Hi, I'm a newbie here, so please don't threat me too bad. :D I wanted to ask you .. Yesterday I installed Linux Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) on my PC, it's the first Linux OS I use on it and I'm pretty confused, but I'm trying to make it work anyway. I installed WoW, using this FAQ https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WorldofWarcraft. I followed it, step to step, except for the installation of Wine, which I installed manually by downloading a 1.1.6 version for Ubuntu 8.04. I had problems with my NVIDIA GeForce Go 6200 so I installed a NVIDIA driver, NVIDIA-Linux-x86-177.80-pkg1, which is meant to be good for the NVIDIA 6 Series. After all the FAQ steps and the driver installation I ran WoW, and everything went well, except for one thing. Low FPS, not too low, certainly not unenjoyable, but I got a lot of friends with an Hardware identical to the one I have who run WoW on Linux, and their is graphically wonderful, with High FPS. I would like to know if I made a mistake while configuring the game, or something like that. My Hardware (I have a laptop): Intel Centrino 1700 mhz 512 MB RAM NVIDIA GeForce Go 6200 w/ TurboCache Technology I added in the config.wtf file the following lines: SET ffxDeath "0" SET ffxGlow "0" SET M2UseShaders "0" SET Sound_SoundOutputSystem "1" SET Sound_SoundBufferSize "150" ... By the way, I didn't add the line SET gxApi "opengl" 'cause it gave me only a lot of problems; I wasn't able to reach anymore the bottom of the screen, and the FPS was a little more slow. If I set the lowest settings for background, textures, etc, I can play with a decent FPS, but the price is high ... Is there anybody who can help me ? [Crying or Very sad] [/url]
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Valek <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Hi, I'm a newbie here, so please don't threat me too bad. :D > > I wanted to ask you .. Yesterday I installed Linux Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) on my PC, it's the first Linux OS I use on it and I'm pretty confused, but I'm trying to make it work anyway. > > I installed WoW, using this FAQ https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WorldofWarcraft. I followed it, step to step, except for the installation of Wine, which I installed manually by downloading a 1.1.6 version for Ubuntu 8.04. > > I had problems with my NVIDIA GeForce Go 6200 so I installed a NVIDIA driver, NVIDIA-Linux-x86-177.80-pkg1, which is meant to be good for the NVIDIA 6 Series. > > After all the FAQ steps and the driver installation I ran WoW, and everything went well, except for one thing. Low FPS, not too low, certainly not unenjoyable, but I got a lot of friends with an Hardware identical to the one I have who run WoW on Linux, and their is graphically wonderful, with High FPS. > > I would like to know if I made a mistake while configuring the game, or something like that. > > My Hardware (I have a laptop): > Intel Centrino 1700 mhz > 512 MB RAM > NVIDIA GeForce Go 6200 w/ TurboCache Technology > > I added in the config.wtf file the following lines: > SET ffxDeath "0" > SET ffxGlow "0" > SET M2UseShaders "0" > SET Sound_SoundOutputSystem "1" > SET Sound_SoundBufferSize "150" > > ... By the way, I didn't add the line SET gxApi "opengl" 'cause it gave me only a lot of problems; I wasn't able to reach anymore the bottom of the screen, and the FPS was a little more slow. > > If I set the lowest settings for background, textures, etc, I can play with a decent FPS, but the price is high ... Is there anybody who can help me ? [Crying or Very sad] [/url] > > > > > >Did you disable compiz? -- -Austin
austin987 wrote:> > Did you disable compiz? > > -- > -AustinI don't have compiz enabled, I never downloaded it. Or is it part of this version of Ubuntu ?
Valek wrote:> ... By the way, I didn't add the line SET gxApi "opengl" 'cause it gave me only a lot of problems; I wasn't able to reach anymore the bottom of the screen, and the FPS was a little more slow. >wine 1.1.7 does, you should add SET gxApi "opengl" . also run envyNG ( sudo apt-get install envyng-gtk ) which will install correctly the latest nvidia drivers also from your specs i wouldnt expect a frame-rate of more than 40 fps at 1024x768. blizzard buffed up wow too much lately.. oi also anyone remembers those general registry entries which stabilize the fps? if i remember correctly they're supposed to work with every applications not only wow. I tried to find them but without any luck so far :/
Thanks a lot guys, after apt-get install envy, it all went veery well. Just one problem: the bars, the Ubuntu's bars, the ones up and down, I can't get rid of them, and I'm unable to reach the damn bottom of the screen, in which all my chosen abilities lies, as well as a lot of menus of every kind. Do you know something about it ?