[Wine] WoW, and most other games, do not run under Wine.

[Warren Dumortier]

2009/4/8 hawtpawkithero <wineforum-user at winehq.org>:
> Well it did fix the strange graphical glitches, but now the entire window is just plain, solid black. Any other ideas?
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> Justin wrote:
>> Have you tried disabling Desktop Effects (also known as Compiz)? Wine tends
>> to have some graphical issues with these turned on.
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/7.10/desktop-effects/C/compiz-configure.html
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>> I got an error trying to view your picture.
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>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:22 PM, hawtpawkithero <wineforum-user at winehq.org>wrote:
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>> > I've recently installed Wine onto my ubuntu intrepid ibex box and I'm
>> > having endless issues when it comes to running games. Right now, I'm
>> > specifically trying to play World of Warcraft and I am receiving graphical
>> > issues that cause the game to be unplayable. These bugs are widespread and i
>> > cannot see anything in the game's window. The laptop is running on an Intel
>> > GMA965Q. I've played games on Windows with this laptop with 0 issues.
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>> > Here is a screenshot:
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>> > https://dl-web.getdropbox.com/get/Photos/Screenshot.png?w=1dae0265.png[/img]<https://dl-web.getdropbox.com/get/Photos/Screenshot.png?w=1dae0265.png%5B/img%5D>
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Maybe you ran WoW not in opengl mode, run it with "WoW.exe -opengl".
Everybody reports it runs fine, but IMO the crash when using DirectX
should be fixed! :(