WorldofWarcraft

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This howto describes how you can install and play World of Wacraft using Wine under Ubuntu-x86.

World of Warcraft can also be played under Ubuntu by using Cedega, this howto, however, is for regular wine.

WARNING: The authors of this howto gives no guarantees, this is totally YMMV.

Installing Wine

To see how to install and configure Wine, see ["Wine"]

Note: The current version of Wine (0.9.12) needs a patch, so you'll need to build Wine from source, applying the WoW patch during the process.

See the guide for building Wine from source here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingWineFromSource

The necessary WoW patch for Wine 0.9.12 can be found here: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=4031

Configuring Wine

WoW will run best using OSS. Run 'winecfg' - select 'Audio' and select 'OSS Driver' as Wine's sound driver.

Installing WoW

There are two ways: 1) Copy the files from an existing windows-installation, then "wine wow.exe" to start. 2) Copy all of the files from all of the CD's to a directory on your hard drive (overwrite when prompted), then "wine install.exe" to install the game.

Configuring WoW

Video:

If you try to configure WoW's video settings (Vertex Shaders/Pixel Shaders etc) while running opengl, WoW will crash. The workaround is to configure WoW's video settings while running WoW with d3d. If this causes the display to be inverted, don't be concerned. The display will right itself once you switch back to opengl. Running d3d is simply so you can set WoW's video options.

wine wow.exe -d3d

Sound:

Add the following to the file WTF/Config.WTF in your wow folder.

SET SoundOutputSystem "1"
SET SoundBufferSize "100"
SET gxApi "OpenGL"

WoW's Patch System:

In order for patches to work, we need mfc42.dll from a windows installation (or dll-files.com) in .wine/drive_c/windows/system. You will however need a Windows license to use this file.

When the patch program starts, it might ask something about Mozilla ActiveX. Just hit "no" and you should be fine. Note that the installation of activex that happens if you choose "Yes" does not work properly.

Alternatively, you can use Wine to install Firefox, and the Mozilla Active X controls.

You may have to increase the sound buffer a bit, 200 is probably too much

FYI: WTF = WoW Text File

Playing

Now you should be able to play WoW by using wine WoW.exe from your WoW directory.

GLHF Wink ;-)

You may have trouble with gnome-panel showing up above the WoW "window".

This is easily solved by setting a hotkey for fullscreen mode in gnome and using that hotkey when the problem arises.

Another problem that may arise if you are using CONTROL in your switch workspace key combo, tho that is easily fixed by changing the combo.

Related

Maybe sign this? http://www.blizzpub.net/petition Wink ;-)

For more information regarding WoW under Wine see Wine's appdb:

http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=4031

To discuss this, please post at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=504667

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