Latest update that rolled out for auto install today breaks the launcher for Linux users, logon works fine however the launcher does not load any assets and is just a blank grey window.
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Same here I tried everything. Is blizzard going to fix this for us or should all Linux players cancel their subs
Linux isn’t a supported operating system for any of Blizzard’s software or game titles. This is made clear on all of the system requirement pages for each app/game.
See other post (battlenet-patch-14542-not-working-in-wine/48425/4) for potential workaround.
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[Edit: What Nicole said above.]
Understand that Linux isn’t and never has been supported by Bliz. It’s always been use at your own risk.
That said, another used contacted the Wine developers and they seem to be looking into fixing it on their end.
Gosh! That’s helpful!
In fairness, this forum is for assistance with the software on systems that meet or exceed the requirements.
OT: Out of curiosity, how would I learn that?
I tried to remove this comment below and replace it here, but alas, fora are notoriously poorly programmed.
On the Bnet download page it mentions which operating systems are supported.
Blizzard may not support Linux base players but Linux base players support blizzard, hopefully one day they return the favor
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Someone posted this solution in the other support thread. (I cannot link it cause apparently I’m a “new” user)
Adding WINE_SIMULATE_WRITECOPY=1 as an environment variable fixes 14542.
Can confirm this worked for me.
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this works thank you so much. I have been going insane trying to get this work for the past like 12 hours.
Nothing works for me on steam OS, using lutris and setting the env variable does nothing
this helped me. now it works. thank you very much
sadly not helping me. exactly the same thing happens as without it:
$ WINEPREFIX=/home/deemon/wine.hearthstone WINEDEBUG=-all WINE_SIMULATE_WRITECOPY=1 wine 'C:\users\Public\Desktop\Hearthstone.lnk'
wine: Unhandled exception 0x80000003 in thread 3f8 at address 6DE700E1 (thread 03f8), starting debugger...
wine: Unhandled exception 0x80000003 in thread 4b4 at address 6DE700E1 (thread 04b4), starting debugger...
wine: Unhandled exception 0x80000003 in thread 4fc at address 6DE700E1 (thread 04fc), starting debugger...
wine: Unhandled exception 0x80000003 in thread 568 at address 6DE700E1 (thread 0568), starting debugger...
wine: Unhandled exception 0x80000003 in thread 5ac at address 6DE700E1 (thread 05ac), starting debugger...
wine: Unhandled exception 0x80000003 in thread 5f4 at address 6DE700E1 (thread 05f4), starting debugger...
wine: Unhandled exception 0x80000003 in thread 638 at address 6DE700E1 (thread 0638), starting debugger...
wine: Unhandled exception 0x80000003 in thread 67c at address 6DE700E1 (thread 067c), starting debugger...
wine: Unhandled exception 0x80000003 in thread 6c0 at address 6DE700E1 (thread 06c0), starting debugger...
wine: Unhandled exception 0x80000003 in thread 704 at address 6DE700E1 (thread 0704), starting debugger...
wine: Unhandled exception 0x80000003 in thread 750 at address 6DE700E1 (thread 0750), starting debugger...
wine-8.20 and also wine-8.21
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That worked for me, thank you.
Thank you, this worked for me!
This thread helped me - thanks.
I wish the blizzard people would at least be nice to linux users instead of just trolling. You guys could at least be professional.
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Howdy!
Linux is not supported. That being said, it looks like some players found a workaround Here. Looks like adding: WINE_SIMULATE_WRITECOPY=1 to your environment helps.
Thank you!
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How about keeping the launcher clean instead of piling bloat on it every update?
It’s not really about supporting Linux, but a simple thing as a launcher shouldn’t be doing so much weird stuff to break and hog system resources all the time. This isn’t only bad for Linux users, but affects Windows users as well, even if it “works” (and apparently it doesn’t, as there are loads of issues from “supported” Windows users as well with the latest update).
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