YET ANOTHER world of warcraft help-a-noob

futuresiinz · Post by **futuresiinz** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 10:49 am

okay well i've been fighting to get wow to work the past few days...i am a complete linux noob running ubuntu 8.10(intrepid)...after many issues installing i finally got the game installed and booting up however when i get in game i deal with massive glitching and screen tearing i set all screen tear reduction options in wow and have read several possible fixes but i have insufficient privliidges to modify most of the files...i dont want to graphically log in as root because of the risks i've heard of with that. if anyone has anything that could help me i would greatly appriciate it...my computer is a toshiba satellite a215 with a ATI radeon in it for a graphics processor

bacula · Post by **bacula** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 10:56 am

futuresiinz schrieb:

okay well i've been fighting to get wow to work the past few days...i am a complete linux noob running ubuntu 8.10(intrepid)...after many issues installing i finally got the game installed and booting up however when i get in game i deal with massive glitching and screen tearing i set all screen tear reduction options in wow and have read several possible fixes but i have insufficient privliidges to modify most of the files...i dont want to graphically log in as root because of the risks i've heard of with that. if anyone has anything that could help me i would greatly appriciate it...my computer is a toshiba satellite a215 with a ATI radeon in it for a graphics processor

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Hi,

its not recommended to do all the stuff as root, but sometimes you have
to. so... no worries

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austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 11:24 am

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 9:49 AM, futuresiinz <[email protected]> wrote:

okay well i've been fighting to get wow to work the past few days...i am a complete linux noob running ubuntu 8.10(intrepid)...after many issues installing i finally got the game installed and booting up however when i get in game i deal with massive glitching and screen tearing i set all screen tear reduction options in wow and have read several possible fixes but i have insufficient privliidges to modify most of the files...i dont want to graphically log in as root because of the risks i've heard of with that. if anyone has anything that could help me i would greatly appriciate it...my computer is a toshiba satellite a215 with a ATI radeon in it for a graphics processor

What files are you trying to modify?

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futuresiinz · Post by **futuresiinz** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 11:54 am

this is an excerpt from wowwiki on troubleshooting wow on linux and the symptom is the closest to what im currently experiencing

If you see a noticeable graphical studder every 3 to 5 seconds or so for this you need to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add something like:

Option "UseFastTLS" "2"

when i tried to do it, it said i didnt have permission to modify that file.went into properties and it said the file owner was root hence my assumption you need to be logged in as root to complete this. i really have no clue if this is the solve to my issue or now

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 11:59 am

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:54 AM, futuresiinz <[email protected]> wrote:

this is an excerpt from wowwiki on troubleshooting wow on linux and the symptom is the closest to what im currently experiencing

If you see a noticeable graphical studder every 3 to 5 seconds or so for this you need to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add something like:

Option "UseFastTLS" "2"

Edit the file as root, but don't run wine as root.

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futuresiinz · Post by **futuresiinz** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 12:09 pm

how do i log in as root? i dont even know that

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 12:11 pm

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:09 AM, futuresiinz <[email protected]> wrote:

how do i log in as root? i dont even know that

$ sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

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futuresiinz · Post by **futuresiinz** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 12:17 pm

done...problem cleared up a bit...enough where i can make the determination that i believe the glitch is based off of text...chat window is all haywire and once i load into world(dalaran at this point) all the text on the screen starts getting streteched all over the screen in predominately triangular patterns

futuresiinz · Post by **futuresiinz** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 12:58 pm

discovered the issue is exclusive to dalaran at this point...logged in over crystalsong woods and had no issues...text is most certainly the culprit...also low frames were an issue as well as input lag it seemed like even with the input lag reduction in wow...will continue to test text based issues in high traffic zones

futuresiinz · Post by **futuresiinz** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 1:41 pm

combat tests seemed a bit choppy...im beginning to run out of ideas based on my general computer knowledge... any further help with these issues would be greatly appriciated from the bottom of my DK tanks heart >.<

ulberon · Post by **ulberon** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 7:23 am

http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys

I recommend using the DirectDrawRenderer and set it to opengl. I also recommend setting your cards video memory under the VideoMemorySize key. I've messed with "RenderTargetLockMode" and chose textex for my nvidia card, I really couldn't find any appreciable difference between the options, I think one option slightly lowered my fps when I was testing them.

Here is also a ton of info on just running wine and wow:
http://www.wowwiki.com/Wine_(software)

As other posters have mentioned before, to access files it says you don't have permission to, its better to use 'sudo'. For instance, to open a file in ubuntu:
sudo gedit <path to file>
sudo gedit myFile
sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Under kubuntu, use 'kate'
sudo kate <path to file>

"sudo" runs the single command with root privileges.

Be careful when modifying xorg.conf, make a backup. Also, switching to linux with an ati graphics card was a poor choice. If it can be helped, buy a nvidia card. Also, when upgrading to 8.10, the restricted drivers offered by ubuntu were crap for nvidia, I had to install beta drivers manually (which is fun, because every kernel patch breaks them).

Hopefully someone with knowledge of ati, wine and wow can help.