Double your framerate in WoW under Wine

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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):

regedit

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.

nano -w ~/launch-wow.sh

Put this content in your newly created file: ~/launch-wow.sh

#!/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 :

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).