Is the game broken for Linux users?

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So I’ve minimized my blizzard games to just WoW, since that’s pretty much the only thing on the app that I play.

Before I uninstalled Rumble, I kept trying to update it for the last couple weeks. Every single time I’d get the error “Something went wrong” with the error code BLZBNTAGT00000840. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, same thing. So I just uninstalled permanently.

Tried installing Diablo II Resurrected, same issue.

Now WoW is doing the same thing. All of my addons are up to date, Linux is up to date, battlenet app is up to date. I’ve tried everything short of uninstalling WoW to try it again, which I’m not going to try since last time I did that I lost every bit of addon information and had to restart completely from scratch, plus it didn’t help me with anything else.

I stopped playing while the massive error with literally everything but movement is still going, and now I’m completely unable to play at all.

My brother in law has been using Linux for years, had him take a look at it and try some things he knows, which included reinstalling the app through different versions of bottles, now I can’t even open the app.

Is anyone else having similar issues? Has blizz said anything about this that I haven’t been able to find? I don’t want to have to cancel my subscription, but if I can’t play the game then I shouldn’t be paying for it.

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I have corrected this problem, on my Linux system:
I am running Mint 22.1 and using Lutris to handle BattleNet, using their install.

To correct the problem, I had to use wine-ge-8-26-x86_64 (default) on the Runner options tab.

Earlier in the week, when Plunderstorm was re-released, I had to use Proton Experimental to be able to get around the 840 error. But, last night they updated things again, and I had to return to the default.

Hope this helps you.

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He’s kicking himself for not thinking about wine runners before I showed him this, worked and is running now, thanks!

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So glad that it worked for you!

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Swap between different runners.

You will need wine-ge-8-26-x86_64 to let your games get updated then change the runner to Ge-Proton or Experimental to actually run the games. wine-ge-8-26-x86_64 is no longer working to play on.

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Interesting, on my Mint 22.1, the wine-ge-8-26-x86_64 version works for updates, Battlenet and all three current versions of WOW.
But, last week, when the Plunderstorm reboot was first “installed”, I had to use Experimental. When they released the patch late this week, then Experimental no longer worked but wine-ge-8-26-x86_64 is working.
Clearly it is one of those where “your mileage may vary”, based on your Linux/app versions and whatever Blizz is doing.

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Just wanted to say thanks for posting!

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