Talk:World of Warcraft

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Removed Info

Removed this section as the ENV setting wreaks havok on other aspects of the game. Some mage spells, for example, result in an immediate crash. Even entering some areas, or exiting the game, will produce a crash attempting to write to memory. The current best practice is to use the config file setting.

WINEPRELOADER_SETVALEGACY="no" Point2Play

Old Notes

This section will contain miscellaneous old notes that migth be of use for people that for some reason wish to use a version of Cedega below 4.2. Some if not all of these notes will not apply or are fixed to the most recent version of Cedega.

• In order to install the game with Cedega 4.1.1 4.1,4.0.1 and 4.0 you will need to place two dlls in ~/.point2play/game-name/c_drive/windows/system32/ or ~/.transgaming/c_drive/windows/system32/ namely, riched20.dll (414k) and usp10.dll (308k). If you don't do this, clicking the install button doesn't do anything.
• Cedega users may have sound problems under OSS. Switching to ALSA (if available) helps significantly. (in your ~/.transgaming/config under the [WinMM] section change "Drivers"="wineoss.drv" to "Drivers"="winealsa.drv".) Gentoo users may have to create a symbolic link from /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p to /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c
• To disable the death effect, edit your wtf/Config.wtf file and put in this line:

SET ffxDeath "0"

• Abostick posted a link to a thread on a World of Warcraft forum which has a (now dead) link to a fix for the cursor problem (mirrored on digital-conquest.ath.cx).

The fix has to be run once WoW is started. The can be done in game by hitting ALT + F2 to get to a Run button then typing the path to the fix. Another way is to create a script:

#!/bin/bash
cedega WoW.exe &
sleep 10
wowfix &

Adjust the amount of sleep to your liking. Works very well for me and now I can play in Direct3d mode with the minimap and no crashes. It is actually really stable.

The new cursor fix

I wonder if this cursor fix will be used by TransGaming or that they will cook up something on their own. I don't think they'll use a third party program to fix the cursor and will likely create the stuff what is missing for World of Warcraft to make it work properly.

Omega 15:44, 30 Nov 2004 (CET)

Quit using "I suggest" and "I use" and "I recommend". It's so obnoxious and no one knows who the crap you are.

MrPsycho 06:58, 5 May 2005 (CEST)

Fullscreen tip

A tip you might want to add (I do not know if it is ok if I add it myself):

If you have problems with keyboard/mouse not reacting in fullscreen mode and you use Kde, try the following: setup cedega to use a desktop window as large as your screen is (e.g. 1280x1024). Then start WoW. Next right-click on the desktop window titlebar, select "Advanced", then "Settings for specific window".

What we want to do here is to add a setting for the wow desktop to switch to a borderless window when it is first shown:

Tab page "Geometry", "Placement": check the box, "Apply Initially", "Top-Left Corner". Tab page "Preferences", "No border": check the box, "Apply Initially".

StefanT 10:00, 24 May 2005 (CEST)

Tag problem on many pages

here is what i encounter, when i read the page as normal:

6. In the commandline input field, type -opengl

i don't know if the should be translated by the browser, byt in my case it isn't (firefox 1.0.4 linux i686) Any solution to this ?

Another problem i found

Distribution: Slackware 10.1 Cedega: 5.0.3 Game Version: All Versions

One problem I found is that when I first got the game installed and working, and after all the fixes, I still had a problem with the display, this was becuase of a few default settings, so in my custom profile I removed from the graphics menu Vertex Shaders, NV_Var Extension and Arb_VBO Extension, it may not be that all of these are causing the problem, maybe just one or the other, but this certainly helped me..