I am unable to get my fav games to run on OpenSUSE 11.3. With World of Warcraft I start it up using Wine (1.2-0.1.1), game was at first jittery (ATi Mobility HD 4300) but I updated drivers which seemed o do the trick but when I authenticate at the login screen it just crashes. With Starcraft II it breaks while starting up. I have been through the Wine AppDB but it didn’t help.
Not sure if there is anything I have missed. If you can think of suggestions or known errors. I would hate to have to dual boot and run Linux Mint just for my games.
If you need any information from my side just shout.
Thanks in advance.
P.S. If anyone know of how I could get Steam working in Linux please let me know. I have no hope of them releasing a native linux client anytime soon.
For WoW you must add the line SET gxAPI “OpenGL” on the Config.wtf
file inside the WTF directory on your WoW install directory
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Nope never tired them. Also MMO’s or just RPG’s? But the problem with changing is that I belong to a guild that does raiding and I’ve spent way too many hours into this game to just change. But I wouldn’t mind giving those games a try.
Just an update… Last night I tried it on my desktop computer (Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66 CPU, 4 gigs RAM and nVidia 9600GT. Updated to Kernel 2.6.35 and re-installed nvidia drivers from the repo’s. Still breaks on the same spot.
There is a WoW forum, and Wine AppDB thread on this issue. This issue isnt a opensuse issue, nor is it a WoW or Wine issue. The problem lies in the kernel. As far as in know WoW wont run on any kernel version higher than 2.6.32, unless you patch your kernel. Ive been looking for what the smartest solution for me to play is, but ATM Im just spinning my wheels. I suppose the best way to fix this is to either use a older kernel version or, compile your own kernel with the patch. Id check out the AppDB at Wine HQ.
I’m playing wow in openSUSE from the 11.2 version. It worked with both radeon and fglrx ati video drivers.
The only issue I found is that I have to run it with opengl (wine Wow.exe -opengl) as otherwise system get freeze.
About SC2 I successfully installed and run it but can’t play just because of video glitch.
Yes it is a kernel issue which is why I tried updating it hoping for that to resolve the issue. I have checked the wine forums and they’re still trying to find a solution. I installed linux mint on my file server and slapped in a spare GFX card so I’ll play WoW on there until it can get sorted on openSUSE. Thanks for the feedback guys.
Its a x86 kernel issue, with the x86_64 version the WoW works perfectly
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