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

[wolfe]

People in different sources suggest that one try this in xorg.conf in the driver section.

Option "Capabilities" "0x00000800"
Option "UseFastTLS" "0"
Option "KernelModuleParm" "locked-userpages=0"


It is supposed to solve sudden hangs with the fglrx driver. I haven't had those problems myself but I hope it can help you!

I use an nvidia card, I thought fglrx was an ati/amd thing, I could be wrong though.

[posterberg]

Switching off Vertex Shaders really works. Everything is rendered now.
Unfortunately frame rate is really low without this option.
With 8.40 I get between 20 and 30 FPS, qiet playable.
But with 8.42 and without vertex shader I get around 5 FPS...
...and I hoped to get an increase in frame rate with the new driver.

I'm wondering why some of you really seam to have this increase. What am I doing wrong?

I seem to suffer from the same problem as you do if I run in fullscreen mode. It works perfectly well when I run in windowed mode.

I also have some problems if Compiz fusion is active when I play. Still good FPS but the screen blinks. So I switch to metacity before I start the game.

I have no idea if everything works better with the old driver and Xgl but I prefer not installing Xgl so I have nothing to compare with.

[posterberg]

I use an nvidia card, I thought fglrx was an ati/amd thing, I could be wrong though.

You are right, fglrx as ATI. Sorry about hte misunderstanding and for not being able to help.

[buddyrandom]

Compiz (on Gutsy) requires "ati" driver
World of Warcraft pretty much requires "fglrx"

Any way to resolve this at the moment without toggling the driver and rebooting? I have no problem turning off Compiz effects before starting up games, but the frame rate is far too low to be playable - the login screen barely loads)

http://www.formatds.org/ati-8423-is-out-aiglx-support/

For compiz to work do the following:

sudo gedit /etc/xdg/compiz/compiz-manager

and add the line

WHITELIST=”nvidia intel ati radeon i810 fglrx”

[Crafty Kisses]

http://www.formatds.org/ati-8423-is-out-aiglx-support/

Thanks!

[Scooter7]

Hi,

I'm trying to apply the 2.2.0 patch, but when I run it in Wine, it says 'Sorry, the installer was unable to start up. You may be out of hard drive space'.

I have 11.2 GB of free space on my root partition, but my WoW install is on a ext3 partition on my external hard drive (all my partitions are on it), with 215.7 GB of free space.

Could this be because my home partition (where wine's C:\ drive is), only has 190.3 MB free?

[-gabe-noob-]

Ok so I kinda got World of Warcraft running when I hat Feisty but I had to do a Fresh install for Gibbon so I had to re install wow aswell. (didnt back it up. Anyways let me get to the point. I installed wow easly again then made a Config.wtf file (because thats the only way I could get the movies to stop making the game crash) So when I use Open Gl mode Wow is very slow, So I played around with my config and just decided to remove the OpenGl line. This worked and the game ran (or just the first screen) without the lag I had before and I thought everything was fixed, so I proceded to log in. when I loaded up my character everything was going fine but then as the loading screen got to 100 percent it did not go into the game world I was forced to force quit the program. Any Ideas on how to fix this? Thanks for any and all replies.

[happysmileman]

You sure you have the correct graphics drivers? do other OpenGL programs work without lag?

[-gabe-noob-]

I'm not sure which programs use open gl But I play Alein Arena and I think thats OpenGl, but is there any way to make the loading screens work because not having anything enterd in that line makes it less laggy.

[jaytek13]

I have the same exact problem. Direct3d and wine worked fine in 7.04 but now I can't get it past the loading screen and desperately want to. I don't have many FPS issues with using opengl but experience severe mouse lag with it, and other people have reported using D3D solves this problem because you can enable hardware cursor.