[Wine] Re: World of Warcraft and Wine.

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SyntheticToast wrote:
> My boyfriend and I have been really frustrated trying to get WoW to work on Jaunty with Wine, 
> 
> We think perhaps one of the biggest problems we're having is downloading the latest patches. 
> 
> Normally when there are new patches they automatically update themselves, but when they go to the loading screen, it freezes and doesn't work.


I had the exact same problem, using Ubuntu 8.10/9.04 64-bit and up-to-date wine from repo. All problems disappeared after i re-installed in a clean .wine directory. Actually, moving the drive_c to a clean wine directory might be sufficient. Also make sure you start the .exe using padsp, like this:

cd /home/.clean.wine/drive_c/Games/WoW/
padsp wine Launcher.exe

That would load the launcher, which will update itself and then WoW also. Try to see if it works for you too!