[cw-discuss] World of Warcraft quit after latest patch

[Brendon Oliver]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:57:31 am Don Cooley wrote:
> I just got World of WarcraftWoW to work on 14 July. Everything
> was working fine. Started it today and it downloaded the latest patch,
> WoW-2.4.2.8278-to-2.4.3.8606-enUS-patch. Now WoW's UI will launch but
> when I click play nothing happens. Anyone else experiencing problems
> with WoW? BTW, I'm running Fedora 9 with a standard intel grapics card.

I've always found using the WoW Launcher app to be a bit dodgy, and so select 
the option to not use the launcher.  What you should be able to do is start 
the game directly from a terminal, using something like:

{cxoffice_dir}/bin/wine -bottle {bottle_name} -cx-app WoW.exe

replacing {cxoffice_dir} with the crossover install path, and {bottle_name} 
with whatever bottle you installed the game into.  That should get the game 
running for you.  Then at the first screen (where you give your login & 
password), there will be a check box 'Show launcher?' in the bottom left 
corner.  If you uncheck that, then when you next start the game from the 
desktop shortcut, it will bypass the launcher and go straight into the game.

The only downside to doing this is that you lose the ability for the game to 
download upcoming patch updates in the background.  Instead, the game will 
d/load the next patch when you first run the game after an update is 
released.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

- Brendon
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