[Wine] World of Warcraft and Wine.

[mkrista]

sub.mesa wrote:
> SyntheticToast wrote:
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>> My boyfriend and I have been really frustrated trying to get WoW to work on Jaunty with Wine, 
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>> We think perhaps one of the biggest problems we're having is downloading the latest patches. 
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>> Normally when there are new patches they automatically update themselves, but when they go to the loading screen, it freezes and doesn't work.
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> 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:
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> cd /home/.clean.wine/drive_c/Games/WoW/
> padsp wine Launcher.exe
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> That would load the launcher, which will update itself and then WoW also. Try to see if it works for you too!
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When I had have problems patching WoW I would just Dload the the patch I 
needed from file  a game site like
fileplanet.com
here is a link
http://www.fileplanet.com/100462/0/section/Patches