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Bwathke
July 25th, 2009, 01:08 AM
OK, so I installed WoW and patched a CENSORED ran it but these are the bad things that happened...

-SLOW FPS
-FIXED
-When I enter the game there is a grey line across my screen in the shape of mountains o.O


I have an Intel Video Card (Dont have specs. but WoW ran PERFECTLY in XP) my dad did something that made my FPS (glxgears) from 70- to 300+ but WoW is really slow how can I fix this? Im using Wine 1.1.26
lestatto
July 25th, 2009, 08:05 AM
You have to get decent ogl driver for your card, and probably lower deatails in-game. Besides, 300+ fps in glgears is not enough for it, with WotLK content WoW goes slow for me, and I get more than 5000fps with proprietary fglrx driver.
Cheers
Bwathke
July 25th, 2009, 01:05 PM
OK, Im not used to Ubuntu so do you mean I should buy a new video driver or chould I change some stuff around? PS I have EVERYTHING down to low :P
Bwathke
July 25th, 2009, 03:23 PM
OK, got a picture of the grey screen thing I was talking about!
hikaricore
July 25th, 2009, 06:11 PM
Your video "hardware" will not work well under Linux most likely.
If you want to play WoW either dual boot or get a real video card.
There are hundreds of threads on the lack of quality in integrated (intel) chipsets so I'm not going to explain the problem again.
Bwathke
July 26th, 2009, 01:37 AM
Yeah Im going to get a 256 MB GeForce Nvidia PCI Card
snargfish
July 26th, 2009, 01:43 AM
Yeah Im going to get a 256 MB GeForce Nvidia PCI Card

You mean PCI-Express yeah?
Bwathke
July 26th, 2009, 11:55 AM
No, I cant use those in my computer just a plain PCI
hikaricore
July 26th, 2009, 05:47 PM
You should consider building a new computer.
Nothing you put in a PCI slot will be very good for WoW.
Trust me... I own a 6200 nvida geforce PCI model which once struggled with WoW.
Or if you have and AGP slot, get AGP... but I still suggest getting new hardware.
Bwathke
July 27th, 2009, 08:18 PM
In windows this was a perfect video card for the games I played but with wine yikes!
hikaricore
July 28th, 2009, 02:53 AM
In windows this was a perfect video card for the games I played but with wine yikes!

That's because Windows has a huge market and Intel designed the "video" hardware to perform with DirectX.
Linux uses OpenGL and the drivers/hardware support are lacking.
lestatius
July 28th, 2009, 06:26 AM
this worked perfectly for me.


https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WorldofWarcraft