[Wine] Problems with starting World of Warcraft under Ubuntu 10.04

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at gmail.com
Sat May 21 07:25:00 CDT 2011


On 5/21/11 5:01 AM, b4mbi wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I recently had to reset my whole computer and I thought, I can finally get rid of Windows and just use Ubuntu.
> But now, I have problems starting World of Warcraft under Wine, which should actually work fine!
> I have rendering activated, but when I start WOW with this:
>
> Code:
> :~/Wine/World of Warcraft$ wine Wow.exe -opengl
>
>
>
>   I get the error:
>
> Code:
> err:module:attach_process_dlls "opengl32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting
> err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"D:\\World of Warcraft\\Wow.exe" failed, status c0000005
>
Linux Distribution, bitness (32/64) and version (name or number)
Video card and driver version

 From an initial look it appears that you have a 64 bit Ubuntu 
installation, 32 bit wine and did not install the 32 bit video drivers.  
This is based upon other times that this has been found.

James McKenzie





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