Setting up WoW to run in Linux Wine
Written by admin the 8 of April at 11:41 am
Since I know HollyDawg will want this documented, and also for my personal reference, I am posting how I setup WoW to run in WINe on my Ubuntu Gutsy Box.
Most of this info can be found here:
http://www.wowwiki.com/Linux/Wine
1. For Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (7.10)
sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/gutsy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list
2. Now do these commands in Terminal:
wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine
3. Copy all of the files from all of the CD’s or downloads (I just downloaded mine) to a directory on your hard drive (overwrite when prompted).
4. In Terminal:
cd /(path-to-directory)/
wine Installer.exe
5. Wait and click INSTALL on the GUI that comes up.6. In Terminal, run this command and make sure that XP is chosen in the drop-down menu.
winecfg
7. Now run this command in a terminal:
gedit ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/World\ of\ Warcraft/wtf/Config.wtf
When trying to save this file, I got an error. I think it was due to the “\” in this code. What I did was just open a GUI window and browsed to /home/(your profile name)/.wine/drive_c/ Program Files/ World of Warcraft/wtf folder and saved the edited file (in the next step) in here.
8. Add these lines to the empty text file:
SET SoundOutputSystem "1"
SET SoundBufferSize "150"
SET gxApi "OpenGL"
9. Save the file in the directory Inamed in step 7.
10. You can launch WoW via Applications –> WINE –>Programs –>World of Warcraft, or through a Terminal window with:
wine "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe"
Addons:
Copy any addons you have into /home/(your profile name)/.wine/drive_c/ Program Files/ World of Warcraft/Interface/Addons. I am using 5-6 different ones right now and they all work fine.
Almost mandatory performance enhancing tweak
This is a simple registry edit for Wine that will dramatically increase the framerate in game for both ATi and nVidia users.
Open a terminal window, type regedit and press enter. This will start the Wine equivalent of the windows registry editor. If you are familiar with using the registry editor under windows then this is pretty much the same.
Notice: the guide below is case sensitive!
1. Find this key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\
2. Highlight the wine folder in the left hand pane by clicking left on it. The icon should change to an open folder
3. Right-click on the wine folder and select [NEW][KEY]
4. Replace the text New Key #1 with OpenGL
5. Right-click in the right hand pane and select [NEW] then [String Value]
6. Replace New Value #1 with DisabledExtensions
7. Then double click anywhere on the line, a dialog box will open.
8. In the value field type GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object
My video was very choppy. After adding this, it cleared up completely. In the Config.wtf file, add:
SET ffxDeath "0"
SET ffxGlow "0"
If you experience stuttering, bad sound or no sound what so ever, then add the following options as well:
SET SoundOutputSystem "1"
SET SoundBufferSize "150"
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