Installation Reports, mark II

[blackdjinn]

Installation #3 - Internet & music fiend's laptop

Comments

[blackdjinn]

Can you send me the output of lspci? I'm nto familiar with that particulars of the model. Also, what distro are you using?

[blackdjinn]

You want to use the latest WINE anyway... a lot of Windows stuff presents a moving target so the most recent version is almost always best.

I looked up the machine at it's running an Intel-945 integrated graphics controller. As we say in the business, "There's your problem!" the i945 is problematic and has a long history of not working right with 3D apps.

What exactly is the problem? I'm expecting that it freezes the machine when you try to run WoW? If non, can you try and run it from the command line and include a copy of WINEs' error list?

[blackdjinn]

That's.. interesting. I don't ever even /see/ the cinematic when I start it. Are you running wow.exe directly or Launcher.exe? If you are firing up Launcher, then change that and it might help. Alternately it's a problem that pops up when it tries to fire up the 3d mode. (those are my suspicions anyway) Also... there should be a line in your /WTF/Config.wtf that reads:

SET gxApi "opengl"

so it knows to use the OpenGL API (well supported) instead of the DirectX API which is poorly supported.

[blackdjinn]

Also put in the following:

SET movie "0"

That will keep the opening cinematic from running so maybe we can see where things are really going awry.

[blackdjinn]

Did some poking. First, go in and turn 'desktop effects' off for Ubuntu. Second, try using my Config.wtf below, which will run it in windowed mode as reports are that works better. (I do and have no issues, so that might be it too

[blackdjinn]

The 'access violation' means it's trying to call a routine that doesn't exist. It's about protection on the main memory, not a file. Turning off the movies and having it run in a window should be enough. It is happier running in a window, for some odd reason.