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I'm on Fedora Core 6/7. Nvidia 7600 GT, soundblaster, etc...

Maybe it's related to the whole voice chat thing that was just added to WoW?

Now, the game will start but with no sound. (ALSA not working right? When I try to reload the sound drivers using system-config-soundcard, it is unable to do it when WoW is open.)

I can log in and choose a character and click on the button to play/launch the actual game, but the video is all VERY slow.

The next screen is the progress bar as it loads the realm. At this point, either the game crashes with a message about wanting to send troubleshooting data to Blizzard, or it freezes with no progress and occasional random clicks from the soundcard.

Worked just fine prior to the WoW patch with no other changes in hardware or software.

I would appreciate any help possible. Thank you.

-Anthony

Well, I can get it to work now, but no sound.
I was fidgeting around and I added the oss driver to the load order in the bottle configuration.
I did this by typing "oss,alsa". I don't know if that is actually loading the oss driver because the same effect is achieved
with or without having alsa listed.
The effect: No sound, but now it doesn't crash and gets a much better fps.

I checked, and lsmod | grep snd_req_oss does show the oss modules.

I don't know that much about alsa vs. oss, I just want the sound to work.

When I put alsa first in the list or if it is the only thing listed, the effect is to have about a 0.5 fps with squeaks and pops output from the soundcard with a high probability that it will just crash while trying to load a realm.

Wasn't like this at all prior to the new 2.20 patch (maybe because voice chat is being added???)

I would appreciate any help possible. Thank you.

-Anthony