[solved] wondering how well world of warcraft performs with wine..

middy · 2013-11-05 02:21:18

I've browsed winehq about world of warcraft but I'm just looking for more details on how well world of warcraft runs with wine. Also wondering which wine version is the best and does the opengl option still work and recommended over directx.

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WonderWoofy · 2013-11-05 02:26:57

Arch Linux provides one version of wine... the newest. If you want to know how well it performs, why not give it a go?

middy · 2013-11-05 02:39:18

Don't want to resub if its going to run pretty poor.

Stebalien · 2013-11-05 03:16:04

AFAIK, it's free to play with restrictions so you shouldn't need to resubscribe.

SkepticalMystic · 2013-11-05 04:46:01

I haven't played in several months, but I've played games off and on in Wine for several years. WoW has been one of the few games that has never given me any trouble. I think once I had a minor issue with the patcher/launcher that was fixed easily by following some steps on the wine DB page for WoW. Obviously experiences can vary with different hardware, but I think it's safe to say that you should certainly be able to play WoW if you want to.

Jellicent · 2013-11-05 05:31:01

Most games of Blizzard run fine in wine.
Never played WoW, but I bet it runs even smoother than SCII.

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p … n&iId=1922

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Thaodan · 2013-11-05 12:18:42

middy wrote:

I've browsed winehq about world of warcraft but I'm just looking for more details on how well world of warcraft runs with wine. Also wondering which wine version is the best and does the opengl option still work and recommended over directx.

The OpenGL render in the win32 version of wow is outdated and don't works very well (althrough it performs very well).
If you use the DX3D render without patches its unplayble if you play in very large groups. There's a patch to fix this[1].
I made a patched PKGBUILD with patch inclued [2].

[1] http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11674#c263
[2] https://github.com/Thaodan/thaopkgs/blo … a/PKGBUILD

WorMzy · 2013-11-05 12:31:42

Install Play On Linux (available in Community), and let it use the recommended version of wine+configuration.

nawitus · 2013-11-05 18:44:10

WoW works perfectly atleast for me - but the framerate is low. 25 man raids are pretty difficult due to lag, but in my case my fps would be higher if it wasn't for NVIDIA's "brilliant" optimus technology.

Thaodan · 2013-11-05 19:19:09

nawitus wrote:

WoW works perfectly atleast for me - but the framerate is low. 25 man raids are pretty difficult due to lag, but in my case my fps would be higher if it wasn't for NVIDIA's "brilliant" optimus technology.

Use the patch I posted and everything will be ok.

middy · 2013-11-07 21:26:49

Thaodan wrote:

middy wrote:
I've browsed winehq about world of warcraft but I'm just looking for more details on how well world of warcraft runs with wine. Also wondering which wine version is the best and does the opengl option still work and recommended over directx.
The OpenGL render in the win32 version of wow is outdated and don't works very well (althrough it performs very well).
If you use the DX3D render without patches its unplayble if you play in very large groups. There's a patch to fix this[1].
I made a patched PKGBUILD with patch inclued [2].
[1] http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11674#c263
[2] https://github.com/Thaodan/thaopkgs/blo … a/PKGBUILD

I went ahead and installed WoW and resubbed. Performance in DX9 is unplayable. With settings maxed out, looking at even just four players FPS drops down to 15, looking at the sky FPS is 80+. Switching over to opengl with all available settings for opengl maxed out gives me around 70 - 120fps. I'm going to go ahead and give your patched wine a shot.

Opengl gives create performance, but if your patch really does make DX9 playable, might as well try.

middy · 2013-11-07 21:52:11

Wow, that patch really works. Don't have sunshafts, shadows, and water maxed out, but everything else is and average about 50fps in a large groups of players, and 70 everywhere else. Still not as fast as opengl but definitely playable.

Thaodan · 2013-11-07 21:59:49

I don't know if you use a nvidia card but if yes do you use __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 ?

middy · 2013-11-07 23:07:29

Thaodan wrote:

I don't know if you use a nvidia card but if yes do you use __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 ?

I do, I have a 670. How exactly do you enable it?

I tried enabling it earlier with:

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/mnt/storage5/winedir/win32 __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 wine /mnt/storage5/winedir/win32/drive_c/Program\ Files/World\ of\ Warcraft/WoW.exe

But I don't think it worked right.

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middy · 2013-11-07 23:43:37

After some googleing I tried running it with:

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/mnt/storage5/winedir/win32 LD_PRELOAD="libpthread.so.0 libGL.so.1" __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 wine /mnt/storage5/winedir/win32/drive_c/Program\ Files/World\ of\ Warcraft/Wow.exe

It definitely worked that time but when I click on a character and enter the world it crashes with this error:

fixme:d3d:resource_check_usage Unhandled usage flags 0x8.
fixme:d3d:resource_check_usage Unhandled usage flags 0x8.
fixme:d3d:resource_check_usage Unhandled usage flags 0x8.
fixme:d3d:resource_check_usage Unhandled usage flags 0x8.
fixme:d3d:resource_check_usage Unhandled usage flags 0x8.
fixme:d3d:resource_check_usage Unhandled usage flags 0x8.
fixme:d3d:resource_check_usage Unhandled usage flags 0x8.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

EDIT:

I fixed it! I had to create a registry key and set my video cards ram in the direct3d key.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D
new string
VideoMemorySize

Had to set mine to 2048 for 2gb.

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/mnt/storage5/winedir/win32 WINEDEBUG=-all LD_PRELOAD="libpthread.so.0 libGL.so.1" __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 wine /mnt/storage5/winedir/win32/drive_c/Program\ Files/World\ of\ Warcraft/Wow.exe

Is how I launch mine.

FPS skyrocketed even more. Now it hovers around 70 - 120fps.

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Thaodan · 2013-11-08 05:39:39

btw do you tried 64bit wow?

middy · 2013-11-08 21:00:16

Thaodan wrote:

btw do you tried 64bit wow?

I haven't tried wow 64bit yet with wine. I'll give it a try.

Arch Linux

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