wine users - Jun 2008 - ?? Issues with playing WoW on Ubuntu 8.40 ??

Well I have installed Ubuntu 8.40, Wine 9.59, and World of Warcraft, and it took
me some time to get it working, but I finally did. Now, however, I'm having
several problems with the way it runs.

Namely: 
-the mouse is very slow and skippy at moving when in WoW
-lots of objects in the game fail to render (the ground usually doesn't
render either)
-my FPS in the middle of nowhere, with nobody around, and standing still is
about 12fps with every option turned all they way down, and with the screen
resoloution all the way down (it gets a lot worse during gameplay).

Can anyone please help me out? I love this game, and I love Ubuntu, and I'd
hate to have to compromise between the two. Please and thank you all very much!

Woody

which video card do you have?  do you have the correct video drivers installed?

Upgrade your version of Wine http://winehq.org/download

Well, would that account for the graphics not rendering, too? I figured the fps
would be lower, but right now my fps is between 1 and 7. I have a 1.7ghz Celeron
M processer with 2gb of RAM. Wouldn't it still help out to get the direct
rendering to work? I'm not super knowledgeable with the finer side of
computers, so you'll have to excuse me for my lack thereof.


Jason Weisberger wrote:
> Well you're running a 945GM, that's really your problem.  Wow does
not run
> at an equal framerate in Linux over wine as in Windows.  For example, on my
> Vista install, I can run over 60fps, on a Gentoo install with latest nvidia
> prop drivers I get around 30.  Your card in windows is probably getting
> around 30 depending on your settings.
> 
> I'm running a 7950GT with a 6000+ and 2 gigs of RAM.
> 
> 
> On 6/16/08, smwoodruff0908 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Ok, I upgraded Wine. I have a laptop, and think it has the Intel 945GM
> > video card, is there a command I can put into the terminal to find out
for
> > sure though?
> > 
> > I do have the regisrty tweak in place, and I checked my GLX info, and
this
> > is what I got:
> > 
> > direct rendering: No
> > OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
> > OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 945GM 20061017 x86/MMX/SSE2
> > OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 7.0.3-rc2
> > 
> > So what does all this mean, and how can I get it working?
> > 
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> -- 
> Jason Weisberger
> jbdubbs at gmail.com
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Considering Ubuntu 8.40 doesn't actually exist, I'm surprised you got as
far as you did.