wine users - Apr 2010 - WoW Frame Rates w/ Intel Graphics in Ubuntu Karmic

I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 on an Intel dual-core T5550 @ 1.83GHz, with an Intel
GM965 video card. I just recently got World of Warcraft running on this version,
so I finally feel like I can get rid of my Jaunty partition. For a while, I was
only able to get the game to work on Jaunty, and it was with the use of this
guide:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1130582

I finally managed to get it running on Karmic, though, and while it is certainly
playable, the frame rates have suffered significantly compared to my Jaunty
partition, and while I CAN deal with this, I was just wondering if anyone had
any thoughts on how I might be able to increase my frame rates on Karmic...has
anyone had any experiences with a similar setup and gotten decent frame rates on
Karmic?

By the way, I'm using the "intel" graphics driver, with mesa
7.6.0-1 for 3D.

Did you try to launch Wow with the -opengl option?

( wine Wow.exe -opengl)

The quality of the intel drivers is very important. Make sure you use recent
drivers (you might need an PPA backport). Though perhaps the easiest way is just
to install Ubuntu 10.04 (it is very close to release; even if you install a
recent release candidate it would be easy to update to final soon).