Curse Client Support (Windows)

Re: Curse client crashes in WIne/Linux

Kaelten — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:31:00 GMT

For the solution go here.

http://www.curse.com/forums/t/96399.aspx

Locking this thread now.

Re: Curse client crashes in WIne/Linux

Galthron — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:24:26 GMT

Kalten: You really need to the post with the fix on page 3. http://www.curse.com/forums/p/94524/465506.aspx#465506

Otherwise people that can't be bothered to read the entire thread are going to keep making noise.

You may also wish to add this information to the Client FAQ. :)

Re: Curse client crashes in WIne/Linux

Krawnik — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:15:30 GMT

ive been useing curse for 2 years, you changed my profile from a premium acccount to a add spam account. ok, that was wrong, now i found out you killed Linux users.......!? its too much to be neglected and demoted.

CONGRADULATIONS! you just helped wowmatrix, you just lost me as a user.

bye.

Re: Curse client crashes in WIne/Linux

llamabark — Thu, 07 May 2009 21:20:35 GMT

Thanks for all the feedback and solutions people, I'll be sure to recommend that solution for linux/wine tickets received.

Re: Curse client crashes in WIne/Linux

Kaelten — Thu, 07 May 2009 20:53:59 GMT

"is that addons have to be essentially GPL according to Blizzard's terms of service. "

That is absolutely not what the ui policy says _at all_.

Addons must be a) free of charge, and b) readable. That in no way implies that addons must be GPL or any other OSI compatible license.

Re: Curse client crashes in WIne/Linux

hdthoreau — Thu, 07 May 2009 20:31:14 GMT

I'm think it might be similar. The general issue here is that addons have to be essentially GPL according to Blizzard's terms of service. So now they are whacking update manager's for "leeching" what they release, because it doesn't have credits or redirects to the author, or isn't updated on time, or it's just too much bandwidth. That's not very team.

Perhaps the problem can be solved by blizzard hosting the addons, and allowing any manager to update from it. If you can't find addons in the first place, what is the gain for the user, the addon author, or for WoW in the long term? They need to solve this, because I can't spend what little free time I have tripping over author's ego's.

I think we can all agree that wow would suck without the addons. Maybe Blizzard should, in their own self interest, give something back to the addon author's. Giving credit where credit is due, and taking the bandwidth hit would be a big help for them and for WoW as a whole. With whatever self-preservation WoW and the author's possess, they had better figure this out quick. Messing around with pop-up's/broken clients and paying another monthly fee for a GPL'd addons that they don't even create is not my idea of fun.

Re: Curse client crashes in WIne/Linux

Cathmor — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:22:55 GMT

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Being a Wine user, I have to say that installing IE6 just to get the Curse Client working is not an option for me. Sure it can be done as other people have shown here. However, I've read about problems people have had with installing IE on Wine. The results can be pretty bad. I'd prefer to avoid having to delete my .wine directory because IE hosed my Wine registry.

I was using WUU until I found out that the Curse Client wasn't all that evil. I would even put up with the popup advertisement if the client still worked. The Curse client was slick, and worked pretty well under Wine. Unfortunately I'm going to have to go back to WUU until the Curse client's design is modified to run on Wine. It won't surprise me if that never happens of course; Curse has already stated that they had to imbed an IE frame, which means MSHTML.DLL. Wine developers are probably going to have to fix their Gecko adaptation instead.

I haven't read anythng about problems with ie6 in current 1.x versions of wine. I even ran ie6 just to verified it worked, and it surfs the internet. Strange seeing that on linux. And it's not going to get changed, us linux users are a small subset of users, and it works fine under wine, so does it matter? Also, if you go premium it works without ie6 installed. Your call, but WUU looks to me to be just like WM so far, leech of bandwidth.

Re: Curse client crashes in WIne/Linux

Cathmor — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:15:31 GMT

Isn't WUU just like WM, leeching?

Re: Curse client crashes in WIne/Linux

hdthoreau — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:32:39 GMT

I've gotten a little further with WUU. Requires wxPython. Thanks for the tip.

Re: Curse client crashes in WIne/Linux

karvec — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:46:02 GMT

If you're still having trouble launching after installing IE6 through winetricks, try running via command line at the Curse directory (ie)

karvec@icecube:~$ pkill pulseaudio

karvec@icecube:~$ cd .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Curse/

karvec@icecube:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Curse$ aoss wine CurseClient.exe

In other words, kill pulseaudio and then run aoss in front of wine. I was having some problems myself, and I read this on this forums from http://wow.curse.com/forums/t/75439.aspx :) :)

Hope it works for everyone!! Thanks all!

Re: Curse client crashes in WIne/Linux

divideoverflow — Mon, 04 May 2009 06:20:01 GMT

Being a Wine user, I have to say that installing IE6 just to get the Curse Client working is not an option for me. Sure it can be done as other people have shown here. However, I've read about problems people have had with installing IE on Wine. The results can be pretty bad. I'd prefer to avoid having to delete my .wine directory because IE hosed my Wine registry.

I was using WUU until I found out that the Curse Client wasn't all that evil. I would even put up with the popup advertisement if the client still worked. The Curse client was slick, and worked pretty well under Wine. Unfortunately I'm going to have to go back to WUU until the Curse client's design is modified to run on Wine. It won't surprise me if that never happens of course; Curse has already stated that they had to imbed an IE frame, which means MSHTML.DLL. Wine developers are probably going to have to fix their Gecko adaptation instead.

Re: Curse client crashes in WIne/Linux

scrimpy32 — Sun, 03 May 2009 04:48:10 GMT

IE8 is installed by default in Windows 7 RC and the Final as well with the option to remove if the end user wants to .

this wont change anything.

Im sorry

Re: Curse client crashes in WIne/Linux

kcy29581 — Sun, 03 May 2009 03:07:26 GMT

Kaelten, I understand that you guys do not have a client for Linux. But you need to understand that many Linux users used WowMatrix mainly because it had a native Linux client, and things like this will only annoys those users.

And the workaround is just that, a workaround. I hope that you guys look and see if there is a bug in the client causing the crash, due to the lack of Internet Explorer, and find a solution. Seeing as there is a high chance that IE will not be a mandatory core part of Windows anymore, even Windows users may see this crash; and I bet you wouldn't ask those users to use IE just for your client, right?

Re: Curse client crashes in WIne/Linux

subbass — Sat, 02 May 2009 22:45:22 GMT

Karvec: No, thank you for posting the solution in the first place, I take no credit at all ;)

Re: Curse client crashes in WIne/Linux

karvec — Sat, 02 May 2009 22:31:55 GMT

Hey, subass, thanks for breaking down my "use winetricks to install ie6"... I should've done it myself, but I was feeling lazy. Glad it's working with my fix. Resubmitted to AppDB with Gold rating and fix.