[Wine] Trying to get world of warcraft working

[Jim Hall]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:54 AM, TunnlRat <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:

> I've been running WoW on linux for quite some time now and found that any
> time they go through a new patch etc you can no longer start WoW from the
> launcher.
>
> I am not 100% why or how but if you browse to your WoW folder on your wine
> drive such as c:\program files\world of warcraft  it keeps locking all the
> folders and won't let you access them
>
> The only way i have found around this is to never use the launcher and
> start the game directly from the WoW.exe file right in the WoW folder.
>
>
>


Confirmed, the launcher is broken. Don't use it. Also, if you are denied
permission to change the permissions of the WOW directories and their files,
you will need to do it as root. I've had to do that twice. Have had no
problem with using wow.exe directly.

Jim
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