[Bug 27652] World of Warcraft Patch 4.2 "hangs" when clicking "Play" to start game.

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27652

--- Comment #5 from mikahbot at gmail.com 2011-06-29 23:13:52 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> Same problem here. wine 1.3.21 (via
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu) on Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS, WoW
> installed via 'winetricks games wowtrial' originally, and it ran fine prior to
> the 4.2 patch.
> 
> I saw mention of being unable to find WoW.exe, so I renamed Wow.exe to WoW.exe,
> that didn't help.
> 
> I have that, while the Launcher just seems to hang when clicking the Play
> button, I can successfully launch the main WoW.exe app itself like this:
> 
> env WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.local/share/wineprefixes/wowtrial" \
> wine C:\\windows\\command\\start.exe /Unix \
> "$HOME/.local/share/wineprefixes/wowtrial/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/World of
> Warcraft/WoW.exe"
> 
> Would be nice if the Launcher still worked though.

I can double confirm that

I used env WINEPREFIX="/home/user/.wineWoW" wine
/home/user/.wineWoW/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/World\ of\ Warcraft/Wow.exe
in order to run my script [seems a little simpler than yours, Jason]. The first
two times I kept getting the WoW 10th anniversary video, third time it wasn't
there and just went to the login screen.

If we could get the launcher to work again, that would be nice.  It's not that
much of a hassle, but I suppose until this is solved, we can check the WoW site
for any patch updates.

Here's one thing that might be long term that I'd like to test.  Will auto
patches [as in, run the launcher to pick up the patch, let it install, then
quit] still work with the launcher issue, or will we have to manually add them
in.  I'll have to test that if we can't get the launcher to work until then.

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