Comments on: Ubuntu, Wine and World of Warcraft

By: dal

dal — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:11:35 +0000

The line “SET gxApi “opengl”" is the most relevant to getting wow working under wine iirc. Also “SET gxWindow “1″” is worth it, not that fullscreen mode won’t work under wine, but it does freeze up for a few seconds if you try to alt-tab from fullscreen mode, also you may end up with display problems with multiple monitors. Windowed mode with the maximize video setting enabled is pretty much the same as fullscreen anyhow, but it allows you to run another display at the same time

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:10:35 +0000

Here is my entire file so you can compare.. I have added a few more than three at this point I think:

SET accountName “{useyourown}”
SET realmName “{useyourown}”
SET readTOS “1″
SET readEULA “1″
SET readScanning “-1″
SET readContest “-1″
SET locale “enUS”
SET hwDetect “0″
SET gxColorBits “24″
SET gxDepthBits “24″
SET gxResolution “1680×1050″
SET gxRefresh “50″
SET gxMultisampleQuality “0.000000″
SET gxFixLag “0″
SET fullAlpha “1″
SET SmallCull “0.010000″
SET DistCull “500.000000″
SET trilinear “1″
SET frillDensity “24″
SET farclip “777″
SET specular “1″
SET pixelShaders “1″
SET particleDensity “1.000000″
SET unitDrawDist “300.000000″
SET movie “0″
SET expansionMovie “0″
SET realmList “us.logon.worldofwarcraft.com”
SET coresDetected “4″
SET processAffinityMask “3″
SET videoOptionsVersion “1″
SET textureFilteringMode “5″
SET Gamma “1.000000″
SET showToolsUI “1″
SET Sound_VoiceChatInputDriverName “System Default”
SET Sound_VoiceChatOutputDriverName “System Default”
SET Sound_OutputDriverName “System Default”
SET Sound_MasterVolume “1″
SET Sound_SFXVolume “1″
SET Sound_MusicVolume “0.40000000596046″
SET Sound_AmbienceVolume “0.60000002384186″
SET patchlist “us.version.worldofwarcraft.com”
SET shadowLevel “0″
SET groundEffectDensity “64″
SET groundEffectDist “140″
SET weatherDensity “3″
SET uiScale “1″
SET mouseSpeed “1″
SET profanityFilter “0″
SET cameraYawMoveSpeed “180″
SET cameraYawSmoothSpeed “180″
SET cameraDistanceMaxFactor “1″
SET ShowVKeyCastbar “1″
SET gameTip “29″
SET minimapInsideZoom “2″
SET readTerminationWithoutNotice “-1″
SET minimapZoom “2″
SET ChatMusicVolume “0.30000001192093″
SET ChatSoundVolume “0.40000000596046″
SET ChatAmbienceVolume “0.30000001192093″
SET OutboundChatVolume “1″
SET InboundChatVolume “1″
SET VoiceActivationSensitivity “0.40000003576279″
SET scriptErrors “1″
SET gxApi “opengl”
SET ffxDeath “0″
SET gxCursor “0″
SET DesktopGamma “1″
SET autoSelfCast “1″
SET gxWindow “1″
SET Sound_NumChannels “64″
SET Sound_EnableHardware “1″

By: megathyne

megathyne — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:33:55 +0000

what were the lines in your WTF file, i seem to be having the same problem.

-Thanks!

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:23:50 +0000

Yeah no kidding.. I’m shocked it works at all, all things considered..

Now if I could only get Wolflair’s Armybuilder working..

By: Chris Lees

Chris Lees — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:53:23 +0000

Crysis does work, but at the moment the frame rates are very very slow. Unplayable. Still, it’s an encouraging sign.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:47:40 +0000

mwhincup, Cool thanks!

tumb, I call it “Magic”.

By: tumb

tumb — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:54:39 +0000

How the Wine folks do it?

10yrs+ of hard work and dedication.
(or essentially “re-inventing the wheel” and translating Windows and DirectX calls into what Linux and OpenGL can understand)

That’s how!

By: mwhincup

mwhincup — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:23:24 +0000

Linux graphics driver maturity is improving all the time.

Famously, ATI are in the process of releasing the full specifications of their VGA chipsets so that open-source drivers of the highest quality may be written.

NVIDIA have been providing high quality proprietary drivers for Linux for some years now. As an indication of NVIDIA’s confidence in their latest drivers, they have recently moved to a common version designation for Windows and Linux.

Already, many games (particularly those that use OpenGL and hence native Linux libraries) run under Linux with frame rates as high if not higher than Windows.

Compatibility is improving all the time.

Take a look at http://appdb.winehq.org/ to see if your favourite game or application is supported.