Installing World of Warcraft (Cataclysm) @ Fedora 15

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Version: 0.7

Table of Content

1. Welcome
2. Prepare WoW
3. Grafic
4. WINE, WineTricks, Gecko
5. Installation of WoW
6. Teamspeak
7. First run of WoW

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1) Welcome
Hello
Welcome to this guide on how to install World of Warcraft (retail) to a fresh installation on Fedora 15 (works with both, 32 and 64 bit kernel).

I'm playing WoW since open beta back in 2004-2005, so i'm pretty addicted to it, one could say.
Anyways, as i like playing WoW as well as Fedora 15, i dont want missing any of these.
We'll be installing all (as far i know = afaik) required pieces to get World of Warcraft running on our beloved Fedora

Speaking for myself, dualboot is no real alternative. I wanted to get away from Windows and its lagy behaviour.
So, this is the reason why i wrote this guide.
I do hope you'll find what you need to get WoW running with your Fedora 15.

As i recently walked by some nice sh scripts, i used them as template to write my own script to do this guide's work. You'll find it attached at the end of 2nd post.

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2) Prepare WoW Installation:
If you have an installed WoW folder with a complete installation, you surly can go to the next step.

As you'll need to download over 9gigs of data anyway, there is no need to bother with the DVD.

If you prefer installing it from DvD, you might need this

su
    (password)
 mount -o remount,unhide /dev/cdrom 

Refresh the Filebrowsers view, you should see now some more files, copy all of them into a local folder.

Download the Internet-Installer for World of Warcraft from your Account Management page.
Europe: https://eu.battle.net/account/management/download/
USA: https://us.battle.net/account/management/download/
As i'm swiss, i'll be refering to "euDE", for USA players it'll be "usEN"

Once copied or downloaded, wait until WINE is installed.

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3) Grafic
Your first step step should be to run this line:

glxinfo | grep rendering 

The answer you get should be:

direct rendering: Yes

If so, great, if not you need to update your grafic drivers.

Leigh hast a great post about nVidia Drivers which may help.
Leigh has also a great post about ATI / Catalyst Drivers.
TODO: Laptop with Intel drivers? (mine's working though)

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4) WINE, Gecko and WineTricks:
We're need something to 'translate' the Windows install stuff into Linux stuff, so WoW can be run.
This something is named WINE (WINE Is Not an Emulator).

Before installing WINE, make sure your system is up-to-date:

yum upgrade 

Installing WINE is quite easy doing, open your shell then run:
If you have nothing modified during Fedora 15 installtion, try this.

 yum install wine    # This is for 32 bit systems
yum install wine.i686 # This is suggested for 64bit systems 

If you HAVE modified something during installation of Fedora 15, better try this instead:

yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install wine 

In addition we'll be needing:

yum install cabextract 

After Wine is installed, use the RegEdit, to be found in your apps, or by running:
Press Alt+F2 then type: regedit

Wine will tell you to install Gecko, deny it as we're installing it later the manual way.

In RegEdit
1. goto: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\
2. Right-click on the wine folder and select [NEW][KEY]
3. Name it: OpenGL
4. Right-click the "OpenGL"key then choose [NEW] then [String Value]
5. Name it: DisabledExtensions
6. Change its Value by double clicking on that line.
7. In the value field type GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object

There is a WINE error, to remove it apply this workaround at your own risk.
Note: I deny any responsibility for malfunctions or security issues that may occour if you do apply this workaround.

su
    (password)
grep wine /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol
semodule -i mypol.pp 

We're now installing Gecko the manual way.

wget "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine_gecko-1.2.0-x86.msi"
sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/wine/gecko
sudo mv wine_gecko-1.2.0-x86.msi /usr/share/wine/gecko/ 

WineTricks brings some nice tweaks

su
(password)
wget "http://winetricks.org/winetricks"
chmod +x winetricks
mv winetricks /usr/local/bin 

Now installing some other required tweaks with winetricks

winetricks wininet winhttp ie7 pngfilt vcrun6sp6 vcrun2005 d3dx9_36 d3dx9_42 

Now in order to complete IE7 tweak, start it with wine:

wine iexplore 

If you're having font issues, this line might help.

winetricks liberation corefonts 

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5) Install World of Warcraft
By now all the files from the DvD should be copied to your harddisk or the internet installer should have finished.
Browse to the folder were the files are and either one of the lines:

wine WoW-4.0.0-WOW-euDE-Installer.exe   // Where "eu" is your Country and "DE" your Language. 

or with the copied files

wine installer.exe 

Follow the install procedure, i'd suggest you install to "c:\games\wow" for easiest access for a single installation.

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6) Teamspeak 3:
If you're guild is using Ventrillo, you might prefer http://www.mangler.org/

Download the latest TS3 client directly from TeamSpeak.Com
Store the TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_x86-3.0.0-rc1.run file to your Download directory, when done, change the Properties of the file, to be execute as application: double click -> execute in terminal

When done, run this lines, to move it to your app folder and start the update.

mv TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_x86 /usr/libexec 

Press Alt+F2 and enter

/usr/libexec/TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_x86/update 

After the update has run, start TS3 and make it a Favorite by right-clicking on the left menu bar.
For some reason this doesnt work very well at my laptop, searching for better solution.

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7. First run of WoW:
Some years later, you'll be able to start WoW while the Launcher is still downloading files.

Note: in case the launcher window disappears on pressing the play button, you might need to execute the wow.exe instead.

If you're going for OpenGL:

winetricks ddr=opengl psm=disabled 

Be sure to start WoW like this:

wine "c:\\games\\wow\\wow.exe" -opengl 

This line will automaticly add SET gxAPI "OpenGL" to your "c:\\games\\wow\\wtf\\Config.wtf"

If you're going for DirectX:
Installing DirectX and activate shaders to get rid of black fields around characters .

winetricks ddr=gdi psm=enabled 

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8. Errors and Work-Arounds:
There are severall possible errors you'll walk by.

Jumping mouse: upgrade to WINE 1.3.21+

yum --enablerepo=updates-testing upgrade wine 

OR
Run wow in "windowed full screen" this seems to be the fix the mouse issues.

If you still getting errors, you might want to try to set your video memory to the proper value...

winetricks videomemorysize=1024     // either 512 or 1024 or default 

Add this line to the Config.WTF in the WTF folder, as a last resort....

SET fixedfunction “1”         // mac 

This workaround works only if you're using WinEx:

;; WoW
[AppDefaults\\wow.exe\\memory]
"MemoryLayoutOverride" = "0x10000000" 

Maybe Wine users can add this too, i just dont know where..

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Resources / References:
http://winehq.org/
http://appdb.winehq.org/
http://wiki.winehq.org/Gecko
http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks

http://www.wowwiki.com/World_of_Warc...nality_on_Wine

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=249883
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=252861

http://www.linuxforen.de/forums/showthread.php?t=190720
http://wow.4fansites.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3053
http://www.spinics.net/lists/wine/msg91750.html

German WoW Support: Linux user to be banned by Blizzard?
http://eu.battle.net/wow/de/forum/to...62622?page=1#0
http://www.ubuntu-forum.de/artikel/4...-via-wine.html
http://www.ubuntu-forum.de/post/2278...ml?#post227807

MacProblems
http://eu.battle.net/wow/de/forum/topic/927077795

Special Thanks goes to:

spot221, MorphingDragon and of course the Wine- and WineTricks-Dev teams as well as Blizzard's Devs

[MorphingDragon]

I would also like to note that Cedega is now free under Gametree Linux Developers if you don't want to mess around with Wine, plus it supports other games.

Not trying to steal your thunder

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Hr hr, great now that i'm almost there :P

[spot221]

I got past this point by using winetricks to install ie7
On the CL:
$wget http://winetricks.org/winetricks
$sh winetricks ie7
Start WoW via the launcher
I found this post here:
http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.ph...14d58dcfcbbe5d

[oliveryty]

Wine. Bad experience with it.

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Thank you eRats for taking the time to do all of this. Like you said it is a great way to learn while helping others in the process.

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Wine. Bad experience with it.

Would you give a bit of description of your "bad experience with it" please?

[spot221]

Hi,
I like your wow guide. I would like to add that if your raid/guild is using ventrillo you can use mangler for a linux client. I have used it and it seems to work very well.
You can check it out here:http://www.mangler.org

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Thanks for the input spot221, the servers i play on, all guilds i've came along use TS3.
I mention it now at TS installation start

[xChicox]

Please, could you help me?, I did all the steps, but ALWAYS when I launch the instaler.exe, and click on the "INSTALL" button, the installer show the "End User License Agrement", ok, but there's nothing inside it, i just cant see the letters, is all blank, so I cant read until the end and click "Accept", I got downloaded from the official site, do you know what's going on?

Fedora 15 all updated, like the post ok. Thanks


http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/986/imagem2gi.png

This is what's going on.

[Inferiority]

Hopefully, during my upcoming holiday, I can try to see if some of the info helps me when installing Runes of Magic after I wipe my current Ubuntu & install Fedora

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@ xChicox: Looks like a gecko issue.
If you're running on 64bit, try installing gecko 64 as well.
If that doesnt help, run "winetricks winhttp" (again).

Hope that helps.

[xChicox]

@ xChicox: Looks like a gecko issue.
If you're running on 64bit, try installing gecko 64 as well.
If that doesnt help, run "winetricks winhttp" (again).

Hope that helps.

@ eRats; Dude I already have the gecko 64 bits, (yeah my fedora is 64 bits), and I did all the steps about the wine again, just to check, and the error keeps, but look this:

[chico@cepcam2 Downloads]$ wine WoW-4.0.0-WOW-enUS-installer.exe

fixme:ntdll:find_reg_tz_info Can't find matching timezone information in the registry for bias 180, std (d/m/y): 20/02/2011, dlt (d/m/y): 16/10/2011

After I hit "wine WoW-4.0.0-WOW-enUS-installer.exe", the terminal shows this, and open the wow installer ok, but with the old error, I cant read the terms and click on aceppt.

Thanks for the help until now

//Sorry for my terrible english, I'm from Brazil, and we dont have english class on school around here.

[sea]

Your errormessage "fixme:ntdll:find_reg_tz_info Can't find matching timezone information in the registry for bias 180, std (d/m/y): 20/02/2011, dlt (d/m/y): 16/10/2011"
Tells something about an invalid (?) registry value.
I dont know wine-registry well enough, to give you any advice on this.

However, while writing the guide, i removed the hidden wine folder several times, and re-did all settings.
you may find its folder in ~/.wine if you browse with nautilus, press CTRL+H to see Hidden files.

Be sure to start iexplorer first before you're installing wow with wine iexplore if it shows either MSN or Wine homepage, then the installer should work.