Error 132 on Ubuntu 18.04

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I’m on Linux, using wine. WoW does open, but there are no visuals loading: I just see the same on screen as before clicking Play. Then, after a few seconds, I get the error message

This application has encountered a critical error:

ERROR #132 (0x85100084) Fatal exception!

Plus some more info, most of which changes every time. I know that you guys don’t officially support wine, but it would mean a lot to me if you could help me out. I’m somewhat of a noob about using Linux, so I don’t know exactly what info I should give. Could you let me know that?

Also, I did already go the support page Blizzard has on Error 132 (https://eu.battle.net/support/en/article/8288), and done 1 and 3 on the list. I can’t do the rest (I don’t have any addons, I have a SSD, and apparently my drivers (Intel) are already updated).

Hearthstone does work for me (after adding the flag -dxd9), so I know it is specifically WoW that isn’t working.

I would appreciate it if anyone could help me in any way. Thanks!

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Good morning Lorala,

Unfortunately, Linux is not supported by us and therefore we can’t really help.

Kind regards

What’s your opinion?

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I know this is a bit of a late reply, so maybe you already solved your problem. A few thing you could try to solve this is by doing one or all of the following:

  • checking if your wine version is not 4.9, as this version seemed to have problems with correctly loading the game (4.8 works fine for sure, I haven’t yet had time to test 4.10 after the patch introduced the crash for me)

  • installing vcrun2017 using winetricks vcrun2017.

  • Installing dxvk and adding -d3d11 to the launch parameters of the game, if you launch it from the command line this would be wine /path/to/wow.exe -d3d11. Another possbility is to install d3vk and launching wow in directX 12 mode with -d3d12.

Regarding wine usage, the better place to look for help on various applications is on the WineHQ appdb page for World of Warcraft