World of warcraft issues under wine

unplugged23 · 2010-05-23 22:39:08

Hi guys,

I've just installed WoW using wine, but I can't get it to run. When I try to run the launcher I get an error message saying 'launcher couldn't be executed for some reason. Pleas close all other applications and try again.' And when I try to open WoW.exe I get an error saying a certain intruction accessed some bit of memory that could not be read.

I don't think this is a permissions issue, although I could be wrong. I have kdemod running on arch , so using dolphin, i navigated to the home folder right clicked on the .wine folder, scrolled down to 'root actions' and changed the permissions so the owner could read, right, and execute; then I gave the permissions of the .wine folder and everything within to my normal user. After all of this I am still experiencing issues.

I read the post here http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=84490 and used winetricks to install the suggested apps, which also didn't help.

I have run the blizzard repair tool, and this did not work either.

Thanks for any help!

unplugged23 · 2010-05-24 00:51:00

I deleted the world of warcraft folder on wine's virtual c drive, so I could try the blizzard world of warcraft installer. It runs fine, untill it progresses past the first stage, which is to download world of warcraft files. When it completes a little window pops up that says 'Failed to download world of warcraft installer. Please close all applications and try again.'

Interesting...

Snakeye · 2010-05-24 06:17:10

You need to download the patches manually and install them yourself. At least i had to. They did some weird crap with their wotlk patches.

Last edited by Snakeye (2010-05-24 06:18:10)

unplugged23 · 2010-05-24 13:19:16

Alright, I'll look at that a little later today. Thanks for the response. If it's only a matter of patching the game manually, I think it's interesting that I couldn't get a response on the WoW forums.

Thanks

unplugged23 · 2010-05-25 00:50:04

Ok, I uninstalled wow, and wine. Then re installed wine, and then wow up to the point that I was at previous. I did all of the manual patches up to the current one and I still get the same error.

Snakeye · 2010-05-25 04:42:58

Check the WoW folder permissions again, i remember that one of the patches changed the permissions on that folder.

http://appdb.winehq.org/commentview.php … adId=54161

Last edited by Snakeye (2010-05-25 04:55:10)

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#1 2010-05-23 22:39:08

World of warcraft issues under wine

#2 2010-05-24 00:51:00

Re: World of warcraft issues under wine

#3 2010-05-24 06:17:10

Re: World of warcraft issues under wine

#4 2010-05-24 13:19:16

Re: World of warcraft issues under wine

#5 2010-05-25 00:50:04

Re: World of warcraft issues under wine

#6 2010-05-25 04:42:58

Re: World of warcraft issues under wine

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