Double your framerate in WoW under Wine
I found some tweaks regarding, specifically, WoW under Wine from: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install...raft_with_wine
Tweak #1 has proven to work for me. Tweak #2 has proven NOT to work for me.
Tweak #1
The following from http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=5606 , a simple registry edit for Wine that dramatically increases the framerate in game for both ATi and nVidia users (reportedly, I have only verified with nVidia using Wine 0.9.22):
Find HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\
Highlight the wine folder in the left hand pane by clicking left on it. The icon should change to an open folder
Click right on the wine folder and select [NEW] then [KEY]
Replace the text "New Key #1" with OpenGL
Click right in the right hand pane and select [NEW] then [String Value]
Replace "New Value #1" with "DisabledExtensions"
(Notice it's case sensitive)
Then double click anywhere on the line, a dialog box will open.
In the value field type "GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object" (without the quotes).
Here's what regedit should look like once you have finished adding this new key and it's value.
http://appdb.winehq.org/appimage.php?iId=4640
Tweak #2
Another tweak you can use from http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=5606 , the idea is to create a script which will allow you to launch WoW on a dedicated X server, and will give you a little boost of FPS.
Code:
nano -w ~/launch-wow.sh
Put this content in your newly created file: ~/launch-wow.sh
Code:
#!/bin/sh
X :3 -ac & # Launches a new X session on display 3
cd "~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft" # Goto WoW dir
sleep 2 # Forces the system to have a break for 2 seconds
DISPLAY=:3 /usr/X11R6/bin/wine WoW.exe -opengl # Launches WoW
Press Ctrl+o then Ctrl+w in order to save your file & quit nano.
Don't forget to make your script executable :
Code:
chmod +x ~/launch-wow.sh
Using a nVidia GeForce4 420 Go 32MB on a Toshiba Laptop, I managed to get a performance boost of about 10-15 FPS (I had 10-15 before doing this and now I have about 25-30 FPS, 15-20 in Orgrimmar).
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I think the boost from both of these is simply that they turn on opengl... which I didn't even think was a problem in wine 9.25?
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The first tweak appears on Wine's site: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=5606
for version 0.9.25. If it wasn't for version 0.9.25 then I might agree, but until I can test them myself tonight I won't know for sure.
The second tweak should work regardless of what version of Wine you're running.
- Z
Re: Double your framerate in WoW under Wine
Tweak #1 works under at LEAST wine 0.9.22, 0.9.24, and 0.9.25. The LOCATION of the registry edit has changed for 0.9.25 and that is reflected on that link you posted
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=5606
I have used that one personally and even though it was originally intended to help solve a corrupted text issue with ATI cards, it was apparently discovered that it also significantly improves the frame rates on nVidia cards as well. I have an nVidia card and I can confirm that it does in fact just about double your frame rate in WoW. Depending on where you are in the game it can go more than double or a little less than double. I have seen 80fps while standing at the Great Forge in Ironforge at the flight path there. Outside with more stuff to draw I am typically at around 55-60fps. I have an nVidia 7300GT with 512MB so it's not as fast as some of the newer cards, but it does fine in WoW for me.
That Tweak #2 I had not seen. I may try that one later tonight.
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worked a treat, thank you, fps has gone up loads :)
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Confirmed: Tweak #1 works - truly did double my framerate.
Tweak #2 does NOT work, for me anyway.
- Z
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Tweak 1 worked for me, I can not have my shaders on with out it going all wacked.
As for tweak 2, I won't try that one. I found one like it on the internet.
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Hmm. I tried both tweaks with a fresh install of Ubuntu 6.10 and the latest Wine. Tweak #1 did improve my FPS by quite a bit. Tweak #2 did nothing for FPS, but it did seem to fix a glitch I was having with autorun. I have MOUSE4 bound to Autorun. Before tweak #2, any further keyboard input (such as direction changes) while autorunning would cancel the autorun. That got mighty annoying let me tell you. Now it seems to be fixed. So yay, thanks a lot.
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Code:
drezliok@TuxEater:~$ wow
X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting.
cd: 5: can't cd to ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft
wine: could not load L"c:\\windows\\system32\\WoW.exe": Module not found
Maybe whit link would help but I don't understand it.
http://www.winehq.com/pipermail/wine...ly/022814.html