Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Forum

I have installed the Warhammer client under a WinXP bottle in 7.1.0 with DirectX installed, as well as the XML parser, just to be on the safe side.

Following certain instructions at the WineHQ appDB entry for this, I added a native winhttp.dll override into the bottle. This allowed the patcher to connect successfully, at first. However, I quickly received a CPP assertion failure. I will get a screenshot of the MS C++ runtime error.

The important pieces of information are:

Program: C:\mythic\warpatch.bin
File: ........\src\libpatchui\win32\uicreator.cpp
Line: 709

Expression: (drawTextResult!=0)

I guess I am stuck for the time being. Perhaps I should try one of the newer builds...

Chris

Hey there a way you can tell me how you got it to work at all? was it on a mac?

I got it working, sort of, on a Linux box. I followed the directions in the winhq appdb for adding the native winhttp.dll file and setting the patcher IP address. When the assertion failure error comes up, you press "I" a bunch of times until that error goes away and then it will patch. And you have to go into the patch.cfg and do an nslookup on the patch server url, replacing the url with the actual IP address. Doing an nslookup returns the six or so in their patch server cluster, so you can just pick one.

However, once in, characters don't render at all. Everyone is just a disembodied staff, bow, sword, etc. floating around. Other than that, it appears that audio works, as well as movement. Everything in the environment seems to function just fine. I did kick the graphics down to "balanced" from high quality. I read that this helps on some graphics issues with shadows.

I have to correct myself a bit here on the "characters do not render at all" statement. If you look at my screenshot, you can see that at the bottom of where the character would be standing, within the circle of shadow, there is a small pile of textured shapes. After seeing what the game should look like, they seem to coincide with pieces of the character's armor or robes or what-have-you. Its like certain pieces are rendering, but everyone is sunk down in the ground.

I managed to install the game by following the advice (install DirectX and the XML parser).

Did the winhttp thing and the first time I ran it it asked for username & password but the patch server was down (I booted into XP to check).

Since then I get no joy running either warpatch.exe or warpatch.bin

There is an open bug over on the WineHQ site regarding the patcher problem, so hopefully one of the devs might find a clue to help get it working.

I think part of the problem with Warhammer not starting under Ubuntu Hardy is down to Ubuntu itself, updated my main box to Intrepid for finally beta testing, haven't changed anything apart from that and all of a sudden Warhammer starts, I get the assertion problem but before I had one lucky run under Hardy, under Intrepid it runs everytime so far.

I don't know if this information will help the developers because it sounds like a problem with a library (or more) on Hardy and therefore out of their control.