World of Warships & Linux (guide)

[kodos]

-create a new 64-bit Wineprefix

-use wine version 3.15 or higher (using wine-staging or proton if you like)

-install vcrun 2015, msxml6, corefonts via winetricks

-set winecfg to win8.1 or win10 (the game won't start with anything else)

-emulate a virtual desktop and activate catch mouse (deactivate the other two)

-install game client

-pause the client and close it to finish the installation

-start the launcher again and download & update the game (deactivate torrent, edit launcher settings to disable unlimited speed to prevent it from crashing)

-optional: "winetricks dxvk" to run the game with directX11 (you need vulkan, see link below)

-play the game

 

to use directX 11 with dxvk:

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk

 

if you want to use Wargaming Game Center, best way is to install WoWS with the standard client, make a new wineprefix and install WGC there (winetricks msxml6 vcrun2015 mfc40 mfc42 dxvk, winecfg win7) and link your WoWS installation to the WGC for future updates

 

old settings:

Spoiler

 

-create a new 32-Bit wine prefix

-recommend using a staging version of wine 1.7.40 or higher

-install d3dx9, d3dcompiler43, vcrun2008, msxml6, dotnet3.5sp1, wininet, via winetricks

-set winecfg to winxp or win7 (winxp will only allow low texture quality, win7 needs wine 1.9.3 or newer)

-emulate a virtual desktop and catch mouse (unmark the other two)

-install game client

-let the launcher download & update the game (deactivate torrent, edit launcher.cfg and set "launcher_transport 2")

-set DirectDraw Renderer to opengl, Offscreen-Rendering-Modus to fpo and disable StrictDrawOrdering

-disable post processing in the game setting (otherwise the map "great race" is black)

-play the game

 

notes:

- tested wine version: 1.7.24, 1.7.31, 1.7.34, 1.7.38, and staging version of 1.7.40 and higher, (full screen mouse only works with wine staging 1.7.40+)

- I recommend to use playonlinux because it is easier to manage different prefixes and wine versions

- the installation takes some time (wait and do not quit it)

-disable Reflection to avoid graphic glitches

-I did not test mouse behaviour in full screen mode without virtual desktop

 

 

my System:

Linux Mint 19

i5-6600k, RX570, 16GB RAM

the game workes fine with 75-100 fps with medium/high settings

[Vuurdraak_]

 

I have WoT running in Linux, so I'm assuming the same stuff is needed for WoWS.

 

The Installer runs, but what ever Wine version from PoL I try, I get an error that the disk is full, how ever 19 Gig of space is still free.

This happens after all the patch files are downloaded.

While WoWS updater is running, I can no longer create files in to the Wine directory where WoWS is installed from nautilus, until I close WoWS, and only then I can create files/directories again.

 

I have no clue how Wine could be blocking other Linux programs in to thinking a non full disk is now full.

 

I have been trying to find a recent patch, where you can download the whole game from the website for offline updating, but i can't find anything.

 

I have no idea what is going on.

 

 

[Vuurdraak_]

I cheated and installed the game in Windows 7, on a for Linux accessible NTFS drive.

I had to re-install all over again, as even Windows wasn't able to finish the halve finished Linux install.

 

Wine 1.7.31-CSMT-3f0bf73 from PoL is able to run the game at highest settings, 16 to 60 fps.

Using an AMD Phenom II x4 965 @ 3.5Ghz, 12GB RAM & Geforce 660 GTX on Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS 32bit

 

I have set max settings for everything but Sea Rendering Quality & Reflections, I turned Sea Rendering Quality  to Medium & Reflections to Off, to get all the distortions away on the sea, and also Post Processing to Off.

 

The Effects Preset & Quality and Sky and Clouds Quality seem to be stuck at low settings, when ever I set them high and go to the game and back to settings, the settings have been set to low again, the same seems to happen to Texture Quality, which is stuck at low.

 

I get roughly 15 to 30 fps at these settings.

Strangely enough I went back and forth between this post and the game and while in spectator mode I suddenly got 40 to 76 fps, not sure why the fps was down so much before and it's now way up high.

 

 

[Darky_007]

Does is work with GPL drivers?

[kodos]

At the moment I am testing the difference between 32bit und 64bit wineprefix (because IE8 is no longer needed 64bit should work)

 

Some notes:

- newer (staging versions) of wine remove the mouse bug and the game is playable in fullscreen

- the game starts freezing from time to time if wine is set to win7 and or ocean rendering is something else than low (new bug since update 4.1)

- staging version with CSMT enabled increase fps a lot (from average 20 to 60 on my system)

 

Does is work with GPL drivers?

 

It should but fps maybe lower

[kodos]

updated first post

[meanbeanz]

hi new to linux so not to sure what you guys are talking about, can someone do me a step by step guide for dummies so i can play this game as i have been waiting for this game for a long time i am running mint 17.2

[St0osh]

I followed the procedure and succeeded in installing the game. However the launcher gets stuck in a non responsive white screen that shows the logo and some links to settings, pause, resume, play, ...

 

What causes this?

Maybe one of the winetricks dll's did not install correctly?

[kodos]

First try to disable the torrent download (which is the main source of launcher problems with WG games)

 

Go into the game directory, search the file "WoWSLauncher.cfg" and open it with a text editor
Set "launcher_transport" to 2
Set "seeding_mode" to 0

[Nori_Yasu]

St0osh

hi.

i saw yesterday same screen.

may be you need check wine version.

distribution default install wine is very older.

 

and dotnet install fast 2.0.  after install to dotnet 3.0.

 

[javanse]

Hi, i have the problem that i cannot press two keys at the same time. When i turn with d or a i cannot go in zoom or out of the zoom with shift. How can i fix this? i use play on linux with the newest mint version.

[kodos]

what have you installed via winetricks and which version of wine do you use?

I cannot reproduce this bug without more detailed information

 

PS:

german topic is this one

http://forum.worldofwarships.eu/index.php?/topic/7790-world-of-warships-linux-guide/

[indycar]

STICKY

[javanse]

I use playonlinux with wine 1.7.55. I dont have installed anything on winetricks.

Direct draw renderer: opengl

Offscren rendering mode: fbo

strict draw ordering: off

 

 

[kodos]

please try a newer version of wine (1.9.3 or 1.9.4)

[ivarls]

how to get fps range 50-60 on playonlinux ?

computer specification amd FX-6300, vga GTX 650, ram 8gb

setting on playonlinux

 

[kodos]

you need a staging version of wine (and enable csmt in winecfg under the staging tab)

[DuckHuntPr0]

It's a shame that WG can not come with native linux client. Eventhough Wine works quite perfectly to run both tanks and warships..

[DuckHuntPr0]

how to get fps range 50-60 on playonlinux ?

computer specification amd FX-6300, vga GTX 650, ram 8gb

setting on playonlinux

 

 

 

Here is my settings, on much slower computer  ( i can not get 60 even if i tried, but i get decent fps that i dont notice much problem)

Linux Mint Mate x64

Wine 1.9.5 (chosen from PlayOnLinux wine version manager) With 1.7 or 1.8 from apt-get however, i get garbled sound and music.

GLSL enabled and DirectDrawRendered set to opengl, all else to "default".

 

NOTE: If the installing/updating often crashes during download and updating, go to WoWS launcher Settings menu and turn off seeding, OR better yet download the patches into 'updates' folder with a torrent client, before running the Launcher. (the .torrent files are found in 'updates' folder, as they appear).

 

Every in-game setting on low in 1440x900 fullscreen on slow computer, Quad Core and dual nvidia 9600GT (Wine is bad at SLI btw, if at all)  but its highly playable here imo, and yours should have no problem)

 

Skål! 

[lefol196]

 

Hi, I have a problem after the updates are done. Once I click on Play in the updater, it crashed with an "unhandheld exception: page fault on read access in 32 bit code". 
I installed it using playonlinux and the guide posted on Wows forums. 
Any ideas what may causes this? 


I'm on centos 64bits with amd proprietary drivers installed

 

[kodos]

please start the depugger so see which file it is

seems like yourcsystem is missing some 32 bit files

[lefol196]

Some updates, the game seems to launch randomly, managed to launch it 2 times whereas i've tried more than a hundreds time.

I'll join the log of the playonlinux.

playonlinux.log

[Mark_Smiley]

I am having a shading issue in the game when running it on  Linux mint. I have everything working right I get black spots like for shading. I have a gtx960 graphic card and everything seems to be working fine but I cant the screen resolutions that I get on the windows 10 version. I have a acer k242HQL monitor. Any help would be nice.  

[G3Virus]

Ever since 0.5.5 the game crashes randomly when selecting "to port". Now with 0.5.7 it crashes  every time when going back to port, no exceptions. I cant select battle on because that also crashes so I have to RESTART the game EVERY match! Annoying as hell.

EVERY PATCH the game gets more and more broken under wine.

One or more patches and it wont run any more.

 

Currently running Wine staging 1.9.11 on Gentoo Linux amd64.

 

A linux port is DESPERATELY NEEDED WG!

[kodos]

At the moment I try to what exactly causes this error.

It is related to .net 3.5 (you need wine 1.5.18 or lower to install it correctly) and with the setup of ingame settings.

 

It need more testing, but it seems that deactivating post processing causes the "out of memory error" (at least the one that appears every single match).

(did not play any low tier games with PP enabled to see if "Big Race" Map is still black with wine 1.9.X)