https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53896
Bug ID: 53896 Summary: World of Warcraft (Turtle WoW variant) often on start completely freezes my laptop Product: Wine Version: 7.20 Hardware: x86-64 OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org Reporter: wine_bugzilla@sctb.ch Distribution: ---
So, I've been running the original World of Warcraft 1.12.1 for many years, and for about a year now, the variant of this which the Turtle WoW team have been modifying.
As of about two weeks ago, starting WoW often - not always, and I think I can normally get *one* start okay - completely and totally locks up my laptop.
Even the caps-lock key light stops working. I have to reboot.
There was no release from Turtle WoW at this time. I regularly update my laptop, so I can't say what was or was not changed in Debian/XFCE around that time.
I will note one other potentially related issue, as it may be help to know of it it used to be that I could alt-tab in and out of WoW just fine (well, almost fine - after about five or so swaps, the textures on the environment would all go black), but recently - I would say for a bit longer than the freezing up problem - if I alt-tab out now, then when I come back, everything is a mess. All the textures, the lighting, it's all garbled.
This is all in full-screen mode. I'm using XFCE on Debian. The other apps I use with WINE are desktop apps (a text editor, a calculator), and they have no problems. I use no other graphics-using software on WINE.
1. Linux book9 5.18.0-0.deb11.4-rt-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_RT Debian 5.18.16-1~bpo11+1 (2022-08-12) x86_64 GNU/Linux
2. It's quite an old laptop, a Samsung ATIV book 9, using an i5-5200U.