Hello guys.
I am trying to play vanilla wow using private servers with lutris, and can’t get anything to work properly.
I stumbled across this post which has people discussing this topic, but interestingly there is a link to github docs.
I follow the instructions in both this and this but even so, when I go through Lutris to add a game and select to search website for installers, then search for battle.net and follow the installation steps I get the error below:
lutris-wrapper: /home/mart/.local/share/lutris/runtime/winetricks/winetricks
Started initial process 513661 from /home/mart/.local/share/lutris/runtime/winetricks/winetricks --unattended arial
Start monitoring process.
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warning: You are using a 64-bit WINEPREFIX. Note that many verbs only install 32-bit versions of packages. If you encounter problems, please retest in a clean 32-bit WINEPREFIX before reporting a bug.
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Using winetricks 20230212-next - sha256sum: 2d7770aa1f49f42ad9dafb092110dbf49fa6581738f6b80488cf0d7f59b2de72 with wine-8.0-2754-g48789536649 (Staging) and WINEARCH=win64
Executing w_do_call arial
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warning: You are using a 64-bit WINEPREFIX. Note that many verbs only install 32-bit versions of packages. If you encounter problems, please retest in a clean 32-bit WINEPREFIX before reporting a bug.
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Executing load_arial
grep: warning: stray \ before /
grep: warning: stray \ before /
Executing cabextract -q -d /home/mart/Games/battlenet/dosdevices/c:/windows/temp /home/mart/.cache/winetricks/corefonts/arial32.exe
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warning: Running /home/mart/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine/wine-ge-8-24-x86_64/bin/wineserver -w. This will hang until all wine processes in prefix=/home/mart/Games/battlenet terminate
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Executing /home/mart/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine/wine-ge-8-24-x86_64/bin/wine C:\windows\syswow64\regedit.exe /S C:\windows\Temp\_register-font.reg
fsync: up and running.
wine: RLIMIT_NICE is <= 20, unable to use setpriority safely
wine: failed to open "C:\\windows\\syswow64\\regedit.exe": c0000135
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warning: Note: command /home/mart/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine/wine-ge-8-24-x86_64/bin/wine C:\windows\syswow64
egedit.exe /S C:\windows\Temp\_register-font.reg returned status 53. Aborting.
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Monitored process exited.
Initial process has exited (return code: 256)
Exit with return code 256
I’m at my wits end. The closest I got was by directly running the WoW.exe file for a client I downloaded with wine from the terminal. The game started up without audio, and then obviously I wouldn’t be able to put in my private server’s credentials to log in. Please help me
EDIT: I ended up installing battle.net through bottles and I’m currently installing Diablo3 and Hearthstone - will see how they play.
As for WoW classic, whenever I run the 1.12 client I have in its own bottle it opens and then crashes. If I switch the runner to caffe it takes longer to crash, but my mouse seems to disappear when I take it over the launcher and I can’t click on anything.
EDIT 2 SOLUTION: I skipped lutris/bottles altogether and as per a commenters suggestion I looked into adding it as a non-steam game to steam. It ended up working beautifully! Here is the video I watched that shows how to do it on a steam deck
I installed it just yesterday through Proton on Steam, worked absolutely perfectly out of the box, Fedora 39, better performance than on Windows 11.
Interesting. Is there an article or guide on how to do this? I imagine it’ll be for Steam Deck?
Yeah you can Google how to install wow on Steam deck and follow the guide, with a caveat that on the steps between installing battle.net and creating a launcher for it on Steam after it’s installed, I suggest moving the contents of the proton bottle to a shared space so you keep you credentials. Let me get on my pc in a few minutes and I’ll get you some instructions.
This seems promising, but if I may ask how would I do something like this for a private server client (1.12.1)? Also I managed to get battle.net installed through bottles. The only caveat is that I needed to change its runner to caffe latest version.
Right, I guess if you already the wow client, you could skip it all and just add wow.exe as a non-steam game to your library and try that, it should work.
Otherwise if you’re dealing with the old school wow installer wizards, I guess you can follow the steps in a similar way except use the wow installer where it mentions the battle.net installer.