World of Warcraft: fixed?

[cyrix12 at cox.net]

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 11:35:58 +0000
Alex Woods <wine-devel at giblets.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 10:40:18PM -0500, cyrix12 at cox.net wrote:
> > I applied the two patches from bugzilla (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2814#c8) which includes Raphael's opengl32 fbconf patch and another one from Tim Savannah  which looks like this:
> > 
> > --- wine2/dlls/x11drv/opengl.c	2005-03-24 20:51:16.000000000 -0500
> > +++ wine/dlls/x11drv/opengl.c	2005-03-24 20:50:14.000000000 -0500
> > @@ -268,9 +268,8 @@
> >    if ((iPixelFormat > MAX_PIXELFORMATS) ||
> >        (iPixelFormat > physDev->used_visuals + 1) ||
> >        (iPixelFormat <= 0)) {
> > -    ERR("Wrong pixel format !\n");
> > -    /* Should set error */
> > -    return 0;
> > +    ERR("Wrong pixel format, trying default. !\n");
> > +   iPixelFormat = physDev->used_visuals + 1;
> >    }
> >  
> >    if (iPixelFormat == physDev->used_visuals + 1) {
> 
> The WoW patch has hit the European servers now, so I've had a chance to
> try things out.  These patches work great for me - everything is running
> as it should.
> 
> > I note two things when using these patches:
> > 1) WoW works.  Game loads and runs again.
> > 2) The login/character select screen will occasionally be extremely
> > choppy/slow.  Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't, and there
> > seems to be no direct cause from what I can tell since the traces are
> > identical.  Once in the game it performs nicely from what I've seen,
> > so it's really just a minor irritation.
> 
> I've not noticed any choppiness in the character selection screen.  I've
> noticed some choppiness turning in some places, but it doesn't feel like
> a wine problem.
> 
> > Thanks for the swift fixes!
> 
> I'll second that :)
> 
> -- 
> Alex

I've discovered that the choppiness I was experiencing can be fixed simply by giving focus to another window and then switching back to the game.  It's an even smaller issue than I thought!

Darckness