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    Double your framerate in WoW under Wine

    I found some tweaks regarding, specifically, WoW under Wine from: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install...raft_with_wine

    Tweak #1 has proven to work for me. Tweak #2 has proven NOT to work for me.


    Tweak #1

    The following from http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=5606 , a simple registry edit for Wine that dramatically increases the framerate in game for both ATi and nVidia users (reportedly, I have only verified with nVidia using Wine 0.9.22):

    Code:
    regedit
    Find HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\

    Highlight the wine folder in the left hand pane by clicking left on it. The icon should change to an open folder

    Click right on the wine folder and select [NEW] then [KEY]

    Replace the text "New Key #1" with OpenGL

    Click right in the right hand pane and select [NEW] then [String Value]

    Replace "New Value #1" with "DisabledExtensions"
    (Notice it's case sensitive)

    Then double click anywhere on the line, a dialog box will open.
    In the value field type "GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object" (without the quotes).

    Here's what regedit should look like once you have finished adding this new key and it's value.

    http://appdb.winehq.org/appimage.php?iId=4640


    Tweak #2

    Another tweak you can use from http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=5606 , the idea is to create a script which will allow you to launch WoW on a dedicated X server, and will give you a little boost of FPS.

    Code:
    nano -w ~/launch-wow.sh
    Put this content in your newly created file: ~/launch-wow.sh

    Code:
    #!/bin/sh
     
     X :3 -ac &   # Launches a new X session on display 3 
     cd "~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft"   # Goto WoW dir 
     sleep 2   # Forces the system to have a break for 2 seconds 
     DISPLAY=:3 /usr/X11R6/bin/wine WoW.exe -opengl   # Launches WoW

    Press Ctrl+o then Ctrl+w in order to save your file & quit nano.

    Don't forget to make your script executable :

    Code:
    chmod +x ~/launch-wow.sh
    Using a nVidia GeForce4 420 Go 32MB on a Toshiba Laptop, I managed to get a performance boost of about 10-15 FPS (I had 10-15 before doing this and now I have about 25-30 FPS, 15-20 in Orgrimmar).
    Last edited by z00s; November 21st, 2006 at 02:04 PM.

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    Re: Double your framerate in WoW under Wine

    Updated.

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    Re: Double your framerate in WoW under Wine

    I think the boost from both of these is simply that they turn on opengl... which I didn't even think was a problem in wine 9.25?
    Last edited by chadk; November 20th, 2006 at 08:18 PM.
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    Re: Double your framerate in WoW under Wine

    The first tweak appears on Wine's site: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=5606
    for version 0.9.25. If it wasn't for version 0.9.25 then I might agree, but until I can test them myself tonight I won't know for sure.

    The second tweak should work regardless of what version of Wine you're running.

    - Z

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    Re: Double your framerate in WoW under Wine

    Tweak #1 works under at LEAST wine 0.9.22, 0.9.24, and 0.9.25. The LOCATION of the registry edit has changed for 0.9.25 and that is reflected on that link you posted
    http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=5606

    I have used that one personally and even though it was originally intended to help solve a corrupted text issue with ATI cards, it was apparently discovered that it also significantly improves the frame rates on nVidia cards as well. I have an nVidia card and I can confirm that it does in fact just about double your frame rate in WoW. Depending on where you are in the game it can go more than double or a little less than double. I have seen 80fps while standing at the Great Forge in Ironforge at the flight path there. Outside with more stuff to draw I am typically at around 55-60fps. I have an nVidia 7300GT with 512MB so it's not as fast as some of the newer cards, but it does fine in WoW for me.

    That Tweak #2 I had not seen. I may try that one later tonight.
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    Re: Double your framerate in WoW under Wine

    worked a treat, thank you, fps has gone up loads

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    Re: Double your framerate in WoW under Wine

    Quote Originally Posted by chadk View Post
    I think the boost from both of these is simply that they turn on opengl... which I didn't even think was a problem in wine 9.25?
    Now the RegEdit tweak (tweak 1) is to tell the program not to even try running with that extention reducing the load and the leaks and garbage that pulls down the FPS

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    Re: Double your framerate in WoW under Wine

    Thank you VERY much for the guide.. This helped me immensely. I've just started really but I'm having a positivie experience with WoW on Linux so far

    Now if I can figure out why changing video settings crashes WoW every time :-/

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    Re: Double your framerate in WoW under Wine

    Has the game worked before? If so, what has changed?

    This could probably be an error with your grafics card drivers or xgl/aiglx/compiz/beryl.

    Try reinstalling your grafics card drivers and removing the compositions effects if you have installed any.
    Last edited by Sammi; December 29th, 2006 at 05:09 PM.

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    Re: Double your framerate in WoW under Wine

    Very nice. I hit to up 130 fps in Ogrimmar on Blade's Edge today. I even have FULL detail on. Very Hawt. This is 4x what I got in windows. Just have to fix the sound in WoW now.

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