wine users - Sep 2011 - Re: Wine and WoW Cataclysm Patch 4.0 troubleshooting thread

tparker wrote:
> On 09/26/2011 06:46 PM, BlackNoxis wrote:
> 
> > I have the same issue, the game is actually working but the Launcher
won't work (any type of private server I would try)
> > 
> 
> The WoW launcher very often does not work in Wine. Just navigate to the 
> WoW folder and run the game from wow.exe instead of launcher.exe and/or 
> change your shortcut to use wow.exe.

Same error occurred

About a year ago, before Cataclysm, on Kubuntu 10.10 with a 2.1Ghz single or
dual core (can't remember) processor with 2Gb, and dual SLI enabled nVidia
graphics cards, I managed to get WoW to run "almost" all right (in
terms of FPS). It was fine except when things got a bit busy, such as in a 10
man raid boss fight :(

That machine recently died and I replace the motherboard, the CPU with a quad
core 3.3Ghz AMD 64 bit chip, and now have 8Gb of RAM. I have installed Kubuntu
10.04 LTS (the stable release) and finally got OpenGL to work with the nVidia
graphics drivers, and WoW now runs like a tortoise. My wife did some dailies and
other house-keeping stuff last night, and she said it made her feel sick,
especially when flying.

I've checked that glxinfo reports direct rendering as on, I've done the
registry hack (it made no difference). I still have to check that I'm not
doing software rendering as per
http://celettu.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/wine-opengl-direct-rendering-and-compositing/.
I still have to tweak my SLI setting (currently set to "on" which
apparently isn't a valid value) and may try experimenting with some of the
other nvidia-xconfig settings.

The thing is that when I ran it previously, I didn't need to do any of these
hacks or things.

Does anyone have any other ideas of what the problem might be and what I can
try?


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FYI, the graphics options in the game are mostly grayed out and have messages in
red saying things like that there are hardware problems with that option so
it's been turned off. It sounds like what a previous poster was talking
about. Damn Blizzard!

In other news, I saw a YouTube post with a video where the poster claimed to be
able to get 100 FPS on a sandbox server with Cataclysm. His machine spec was
nowhere near as good as mine.