Difference between revisions of "Installing WoW under Wine"
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I've had good luck with wine 1.4 under ubuntu. I've seen that playonlinux and crossover use wine 1.2. So I'm guessing that wine 1.3 will work. | I've had good luck with wine 1.4 under ubuntu. I've seen that playonlinux and crossover use wine 1.2. So I'm guessing that wine 1.3 will work. | ||
| − | + | <h3>References</h3> | |
| − | http://www.wowwiki.com/World_of_Warcraft_functionality_on_Wine | + | * http://www.wowwiki.com/World_of_Warcraft_functionality_on_Wine |
| − | + | * http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/4496521038 | |
| − | http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/4496521038 | + | |
After making sure the hardware requirements are satisfied, the recipe looks like this: | After making sure the hardware requirements are satisfied, the recipe looks like this: | ||
Revision as of 01:48, 3 September 2012
The wine that comes with Fedora 17 is 1.5, but I could not get WoW to run with that Wine. Instead, I removed wine, enabled the Fedora 16 repo, and then installed an older wine.
yum install wine-1.3.29-1.fc16.x86_64
I've had good luck with wine 1.4 under ubuntu. I've seen that playonlinux and crossover use wine 1.2. So I'm guessing that wine 1.3 will work.
References
- http://www.wowwiki.com/World_of_Warcraft_functionality_on_Wine
- http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/4496521038
After making sure the hardware requirements are satisfied, the recipe looks like this:
- winetricks
- install game
- wowtrial
If the desktop icon is broken, start the game with:
./local/share/wineprefixes/wowtrial/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft/Wow.exe
The installer starts, but hangs when displaying "Downloading updated tools"
Check to see if the patch in Temp is completely downloaded:
rday@potato:~/.local/share/wineprefixes/wowtrial/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft/Temp$ ls -l total 23112 -rwxrwxr-x 1 rday rday 6399096 May 23 18:04 wow-4.2.1.2736-enUS-tools-downloader.exe -rw-rw-r-- 1 rday rday 12866240 May 23 18:11 wow-4.2.1.2736-enUS-tools-patch.exe.part -rw-rw-r-- 1 rday rday 4392070 May 23 18:34 wow-patch.mpq
That patch has a .part extension, so it is not ready to run yet. But 12MB is about the right size.
rday@potato:~/.local/share/wineprefixes/wowtrial/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft/Temp$ ls -l total 23100 -rwxrwxr-x 1 rday rday 6399096 May 23 18:41 wow-4.2.1.2736-enUS-tools-downloader.exe -rwxrwxr-x 1 rday rday 12853680 May 23 18:46 wow-4.2.1.2736-enUS-tools-patch.exe -rw-rw-r-- 1 rday rday 4392070 May 23 18:41 wow-patch.mpq
Those files are ready to go. Cancel the installer and go to the WorldofWarcraft Temp directory Manually run the wow-4.2.1.2736-enUS-tools-patch.exe
rday@potato:~/.local/share/wineprefixes/wowtrial/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft/Temp$ wine ./wow-4.2.1.2736-enUS-tools-patch.exe
Wait for the Installer/Updater to download the rest of the game.
