Fedora 11 was released this Tuesday, and I plan to do a review on that once I’ve spent a little more time on it, but so far I’m impressed with it. After getting my desktop upgraded, I was eager to see how WoW would do on the new Xorg and new sound fixes.
Unfortunately, not well. Crossover Games bombed. While sound is working the best it has on my desktop everywhere else, it is nothing but a terrible fuzz in Crossover Games. About 75% of the time WoW didn’t fully launch. Sometimes it would just disappear, other times it would produce a nasty stack trace and then the process would need to be killed. The few times I did get WoW to load up it was slow and doggy, and the sound was just horrendous. I tried to WoW repair, but to no avail.
The good news is – wine works great. I pointed wine to my Crossover Games bottle and launched Wow.exe from there and it fired right up. Sound works, too. I haven’t put it through any raids yet to give a full out performance review, but at least it’s playable.
I did try to send my stack trace to Codeweavers, but since I failed to enter my email address on the lame duck challenge, I cannot enter a support ticket and am “out of luck” in terms of support. I hope Codeweavers can get their fixes in for Fedora 11. In the meantime, it’s back to wine.
[...] Games + World of Warcraft seems to be severely broken in Fedora 11. However, wine seems to be working just fine in the new Fedora [...]
By: Review: World of Warcraft on Fedora 10 with Crossover Games « Faith and Freedom on June 10, 2009
at 9:17 pm
[...] See the original post here: Word of Warcraft in Fedora 11 « Faith and Freedom [...]
By: Word of Warcraft in Fedora 11 « Faith and Freedom | TuxWire : The Linux Blog on June 11, 2009
at 12:17 am
You might try turning Pulse Audio in Fedora, and just use Alsa–that should fix the problem. There is a tip for this in our compatibility database under WOW as well.
Sorry about the Lame Duck thing–we gave people more than a month to register their code, and we had to draw the line somewhere, I’m afraid.
Best Wishes,
-jon parshall-
COO
http://www.codeweavers.com
By: Jon Parshall on June 17, 2009
at 1:56 pm
Jon,
Thanks for the reply. Turning off PulseAudio did fix the sound problem when running in OpenGL mode in wine. WoW fails to launch in D3D with wine or Crossover Games.
I have signed up as an advocate at codeweavers.com and look forward to helping there.
~Scott
By: vwbusguy on June 28, 2009
at 10:40 pm
[...] channels are so out of sync it just sounds like chainsaw ripping into a giant ice cream cone. World of Warcraft also fails to start with DirectX and in OpenGL mode Ctrl keys no longer work. Other wine apps also seem to be [...]
By: Review: Fedora 11 « Faith and Freedom on June 28, 2009
at 4:41 pm
I`m currently building my own gaming pc so i can play world of warcraft in its full gloring, i have a budget of under £400 but i think i have found the best system for the budget i have, you can check out my progress on my squidoo lens.
By: Dave Knowles on July 5, 2009
at 3:12 pm