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Ubuntu 12.10 Using Wine for WoW issue

Asked by Emmanuel Papalexandrou

I'll try and use screenshots to explain the issue as i am a novice and would do a poor job of it otherwise.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as Ubuntu is my sole OS and i really don't want to have to go back to windows over this.

Firstly the output of lspsci -k is this:

NVIDIA Corporation G92 [GeForce 9800 GT] (rev a2)
Subsystem: CardExpert Technology Device 0401
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nvidia_current, nouveau, nvidiafb

And here are the screenshots explaining the problem:

1. Installed drivers: http://i.imgur.com/wBxiP.png

2. Problem: http://i.imgur.com/bt9br.jpg

Also, even on the low settings the framerate is poor. On top of this i can't open the launcher for the game, only the direct game itself, this might be a problem next time the game needs to update.

Finally, i remember changing somthing in the Ubuntu boot command ('e') from quiet splash to root a while back, not sure if that's relevant.

Please do get back to me, i'm eagre to resolve this! Thank you.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | grep nvidia

Thanks

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Emmanuel Papalexandrou (manopapalex) said : 		#2

Oh hey dude, you've helped me out in the past. Nice to see you again! Here's the output:

  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: G92 [GeForce 9800 GT]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a2
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: irq:16 memory:fd000000-fdffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:fa000000-fbffffff ioport:dc80(size=128) memory:fea00000-fea1ffff
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.10
Release: 12.10
Codename: quantal
Linux mano-Dell-DXP051 3.5.0-18-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 19 10:26:51 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
rc nvidia-current 304.64-0ubuntu1~quantal~xup1 amd64 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library
ii nvidia-experimental-304 304.48-0ubuntu1 amd64 Experimental NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library
ii nvidia-experimental-304-dev 304.48-0ubuntu1 amd64 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver development files
rc nvidia-settings 304.64-0ubuntu1~quantal~xup1 amd64 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
ii nvidia-settings-experimental-304 304.48-0ubuntu2 amd64 Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

sudo dpkg -P nvidia-current nvidia-settings
sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia-experimental-304 nvidia-settings-experimental-304 nvidia-experimental-304-dev
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

Reboot to test

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Emmanuel Papalexandrou (manopapalex) said : 		#4

Unfortunately these were the exact steps i followed to initially solve this problem to no effect. I installed the experimental drivers after that had failed :(

Any other ideas?

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Emmanuel Papalexandrou (manopapalex) said : 		#5

Just an update on this issue for those with a similar problem:

I installed a few windows components into wine through winetricks by following this post:

"Good frame rate. No graphic bugs. No glithes. No problems.
by Josh Raymond on Saturday October 13th 2012, 13:49" (near bottom of the page) [link: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=25610]

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After installing the directx components (those being: d3dx9_36, d3dx9_39, and directplay) I was able to customise the system settings in world of warcraft to the same graphical settings i use on windows. however because i was not using opengl the framerate suffered substaintially.

whenever i set the game to use opengl as recommended by ubuntu documentation; it forces me to play on low settings.

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does anyone know how i might be able to make the game play with my regular settings with opengl? do i need to install another DLL with winetricks?

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