Laptop for WoW

scotti · 2008-04-01 18:08:17

Does anyone who runs Arch on a laptop also play WoW? I'm just curious as to which laptop you have and how well the game runs.

I'm looking at getting a laptop soon. My max price would be $500. Desired min specs would most likely be:

- 40Gb hdd
- Nvidia graphics chip with min 32Mb
- 512Mb ram
- Wireless would be nice
- CPU doesn't matter, but over 1.5GHz would be nice

Thanks for your input.

_nalle · 2008-04-02 10:53:18

My current configuration is a Centrino DUO 1.2ghz with 1gig ram and a 64mb nvidia card.

This laptop is not inte the $500 series. But I do run WoW on it at ~20 fps with cedega.
I must admit that I havn't tried it out in large instances or _really_ demanding situations yet though but I hope it gives you an
idea of what works and doesn't

scotti · 2008-04-02 13:27:14

Thanks, _nalle, for the info. I figured my min specs wouldn't really be enough. I think your setup is the recommended settings for WoW. I think I'll have to get a machine that matches yours at least to be able to play.

Have you ever tried playing with "regular" Wine? It works quite well, at least on my desktop system anyway.

_nalle · 2008-04-03 18:33:36

Never tried, just Cedega I'm afraid

otacon · 2008-07-04 17:24:21

I own a Macbook and it seems to run fine with wine except the whole 3fps thing which I am trying to find a solution to.

scotti · 2008-07-04 23:08:52

otacon wrote:

I own a Macbook and it seems to run fine with wine except the whole 3fps thing which I am trying to find a solution to.

So you boot into Arch and run WoW with Wine on your Macbook? Interesting, but WoW runs naively on Macs. Not very well on the Macbook models, but playable. Better than 3fps that's for sure.

otacon · 2008-07-06 02:41:53

yes I have gotten the FPS to become decent. I believe ithe slow FPS to be a configuration problem though so hopefully in the next week I will be able to run it very smoothly. Wow was made to run on both mac and windows originally.

My current FPS is annoying, but if I figure out the configuration to make it run better I will share.

scotti · 2008-07-06 06:09:07

otacon wrote:

yes I have gotten the FPS to become decent. I believe ithe slow FPS to be a configuration problem though so hopefully in the next week I will be able to run it very smoothly. Wow was made to run on both mac and windows originally.
My current FPS is annoying, but if I figure out the configuration to make it run better I will share.

Here's a couple guides I've used in the past for tweaking.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Linux/Wine
http://www.fsckin.com/2007/12/20/how-to … sing-wine/

Devastator · 2008-07-10 16:35:00

I play WoW on a laptop, but I have a Core 2 Duo machine, with 128MB graphics, so...

proxima_centauri · 2008-07-17 01:59:03

Just installed Arch on my T61p yesterday [yay]. Got Wine and WoW up and running today.
Copied my installation from WinXP, edited config file for OpenGL, and created a key and string value via regedit as most WoW tweak guides suggest.
Get ~20FPS with medium settings at 1280x800 windowed mode.
Get 40-60FPS with maxed settings and /console enhancements at 1680x1050 in WinXP.
Sadly I'll stick with XP for my gaming needs

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