Before you get started
In Linux, Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) facilitates faster graphics rendering, so before you begin the installation you should check whether DRI is enabled. To do this, run the following command:
glxinfo | grep rendering
You should see output similar to this:
direct rendering: Yes
If this line says "No", it means that graphics data will not be passed directly to the graphics hardware, thus significantly reducing speed at which WoW will run. This is usually caused by a configuration issue with the graphics card driver. See the troubleshooting section for elaboration.
Note though that even if you do have Direct Rendering, it might not be enough. If you graphics card is an Intel GMA, your performance will be low in any case. Most people who successfully play WoW on Ubuntu are probably using an NVIDIA or ATI card with proprietary drivers.
Installing Wine
he official deb package file of Wine from WineHQ's download page, is recommended for most users, as it works almost out of the box for most people, and has a gold rating at the moment.
For full instructions on installing Wine see the Wine page.
Deb package
1. You can easily install Wine through the repositories. Ubuntu will automatically configure and install it for you. You can go to System, then Administration and Synaptic Package Manager, search for it and mark for installation.
You may also use the command line. Simply run:
sudo apt-get install wine
2. Before proceeding to install World of Warcraft you must run winecfg at least once (it must setup the ~/.wine directory structure before you can install Windows applications into it). This is a very important step. In a Terminal window type the following:
winecfg
Select your Windows type, configure disk and removable drives, etc, then press Apply and Ok. As it closes, winecfg will create a .wine directory structure in your home folder, populating with information about drives and devices installed in your system. If you fail to do this before trying to install World of Warcraft then you'll probably see errors like the following when running winecfg in the future:
err:winecfg:apply_drive_changes unable to define devicename of 'C:'
Compiling Wine from source
Other experienced users, who are unable to make this work or just want more control over the installation, may want to try to compile Wine from source in order to play WoW. Instructions can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingWineFromSource
Installing WoW
Original WoW
If you have the installation discs, this guide recommend that you copy the contents of your discs to your hard disk and install WoW from there. If you have the new DVDs see the note below.
Create a convenient directory ( 'wow_install' on your Desktop for example)
Copy all of the files from the first WoW CD to this new directory.
For each of the remaining WoW CD's, copy just the 'Installer Tome #.mpq' files. In the end, you should have the 'DirectX' directory, and the 'autorun.inf', 'installer.ico', 'Installer Tome.mpq', and 'Installer.exe' files from disc 1, and 'Installer Tome 2.mpq', 'Installer Tome 3.mpq', 'Installer Tome 4.mpq', and 'Installer Tome 5.mpq' from the remaining discs. Note that the 'Installer.exe' file on the first disc is different from the files of the same name on the subsequent discs; if you get the wrong one the install will fail with
Unrecognized key "options". (AttributeParser::Parse)
Note that on some WoW DVD's the installer executable is hidden and you need to re-mount the disc with the 'unhide' option. To do this type in a terminal:
sudo umount /dev/cdrom
sudo mount -t iso9660 -o ro,unhide /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom0/
Start the installation by opening a terminal and running these commands:
cd /
wine Installer.exe
Replace
Some dialogs during installation may appear blank or garbled, and the installer may even hang for up to 5 minutes at 100% CPU, while appearing to be doing nothing. Simply wait and click next when possible.
Note: If you have not already done so, you may want to install Microsoft's proprietary fonts, because they can solve some text related graphical glitches during installation.
Burning Crusade
The BC install is more or less the same as the base game install.
Create a new directory separate from the directory where you copied the original game discs.
Copy the 'Autorun.inf', 'Installer.exe', 'Installer.ico', and 'Installer Tome.mpq' files from the first Burning Crusade disc to this new directory.
Copy just 'Installer Tome 2.mpq', 'Installer Tome 3.mpq', and 'Installer Tome 4.mpq' from the remaining install discs.
Run the installer by opening a terminal and executing these commands:
cd /
wine Installer.exe
Replace
Alternate Installation Methods
If the above isn't possible for some reason (you don't have the discs for example, or a working media drive), here's some alternate ways to install the game.
Alternative 1 (Installing in Windows):
Just install WoW in Windows and run WoW under Wine from your Windows Partition. Or copy the entire World of Warcraft folder over from your Windows installation after installation to play from your Ubuntu partition.
Alternative 2 (Download the Entire Game):
If you have lost a CD, do not have access to a CD drive or simply would not like to bother with patching and messing with the CD's, you can download and run the installer, which is in fact the full game almost fully patched, from the blizzard downloader. They work very nicely with Wine.
Installer Downloads: Original WoW - US Version Burning Crusade - US Version (requires a valid account for log in) WoW - European clients, in all languages
In order to use the Blizzard Downloader effectively, you must 1) open certain ports on your computer and 2) enable port forwarding on your router.
Firewall Configuration for Blizzard Downloader
The easiest way to open these ports is to use the firewall program Firestarter.
From the command line, install Firestarter with this command: sudo apt-get install firestarter.
When it is running, select the "Policy" tab, right-click in the Allow Service area, and select Add Rule.
Under port, type 6112 and make sure that the "Anyone" radio button is selected. Make a note in the comments field that this port relates to Blizzard.
Repeat these steps for ports 3724 and for the range 6881-6999 (which will be recognized as BitTorrent ports).
Router Configuration for Blizzard Downloader
Next, configure your router to forward those ports on the router to your computer only. The steps are similar to the above, but vary slightly from router to router and may be found on Blizzard's website: http://www.blizzard.com/support/wow/?id=aww01199p
Once the firewall is configured and the network port forwarding is working, run the downloader with (Burning Crusade US Version example):
wine WoW-BurningCrusade-enUS-Installer-downloader.exe
Configuration
OpenGL or Direct3D
Background
The Windows version of World of Warcraft supports 3D rendering using either Direct3D or OpenGL. The Direct3D mode in WoW is the most tested and it has a number of features over the OpenGL mode, such as support for a hardware cursor. However, in Wine the Direct3D mode is supported only through an emulation layer, that runs on top of OpenGL. Therefor this guide recommends that you enable the OpenGL mode directly, instead of using it indirectly through Direct3D. This works better for most people.
Enable OpenGL mode
Find the file wtf/Config.wtf in your main WoW directory. By default it is found in/home/
SET gxApi "opengl"
Hardware cursor in OpenGL
There is a workaround to get a kind of hardware cursor even in OpenGL mode. The workaround is to use a slightly modified version of Wine which will always display the X11 cursor (which is not laggy). If you are interested, there is a thread in the forums discussing it. Instructions explaining how to get started can be found in the thread.
Playing
Start from the Desktop Icon
Double click the icon you find on your Desktop titled World of Warcraft, this will start the launcher. If you have never used something requiring HTML rendering with Wine you will be prompted to download and install the Gecko rendering engine. Do this as it will enable the WoW Launcher to display news.
Start from the Terminal
Starting from the terminal is simple, just enter:
wine "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Launcher.exe"
(install when prompted about the Gecko rendering engine)
Or, dive right into the game with:
wine "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe"
Gnome menu icon
You can make a Gnome menu entry for WoW by doing the following commands in a terminal:
wget http://kde-files.org/CONTENT/content-files/41569-wow-icon-scalable.svg -O WoW.svg
sudo mv WoW.svg /usr/share/pixmaps/
gksudo gedit /usr/share/applications/wow.desktop
Add this to the text editor window, which should have appeared after the third command, change
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=World of Warcraft
Exec=wine /home/
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/WoW.svg
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Application;Game;
StartupNotify=false
Note: Remember that you should also edit the Exec= line to reflect your WoW installation path, if you've installed to a special location.
Troubleshooting
Audio troubleshooting
If you experience stuttering you could try this:
In config.wtf set:
SET Sound_SoundOutputSystem "1"
SET Sound_SoundBufferSize "150"
The optimum value for Sound_SoundBufferSize varies depending on you setup. It may be anything from 50 to 300.
If you are no hearing any audio at all from WoW, you may want to try to switch Wine to use a an older audio sub system named OSS. To do this, just type winecfg in a terminal, press enter, and the wine configuration application window should appear and you should go to the audio tab. In there, choose OSS. Make sure you only have one sound output system (e.g. ALSA/OSS/ESD) ticked at a time.
When an application is outputing sound through OSS, it will cause conflicts with other applications outputing audio, because OSS can only output audio from one application at a time. To work around this issue, you can wrap your running WoW/Wine instance with the never audio system using the padsp launch prefix in a terminal. Start wine by typing:
padsp wine WoW.exe
rather than just
wine WoW.exe
Graphics troubleshooting
If you are having trouble with your graphics, here is a few tweaks you could try.
Config.wtf
Add the following to Config.wtf:
SET ffxDeath "0"
SET ffxGlow "0"
Note that disabling ffxGlow may also enable antialiasing for some users.
If you experience a problem with missing character and object models, and/or the login windows background is black, add:
SET M2UseShaders "0"
regedit tweaks
This is a simple registry edit for Wine that either will either fix crash issues and increase frame rate in game, or it will decrease the performance and even make the game crash. You should give it a try to see what is does for you, as you may always easily remove it again, if it acts negatively for you.
Open a terminal window, type regedit and press enter. This will start the Wine equivalent of the windows registry editor. If you are familiar with using the registry editor under windows then this is pretty much the same.
1. Find this key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\
2. Highlight the wine folder in the left hand pane by clicking left on it. The icon should change to an open folder
3. Right-click on the wine folder and select [NEW] then [KEY]
4. Replace the text New Key #1 with OpenGL
5. Right-click in the right hand pane and select [NEW] then [String Value]
6. Replace New Value #1 with DisabledExtensions (Notice it's case sensitive!)
7. Then double click anywhere on the line, a dialog box will open.
8. In the value field type GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object
More troubleshooting can be found at WorldofWarcraft/Troubleshooting.
To start/run Windows programs using Wine
After installing an application using the directions above, those applications can be started and used by entering wine programname.exe (e.g. wine realplayer.exe). When done, close the application as one would normally. You must run the installed executable, which will by default be in the virtual Windows drive created by Wine, at ~/.wine/drive_c. Generally programs will install themselves somewhere under Program Files inside the virtual Windows drive, following Windows conventions.
You can also use the Wine file browser, by running winefile in a terminal. Clicking the C:\ button in the toolbar will open a window where you can browse the virtual Windows drive created in .wine. Doubleclicking an executable in the Wine file browser will run it in Wine.
Instead of having to always enter the terminal or use the Wine file browser, you may also create a desktop icon, and start a Wine application using that icon. To do this, right click on the desktop and select "Create a launcher." If you wish, select an icon from the list of available icons (or browse to an icon you would like to use), fill out other information that is requested (Name, generic name, etc.). For the command, type in wine the-location-of-the-program.exe (e.g. wine /home/john/.wine/realplayer.exe). The most important part of creating a launcher is the command, the generic name is not as important. Just make sure you de-select "Run in terminal." This completes the process.
In some cases the application requires to be running from a certain location. In this case create launcher with command
sh -c cd /home/USER/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Appdir/; wine /home/USER/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Appdir/game.exe
Of course you will need to replace USER and Appdir with the proper data.
If you desire to have an icon on the panel, create a launcher on the panel of choice. Do this by right-clicking the panel, selecting "Add to Panel," and selecting "Custom Application Launcher." This will ask you for the same information as before.
Alternatively, to make life easier, you can set it so wine will automatically open .exe files files for you - instead of using the Wine File to locate the file each time. To do so, right click on the .exe file, select Properties, and then select the Open With tab. Click the 'Add' button, and then click on 'Use a custom command'. In the line that appears, type in wine, then click Add, and Close. Now all .exe files will be automatically opened by Wine, so you can use Nautilus to browse and open them instead of the Wine File.
Uninstalling Wine Applications
Open up a terminal window and type the command below.
wine uninstaller
What this will do is open up a program similar to the Windows add/remove programs control panel, allowing you to uninstall applications from a Wine installation. Running uninstall programs directly via Wine should also work normally. Alternatively, you could also simply delete the folder of the application. However, as when done in Windows, this method will be unclean and will not remove the program's configuration from the Wine registry like using an uninstaller will.
Configuring Wine
On the command line or in Run Application, type
winecfg
Adding CD and DVD drives to Wine
Go to the drives tab in winecfg. Hit the Autodetect button.
If you find that this does not work correctly for you, then follow these instructions:
1. Run
winecfg
1. Navigate to the drives tab
2. Click on Add...
3. In the path bar, type
/media/cdrom
1. Click Show Advanced button below the Browse... button and set the Type to
CD-ROM
1. Click OK
If you have more than one CD/DVD device you will need to identify each one differently. Use /media/cdrom0 for the first CD/DVD device, /media/cdrom1 for the second one, and so on. If in doubt, type the following command in your terminal.
ls -la ~/.wine/dosdevices/
What this command will do is check your CD/DVD device details after Wine is installed.
Adding applications to the menu
It is good procedure before setting up the menu entry to launch the new Windows program from the command line to make sure the program runs properly. To do this type this command in the terminal.
wine "C:\PATHTOPROGRAM\Program.exe"
For example the command would be wine "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe" Once you are satisfied that you have the correct details, use the normal menu editing process to add a new entry. When you get to the Command field of the entry editor be sure to copy and paste the line you used to launch the program from the terminal. Finish and save the new entry. Test to make sure the new Windows program loads via the menu.
Changing application specific settings
1. Type this command into your terminal.
winecfg
1. Click on Add Application...
2. Navigate to where the .exe is and choose that program
3. The dropdown at the bottom allows you to choose which version of Windows Wine should emulate. Also, any changes to the Libraries and Graphics tabs will only affect the chosen application in the Applications tab.
Using Windows Themes/Skins In Wine
Color Scheme
You can change the wine color scheme to closely match the default Ubuntu colors with this Terminal command.
gedit ~/.wine/user.reg
You may also want to create a backup copy in your Home folder with this command via terminal.
cp ~/.wine/user.reg ~/
Replace the [Control Panel\\Colors] section with
[Control Panel\\Colors] 1176981676
"ActiveBorder"="239 235 231"
"ActiveTitle"="203 133 61"
"AppWorkSpace"="198 198 191"
"Background"="93 77 52"
"ButtonAlternativeFace"="200 0 0"
"ButtonDkShadow"="85 85 82"
"ButtonFace"="239 235 231"
"ButtonHilight"="255 255 255"
"ButtonLight"="255 255 255"
"ButtonShadow"="198 198 191"
"ButtonText"="0 0 0"
"GradientActiveTitle"="239 235 231"
"GradientInactiveTitle"="239 235 231"
"GrayText"="198 198 191"
"Hilight"="246 200 129"
"HilightText"="0 0 0"
"InactiveBorder"="239 235 231"
"InactiveTitle"="239 235 231"
"InactiveTitleText"="255 255 255"
"InfoText"="0 0 0"
"InfoWindow"="255 255 166"
"Menu"="239 235 231"
"MenuBar"="239 235 231"
"MenuHilight"="246 200 129"
"MenuText"="0 0 0"
"Scrollbar"="239 235 231"
"TitleText"="255 255 255"
"Window"="255 255 255"
"WindowFrame"="0 0 0"
"WindowText"="0 0 0"
Using Theme/Skins
Wine has basic handling for Windows theme/skin files in the "msstyles" format. There is a large number of these themes onDeviant Art. To use these you must make a folder in Wine's virtual Windows drive, then tell Wine to use the theme.
Firstly go into Wine's virtual drive, which is usually ".wine/drive_c" in your Home folder (this is hidden, you may need to select View->Show Hidden Files in the file manager). Inside this folder go into the "windows" folder then make a new folder in there called "Resources". Enter this new folder and make a new folder called "Themes". Inside here you should make a folder for each theme you want, and put the files ending in ".msstyles" directly into them. For example, the full path to a theme file called sample.msstyles might be "/home/username/.wine/drive_c/windows/Resources/Themes/Sample/sample.msstyles".
Next you need to tell Wine to use your theme, so once again run this command in the terminal.
winecfg
In the configuration window select the tab Desktop Integration and un-check out the Theme: box, which should now have your theme in it's menu. After selecting the theme click Apply at the bottom to see how it looks (they don't always display properly), then if you are happy click ok and you're done!
Fullscreen issues with overlapping Panel
Sometimes the Panel overlaps your fullscreen application you're running in wine. If you are running Visual Effects, the first solution you should try is to turn those off: Go to System -> Preferences -> Appearance, and click the Visual Effects tab. Select None, and your screen will flash. Try your full-screen application again. You may re-enable Visual Effects afterwards - just don't forget to turn them back off when you want to run that application again!
If that does not work, then you will have to turn off the panels prior to running the application and restarting it afterwards, until a better workaround can be found. In Ubuntu the commands are gnome-session-remove gnome-panel and gnome-panel & respectively. In Xubuntu I understand they are killall xfce4-panel and xfce4-panel.
Instructions for using wine over remote X11 sessions
If you're (trying) to use wine over a forwarded X11 session (ie Ubuntu is on one computer; you're connected to it by ssh or another connection and you already have X11 forwarding set up to display regular Ubuntu applications on your remote computer) and the windows opened by wine are lacking fonts etc, the answer is here
Instructions for specific Windows programs
Some Windows programs have been tested on Ubuntu. They are listed below:
DVDShrink
FlashPlayerStandalone
WorldofWarcraft
Also, see Wine's Application Database at http://appdb.winehq.org/ or http://wine-review.blogspot.com/
Creating file associations
f you want certain files to open in a windows application by clicking on them, the best way is to create a script. For example I want Adobe Flash project files (*.fla) to open in Adobe's Flash editor if I double click it.
You can for example create a file using this terminal command.
gedit ~/.wine/Flash\ 8
Now paste the following example script in it, save and close gedit.
Example script:
#!/bin/sh
QUICKPARLOCATION="c:\\Program Files\\Macromedia\\Flash 8\\Flash.exe"
PARAM=`winepath -w "$*"`
wine "$QUICKPARLOCATION" "$PARAM"
exit 0
Make sure the file is executable with this command.
chmod +x ~/.wine/Flash\ 8
After you completed this go to an *.fla file right click it, properties, go to the “open with” pane, click add, add this line into your terminal and select the radio button.
'/home/
Now if everything went ok, you can doubleclick the file and it will be openend in Flash 8.
Troubleshooting
Error: Cannot change screen BPP from 32 to XX
In some cases (mostly games) the application does not start and you get error: Cannot change screen BPP from 32 to 16 (or some other number).
In such case editing xorg.conf and CTRL-ALT-Backspace helps as is described on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=649283
'dhtmled.ocx' is missing or invalid
It seems that in Ubuntu Karmic Wine(v1.0.1) registry isn't configured correctly to use ActiveX component dhtmled.ocx. On some application this can cause error like this: "Component 'dhtmled.ocx' or one of it's dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid". So we must tell Wine where to find this file.
1. Download registry file:
cd ~
wget http://jwc.sourceforge.net/other/ieslinux-dhtmledit.reg
2. Open regedit:
wine regedit.exe
3. Import the downloaded registry settings
file->import registry file->open ~/ieslinux-dhtmledit.reg
Screen flickers to black when starting an application
This is sometimes caused by a problem with the video driver not handling XRandR well. To see if this is actually a problem with XRandR, in a console, run:
xrandr
If your screen blanks while running that command, then this might be the issue. To work around this issue, Wine can be configured to not use XRandR. To do so:
1. Start Wine's Registry Editor.
2. Navigate to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\X11 Driver". You may need to create X11 Driver.
3. Create a new key called "UseXRandR" and set it to "N".
See Wine Bug #15214 and Wine Wiki page UsefulRegistryKeys.
HOWTO: WoW with Wine
This howto is for installing and playing World of Warcraft using Wine under Ubuntu.
The howto found in this post is just a short'n'simple version, intended to demonstrate the minimum amount of steps required to make WoW run. The complete howto, which will likely be more of a help to you, is found in the Ubuntu community documentation wiki:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WorldofWarcraft
Short'n'simple HOWTO
(only 8 steps)
1. Install Wine from here: http://www.winehq.org/download/deb
2. Copy all of the files from all of the CD's to a directory on your hard drive. Just overwrite when prompted, and make sure to copy CD 1 last (you need a specific file from CD 1).
3. Open a terminal (also called a konsole, CLI, and command prompt) and do these commands inside to start the installation:
Code:
cd /
wine Installer.exe
Replace
4. Wait and click next when possible.
5. Do this command in a terminal, and just press ok to close the configuration utility that opens:
Code:
winecfg
6. Now run this command in a terminal:
Code:
gedit ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/World\ of\ Warcraft/wtf/Config.wtf
Add these lines to the text file:
Code:
SET SoundOutputSystem "1"
SET SoundBufferSize "150"
SET gxApi "OpenGL"
7. Save the file and exit.
8. You should be able to play WoW using the shortcut on your desktop, or by running this command:
Code:
wine "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe"
Reg tweak
This is a simple registry edit for Wine that either will either fix graphical glitches, increase framerate, or even stop the game from crashing, or it will create glitches, decrease the performance, and even make the game crash. You should give it a try to see what is does for you, as you may always easily remove it again, if it acts negatively for you.
Open a terminal window, type regedit and press enter. This will start the Wine equivalent of the windows registry editor. If you are familiar with using the registry editor under windows then this is pretty much the same.
Notice: the guide below is case sensitive!
1. Find this key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\
2. Highlight the wine folder in the left hand pane by clicking left on it. The icon should change to an open folder
3. Right-click on the wine folder and select [NEW][KEY]
4. Replace the text New Key #1 with OpenGL
5. Right-click in the right hand pane and select [NEW] then [String Value]
6. Replace New Value #1 with DisabledExtensions
7. Then double click anywhere on the line, a dialog box will open.
8. In the value field type GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object
How To Get Help
If this short guide doesn't work right away for you, then please look over the complete howto first:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WorldofWarcraft
If, after following every step in the complete howto, you are still having troubles running the game, I would like to invite you to look over this comprehensive troubleshooting article, for common issues, that arise from following this guide:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wo...roubleshooting
Also, in case the troubleshooting section doesn't solve your issue, you are welcome to post questions in this tread, but in order for other people to be able to effectively help you, you need to be very descriptive about your issue, and post some useful info about your system specs etc. Please write up some details about your
CPU
RAM
Graphics card make and model
Graphics card driver version number
Wine version number
And please be polite to people. We are all just jolly amateurs, like yourself.
For more troubleshooting :
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=579378
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