[Wine] Strange WoW behavior - unresponsive -> disconnect

[Sam Fourman Jr.]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 2:11 AM, doumakes <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> I'm encountering a strange new behavior from WoW.  I'm able to start the game, login, and enter the game world.  Then, either immediately or after hours of play, the environment suddenly becomes unresponsive.  My toon is able to move around, but NPCs do nothing when clicked, chat traffic vanishes, the Logout and Exit Game buttons do nothing, etc.  If I wait long enough, I get a "Disconnected from server" error.  Happens on all toons and on all realms where I have characters.  There isn't a network issue, and rebooting my Ubuntu system has no effect.
>
> First time I saw this was the day of the 3.3 patch, which also happens to be when I upgraded wine.  I couldn't get back in all day, then came back the following day and was able to get in.  Second time was yesterday; I came back after the maintenance outage today and the problem was gone.  Third time is now.
>
> Anyone else seeing similar behavior?


This happens ALL THE TIME, and it is a network issue... but I believe
it is on blizzards part, We have Several WoW installs a Few on wine in
FreeBSD 8
and 1 on a macbook pro (running native OSX Warcraft) and one on
Windows xp. sometimes one these installs will drop connection with
blizzards servers at what seems like random. all the other machines
will be on and active no trouble.


in summary, I believe this is not a wine issue I have seen it on OSX
and Windows and wine.


Sam Fourman Jr.
Fourman Networks