WoW Frame Rates w/ Intel Graphics in Ubuntu Karmic

X-Malleus · Post by **X-Malleus** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 4:43 pm

I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 on an Intel dual-core T5550 @ 1.83GHz, with an Intel GM965 video card. I just recently got World of Warcraft running on this version, so I finally feel like I can get rid of my Jaunty partition. For a while, I was only able to get the game to work on Jaunty, and it was with the use of this guide:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1130582

I finally managed to get it running on Karmic, though, and while it is certainly playable, the frame rates have suffered significantly compared to my Jaunty partition, and while I CAN deal with this, I was just wondering if anyone had any thoughts on how I might be able to increase my frame rates on Karmic...has anyone had any experiences with a similar setup and gotten decent frame rates on Karmic?

By the way, I'm using the "intel" graphics driver, with mesa 7.6.0-1 for 3D.

Cr0k · Post by **Cr0k** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 5:21 pm

Did you try to launch Wow with the -opengl option?

( wine Wow.exe -opengl)

Thunderbird · Post by **Thunderbird** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 5:29 pm

The quality of the intel drivers is very important. Make sure you use recent drivers (you might need an PPA backport). Though perhaps the easiest way is just to install Ubuntu 10.04 (it is very close to release; even if you install a recent release candidate it would be easy to update to final soon).

X-Malleus · Post by **X-Malleus** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 6:21 pm

Cr0k wrote:Did you try to launch Wow with the -opengl option?

( wine Wow.exe -opengl)

I think I've read that most Intel chips don't work with OpenGL. In any case, mine certainly doesn't.

Thunderbird wrote:The quality of the intel drivers is very important. Make sure you use recent drivers (you might need an PPA backport). Though perhaps the easiest way is just to install Ubuntu 10.04 (it is very close to release; even if you install a recent release candidate it would be easy to update to final soon).

I'm using the latest intel driver that's available for my distro. There are newer ones available, but it looks like they're for 10.04, which I think I'll wait for until the official release. I tried the alpha release of 10.04 once, and everything just went horribly wrong lol.

X-Malleus · Post by **X-Malleus** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 6:24 pm

I have tried OpenGL already, and it doesn't even come close to working. Sorry I didn't make that clear in my last post.