I’ve abandoned Win7 and have converted my computer to Linux Mint 19.3. Everything is working dandy so far, but now I want to set up my games. I’m old – been playing WoW since Vanilla. I would really like to have it back.
So I followed various online guides to install Lutris, various DXVK libraries, the Wine-stable version of Wine, rebooted, and then went to install WoW. Lutris had me check dependencies and then install the Blizzard Battle.net app, which I did and I was able to log into my account there. So I got that far. So far so good!
Next Battle.net wants me to install World of Warcraft and this is where I run into a wall. It was already installed on my system on my Games drive. Note that all my drives are EXT4 now, not NTFS. I have separate SDDs for my root C: home Main/Program/Linux drive and a different one for Games/Data.
On the Battle.net screen next to the Install button is a little thing that says "Already installed? Locate the game " When I click on that a funky little file manager pops up. It says Select Folder at the top, but it does NOT show my Games drive. Under My Computer on the left side it shows a C: drive, my CD disk drive as D:, and a weird one named Z: which I never had before. None of those lead to my other SSD drive.
I also tried the Install button, and tried to provide a path to my Games drive and World of Warcraft folder. The same “Select Folder” box pops up. I don’t see a way to get it to find and recognize my Games drive and I don’t want to install the game anywhere else. It doesn’t recognize my path (/media/$USER/Games) and it doesn’t show up on the tree in the left panel.
Any ideas how I can get the installer to find my game?
Thanks!
I used Lutris to install the game initially, and what it installed was the Battle.net launcher. Now Lutris just has a “Play” button on it. When I push that, it launches Battle.net for me to log in, but that’s it. I don’t see how to get Lutris to download or install the game.
Thanks for the reply – I’ll go back into Lutris and see if I can find other options.
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Evandas… you, my friend, are a genius! I dug around in the Lutris configuration files and tinkered a bit here and there. I finally navigated to my World of Warcraft folder, clicked on the WoW.exe file, and Lutris popped up with a “Configuring Wine” notification. Shortly afterward the Battle.net launcher started to update my game for me. Hooray!!!
The key was solving this via Lutris, and not through the Blizz installer.
A million thanks for giving me a kick in the right direction. But I should have figured… you rogues are good at unlocking things!
I tried on linux mint and elementary. When running the wow script, it hung on the sign in page for bnet for 1hr-2hr (it says don’t sign-in) and never finished. I then tried to install the bnet app (it worked) and installed the game through that but kept crashing with 123 error :(. I have to go back to windows now… sad.
Sweet. I have mainly been a debian based guy but I threw Manjaro up in a VM and it is clean. I like it. I tried the process again in a VM and gets hung in the spot,we can run through it then.
i’m currently using Linux mint and i can’t play WoW