Howto: WOW with Wine (help.ubuntu.com/community/WorldofWarcraft)

[TidusBlade]

I dont really know the cause of this but you can try looking around the nVidia settings and the WoW video settings if you haven't already.

[oneofthemany]

Thanks. I have had a good look at both but can't find anything that makes any difference.

[TidusBlade]

By comparing the 2 pictures, I would say, try changing the gamma in the game, could at least maybe make it abit more similar?

[Can+~]

The main difference I see, is the purplish fog of the night elves. Is there a fog checkbox? or a file in there with a "fog=0"?
*edit* Taking a closer look, I noticed that trees (meshes/props, however blizzard names it) are fogged, terrain is not. Maybe a "TerrainFog = 0"?

[tatrefthekiller]

Are you playing both in OpenGL mode ?
I'm playing Warcraft on Windows (directX) and Ubuntu (OpenGL) and the colors of the game are differents, particularlythe fog..

[TheChaos0]

Hey guys, I currently (although been trying in the past but more so actively now ) trying to get my WoW to work properly in my Ubuntu (Gusty now). I have installed and successfully run the game, problem is, while at some places my FPS is MUCH higher than anything I got in Windows (max in windows 80, max in Linux at same place 110) yet in general it is low.

I have tried the Regedit tweak but it only resulted in wooping 5fps performance increase. My specs are:

Dual Core AMD 2800+ (me finks )
Nvidia Geforce 7600 GT (driver version 100.14.19)
2 gig of RAM
Nforce4 motherboard
Wine version 0.9.47

My xorg.conf looks like:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen         "Default Screen" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"
    InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"
EndSection

Section "Files"

	# path to defoma fonts
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
    FontPath        "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "i2c"
    Load           "bitmap"
    Load           "ddc"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "int10"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "vbe"
    Load           "xkb"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Generic Keyboard"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "CoreKeyboard"
    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "gb, ru"
    Option         "XkbOptions" "grp:ctrl_shift_toggle"
    Option         "XkbVariant" ",winkeys"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Configured Mouse"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "CorePointer"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Generic Monitor"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 51.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 60.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Generic Video Card"
    Driver         "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Default Screen"
    Device         "Generic Video Card"
    Monitor        "Generic Monitor"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "RenderAccel" "true"
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       1
        Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       4
        Modes      "1200x800" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes      "1200x800" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       15
        Modes      "1200x800" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes      "1200x800" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1200x800" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

My config.wtf looks like:

SET readTOS "1"
SET readEULA "1"
SET readScanning "-1"
SET readContest "-1"
SET locale "enGB"
SET hwDetect "0"
SET gxColorBits "24"
SET gxDepthBits "24"
SET gxResolution "1152x864"
SET gxRefresh "60"
SET gxMultisample "1"
SET gxMultisampleQuality "0.000000"
SET fullAlpha "1"
SET SmallCull "0.010000"
SET DistCull "500.000000"
SET farclip "777"
SET specular "1"
SET particleDensity "1.000000"
SET unitDrawDist "300.000000"
SET movie "0"
SET expansionMovie "0"
SET realmList "eu.logon.worldofwarcraft.com"
SET SoundOutputSystem "1"
SET SoundBufferSize "100"
SET gxApi "opengl"
SET doodadAnim "0"
SET patchlist "eu.version.worldofwarcraft.com"
SET accountName ""
SET showToolsUI "1"
SET gxCursor "0"
SET Gamma "1.000000"
SET MusicVolume "1"
SET SoundVolume "0.60000002384186"
SET MasterVolume "1"
SET weatherDensity "3"
SET realmName "Draenor"
SET gameTip "37"
SET AmbienceVolume "0.60000002384186"
SET uiScale "0.81999999284744"
SET mouseSpeed "1"
SET SoundUseHardware "0"
SET cameraYawMoveSpeed "270"
SET cameraYawSmoothSpeed "180"
SET cameraDistanceMaxFactor "1"
SET SoundZoneMusicNoDelay "1"
SET assistAttack "1"
SET coresDetected "2"
SET readTerminationWithoutNotice "1"
SET Sound_VoiceChatInputDriverName ""
SET Sound_VoiceChatOutputDriverName "Realtek ALC655 rev 0"
SET Sound_OutputDriverName "Realtek ALC655 rev 0"
SET Sound_MasterVolume "1"
SET Sound_SFXVolume "1"
SET Sound_MusicVolume "0.40000000596046"
SET Sound_AmbienceVolume "0.60000002384186"
SET minimapInsideZoom "0"
SET useWeatherShaders "0"
SET frillDensity "48"
SET pixelShaders "1"
SET ShowTargetCastbar "1"
SET ShowVKeyCastbar "1"
SET UnitNameNPC "1"
SET autoSelfCast "1"
SET ChatMusicVolume "0.30000001192093"
SET ChatSoundVolume "0.40000000596046"
SET ChatAmbienceVolume "0.30000001192093"
SET OutboundChatVolume "1"
SET InboundChatVolume "1"
SET VoiceActivationSensitivity "0.40000003576279"
SET shadowLevel "0"
SET anisotropic "16"
SET Sound_EnableAllSound "0"
SET shadowLOD "0"
SET lastCharacterIndex "3"

Not sure what else to include

I would love to play WoW on Ubuntu, my Windows installation is haunted by error 132, which I am yet to see while playing on Ubuntu

Any ideas why I am getting rather bad FPS?

[foxy123]

Well, it's all explained in the title. It was fine on Feisty but after the upgrade to Gutsy it started to switch off the PC. Any help?

[jfarhou]

I think I am having the exact same problem. Anytime I'm playing any 3d game my computer simply turns itself off with no error message.

[posterberg]

Im having the same problem, i want to apport my X logs errors. Currently using last propietary ati driver.

I have the same problem. The WoW log in screen looked the way it is supposed to look before I applied the Burning Crusade update. My screen looks exactly as the one posted above after installing Burning Crusade.
I have tried fiddeling alot with Config.wtf without success.

Running latest ATI prop driver, not using XGL. Compiz Fusion turned off so it is pure Metacity but nothing seem to resolve this....

Any suggestions are most welcome!

[oni5115]

Just wanted to post a thanks. I was having issues using the current Ubuntu wine 0.9.46 on Gutsy, while using Compiz-Fusion. Everything ran fine, until I switched workspaces, and the game would disapear (though the process would still be running O.o ).

Running in windowed mode and setting a keyboard short cut to switch to full screen mode works perfectly.

Now to get Ventrillo working...