wine users - Jul 2009 - Questions when running WOW and other games in frames.

I have a numbers of questions.  I know about half of them are probably program
related (World of Warcraft)  but I figured I'd group them together for the
most part.

First the states.  I'm using a Dell Inspiron Laptop (their Ubuntu line).  I
reinstalled Linux myself (had to redo the partitions) and dual boot Ubuntu and
Windows 7, Wow does work under Windows 7, but what's the fun in that?  I
have a Intel X4500HD Video card (I believe, unfortunatly intel's drivers
don't really specify which one it is.

When playing wow I have disallowed (unchecked) windows manager to decorate the
windows and disallowed (unchecked)the window manager to control the window. I
also am running a emulated virtual desktop of 800 by 600 pixels.  I also appear
to have to run it as Directx otherwise it will crash (with OpenGL)

So here's a couple of the issues,  I can usually see flashing blue when
playing World of Warcraft and moving around the world, I have other frames open
underneath World of Warcraft when this happens but it's not always in the
same position as the frames.  What's going on with that?

In addition when I alt tab or click out of the window, it remains on top even
when running it with "wine Wow.exe --desktop"  or "wine Wow.exe
--managed"  (I think the second was the command I used, it was the two to
stop this from happening)  Are those the right commands?

My mini map is missing.  I hear that's an issue with ATI, but I am running
Intel.  Are those the same drivers/same problem?

The big issue.  The second time I run World of Warcraft without rebooting my
laptop locks up.  I exit World of Warcraft properly the first time but the
second time it crashes (I don't believe I have a log, can I just >  (I
forget the name of that function) to get a log output or will that not work with
the lockup?

Oh and I guess one more issue.  My system also locks up when I'm in Dalaran.
However my system only has 2 gigs of physical memory (it does have a 2 gig Swap
drive as well)  This seems different than the issue that is mentioned on the Wow
compatibility page.  But if it's the same issue can someone point me in the
directions of how to make the system think I have less RAM?  If it's not any
ideas?

I know I'm asking a lot for a first post, but these are most of what's
keeping me from really enjoying my linux life and Ubuntu is so nice outside of
these issues so any help is appreciated.

kinglink wrote:
> I have a Intel X4500HD Video card (I believe, unfortunatly intel's
drivers don't really specify which one it is.
>   
I can't respond to the whole post right now but will come back to it. My 
first guess for the cause of most of your problems is the video card. 
People often have trouble getting Linux drivers for Intel cards that let 
them be able to handle everything needed for modern games.

I will see if I can find anything to help with the things listed in the 
post and send another reply tomorrow, hopefully other people will have 
some ideas for you as well.