[Wine] Re: Wine 1.2rc5 World of Warcraft crash

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ThomasLocke wrote:
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> James Mckenzie wrote:
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> > There have been issues with the lastest/greatest nVidia Linux video drivers.
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> The game has worked perfectly with these drivers, up until the WoW patch today.
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> James Mckenzie wrote:
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> > Can you backlevel your nVidia drivers to 195.25 or so?  
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> > This has been reported by many people and that was the fix they had to apply.
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> As far as I can see on the Nvidia website, the latest official driver is 256.35 and the oldest archived driver I can find is 195.36.15. I can't find any 195.25 drivers - granted, I'm not very experienced at this, so I might be looking in all the wrong places.
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> I don't mind going back to an earlier driver, if only I could find one!  :)

I haven't seen any reports of problems with the 195.xx.xx drivers and Wine. A couple of Arch Linux users reported problems with the 256.xx.xx drivers, and that turned out to be caused by not having installed the necessary 32 bit parts on a 64 bit system.