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

[theandyman]

Hi, ok so I can load some but not all of my chars in wow but the ones I can load the graphics is still insanely slow. I'm on a laptop with only Intel 950 graphics, think that's just onboard graphics if I'm not mistaken... I have Intel core 2 duo 1.66ghz processor and 2.2gb ram so it's def not a memory issue and it worked fine in windows.

Does anyone know if there's a compatibility issue with Intel graphics please?

Thanks.

[SmarterThanMyPhone]

I followed the guides, and still have a problem with the login box being solid black. This is with the current patch of Wrath of the Litch King.
I am running an HP dv5220us
1.6G centrino Duo
1G ram
Intel 945g mobile
Ubuntu 8.10

I ran it on the same machine with windows XP if that makes a difference at all.

[spaceghoti]

use this on the command line:
sudo umount /media/cdrom <--if the cdrom is mounted-->
sudo mount -t iso9660 -o ro,unhide /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0/

that will mount the disk so that the mpq files are visible on linux and may be copied to the directory that you're installing wow from. funny thing is that my roommates bought wotlk and couldnt see any of the files on the cd in their cdrom dir on windows but i could see all the files using this command without the "-t iso9660" part of the command.

So, I gave this a try. I got the following:

me:~/.wine/drive_c$ sudo mount -t iso9660 -o ro,unhide /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd0,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

Any other suggestions?

[sirthorn]

Any other suggestions?

Try this:

sudo mount -t udf -o ro,unhide /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0

Might not make any difference at all, but it's worth a shot.

[spaceghoti]

Try this:

sudo mount -t udf -o ro,unhide /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0

Might not make any difference at all, but it's worth a shot.

That worked. I'm able to run the Installer.exe. However, it gets so far as to ask me what language to use, then hangs indefinitely. If I run

wine Installer.exe -opengl

or use -d3d it tells me it can't see the media files.

[Shnifty]

For all of you ATI people out there, I was getting black game windows and ATI doesn't have an official driver for my card yet. I downloaded the newest proprietary driver for linux that they had and now WoW is working. I'm running 8.10 an wine 1.0.1 The only problem is that the Mini Map goes white while indoors. Not a huge problem.

Occasionally the sound will cut out on me at random and I'll have to restart the game to get it back. I probably have something configured wrong.

[justinjoseph24]

For issues with Mouse issue: Left button + Right button = Middle button, please see: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/50403

[Kingpatzer]

I have a Intel macbook I'd like to try Ubuntu on, but only if I can play WoW. I have all the confidence in the world that Wine will do it for me, but my big question is if I can use the same activation keys for my current WoW installation or if I'd have to buy another?

[ajackson]

The activation key is for the account, what version of the game you have (Mac or Windows) doesn't matter.

[Kingpatzer]

The activation key is for the account, what version of the game you have (Mac or Windows) doesn't matter.

So if I understand that correctly: i can re-install the same disks I used, and all I'll need is my user name and password for my account?