wine and world of warcraft

NePt · 02-19-2005, 02:04 AM

Hey,
kinda new to mandrake.. took a whiel to get it to just install.. but, now, I play world of warcraft.. i installed wine, ran it with wine.. and it says incorrect operating system??
i thought wine was suppose to "trick" software into thinking it was windows.. if i'm doing something incorrect.. please let me know.. thanks

crm · 02-19-2005, 08:16 AM

wine tricks your computer into thinking its windows but you have to tell wine which version of windows to pretend to be - by default it is win95 -
world of worcraft dosenrt run under win 95!!

heres how to change it:
find a file called wine.conf:

Code:

#updatedb
#locate wine.conf

edit that file as root using your favourate editor
within that file is a line that should look a bit like this:

Code:

"Windows"="win95"

change it to be

Code:

"Windows"="winxp"

that may only be the start of your problems, as wine is designed for running windows aopoplications like e-mail and things - it dosent support big 3d games well - try : http://www.transgaming.com/ who offer a cuntomised version of it with specila proparity m$ code to get 3d working - it will cost tho

mike10 · 02-03-2007, 09:46 AM

I have read of people running world of warcraft in wine, they used a relatively recent version of both wow and wine and used the -opengl switch.

to make the changes maintained in the previse post use

Code:

winecfg

under the Applications tab

what version of wine are you you using?

Code:

wine --version

wow will only run on me and xp do not know about vista