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

[-gabe-noob-]

Did you have graphics distorsion too? I had that when running in Open Gl

[jaytek13]

No, I really didn't have any other problems besides the mouse lag. The performance was poor with opengl, especially in comparison to windows, but I could just turn the settings down and didn't really care. This mouse lag is ridiculous, though.

And there are posts about this in the wine db but no one has posted a solution there, either. And it wouldn't seem to be a wine specific problem because as I said I was using d3d fine in 7.04 and other wine/wow users are using d3d just fine.

[-gabe-noob-]

Kk I'm still having trouble and I've found out new things. First off when you take out the Open Gl line it just runs in D3D, I found this out by running the game in D3d and the same thing happend as when I removed the Open Gl line. the first two screens ran beautifully then on the loading screen it gets the 100% and hangs I let it be for a little and when I came back it said "criticle error" it was one of those messages that tells you to send. Does any one know if theres any way to stop it from hanging on the loading screens?

[Callius]

I've managed to get WoW running using an ATI card with the latest drivers.

However, whenever I make changes to my video settings in game it locks up and doesn't do anything for several minutes. I can eventually kill the process, however any changes I made are not saved once I do that.

Is there any way I can change the level of character detail to low using the Config.wtf?

Or

Is there any way I can get around this crash?

Thanks

[kr0n1x]

Gutsy users don't need to add the repository...

wine is already in the universe repo of Ubuntu Gutsy

[hikaricore]

Gutsy users don't need to add the repository...

wine is already in the universe repo of Ubuntu Gutsy

However to keep an up to date version of WINE, obviously the repo is useful.

The version in the universe repo now is the same version that will be there for the extent of Gutsy's existence.

^_^

[kr0n1x]

However to keep an up to date version of WINE, obviously the repo is useful.

The version in the universe repo now is the same version that will be there for the extent of Gutsy's existence.

^_^

ehehe ok

[posterberg]

I've managed to get WoW running using an ATI card with the latest drivers.

However, whenever I make changes to my video settings in game it locks up and doesn't do anything for several minutes. I can eventually kill the process, however any changes I made are not saved once I do that.

Is there any way I can change the level of character detail to low using the Config.wtf?

Or

Is there any way I can get around this crash?

Thanks

There is a slight risk that you need the WoW plugin "ApplyToForehead". It's supposed to prevent WoW from freezing after changing stuff graphics settings.

It works for me...

[Joebob06]

I have an ati x300 series card, and I upgraded to the 8.42.3 drivers and wow seems Jumpy every 3 seconds. I have 1.5g of ram. amd 3500+ processor. and fps is running at about 20 instead of 8-10 with old driver.

Turning on the Vertex shaders makes it so I can't see half the objects in the world. So is there any way to Stop the 3 second jumps from happening? Nice value of -15 already and minimal video settings.

[jeff.sadowski]

Clarification needed
between step 4 and 5
I assume the new string value goes in the OpenGL key?

1. Find this key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\
2. Highlight the wine folder in the left hand pane by clicking left on it. The icon should change to an open folder
3. Click right on the wine folder and select [NEW] then [KEY]
4. Replace the text New Key #1 with OpenGL
5. Click right in the right hand pane and select [NEW] then [String Value]
6. Replace New Value #1 with DisabledExtensions (Notice it's case sensitive!)
7. Then double click anywhere on the line, a dialog box will open.
8. In the value field type GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object

Also what to do when running wincfg?
just exit?
what version of windows emulation works best 2000 xp?