Many manuals of installing and using World of Warcraft (or simply WoW) in Linux using Wine (Windows emulation) are outdated and provide lots of complex instructions for old Wine version. The truth is very simple:
SET gxApi "OpenGL"
SET SoundOutputSystem "1"
SET SoundBufferSize "100"
That is it! You can now simple run 'wine WoW.exe' and play the game. Updates also work perfectly. The speed is a bit faster then in the other operating systems and (just like in MacOs X) you can have all your software opened on one virtual desktop, WoW on another and switch between them instantly.
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Geoff Rivell 12 years, 4 months ago
And if you use the R300 open source drivers for ATI you must run in Direct3D mode. And run driconf and select no fallbacks. But trust me on this, I have used it on ATI's with closed source driver and Nvidia's. Windows is 20% more FPS. Nothing to care about though since it runs perfectly fine under Linux :) Just if you have a cheapy card you might.
Link | ReplyJeremy 12 years, 4 months ago
Thanks for this guide, worked great. ^_^
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