallback specified.
fixme:d3d:init_format_fbo_compat_info Internal format of WINED3DFMT_R16G16B16A16_UNORM not supported as FBO target, and no fallback specified.
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x3af590,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Add OpenGL context recreation support to SetDepthStencilSurface
fixme:d3d:debug_fbostatus Unrecognied FBO status 0x00000000
fixme:d3d:context_check_fbo_status FBO status unrecognized (0)
fixme:reg:GetNativeSystemInfo (0x33fdec) using GetSystemInfo()

Moses,

Per experience I could say Fred Caro's statement is relevant: I mean, wine easily gets unstable if updated, I had it with mine too. The solution was to roll back, reinstalling to a stable version, and it solved my problem.

Hope it helps.

Good luck.

From the data that you gave, it seems that Wine cannot find some of the WoW data. I would try re-installing wine and WoW. Here is a guide from a WoW wiki.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Wine

if following mag1strate's instructions on the wiki link does not fix the issue then you can take a look how your environment is set up, it may have been changed in the update. mag1strate gave me the idea that C: might be pointing to the wrong place on the hard drive try running:

if you look at the Drivers tab it should point the drive letters to places on the hard drive. See if it is pointing to drive_c where you were running the executable.

good luck

Tell us how it goes moses77, hopefully everyones advice helps!