World of Warcraft + Wine.

[NiGhtMarEs0nWax]

Hi, with wow under XP, it seems on 40 man content is very laggy, by that i mean it uses a huge amount of my CPU. + i am spending way too much time in windows, more than i would like to be anyway.


i heard that wine + wow can actually improve performance, however i suspect that is in a graphical sense, since my problem is really with my CPU.

this is what i have in my system

AMD Athlon 4000+
ATi HIS Radeon 1900xt (openGL 1.5 drivers)
1.5 Gb PC3200 (400mhz) DDR1 ram.

before i go about spending 10 hours both installing the 20gb game and configuring wine for the first time, do you think i would see any performance benifits? wow can run with OpenGL, but what specification does it make use of?


Thanks

[asdfoo]

Hi, with wow under XP, it seems on 40 man content is very laggy, by that i mean it uses a huge amount of my CPU. + i am spending way too much time in windows, more than i would like to be anyway.


i heard that wine + wow can actually improve performance, however i suspect that is in a graphical sense, since my problem is really with my CPU.

this is what i have in my system

AMD Athlon 4000+
ATi HIS Radeon 1900xt (openGL 1.5 drivers)
1.5 Gb PC3200 (400mhz) DDR1 ram.

before i go about spending 10 hours both installing the 20gb game and configuring wine for the first time, do you think i would see any performance benifits? wow can run with OpenGL, but what specification does it make use of?


Thanks


a) your video card is old so amd/ati do not support it with newest drivers which offer less bugs and better performance
b) to get any last drop of performance, you need to try using the most recent free version of the dri/mesa drivers.

most people find that nvidia offers a better experience because the drivers are more mature

[NiGhtMarEs0nWax]

Thanks, i know that ATi have stopped supporting my card for a while now, both on windows and linux, it has been moved to legacy status.

it's not really graphical rendering that I'm concerned about, it's more the physics of the game, it uses a lot of CPU.

would i see any benefits in terms CPU usage under wine?

[hikaricore]

No it will play just as badly as it does on ***dows.

[Alatar1]

I actually get the same problem, but a friend of mine actually put the hair brained idea in me head, of a startup script/bash script, that you run as a seperate session from GNOME,

Basically a script that will JUST run WoW and the needed things to run it, (wine, Xserver, network manager, etc...)

anyone have any ideas?

[NiGhtMarEs0nWax]

to be honest i think we are both in the same boat. using a trimmed down OS can only do so much, I think its really time to invest in a new system, the amd phenom2 965 + mobo and 4 gigs of reasonably cheap ddr3 ram only comes to about 300 quid, would swap into my current case with my current psu easily enough.

but i will still run it through wine. :D

[Filipek]

Just one note to add. If you have Ubuntu only as a separate partition on your XP machine, you don't have to install WoW again. It could be easily run from your ntfs/fat32 folder.

[NiGhtMarEs0nWax]

how? using sym links? can they cross filesystems?