Please note. WoW version 1.11.x has now be superceded by Version 1.12.x

Wow today released version 1.12.x and as with each new release, a new AppDB page is created. Please post all new posts to http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=5606

Version 1.11.x is now obsolete and so therfore is this page. You will find all the HowTo, bug fixes etc on the 1.12.x page ( http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=5606 )

Wine 0.9.19 released, Wow still working unpatched for ATI 8500 series cards and higher.

Wow continues to work unpatched for ATI 8500 series & higher cards in opengl mode. It looks like the image corruption problem in D3D has still exists at least for me on Stormwind City, however the game sometimes crashes a couple of seconds after logging in. This may be specific to ATI hardware only.

So Wow still works best in opengl mode.

WINE NO LONGER NEEDS TO BE PATCHED FOR ATI 8500 series cards and higher.
Great news, As of wine V0.9.18, I've just confirmed wine no longer needs to be patched to work with Wow on ATI hardware in opengl mode. Specifically tested on ATI 9550.

Wow will work flawlessly with 0.9.18 in opengl mode except for some minor issues which are documented in the howto, troubleshotting & bugs list.

In Direct3D mode wow suffers from some video corruption which makes the game unplayable. [Noted on ATI hardware]

Nvidia users will still need to patch wine, see 'News' item below.

31/Jul/06-18:30UTC [NL]

NVIDIA USERS: PATCH FOR WINE 0.9.18
nVidia users need this patch to get WoW working correctly.
Save the patch in the Wine 0.9.18 directory, and apply it with 'patch -p1 < wow-patch-0.9.18.diff'. See the HOWTO a little further down on this page for more detailed instructions.

REPORT YOUR SUCCESS OR FAILURES!
If you are running ATI or Nvidia hardware then please post whether you can successfully run wow using wine V0.9.18 unpatched. If you are using Nvidia and it does not work unpatched, please post whether the patch mentioned above works for you.

Make sure you include your hardware details, i.e.

Linux Distribution = Suse 10.1
Wine version = 0.9.17
Graphics make/model/memory/driver version = ATI/9550/256MB/8.25.18
CPU model / CPU Memory = Pentium 4 3.0GHZ / 1GByte

28/JUL/06-15:40UTC [ANS]
28/JUL/06-10:05UTC [NL]

BLIZZARD RELEASE 1.11.2 PATCH

On the 12/July/2006 Blizzard released the minor patch 1.11.2. The patch appears to work fine. The only problem I had was with applying the patch. After you had loged in, a message would be displayed that said "Downloading xx%" The percentage would increment upto 100% then another message would appear that told you to restart wow. If you restarted wow, you would still be running 1.11.1 (version displayed bottom left of login screen). You would login and go through the whole process again.. and again..and again. The patch never gets applied......below is the solution.

Solution:
If this happens to you open up a console window and type

cd "/home/[yourlogin]/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft"
wine WoW-1.11.1.5462-to-1.11.2.5464-enGB-downloader.exe //(the filename may differ)

This should download the 5Mbyte patch over 5-15 minutes and automatically apply it. Restart wow & check the version number for 1.11.2 displayed bottom left of the login screen.

12/Jul/06-2055UTC [NL]

BLIZZARD RELEASE 1.11.1 PATCH

Today blizzard released the 1.11.1 minor patch just days after the 1.11.0 patch. Luckily (sigh of relief) there
don't appear to be any major problems. It's working ok with my ATI graphics card (8500 series & higher)
and looks like it's OK with Nvidia hardware too. There are issues with ATI FireGL & Intel graphics chipsets.
If you have wow successfully running with either the ATI FireGL or Intel graphics chipsets we would be
interested in hearing about any problems you had and how/if you resolved them.
See the 0.9.16 patch in the HowTO below for details regarding compatibility issues with ATI FireGL & Intel
graphics.

Please post a message to let me know if 1.11.1 is ok on your hardware or not.

Thanks [NL] 29/Jun/06 - updated 04/Jul/06 [NL]

NEW PATCH FIXES NVIDIA PROBLEMS

The "HOW-TO" has been updated with a new patch for wine 0.9.16 and Wow 1.11.0 that fixes the Nvidia
issues (see howto for problems that it fixes). This patch is also compatible with ATI 8500 series hardware.

Important: Please try this patch out and post a comment (with your hardware details) as regards whether
it worked succesfully for you or not. ( We especially want to hear from you if it worked, not just from people that have problems ).

Thanks [NL] 27/Jun/06

This Page is obsolete, please use the V1.12.x AppDB page

http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=5606

How to install wine so that World of Warcraft Works !

HowTo added : 17/Mar/2006, N.Law

Last Updated : 18/Aug/06 by N.Law

For a history of changes to this HowTo, see end of document

While we try to keep this HowTO as accurate & detailed as possible, there is always room for improvement.
If you spot any errors or would like to see additional sections added. Feel free to post a comment or
contact me at nlaw@naad.fsnet.co.uk

NOTE: Only nVidia users need to patch Wine. ATI users can use a normal Wine version as long as it is Wine 0.9.18 or higher

Scope

This how to describes how to install the latest copy of wine that works almost perfectly with World of
Warcraft. (see below for known deviations). It describes how to download the wine source archive, how to
apply the patch to Wine (only needed for nVidia users), how to compile and link the wine sources, download a couple of important
.dll files, initialise wine for the first time, make some mandatory changes to Wows Config.wtf file, check you
really are running 3D graphics drivers on your video card and finally run the game. References to the wine
source archive, patch file and dll files are all hyperlinks. Just click on them to download straight away.

Also before you start, read through the troubleshooting section at the end
of this howto, which lists some of the common problems that you may encounter.

Finaly, make sure you follow the procedure carefully as a single line missed out will mean your installlation
will not work properly with wow. if you find any errors please let either Nick, Julian or Alexander know.
[The WoW AppDB maintainers].

Mandatory Requirements

Because we are applying a patch to the source code of wine, the computer you are running this procedure
on needs to be setup so that all the necessary libaries / sources / headers that are required to compile wine
are available. By far the easiest method to use is to select the development option from your
distributions installer. For example if you are using the Suse distribution, use YAST and select the entire
development package to install. This takes care of all the dependencies required by wine.

If however you wanted to select the packages one by one, then the wine wiki has a list of all the libraries that
are required.

http://wiki.winehq.org/Recommended_Packages

http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit

But my recommendation is to do it the easy way and install all the development software from your
distribution.

Wine bz2 archives and the Wine Patches needed for WoW

This patch, only needed for nVidia users, will prevent WoW from crashing on startup if some shader effects are enabled, and will prevent WoW from crashing with minimap on inside buildings.

ATI 8500, 9500, 9550 series users do not need to download the patch or run the 'patch' command shown below. Just download the wine source i.e. wine-0.9.19.tar.bz2 then following the instructions ignoring the patch command.

To download the patch, see below.

Latest wine archive and patch

wine-0.9.19.tar.bz2 use patch wow-patch-0.9.19.diff (yes the patch file name 'wow-patch-0.9.18.diff' is correct)

Problems fixed by this patch and compatibility details are shown below.

• Fixes crash when entering or in buildings or city when minimap is displayed. (nvidia hardware)
  
• Fixes flickering display (nvidia hardware)
• Modifies ../dlls/x11drv/opengl.c which fixes the crash when the minimap is open in buildings.
  
• Modifies ../dlls/opengl32/wgl.c which fixes the flickering display.
• Compatible with the following graphics cards Nvidia and ATI 8500 series & higher
• Known compatibility issues. ATI Firegl ref. http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4561
• Known compatibility issues. Intel i810/i915. dual-TMU support error.
• Known compatibility issues with the following ATI cards. This is a problem with the ATI driver. Attempting to use 3D applications on Radeon 9000/9100/9200/9250 and FireGL 8x00 products fails to start and reports back something similar to “[fglrx] API ERROR: could not register entrypoint for SelectTextureSGIS”. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22639

Older Wine Archives and Patches

For reference, older versions of wine and the corresponding wow patch can be found below in the note 'Older
wine Archives and Patches.

Applying patches to Wine, compiling and Installing

This procedure assumes you are downloading Wine version 0.9.18 and the corresponding patch from the
hyperlinks above. It also assume you have the gcc development environment installed, this is standard
on most if not all Linux distributions.

First check gcc is installed, this displays the version number of gcc, for instance on my system it displays
gcc (GCC) 3.3.5 20050117 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux), what version it displays is not important just as long
as it displays something, rather than any file not found messages.

> gcc --version

Next you need to download and install wine from a source archive and compile and link it.
Here is how you do it..

To start, login in as a normal user, not root. (You will need to be root when you enter the
"make install" command later)

-Download your wine source archive (see the download links above) and save it somwhere. For the
purposes of this explanation I will use /home/[yourlogin]/downloads/wine

> cd /home/[yourlogin]/downloads/wine // change to directory

> tar -xvjf wine-0.9.19.tar.bz2 // extract the source from the archive, this will create the directory
/home/[yourlogin]/downloads/wine/wine-0.9.18

> cd /home/[yourlogin]/downloads/wine/wine-0.9.19 // change to directory

- Download the appropriate "wow-patch" patch depending on which version of Wine you are
installing(see download links above) and copy it to /home/[yourlogin]/downloads/wine/wine-0.9.18/
(Important ! Where you copy the patch is important it should be in the same directory
as the extracted wine-0.9.19)

Use the appropriate name for the patch file in the command below i.e
use "wow-patch-0.9.18.diff" if installing Wine version 0.9.18 or 0.9.19
use "wow.new.patch.preloader.and.mmap.0.9.12" if installing wine version 0.9.12
use "wow.new.patch" if your installing wine version 0.9.9 & 0.9.10
use "wow.new.patch.0.9.11" if you are installing wine version 0.9.11
use "wow.new.patch.0.9.13-1" if you are installing wine version 0.9.13, 0.9.14, 0.9.15,
use "wow_patch_0.9.16.diff" if you are installing wine version 0.9.16 or 0.9.17

We are installing wine V0.9.18, so this is the command to use

> patch -p1 < wow-patch-0.9.18.diff

If it complains about not being able to find files makesure you have the patch in the correct directory as
described above and check you have actually unpacked the source... look for the mmap.c file etc..

This is the output it should produce if it finds the files it needs to patch...

patching file dlls/opengl32/wgl.c
patching file dlls/winex11.drv/opengl.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 623 (offset 16 lines).

then compile & link wine as follows ..

> cd /home/[yourlogin]/downloads/wine/wine-0.9.19

> ./configure
// always check the last few lines of the ./configure output for missing dependencies errors etc.
// If configure reports any problems then in most cases you will need to resolve the problem reported
// before continuing with the installation. With the release of 0.9.12 configure may complain about a
// couple of missing font programs. I tried installing these but whether you really need them I don't know.

> make depend

> make // Time to make a coffee

The next command requires root privileges. Although you should never run Wine as root, you will need to install it this way.

> su
then enter the root password

# make install

Exit superuser or root, then type ...

> winecfg // Run the wine configuration tool in order to create the .wine directory in your home
directory. The .wine directory contains the "drive_c" directory and its subdirectories "Program Files",
"Windows" etc ... If .wine already exists, then that is ok, it will not delete any of the existing contents
i.e. your already installed wow installation or other windows programs will not get deleted.

Also, if your fonts in winecfg look a bit small and strange compared to how they would look under windows
copy the windows font files into /home/name/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts. This will make
a big improvement to this and other applications.

You can also set whether you run wow in a virtual desktop on top of your actual desktop. ( My preference ).

If wine crashes when you run wincfg and you have a ATI FireGL graphics card, this is a known problem,
ref. http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4561

> wine --version // This command reports the version of wine, it should match the version you just installed.
If it does not match the version you think you installed, you have done something wrong. See if you can figure
out what went wrong. If you can't figure out what went wrong, just start again from the beginning.

DLL Files

The following DLL file is required. Click on the name below in order to download it,
then unzip it and place it in the following directory ...
/home/[your login]/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/

mfc42.dll

You may also need to install riched20.dll and riched32.dll in
/home/[your login]/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32
if experience the wow installer crashing when you click on the "Install Wow" button.
(See troubleshooting for further information)

riched20.dll

Installing WoW

The installation is hopefully quite straightforward, but varies slightly between distrubutions. See the HOWTO -
WoW Installation" on this page for how installation works on SuSE. The installation procedure that follows
should hopefully work on your system, if not take a look at the way installation works on a SuSe system. The
procedure below assumes your CD mountpoint is /mnt/cdrom, substitute it with what it is on your system.

# cd /mnt

Insert the first CD

# mount cdrom

# wine cdrom/installer

Start the installation. When it wants the next CD, do the following

# umount cdrom

Insert next CD

# mount cdrom

Press the OK/Continue button

WoW Configuration 
Do not forget to apply the following settings to ../.wine/drive_c/Program Files/World of
Warcraft/WTF/Config.wtf otherwise you may not get any or stuttering sound!
SET gxApi "opengl" //forces wow to run in opengl without having to append --opengl to wow.exe
SET ffxDeath "0"
 
If you experience stuttering, bad sound or no sound what so ever, then add the following options as well. 

SET SoundOutputSystem "1"
SET SoundBufferSize "150"
or
SET SoundBufferSize "232"     
on seems to work better with this card
# lspci |grep Multimedia
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC97 Audio Controller (rev 03)


3D Acceleration
# glxinfo | grep rendering 	// And finally maksure you really do have a working 3D graphics card driver.
If it says that you do not have direct rendering, you need to install and activate the appropriate drivers for
your graphics card.


Starting WoW     
If everything has worked so far, try playing the game ... (note the different command if you are using
Fedora Core 5 )
# cd "/home/[yourlogin]/.wine/drive_c/Program File/World of Warcraft" 
For most distributions (other than Fedora Core 5 ) use this command to start Wow ...
# wine WoW.exe   // you will not need to use the -opengl suffix with our Config.wtf (although you can if want to)
however if you are using Fedora Core 5 then use this command ..   
# setarch i386 -L wine WoW.exe -opengl
If you find that your login screen is upside down, your not running in opengl mode, then review the section
above regarding modifying config.wtf. Did you forget to add the opengl line to config.wtf ?
After you login does wow appear to hang ?, then review the troubleshooting section below, specifically
regarding changing the permissions of Survey.mpq
    
Additional Notes regarding deviations:
Abbreviations
SP = Stops Play
mPC = Prevents configuration but the game is still very playable. 
MPC = Prevents configuration but introduces limitations to make the game difficult to play.
Co = Cosmetic - Nice if it worked but not important as regards playing the game.
Deviation #1
(mPC)  Changing video setting in game has been reported as crashing the game. (Details required)
Deviation #2
(SP, intermittent) The wow backgrounddownloader.exe window pops up in front of the main WoW
screen, from time to time. If you click cancel then you main Wow window goes black and you have
to kill the task, [Cntrl][alt][esc] and then click left on the window (works on Suse, do not know about
other distributions). This problem occurs in virtual window mode and in full-screen.
One solution is to just move the Backgrounddownloader.exe window out of the way and forget about it.
Deviation #3
Shadows may not be displayed correctly in opengl, reported by Brad Murray [ ATI 9700 ]

Troubleshooting - common errors and their solutions.

This section lists many of the common problems you might encounter while
compiling & patching wine and installing & running WoW. So if you know of a problem & solution
let us know and we will put it here.

Problem #1 - opengl32 not found when running wow.exe

You installed the patch,compiled and installed wine & wow then when you try to run wow you get the
following error message which may also mention glu32 as well as opengl32 not being found:

guest@linux:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft> wine wow.exe

err:module:import_dll Library OPENGL32.dll (which is needed by L"C:Program Files/World of
Warcraft/wow.exe") not found err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:/Program
Files/World of Warcraft/wow.exe" failed, status c0000135

Solution : check that /usr/local/lib/wine/opengl32.dll.so has ownership of root:root and permissions
-rwxr-xr-x, if it does not then you may have not been super user when you ran the "make install" command.
become superuser and repeat the make install command as shown in the howto. Do not just change the
ownership/permissions of opengl32.dll.so as probably all the other files are wrong too, so do a make install.

Problem #2 - Wow appears to hang when downloading dialog pops up on screen

This problem is caused by the Survey.mpq file, the solution is to give it write permissions.
In the majority of cases this should be sufficient to correct the problem, however
for some people (myself included) simply deleting it has worked. So the advice is, FIRST try changing
the permissions as described below, and then only if this does not work (if almost certainly will work), then try
deleting it. It has been reported that if you delete Survey.mpq, wow simply creates it again and you have
the same problem, hence why you should try changing the permissions first.

cd /home/[yourlogin]/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft/WDB
chmod ugo -w Survey.mpq

if chmod for some reason did not work, then try
rm Survey.mpq

Problem #3 - When installing WoW, clicking on the "Install World of Warcraft" button
causes the Wow installer to crash.

To fix the Wow installer from crashing when you click on the "Install World of Warcraft" button
just download these two dlls (riched20.dll and riched32.dll) into
/home/[your login]/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32

You will also need to add riched20 and riched32 to the dll overide section on the Libraries tab in wincfg.
Select native then builtin for each of these. You may only need to have these overides in place while you
install the game. Although I have both these files in my system32 folder I do not have any overides set for
playing the game. [Nick]

riched20.dll

Problem #4 When I start WoW it minimises to an icon in the bottom left of the screen.

You are probably clicking on the OK button when the Blizzard Downloader Dialoge appears. Don't click on either OK or Cancel. Just leave it alone, the Blizzard Downloader will disappear of its own accord. If you do click OK on the Blizzard Downloader screen Wow will start but will be minimised to an icon on thebottom left of the screen. In this situation just double click the icon to restore it to full screen or full screen within the virtual desktop, if that's the mode you are in.

Problem #5 - Wow won't start, displays error message X Error of failed request: BadWindow (detail below)

ATI 9550 driver 8.26.18 ( may or maynot be hardware specific, unknown at this time)

X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 3 (X_GetWindowAttributes)
Resource id in failed request: 0x3c00007
Serial number of failed request: 361
Current serial number in output stream: 362

Solution :
Exit all x-windows sessions and login back into your x-windows
session then try wow again. It should work.

Problem #6 - Wow crashes even though the patch above has been applied

If wow crashes each time your character moves from outdoors to indoors, even though the patch above
was applied, then try disabling double buffering. Unchecking "Enable desktop double buffering"
under the "Graphics" tab in winecfg. It has been reported that this solved the problem.

Alternatively try using the linux minimap add-on, possible compatibility issue with XGL. Thanks to Brad Murray

Problem #7 - Error #134, "Unable to associate local address with socket: The socket is already bound to an address, or the parameter is a listening socket".

You need to make sure your loopback interface is up, by running "ifconfig lo up" or "sudo ifconfig lo up" thanks
to Brad Murray for highlighting this problem.

HowTo History of Changes

18/Aug/06 by N.Law
Corrected some typo's, specically wine version numbers in the howto were not all updated to 0.9.19.

15/Aug/06 by N.Law
Change the links to the wine source to 0.9.19 & patch 0.9.19 (still actually Alexander's 0.9.18.diff patch)

09/Aug/06 by Alexander N. Sørnes
Change the HOWTO to reflect that the patch is not needed by nVidia users, and that it does not modify memory management.

18/Jul/06 By Nick Law
Added mention that no sound can also be caused by the SET SoundBufferSize = "xxx" being set to 100 rather
then 150.

12/Jul/06 By Nick Law
Added problem/solution #7 - Error #134, "Unable to associate local address with socket:

10/Jul/06 By Nick Law
Added Problem/solution #6 - Wow crashes even though the patch above has been applied.
Added wine version 0.9.17 to the howto.

09/Jul/06 By Nick Law
Added problem/solution #5 X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)

06/Jul/06 By Nick Law
Corrected procedure, changed cd /home/[yourlogin]/downloads/wine-0.9.16 to
cd /home/[yourlogin]/downloads/wine/wine-0.9.16, thanks Michael Jaffe

03/Jul/06 By Nick Law
Corrected procedure, run winecfg to create home/[yourlogin]/.wine directory, thanks to Michael Jaffe
for spotting the error.

29/Jun/06 By Nick Law
Added exact wording of the output that the patch program generates when it patches wine. Added trobleshooting #4 - Wow minimised to an icon on startup.

I also removed the following from the 'note', I want to keep it in the history just for reference.
The problem can be avoided with other Wine versions by doing the following
edit WTF/Config.wtf and change SET pixelShaders "1" to SET pixelShaders "0"
This option is the same as the in-game 'Enable all shader effects' option.
If WoW then crashes when entering a building, either hide the minimap or download this plug-in that hides it automatically when
entering a building. Place the 'Linux_Minimap' folder that the zip file contains into WoWs 'Interface/AddOns' directory'.
When you log-in, you will need to press the Addons button in the bottom left corner and enable this add-on (WoW will state
that it is out of date). (Updated 2006-06-23 16:00 CET by Alexander N. Sørnes)

27/Jun/06 By Nick Law
Added new 0.9.16 patch that fixes that problems for Nvidia hardware introduced by the WoW 1.11.0 patch.
Also simplified the procedure regarding applying the patch, i.e. removed the "mv wine.0.9.x wine" command
and used the -p1 option with patch instead of -p0. Note the patch should now be placed into the wine-0.9.x
directory and not where the tar file is located.

22/Jun/06 By Nick Law
Added 0.9.16 source & patch, changing text accordingly.

18/Jun/06 By Nick Law
Changes to howto re. survey.mpq. Added Mandatory Requirements section, i.e. making sure you have
the necessary development packages installed.

14/Jun/06 by Nick Law
Added downloader causing wow to hang to troubleshooting
Added Installer crashing to the troubleshooting section.

09/Jun/06 by Nick Law
Added 0.9.15 source & patch, changing text accordingly.

01/June/06 by Nick Law
Added different start command for Fedora Core 5.

30/May/06 by Nick Law
Check that gcc installed, made minor grammatical changes to text.

25/May/06 by Nick Law
Added the patch for 0.9.14 and updated the text to reflect the change. It is actually just the 0.9.13 patch

19/May/06 by Nick Law
Added the patch for 0.9.13 and updated the text to reflect the change.

08/May/06 by Nick Law
Added a comment to always check the last few lines of the ./configure output for missing dependencies etc.

21/Apr/06 by Alexander N. Sørnes
Simpified Wine extraction (-j option to tar instead of using bunzip2), changed "system" to "system32", as
"system" is win9x and "system32" is win2k (which Wine normally runs as). Also confirmed that the pop-up
window occurs in full-screen mode, and that it is not a problem with Wines new window code.

14/Apr/06 Nick Law
Added a new patch for 0.9.12, This patch is the same as the patch for 0.9.11 but without the opengl
changes. The patch for 0.9.12 makes changes to just two files, those being mmap.c and preloader.c
both these patches are required to correct the targeting issue. If you run wine without these patches
when you click on another player or non player character (NPC) they will not be targetted. The
preloader and mmap patches fix these issues. Tried to simplify the installation process by
removing much of the comments about 0.9.9 etc

06/Apr/06 Nick Law
Moved installation of DLL from after Wow installation to before, changed location that DLL should
be copied to as ../drive_c/windows/system and not system32, and note about disabling exec-shield
in Fedora.

05/Apr/06 by Nick Law
Added a know deviation (Backgrounddownloader.exe). Moved Howto history to end of document,
with last updated at the beginning.

04/Apr/2006 by Nick Law
Corrections to typos, layout change re downloads.

03/Apr/2006 by Nick Law - Added HOWTO on installation of WoW under SuSE. Made reference to the
HOWTO on installation of wow in the main wine installation/patch procedure.

31/Mar/2006 by Nick Law - Changed hyperlink from downloading 0.9.9 to download 0.9.10

30/Mar/2006 by Alexander N. Sørnes - Removed msvcp60.dll, since it does not seem to be required.

28/Mar/2006 by Alexander N. Sørnes - Make the sound configuration changes optional, as it works
out-of-the-box for some cards/drivers.

27/Mar/2006 by Julian Kinne - Minor Changes in "Finishing" Part and Links. It does not matter what
type of win os you choose and virtual mode is not needed cause of ingame function for "windowed" mode.

26/Mar/2006 by Alexander N. Sørnes - fixed dead link for msvcp60, added installation instructions and
removed note about cinematics button not working as it works fine. Also added an easier method for
detecting direct rendering. Some changes to the layout.

Edited : 22/Mar/2006 by N.Law - applied hyperlinks for all downloads, added wine initialisation lines, added
additional mv commands and details about using wine 0.9.10 as opposed to 0.9.9. removed all the stuff
about 0.9.10 breaking wow if you have an ATI card. It Works just fine whether you have Nvidia or ATI.

Edited : 19/Mar/2006 by N.Law - added info re msvcp60.dll & mfc42.dll and minor change to example
path,addition of reference to wow v1.9.4, notes regarding deviations.

Keywords : Installation of WoW on Linux wine World of Warcraft

Installation Procedure for World of Warcraft - Distribution Specific.

Added 03/Apr/2006 by Nick Law

Note Please add other distributions to this as required.

Scope

This HOWTO describes how to install the World of Warcraft installation CD's. Before you do this you must have
a fully working and patched copy of wine loaded. If you don't have wine loaded, i.e. typing wine --version does
not show the revision number then you must first succesfully complete the wine & patch installation procedure
above.

One other important note. Make Sure you CD's are really clean, no bits of pizza, coffee stains, spit etc. If the
installation fails with an unreadable file error because the CD is dirty (it doesn't take much dirt to make it fail)
then you will have to start right friom the beginning with disc 1 again, which will be really annoying if you
happen to be on CD 5 when it fails.

MAKESURE THOSE WoW CD's are clean !

SuSE 9.3 (may also apply to earlier & later versions of SuSE)

This HOWTO was written because the installation under SuSe 9.3 (and maybe 10, although untested)
can be problematic, due mainly to the fact that the O.S. mounts the CD automatically but sometimes it
mounts the Macintosh part of the CD rather than the windows. In addition the procedure includes adding an
entry to fstab so you can use the command mount /dev/cdrom. Also VERY important is to wait 20-30 seconds
after inserting the CD for the MAC directory to mount then you MUST unmount the MAC directory and
manualy mounting the windows part of the CD using the standard mount /dev/cdrom command .....

So here we go ..

Put the following entry in /etc/fstab if it doesn't already exist.
(It doesn't exist on SuSE 9.3 esopecially if you only have a dvd recorder)
/dev/cdrom        /media/cdrom      subfs   noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,user,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0

Next we need to change the d: drive assignments under wine so that it points to /media/cdrom
rather than /media/dvdrecorder. If yours already assigns d: -> /dev/cdrom then jump to inserting
the first CD

# cd /media
# ls 	// Does a /dev/cdrom directory already exist if yes skip to ~~ disc 1 ~~
# cd /home/[yourlogin]/.wine/dosdevices
# rm d:
# ln -s /media/cdrom d:
# rm d::
# ln -s /dev/cdrom d::

~~ DISC 1 ~~
Insert the First CD - Suse will auto mount the MAC part of the disc after 15-30 seconds,
which means we have to umount it before we can mount the Windows part
# cd /media
# ls		// Wait 15-30 seconds and repeat ls until /media/World_of_Warcraft_Disc_1
		// to appears, if it doesn't jump to the mount commmand
# umount /media/World_of_Warcraft_Disc_1
# mount /dev/cdrom

Using Konqueror navigate to /media/cdrom and click on the Installer.exe file.

or alternatively ..

# wine /media/cdrom/Installer.exe

The WoW installation should start, when it asks you whether you agree to the license click
agree (even though the license text may be unreadable characters). When it asks you if you
want to install DirectX I personally select "No, Just Continue Installation". Although you
can load it if you want although. We don't actually need it for running WOW, as we use OpenGL.

~~ DISC 2 ~~
When the installation dialogue appears which says "Please insert the CD labelled
"World of Warcraft Disc2" in the konsole window type
# cd /media
# umount /dev/cdrom
# eject cdrom
Insert the second disk and wait a few seconds for the system to automount the MAC
directory, which you will see as /media/World_of_Warcraft_Disc_2

# ls		// Wait 15-30 seconds and repeat ls until /media/World_of_Warcraft_Disc_2
		//to appears, if it doesn't jump to the mount commmand
# umount /media/World_of_Warcraft_Disc_2
# mount /dev/cdrom
Click on the OK button to proceed with the installation

~~ DISK 3 ~~
When the installation dialogue appears which says "Please insert the CD labelled
"World of Warcraft Disc3" in the konsole window type

# cd /media
# umount /dev/cdrom
# eject cdrom

Insert the second disk and wait a few seconds for the system to automount the MAC directory,
which you will see as /media/World_of_Warcraft_Disc_3

# ls		// Wait 15-30 seconds and repeat ls until /media/World_of_Warcraft_Disc_3
		// to appears, if it doesn't jump to the mount commmand
# umount /media/World_of_Warcraft_Disc_3
# mount /dev/cdrom

Click on the OK button to proceed with the installation

~~ DISK 4 ~~
When the installation dialogue appears which says "Please insert the CD labelled
"World of Warcraft Disc4" in the konsole window type

# cd /media
# umount /dev/cdrom
# eject cdrom

Insert the second disk and wait a few seconds for the system to automount the MAC directory,
which you will see as /media/World_of_Warcraft_Disc_4

# ls		// Wait 15-30 seconds and repeat ls until /media/World_of_Warcraft_Disc_4 to
		// appears, if it doesn't jump to the mount commmand
# umount /media/World_of_Warcraft_Disc_4
# mount /dev/cdrom

Click on the OK button to proceed with the installation

~~ DISK 5 ~~
When the installation dialogue appears which says "Please insert the CD labelled
"World of Warcraft Disc5" in the konsole window type

# cd /media
# umount /dev/cdrom
# eject cdrom

Insert the second disk and wait a few seconds for the system to automount the MAC directory,
which you will see as /media/World_of_Warcraft_Disc_5

# ls		// Wait 15-30 seconds and repeat ls until /media/World_of_Warcraft_Disc_5
		// to appears, if it doesn't jump to the mount commmand
# umount /media/World_of_Warcraft_Disc_5
# mount /dev/cdrom

Click on the OK button to proceed with the installation

When you start to login and depending upon the version of discs you are using the World
of Warcraft server will start to download patches, once one patch is downloaded and you
login again another may be downloaded, this may keep repeating until all the patches have
been downloaded and applied, some people think it has got stuck in a loop, but just note
the patch version numbers and you will see it is appying incremental patches each with a
different version number.

Troubleshooting

1. If the /dev/cdrom directory aoppears to be empty, check you have umount
/media/World_of_Warcraft_Disc_X (where x is disk 1,2,3 or 4). If yes, then reboot system and
start the installation again. If you don't umount the /media/World_of_Warcraft_Disc_X directory
then your mount /dev/cdrom will appear to mount withour error, however when you check the contents
of /dev/cdrom it will be empty. So it's important to umount /media/World_of_Warcraft_Disc_X at
the appropriate point

2. If you get any disc errors or messages about corrupt files on the CD, makesure you CD is very
clean (no pizza on it) and unfortunately you will have to start the installation from CD 1 again.!

3. If umount fails, makesure you have not cd'ed into the the particular directory you are trying
to umount, or looking at it's contents using a filemanager.

The Maintainers use the following systems to test
the latest version of wine with WoW

~~ Nick Law ~~

System #1
Distribution: SuSe 9.3
CPU: Pentium 4 3.0GHz
CPU Memory: 1Gbyte
Video Card: ATI 9550 256 MByte
Video Driver: ATI 8.25.18
Comments:C

System #2
Distribution: SuSe 9.3
CPU: Pentium 4 3.0GHz
CPU Memory: 1Gbyte
Video Card: ATI 9550 256Mbyte
Video Driver: ATI 8.25.18
Comments: R

~~ Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes ~~

System #1
Distribution: Gentoo Linux
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz
CPU Memory: 1 GB
Video Card: nVidia GeForce 6600 GT 256 MB
Video Driver: 1.0-8762
Comments: Runs fine with all graphics settings set to max at 1600x1200

System #2
Distribution: Gentoo Linux
CPU: Intel Celeron 2.8 GHz
CPU Memory: 512 MB
Video Card: nVidia GeForce FX 5500 128 MB
Video Driver: 1.0-8762
Comments:

~~ Julian Kinne ~~

System #1
Distribution: Gentoo Linux
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3700+
CPU Memory: 2GB
Video Card: GeForce 7800GT 256MB
Video Driver: 1.0.8762
Comments: Working fine with every graphic setting to max and using patch (see HowTo)

~~ Asheron ~~

System #1
Distribution: Gentoo Linux
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 2800+
CPU Memory: 1GB
Video Card: mx440
Video Driver: 1.0.8762 (unstable)
Comments:

Older wine archives and patches

For your convenience here are links to recent wine archives and their patches should you want to use an older
version of wine. All these patches modify preloader.c and mmap.c in order to fix the targeting bug, while
the older patches also modify opengl.c and wgl.c. as does do the versions 0.9.16 and 0.9.17

wine-0.9.18.tar.bz2 use patch wow-patch-0.9.18.diff

Problems fixed by this patch and compatibility details are shown below.

• Fixes crash when entering or in buildings or city when minimap is displayed. (nvidia hardware)
  
• Fixes flickering display (nvidia hardware)
• Modifies ../dlls/x11drv/opengl.c which fixes the crash when the minimap is open in buildings.
  
• Modifies ../dlls/opengl32/wgl.c which fixes the flickering display.
• Compatible with the following graphics cards Nvidia and ATI 8500 series & higher
• Known compatibility issues. ATI Firegl ref. http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4561
• Known compatibility issues. Intel i810/i915. dual-TMU support error.
• Known compatibility issues with the following ATI cards. This is a problem with the ATI driver. Attempting to use 3D applications on Radeon 9000/9100/9200/9250 and FireGL 8x00 products fails to start and reports back something similar to “[fglrx] API ERROR: could not register entrypoint for SelectTextureSGIS”. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22639

wine-0.9.16.tar.bz2 use patch wow.new.patch.0.9.16

The patch for 0.9.16 (and Wow 1.11.x) fixes the following problems for Nvidia users.

• Fixes crash when entering or in buildings or city when minimap is displayed. (nvidia hardware)
  
• Fixes flickering display (nvidia hardware)
• Fixes memory layout so targetting works.
• Modifies ../libs/wine/mmap.c, and ../loader/preloader.c which fixes the targetting bug.
  
• Modifies ../dlls/x11drv/opengl.c which fixes the crash when the minimap is open in buildings.
  
• Modifies ../dlls/opengl32/wgl.c which fixes the flickering display.
• Compatible with the following graphics cards Nvidia and ATI 8500 series & higher
• Known compatibility issues. ATI Firegl ref. http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4561
• Known compatibility issues. Intel i810/i915. dual-TMU support error.
• Known compatibility issues with the following ATI cards. This is a problem with the ATI driver. Attempting to use 3D applications on Radeon 9000/9100/9200/9250 and FireGL 8x00 products fails to start and reports back something similar to “[fglrx] API ERROR: could not register entrypoint for SelectTextureSGIS”. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22639

patching file dlls/opengl32/wgl.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 589 (offset -1 lines).
patching file dlls/winex11.drv/opengl.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 554 (offset -53 lines).
patching file libs/wine/mmap.c
patching file loader/preloader.c

wine-0.9.15.tar.bz2 use patch wow.new.patch.0.9.15
Since the WoW update to 1.11.x 0.9.15 & it's patch no longer work for Nvidia hardware. Wow crashes with
badmatch errors. However 0.9.15 and it's patch work ok on ATI hardware. Modifies ../libs/wine/mmap.c and
../loader/preloader.c

wine-0.9.14.tar.bz2 use patch wow.new.patch.0.9.14
Since the WoW update to 1.11.x 0.9.14 & it's patch no longer work for Nvidia hardware. Wow crashes with
badmatch errors. However 0.9.14 and it's patch work ok on ATI hardware. Modifies ../libs/wine/mmap.c and
../loader/preloader.c

wine-0.9.13.tar.bz2 use patch wow.new.patch.0.9.13-1
Since the WoW update to 1.11.x 0.9.13 & it's patch no longer work for Nvidia hardware. Wow crashes with
badmatch errors. However 0.9.13 and it's patch work ok on ATI hardware. Modifies ../libs/wine/mmap.c and
../loader/preloader.c

wine-0.9.12.tar.bz2 use patch wow.new.patch.0.9.12
Since the WoW update to 1.11.x 0.9.12 & it's patch no longer work for Nvidia hardware. Wow crashes with
badmatch errors. However 0.9.12 and it's patch work ok on ATI hardware. Modifies ../libs/wine/mmap.c and
../loader/preloader.c

wine-0.9.11.tar.bz2 use patch wow.new.patch.0.9.11
Since the WoW update to 1.11.x 0.9.11 & it's patch no longer work for Nvidia hardware. Wow crashes with
badmatch errors. However 0.9.11 and it's patch work ok on ATI hardware. Modifies ../libs/wine/mmap.c and
../loader/preloader.c

Installing wine (gentoo)

Just emerge the latest version of wine.

emerge -va wine

Once you have wine installed, go back to your user, and run setup wine by using:

winecfg

Here you will want to setup wine with common options, ensure that you drives are mapped properly, setup your sound and any other items.

Additional Items

When wine is done installing, we need to install some more stuff, to get WoW to work. To be specific, we need to get ActiveX support, to be able to use the new patch system, and some DLLs.

Installing Active X for the new Patchsystem

The new patch system Blizzard is using requires you to have Active X controls installed. As these are normally only a feature of Internet Explorer, you won't have that installed right away. To get them, we need a windows version of the Mozilla browser, and some Active X controls for it.

You can find the Mozilla browser for download at this location: Mozilla download page (and remember, we want the WINDOWS version!)
The Mozilla Active X controls are available here: Mozilla Active X Control.

Save these to your fake windows directory (usually ~/.wine/drive_c) for now.

If you are getting the message about the layout libraries not being found you need to get this file:

You will need these two dlls to get Active X to work, these can be downloaded from here:

msvcp60.dll
mfc42.dll

 or from http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/runtime60.zip 

Save them somewhere "windows" can find it. into your ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 directory.

Once the dlls are in the right place, we can install the windows Mozilla Version. Make sure you're in the right directory, and run this command:

wine mozilla-win32-1.7.12-installer.exe

Go through the install process, which should go fine. After that, install the Mozilla Active X components the same way. (This link valid as of 28Apr2006, Source http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/control.htm)

regsvr32 ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Common\ Files/mozilla.org/GRE/1.7.12_2005091517/mozctlx.dll

If you have any issues with installing Mozilla or Active X, run winecfg, and set your windows version to windows 95.

Now we should be all set to start installing WoW!

Optional addition to ActiveX

Here is an alternative method of installing ActiveX directly from Micrsoft. It can be downloaded here - Microsoft Knowledge Base Article Q259403

Please read their License agreement on these files before continuing.

wine vc6redistsetup_enu.exe

Select a temp directory to extract to, it will create another exe.

wine vcredist.exe

Should install the needed dlls into the system directory for you.

Installing WoW

Installation of WoW is pretty straight forward. Some people have had problems with reading all the files off the CDs and find it easier to copy the files locally before attempting the install. Both options are covered here.

Normal CD Installation

To be able to install WoW from CD you need to launch the wine configuration utility first.

winecfg

Once you've done that switch to the "Drives" tab. Click on "Add" to create a new drive and write down the drive letter somewhere, you'll need it later. Now highlight your newly created drive entry and expand the info by clicking on "Show Advanced". Now enter the path of your CDROM's mountpoint in the "Path" field and select CDROM as "Type". Finish the setup by pressing the "Apply" button and then exit the configuration utility by pressing "OK". Insert the first WoW disk and mount your CD. Then open a Console and type in the command to launch the install.

wine d:\installer.exe

Where d:\ is only a example. You have to replace the "d" with the drive letter you assigned during the wine configuration. If you're asked to insert the second CD simply unmount your CDROM, insert the second one and go on with the WoW install - it will recognize the CD's properly now.

Alternative Copying from the CD First

If you have difficulty installing directly from the CD, this option should work for just about everyone.

Well, basically, the files we need are the Installer Tome #.mpq files and the installer program. So, create a directory for your installation files(I called it WoWinstall, but you can call it whatever you want), pop your first CD in and mount it. Then copy the entire contents of that CD into your WoWinstall folder, like this (these are the folders I used, you have to use your own, of course):

cp -R /mnt/cdrom/* WoWinstall/

This will take some time, as it usually does when you're copying the entire contents of a full CD. When that is done, unmount the drive, pop CD 2 in, mount it, and copy the file Installer Tome 2.mpq into your WoWinstall directory, remembering to enclose it in quotes, the avoid the problems with spaces. Like this:

cp "/mnt/cdrom/Installer Tome 2.mpq" WoWinstall/

Alternately, just be sure to replace spaces in filenames with the escape character for space, "\ " (that's a backslash followed by a space). Also, to watch the progress, add -g. For example:

cp -g /mnt/cdrom/Installer\ Tome\ 2.mpq WoWinstall/

When that is done, repeat for CDs 3, 4, and 5, replacing the number with the one one on the CD, and you should be all set to start the installation!

Actually installing WoW

Now, we need to go into the WoWinstall directory, and run the installer program(through wine!), simply done as this:

 cd WoWinstall/
 wine Installer.exe

I got an error message about not enough RAM, but that might be because I have JUST enough RAM in my machine to meet the requirements(but not for long). Even if you DO get it, ignoring it worked just fine for me. Just go through the installer in a usual fashion(ignoring the fact that you can't read the EULA... ;p), and decline when you're asked to install Direct X.

Go grab something to eat, go watch TV or whatever while it's installing, as it can take some time. When it's done, we need to update to the newest WoW version. =)

Updating WoW

Now we need to start WoW to start the updating process, this is done by going into the directory where you installed WoW (probably ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft), and run this command:

wine WoW.exe -opengl

When you run that and log in, the updater should start downloading the patch. For most people, this should work just fine, but if it's going really slow, you can note the filename of the patch, search for it on Google and download it from there(preferrably into the World of Warcraft directory). Both methods achieve the same thing, getting the WoW patch downloaded and onto your drive.

When it is done downloading, exit out of the updater(if it doesn't bail out by itself). After this, we need to run the patcher program you just downloaded, like this:

wine .exe

This might take a bit of time, but when it's done, you should be all set to play. To play, run WoW.exe just as you did when we started the update program. (wine WoW.exe -opengl)

If you have any problems with the installation or running the game, refer to the next section("Troubleshooting"), or run there now if you want to be preemptive. =)

Troubleshooting

Installation errors

Not Enough Hardrive Space error

If you experience this, you need to open regedit(wine regedit) and change the following values: TEMP value needs to be set to \ instead of f:\ or whatever it's set for yours. TMP also needs to be set to the same value. These settings can located in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment.

This should fix your problem with it saying not enough hard drive space. It corrected the problem on mine and now it's installing as we speak.

Wow installer crashes after clicking Install button

To fix this problem you need to download following dll files and save them into your ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 directory.

riched20.dll
riched32.dll

Then you need to add riched20 and riched32 to the dll overide section on the Libraries tab in wincfg. Select native then builtin for each of these.

Problems with sound

If you're having glitches/choppy sound, edit the WoW configuration file (~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft/WTF/Config.wtf) with your favourite editor, adding this line:

SET SoundBufferSize "70"

If it still comes out choppy try:

SET SoundBufferSize "150"

This is a millisecond delay count. You're free to play with it to get it just right, but be sure to not set it too high or you will notice delays between action on the screen and sound actually occuring.

Some people recommend the sound system wine uses to OSS, instead of ALSA, because they feel wine's OSS drivers work much better than their ALSA drivers. This is done using the winecfg program. Just run that, change to the Audio tab, and change the sound system.

Enabling hardware rendering

(for nvidia cards only) Make sure that you are actually rendering the game in OpenGL, and not software. With software mode, you will most likely get only 1 FPS no matter what. If you have this problem, just switch to the opengl interface with this command (as root).

# eselect opengl set nvidia 

Exit X, Log out and back in, then start X again. Startup WoW, and you should be fine.

This Is what I used for 0.9.17, I am currently testing 0.9.18

Copy the patch file to /usr/local/portage/app-emulation/wine/files/

Copy the wine 0.9.18 ebuild from:
/usr/portate/app-emulation/wine/ to -------------------- /usr/local/portage/app-emulation/wine/

Copy all other files from :
/usr/portage/app-emulation/wine/files/ to --------------------- /usr/local/portage/app-emulation/wine/files/

Fire up your favorite editor and insert:
"epatch "${FILESDIR}"/your_patch.patch" to the end of the src-unpack section of the ebuild

(0.9.17in this case)

CD to /usr/local/portage/app-emulation/wine/
Run:
ebuild wine-0.9.17.ebuild digest
emerge wine

If you dont have those folders create them.

This is a BIG Gentoo Howto which I have been editing from time to time on their site, I credit Everyine who helped put this together, the only thing I have done is cut out some stuff and update it for current info, and what worked for me.

Possible keys and values that can be used in config.Wtf

See the bottom of the list for possible values that can be applied to the keys, especially SetSoundSystem.

Important note, the values immediately below are not necessarily the values that shoud be used for wow under wine. They are listed here for reference to the possible keys that can be used.

For an example of a typical Config.wtf file used on a linux system running wow under wine see the very end of this list.

SET accountName = ""
SET alphaLevel = "1"
SET AmbienceVolume = "0.6"
SET anisotropic = "1"
SET assistAttack = "0"
SET autoClearAFK = "1"
SET autointeract = "0"
SET automoveturnspeednarrow = "800"
SET automoveturnspeedwide = "1200"
SET baseMip = "0"
SET BlockTrades = "0"
SET bspcache = "1"
SET cameraBobbing = "0"
SET cameraBobbingFrequency = "0.8"
SET cameraBobbingLRAmplitude = "2.0"
SET cameraBobbingSmoothSpeed = "0.8"
SET cameraBobbingUDAmplitude = "2.0"
SET cameraCustomViewSmoothing = "0"
SET cameraDistance = "0.0"
SET cameraDistanceMax = "15.0"
SET cameraDistanceMaxFactor = "1.0"
SET cameraDistanceMoveSpeed = "8.33"
SET cameraDistanceSmoothSpeed = "8.33"
SET cameraDive = "1"
SET cameraFoVSmoothSpeed = "0.5"
SET cameraGroundSmoothSpeed = "7.5"
SET cameraHeightIgnoreStandState = "0"
SET cameraHeightSmoothSpeed = "1.2"
SET cameraPitch = "0.0"
SET cameraPitchMoveSpeed = "90.0"
SET cameraPitchSmoothMax = "30.0"
SET cameraPitchSmoothMin = "0.0"
SET cameraPitchSmoothSpeed = "45.0"
SET cameraPivot = "1"
SET cameraPivotDXMax = "0.05"
SET cameraPivotDYMin = "0.00"
SET camerasmooth = "1"
SET cameraSmoothPitch = "0"
SET cameraSmoothStyle = "1"
SET cameraSmoothTimeMax = "2.0"
SET cameraSmoothTimeMin = "0.1"
SET cameraSmoothTrackingStyle = "1"
SET cameraSmoothYaw = "1"
SET cameraSubmergeFinalPitch = "5.0"
SET cameraSubmergePitch = "18.0"
SET cameraSurfaceFinalPitch = "5.0"
SET cameraSurfacePitch = "0.0"
SET cameraTargetSmoothSpeed = "90.0"
SET cameraTerrainTilt = "0"
SET cameraTerrainTiltTimeMax = "10.0"
SET cameraTerrainTiltTimeMin = "3.0"
SET cameraView = "1"
SET cameraViewBlendStyle = "1"
SET cameraWaterCollision = "1"
SET cameraYawMoveSpeed = "180.0"
SET cameraYawSmoothMax = "0.0"
SET cameraYawSmoothMin = "0.0"
SET cameraYawSmoothSpeed = "180.0"
SET ChatBubbles = "1"
SET ChatBubblesParty = "0"
SET checkAddonVersion = "1"
SET CombatDamage = "1"
SET CombatDeathLogRange = "60"
SET combatLogOn = "1"
SET CombatLogPeriodicSpells = "1"
SET CombatLogRangeCreature = "30"
SET CombatLogRangeFriendlyPlayers = "50"
SET CombatLogRangeFriendlyPlayersPets = "50"
SET CombatLogRangeHostilePlayers = "50"
SET CombatLogRangeHostilePlayersPets = "50"
SET CombatLogRangeParty = "50"
SET CombatLogRangePartyPet = "50"
SET CombatModeMaxDistance = "30.0f"
SET debugTaint = "0"
SET deselectOnClick = "1"
SET desktopGamma = "0"
SET DistCull = "500"
SET doodadAnim = "1"
SET EmoteSounds = "1"
SET EnableAmbience = "1"
SET EnableErrorSpeech = "1"
SET EnableGroupSpeech = "1"
SET EnableMusic = "1"
SET ErrorFilter = "all"
SET ErrorLevelMax = "3"
SET ErrorLevelMin = "1"
SET errors = "0"
SET farclip = "350"
SET ffxDeath = "1"
SET ffxGlow = "1"
SET footstepBias = "0.125"
SET FootstepSounds = "1"
SET frillDensity = "16"
SET fullAlpha = "0"
SET gameTip = "0"
SET gamma = "1.0"
SET guildMemberNotify = "0"
SET gxApi = "direct3d" or "opengl" (opengl works best under wine 0.9.18)
SET gxAspect = "1"
SET gxColorBits = "16"
SET gxCursor = "1"
SET gxDepthBits = "16"
SET gxFixLag = "1"
SET gxMaximize = "0"
SET gxMultisample = "1"
SET gxMultisampleQuality = "0.0"
SET gxOverride = ""
SET gxRefresh = "75"
SET gxResolution = "640x480"
SET gxTripleBuffer = "0"
SET gxVSync = "1"
SET gxWindow = "0" SET horizonfarclip = "2112"
SET hwDetect = "1"
SET Joystick = "0"
SET lastCharacterIndex = "0"
SET lodDist = "100.0"
SET M2BatchDoodads = "1"
SET M2Faster = "1"
SET M2FasterDebug = "0"
SET M2UseClipPlanes = "1"
SET M2UsePixelShaders = "0"
SET M2UseShaders = "1"
SET M2UseThreads = "1"
SET M2UseZFill = "1"
SET mapObjLightLOD = "0"
SET mapObjOverbright = "1"
SET mapShadows = "1"
SET MapWaterSounds = "1"
SET MasterSoundEffects = "1"
SET MasterVolume = "1.0"
SET MaxLights = "4"
SET minimapInsideZoom = "3"
SET minimapZoom = "3"
SET mouseInvertPitch = "0"
SET mouseInvertYaw = "0"
SET mousespeed = "1.0"
SET movie = "1"
SET movieSubtitle = "0"
SET MusicVolume" = "0.4"
SET nearclip = "0.1"
SET ObjectSelectionCircle = "1"
SET occlusion = "1"
SET particleDensity = "1.0"
SET PetMeleeDamage = "1"
SET PetNamePlates = "0"
SET PetSpellDamage = "1"
SET pixelShaders = "0"
SET PlayerAnim = "0"
SET PlayerFadeInRate = "4096"
SET PlayerFadeOutAlpha = "128"
SET PlayerFadeOutRate = "4096"
SET profanityFilter = "1"
SET readContest = "0"
SET readEULA = "0"
SET readScanning = "0"
SET readTOS = "0"
SET realmList = "us.logon.worldofwarcraft.com:3724"
SET realmName = ""
SET scriptMemory = "49152"
SET shadowBias = "0.1"
SET shadowLevel = "1"
SET shadowLOD = "1"
SET ShowErrors = "1"
SET showfootprintparticles = "1"
SET showfootprints = "1"
SET showGameTips = "1"
SET showLootSpam = "1"
SET showsmartrects = "0"
SET SkyCloudLOD = "0"
SET smallCull = "0.04"
SET SoundBufferSize = "50"
SET SoundDriver = "-1"
SET SoundInitFlags = "128"
SET SoundListenerAtCharacter = "1"
SET SoundMaxHardwareChannels = "12"
SET SoundMemoryCache = "4"
SET SoundMinHardwareChannels = "-1"
SET SoundMixer = "-1"
SET SoundMixRate = "44100"
SET SoundOutputSystem = "-1" (See below for values, set to '1' not '-1' for wine)
SET SoundReverb = "1"
SET SoundRolloffFactor = "4"
SET SoundSoftwareChannels = "12"
SET SoundVolume = "1.0"
SET SoundZoneMusicNoDelay = "0"
SET specular = "0"
SET spellEffectLevel = "2"
SET statusBarText = "0"
SET TargetAnim = "0"
SET targetNearestDistance = "41.000000"
SET targetNearestDistanceRadius = "10.000000"
SET texLodBias = "0.0"
SET textureLodDist = "777.0"
SET triangleStrips = "1"
SET trilinear = "0"
SET UberTooltips = "1"
SET uiscale = "1.0"
SET unitDrawDist = "300.0"
SET UnitNameNPC = "0"
SET UnitNamePlayer = "1"
SET UnitNamePlayerGuild = "1"
SET UnitNamePlayerPVPTitle = "1"
SET UnitNameRenderMode = "2"
SET useUiScale = "0"
SET useWeatherShaders = "1"
SET violenceLevel = "2"
SET waterLOD = "0"
SET weatherDensity = "2"
SET widescreen = '1'

SetSoundSystem Values

-1 = Auto select (the default)
1 = Windows Multimedia (the one you should try)
2 = Direct Sound
3 = Aureal3D
4 = Open Sound System
5 = Enlightment Sound Daemon
6 = Alsa
7 = No Sound
8 = Xbox
9 = Playstation 2
10 = Mac Sound Manager
11 = Gamecube

SoundMinHardwareChannels = "-1"
SoundMaxHardwareChannels = "12"

Other Keyword Values

targetNearestDistance
Tab targetting distance in front of you

targetNearestDistanceRadius
Tab targetting behind you? (Not tested)

violenceLevel
0-2.
0 - No hit animations whatsoever
1 - Hit flashes + green(?) blood (perhaps somewhat lesser extent)
2 - Hit flashes + red blood
3 or higher does not change anything, at least not for regular melee.

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html

Typical Config.wtf used on a linux system running WoW under wine

SET gxResolution "1024x768"
SET gxRefresh "60"
SET hwDetect "0"
SET movie "0"
SET readTOS "1"
SET realmList "eu.logon.worldofwarcraft.com"
SET gxMultisampleQuality "0.000000"
SET readEULA "1"
SET readScanning "-1"
SET realmName "Shadowsong"
SET gameTip "54"
SET gxCursor "0"
SET SmallCull "0.040000"
SET frillDensity "32"
SET farclip "357"
SET Gamma "0.600000"
SET MusicVolume "0.60000002384186"
SET SoundVolume "1"
SET SoundOutputSystem "1"
SET SoundBufferSize "150"
SET MasterVolume "1"
SET ffx "0"
SET AmbienceVolume "0.60000002384186"
SET uiScale "1"
SET mouseSpeed "1"
SET cameraPitchMoveSpeed "90"
SET cameraYawMoveSpeed "180"
SET cameraPitchSmoothSpeed "45"
SET cameraYawSmoothSpeed "180"
SET cameraSmoothStyle "0"
SET cameraSmoothTrackingStyle "0"
SET cameraDistanceMaxFactor "1"
SET SoundZoneMusicNoDelay "1"
SET gxColorBits "24"
SET gxApi "opengl"
SET statusBarText "1"
SET ffxDeath "0"
SET minimapZoom "0"
SET guildMemberNotify "1"
SET profanityFilter "0"
SET readContest "-1"
SET minimapInsideZoom "5"
SET gxDepthBits "24"
SET accountName "linuxwillwin"