[Wine] wow runtime error, new with patch 3.3

[Peter A. Castro]

On Wed, 09 Dec 2009, "Fallhallen" wrote:

> For those who have successfully fixed this issue, What type of install
> are you guys using?  Did you install WoW in Wine?  Or are you pointing to
> a WoW installation on a Windoze drive? 
>
> I am using Slackware 13 and wine-1.1.23

A fellow slacker!! :-)
As a data-point, I'm running Slackware 11 and wine-1.1.34 (self built).

> I have a duel-boot on this machine, running Windoze 7 on a separate HD.
> I run WoW in linux by simply pointing to the WoW executable in my Windoze
> drive.  I have never had a problem before this update.  I have tried using
> Winetricks to install the aforementioned upgrades, that did not work.  I
> also tried downloading the source and running that install as mentioned.
> This also did not work.  I am wondering if it is not working because I do
> not have a native Wine install of WoW?  I could not get WoW to install in
> Wine using the DVD's or the Downloader.  Is there an easy workaround to
> get things back up and running again?  Having to reboot multiple times a
> day is a pain.

I actually took a different approach.  I removed the following files from
my WorldofWarcraft directory:

   Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest
   msvcr80.dll

It seems these were either incorrectly installed by the patch.  Further
more, it only placed this one file from the full MSVC Runtime instead the
rest of the files which are usually distributed with it.  It appears the
manifest doesn't match the file (which is why you get the bizarre error
message about the runtime being the incorrect version).

So, I removed both of them and WoW loaded just fine for me.  Go figure.
YMMV.

> Thanks

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