World of Warcraft not Starting [Solved]

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World of Warcraft stopped working for me today after a game update. It works fine on my laptop (Pop! OS), but that machine has integrated intel, and is really unplayable. My desktop runs a fully upgraded (as of 18:30 PDT on 29 April, 2020, because that matters) Arch with an RX580. The only line item from the log that is from the game is *** stack smashing detected ***: terminated The rest of the lutris -d output is from lutris itself and the battlenet app. Full output at link.

paste.ubuntu.com/p/4kwCkMq6Tk/

SOLVED: Updated Wine version to 5.7 (others reporting success with 5.6)
My functional install on my laptop had 5.5-2, so that version also works

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I have the exact same issue, using Mint 19
have had this issue before too, and it came good without intervention a few days later.
Currently I went back to windows (have it installed on seperate ssd)
Funny thing which happened last time… it classic loads fine its just retail that doesnt.
I have attempted repair of wow install, bnet repair etc… to no avail.

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Same issue here as well. WoW worked earlier in the day, but it just did an update and I receive the same stack smashing detected error.

Running Ubuntu 19.10 with an NVIDIA card.

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Same here Retail will not start… Ubuntu 18.04 - Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080

PTR for retail works and Classic.

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Same boat Retail WoW not working, Ubuntu 18.04, was working last night around 10:30PM Central Time before bed.

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Same issue here on both my computers running arch. Desktop with nvidia gpu and laptop with amd gpu. Haven’t tried classic or ptr (no ssd space) but diablo runs perfectly.

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Lutris Discord Server is not responding, if they ask for logs idk how since no logs are created.

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I changed the Wine version from 4. something to 5.6 and now i can get into WoW.

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This fixed it for me too!

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I don’t have a version 5. My latest is the 4.20. How do I install the 5.6 version? I guess I should add that I have Lutris 0.5.6 up to date (I think), but I don’t see a 5.6 wine version in my runner options

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@rescue_toaster just click here to access WIne version and upload a more recent one:

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at the left panel, click on “Wine” then “manage versions”

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Latest version is 5.7 WINE but I picked 5.6, thought someone somewhere said 5.7 crashes Lutris? Still trying to find that.

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Awesome. Thanks. I had my left bar turned off so didn’t see the manage versions button. I installed the 5.7 and was able to get in. I can let you know if I have any issues with 5.7.

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I just tested with Lutris Wine 5.6 and 5.7, last DXVK 1.6L, it works! Thank you @Scald :wink:

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Wine 5.6 works great for me as well. However, when typing a “v” into the chat, it automatically types an “ö” instead (German keyboard layout).

The skill I placed on v is triggered however. Also: My skill on hotkey ^ (left from 1) doesn’t work.

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American here and the v in chat is still a v so maybe that is a regional thing/issue.

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I had this issue when i installed wow by choosing battle.net app in lutris, but then i switched to the world of warcraft installer it works as it should. It was annoying to say the least

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Now that I think about it, I had this problem earlier with GTA:O, when using the GE-Proton version. Every “v” has been converted into “ö” in chats.

This also applies to the battle.net app right now. I am sure it is a problem that has to do with WINE and the region / keyboard.

If I find smth., I’m going to post it here.

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Could you do me a favor and try to use any keyboard layout that uses an “ö” (Swedish, German, Icelandic,…)?
Would like to narrow down the problem. :slight_smile:

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Thanks for this! It works for me. Changed mine to 5.7 and been running a while without issues.