[Wine] Wine 1.2rc5 World of Warcraft crash

James Mckenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Wed Jun 30 15:16:26 CDT 2010


ThomasLocke <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>
>Hello all,
>
>My wife and I just recently went 100% Linux, meaning that we no longer dual boot to Windows for our regular gaming addiction.
>
>One of the games we both enjoy is World of Warcraft, and it has so far worked a charm using Wine 1.2rc5 (we started using Wine at 1.2rc3), but today the game was patched, and now it crashes on login.
>
>Some data:
>Wine 1.2rc5
>Slackware 13.1 kernel 2.6.33.4
>Nvidia 195.36.31

There have been issues with the lastest/greatest nVidia Linux video drivers.

>KDE 4.4.4
>Intel Xeon W3540 and Intel Core2 E8400.
>WoW version 3.3.5 (12340) English (EU)
>
>The game launches fine and we get as far as the login screen (the one with the dragon flying around).
>
>This is the output we get up until the crash:
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>
>The above is from my computer, but the output is the same on my wifes. Is there
>anything I can do to fix this, or should I just wait for 1.2rc6 and hope for a fix?

Can you backlevel your nVidia drivers to 195.25 or so?  

This has been reported by many people and that was the fix they had to apply.

James McKenzie




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