World of Warcraft on ATI 200M?

[snowpalmer]

I have been trying to get World of Warcraft working well on my laptop for about a month now with little success. I don't have any problems installing or getting into the game. The problem that I find is that it is very very slow. About 1/3 of what I can do in windows on the same machine. Is this expected? I thought people here had WoW working in wine with comparable speeds?

My Machine
Compaq R4000
Ati Xpress 200M 128Meg Sideport (used with 128 shared ram using the 8.24.8 drivers)
1.25 Gigs of ram
4200 60 Gig hard drive.

Software
Ubuntu Dapper 6.06
Wine 0.9.18 (I have tried the patched 0.9.17 as well.)

The only thing I have under windows now is WoW and I'd like to remove it if possible. Any ideas? Is this expected?

Snowpalmer

[sgtBiafra]

Perhaps you are attempting to run it in Direct3d mode. Have you tried starting the game like so?

"wine WoW.exe -opengl"

You might also be running sound without hitching it into something native to Linux (i.e. OSS or ALSA). You should do a search here for "warcraft" as well as on the Ubuntu Wiki. A lot of folks have done some good research on this.

[snowpalmer]

"wine WoW.exe -opengl"

The opengl mode works much worse than Direct3D. The mouse is really really choppy and the FPS is about the same.

You might also be running sound without hitching it into something native to Linux (i.e. OSS or ALSA). You should do a search here for "warcraft" as well as on the Ubuntu Wiki. A lot of folks have done some good research on this.

I have tried several different ways with the sound, ALSA, OSS, No Sound, nice -n 19. Sound doesn't seem to be the reason why it's slow. I have read through pages and pages of posts here along with the information that is written on the wiki about it. Most of the information seems to relate to just getting it installed and working, which I don't have a problem with.

[snowpalmer]

Just for some more information. My 3D seems to be working just fine. Other than the fact that Warcraft III (wine) and Quake 3 (native) work fine here are some other tests.

glxgears

8303 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1660.490 FPS
8304 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1660.788 FPS
8304 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1660.689 FPS
8304 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1660.655 FPS
8289 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1657.657 FPS

fgl_glxgears

1366 frames in 5.0 seconds = 273.200 FPS
1355 frames in 5.0 seconds = 271.000 FPS
1353 frames in 5.0 seconds = 270.600 FPS
1361 frames in 5.0 seconds = 272.200 FPS
1363 frames in 5.0 seconds = 272.600 FPS

Quake 3

timedemo 1
demo four
---
result: 126 fps

glxinfo | grep rendering

direct rendering: Yes

[dantum]

Hi, I too have a similar spec laptop with 200M card. The card seems to work fine and the latest drivers have improved and solved some previous issues. But the game crashes the moment i get into the world.

I have latest wine build from source and i tried it on a nvidia desktop i have at home. It works great. Perfomance is better than on Cedega.

I was wondering what xorg.conf you are running and what is your wow config.wtf file looks like.

Post them here and we can compare notes.

Config.wtf

SET gxApi "opengl"
SET anisotropic "0"
SET gxColorBits "24"
SET gxDepthBits "24"
SET gxResolution "800x600"
SET gxRefresh "60"
SET movie "0"
SET hwDetect "0"
SET gxMultisampleQuality "0.000000"
SET gxFixLag "0"
SET lodDist "100.000000"
SET SmallCull "0.070000"
SET DistCull "450.000000"
SET farclip "350.000000"
SET particleDensity "1.000000"
SET unitDrawDist "300.000000"
SET readTOS "1"
SET readEULA "1"
SET realmList "eu.logon.worldofwarcraft.com"
SET doodadAnim "0"
SET lastCharacterIndex "2"
SET MusicVolume "0"
SET SoundVolume "0"
SET SoundOutputSystem "7"
SET SoundBufferSize "150"
SET MasterVolume "1"
SET EnableMusic "0"
SET realmName "Aszune"
SET gameTip "23"
SET AmbienceVolume "0.60000002384186"
SET gxCursor "0"
SET spellEffectLevel "0"
SET M2UseShaders "0"
SET Gamma "1.000000"
SET weatherDensity "0"
SET useWeatherShaders "0"
SET ffx "0"
SET ffxDeath "0"
SET ffxGlow "0"
SET uiScale "1"
SET readScanning "-1"
SET readContest "-1"
SET gxWindow "1"
SET fullAlpha "1"
SET trilinear "1"
SET frillDensity "12"
SET MasterSoundEffects "0"


xorg.conf:

Section "Device"

# Driver "ati"
Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Xpress 200M (RS480)"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
BusID "PCI:1:5:0"

[gabrielsaldana]

Dude! Your Config.wtf worked like a charm for me. I have the patched Wine 0.9.22 and have the same card ATI Radeon Xpress 200m and in my xorg.conf i have this:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Xpress 200M (RS480)"
    Driver      "fglrx"
    Option        "ForceMonitors" "lvds,crt1"
    Option        "DesktopSetup" "clone"
    BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "no_accel" "no"
Option "no_dri" "no"
Option "DynamicClocks" "on"
Option "mtrr" "on"
Option "DesktopSetup" "Single"
Option "ScreenOverlap" "0"
Option "Capabilities" "0x00000000"
Option "CapabilitiesEx" "0x00000000"
Option "CenterMode" "off"
Option "PseudoColorVisuals" "off"
   Option  "Stereo" "off"
   Option  "StereoSyncEnable" "1"
   Option  "FSAAEnable" "no"
   Option  "FSAAScale" "1"
   Option  "FSAADisableGamma" "no"
   Option  "FSAACustomizeMSPos" "no"
   Option  "FSAAMSPosX0" "0.000000"
   Option  "FSAAMSPosY0" "0.000000"
   Option  "FSAAMSPosX1" "0.000000"
   Option  "FSAAMSPosY1" "0.000000"
   Option  "FSAAMSPosX2" "0.000000"
   Option  "FSAAMSPosY2" "0.000000"
   Option  "FSAAMSPosX3" "0.000000"
   Option  "FSAAMSPosY3" "0.000000"
   Option  "FSAAMSPosX4" "0.000000"
   Option  "FSAAMSPosY4" "0.000000"
   Option  "FSAAMSPosX5" "0.000000"
   Option  "FSAAMSPosY5" "0.000000"
   Option  "UseFastTLS" "0"
   Option  "BlockSignalsOnLock" "on"
   Option  "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
   Option  "ForceGenericCPU" "no"
   Option  "KernelModuleParm" "agplock=0"
   Option  "PowerState" "1"
   Option  "RenderAccel" "false"
   Option  "backingstore" "true"
   Option  "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true" 
EndSection

Using fglrx 8.29.6

I havent tested entering the world because Im at school behind a firewall, but I'll post the results tonight.

Before I had trouble with the -opengl option, running on -d3d with the image displaced and a black square at the top, and then it froze while playing.

I hope this time I can play and ditch windows forever.

[Juzz]

So what's the verdict?

Does it work properly - or?

[Juzz]

To fix game crash on load:

SET mapShadows "0"

[gabrielsaldana]

Yes, it works with that config file. A little slow, but that might be the driver's fault. But its playable

[snowpalmer]

Yes, it works with that config file. A little slow, but that might be the driver's fault. But its playable

Glad to hear it worked for you. I just tried it today. Used the config file as well as what you had in your xorg.conf. It started up and almost looked like it was going to play (about 4-6 fps) but then hard locked.

What kind of system do you have?