WoW problem, probably Wine's fault

Question

Hello everyone, this is my problem:
Everything was normal till a week ago...
It first started with that I couldn't see any characters ingame, players nor NPC/mobs. Even the login screen was black-ish, I could only see glows: the twisting things in the portal part of the Dark Portal, and in the character screen the enchants on my weapons, everything else was pitch black.
When I logged in I could also only see the enchants, glows, heals, shadows from (N)PC's and so on.
Everything else was fine... but you can't game like that.
So I ran through an awful lot of fora and never realy found what I was searching for, so I tryed deleting my Cache, WTF and Interface folders. I ran WoW again, this time it was better, I could see the Login screen! BUT I noticed something different... But, the screen resolution was 800x600, and I also couldnt see the buildings and bridges in my sight, so I tried putting it back to 1280x1024. WoW froze. I forgot, I can't just edit my video settings. I killed WoW, put back my mods (the ApplyToForehead mod enables the use of video options ingame), and started it again. When I tried to edit my resolution, WoW froze again. I killed it, downloaded a new ApplyToForehead, no succes, I kept trying a few things but all didn't work.
Now i'm fed up with:
1. No buildings and bridges
2. 800x600 resolution
3. No sound (probs something wrong with Wine, although I didn't do nothing there :S)
4. Less FPS than I used to have..
I guess the problem's in wine, because it all started after the last update..
I'm open for all suggestions, save me from this mess...
Some of my PC specs:
Gforce 9550 GPU
512MB Ram
40GB Harddisk
1.8Ghz intel pentium 4 CPU
(It isn't my GPU, 'cause I know WoW can run fine with it, like it did a week ago..)

Answer 1

Have you upgraded your xorg ,nvidia driver.
Try to unload all of your addons.
Disable every hooks in Video section ingame.
I run Arch current and wow runs ok ,but not perfect under wine.
I'll play wow in opengl.(wine WoW.exe -opengl)
I don't do instance and raid in linux ,just grinding.
I had some of your problems earlier but don't rememer how i fixed it think it was when i used Cedega.
my config.wtf
SET locale "enGB"
SET timingTestError "0"
SET hwDetect "0"
SET gxResolution "1680x1050" might want to change this
SET gxRefresh "60"
SET gxMultisample "1"
SET gxMultisampleQuality "0.000000"
SET gxApi "opengl"
SET fullAlpha "1"
SET SmallCull "0.070000"
SET DistCull "500.000000"
SET trilinear "1"
SET farclip "417"
SET specular "1"
SET pixelShaders "1"
SET particleDensity "1.000000"
SET unitDrawDist "300.000000"
SET movie "0"
SET expansionMovie "0"
SET Gamma "0.800000"
SET readTOS "1"
SET readEULA "1"
SET realmList "eu.logon.worldofwarcraft.com"
SET realmName "Nordrassil"
SET gameTip "71"
SET uiScale "0.77999997138977"
SET useUiScale "1"
SET accountName "xxxxxx"
SET minimapZoom "0"
SET CombatLogRangeCreature "50"
SET scriptMemory "512000"
SET mouseSpeed "1.2000000476837"
SET cameraYawMoveSpeed "180"
SET cameraYawSmoothSpeed "180"
SET cameraSmoothStyle "0"
SET cameraDistanceMaxFactor "2"
SET cameraView "4"
SET M2UsePixelShaders "1"
SET anisotropic "8"
SET shadowLevel "0"
SET gxVSync "0"
SET MusicVolume "0.60000002384186"
SET SoundVolume "0.60000002384186"
SET MasterVolume "0.69999998807907"
SET EnableSoundWhenGameIsInBG "1"
SET AmbienceVolume "1"
SET guildMemberNotify "1"
SET UnitNamePlayerPVPTitle "0"
SET patchlist "eu.version.worldofwarcraft.com"
SET showToolsUI "1"
SET SoundNumChannels "128"
SET SoundZoneMusicNoDelay "1"
SET ShowTargetCastbar "1"
SET EnableErrorSpeech "0"
SET lod "1"
SET gxColorBits "24"
SET gxDepthBits "24"
SET coresDetected "2" might want to change this
SET readTerminationWithoutNotice "1"
SET Sound_MasterVolume "1"
SET Sound_SFXVolume "1"
SET Sound_MusicVolume "0.40000000596046"
SET Sound_AmbienceVolume "0.60000002384186"
SET checkAddonVersion "0"
SET weatherDensity "1"
SET readScanning "-1"
SET readContest "-1"
SET ChatMusicVolume "0.30000001192093"
SET ChatSoundVolume "0.40000000596046"
SET ChatAmbienceVolume "0.30000001192093"
SET Sound_EnableSFX "0"
SET Sound_EnableAmbience "0"
SET Sound_EnableMusic "0"
SET Sound_EnableAllSound "0"
SET OutboundChatVolume "1"
SET InboundChatVolume "1"
SET VoiceActivationSensitivity "0.40000003576279"
SET profanityFilter "0"
SET Sound_OutputDriverName ""
SET gxFixLag "1"
SET Sound_ListenerAtCharacter "0"
SET minimapInsideZoom "0"
SET gxCursor "0"
SET baseMip "1"
SET lastCharacterIndex "1"
Last edited by thorro (2007-11-13 20:06:10)