WoW: Forever running on Galaxy Z Fold7 (SM-F966N) - working setup and what did not work

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Sharing a setup that worked on one device, plus what did not. This is a single-device report, not a general fix.

Device and build

• Galaxy Z Fold7 (SM-F966N), Snapdragon 8 Elite / Adreno 830, 11 GB RAM, Android 17
• DroidDeck 0.6.9, then the signed test build of PR fix: refresh repaired components and render Ubisoft Connect #2090 (18db056), which includes fix(battlenet): list World of Warcraft: Forever in the Library #2018 and fix: keep Battle.net games installed inside its folder running #2087
• DroidDeck-Proton 11-12.1 (installed from Components), GPU drivers on Auto
• WoW Forever installed through DroidDeck's Battle.net store, on shared storage (Downloads/Games/Battle.net/World of Warcraft), client build 1.60.1.70790

Symptom

• Battle.net opened normally and WoW's Wow-arm64.exe started, then froze: about 200% CPU, about 1.2 GB RSS, 0 game frames, no Errors/ folder, and the screen stayed on the DroidDeck background.
• Switching to DX11 did not change it: gx.log showed Dx11 Device Create Successful, and it froze at the same point.

What fixed it

1. Battle.net store settings: Start without Steam OFF (launch through Steam).
2. Game profile (World of Warcraft: Forever) > Compatibility > Proton = DroidDeck-Proton 11-12.1. I also set the default profile to it.
3. Battle.net > WoW > Game Settings > additional command line arguments: -d3d11 (the gx.log shows Force API D3D11).
4. Wine sync: esync (set on the Battle.net store profile).

After that WoW reached the character screen and in-game at about 30 fps (1680x720).

Likely cause (not verified)

With "Start without Steam" on, ps showed the Battle.net session running .../ge-GE-Proton11-11-.../proton even after I changed the Proton in the Components page. Launching through Steam showed DroidDeck-Proton 11-12.1/proton, and the freeze went away. I did not isolate whether the Proton version, the Steam path, or the added -d3d11 argument made the difference.

Later: launching without Steam works too

After the first success I turned "Start without Steam" back on. ps then showed DroidDeck-Proton 11-12.1/proton, and WoW reached the character screen with about 60 fps on the screen and about 3 GB free RAM.

• One caveat: the first Play only opened Battle.net. Pressing Play again after Battle.net finished loading (about 100 s) started WoW within about 10 s. My guess is that launch asks Battle.net 3 times at 15 s intervals and those requests run out before the client is ready; I did not confirm this in the logs.

Low-spec settings I used

• Session resolution: 1008x432 (60 fps), then 1260x540
• Config.wtf: graphics preset 1, view distance 0, shadows 0, textures 0, particles 0, farclip 1000, vsync 0, renderScale 0.65, maxFPS 30
• Note: editing Config.wtf while WoW runs gets overwritten on exit, so quit WoW first.

Other notes

• ConsolePort 3.3.13 (Forever build) copied into _forever_/Interface/AddOns; I did not verify it in game.
• adb input events did not register inside the Battle.net window or in-game menus, so those had to be tapped by hand.

Logs available if useful (gx.log, session logs). Happy to test other builds on this device.