?? Issues with playing WoW on Ubuntu 8.04 ??

[smwoodruff0908]

Well I have installed Ubuntu 8.04, Wine 9.59, and World of Warcraft, and it took me some time to get it working, but I finally did. Now, however, I'm having several problems with the way it runs.

Namely:
-the mouse is very slow and skippy at moving when in WoW
-lots of objects in the game fail to render (the ground usually doesn't render either)
-my FPS in the middle of nowhere, with nobody around, and standing still is about 12fps with every option turned all they way down, and with the screen resoloution all the way down (it gets a lot worse during gameplay).

Can anyone please help me out? I love this game, and I love Ubuntu, and I'd hate to have to compromise between the two. Please and thank you all very much!

Woody

[jeffz]

which video card do you have? do you have the correct video drivers installed?

Upgrade your version of Wine http://winehq.org/download

[Jim]

Well I have installed Ubuntu 8.40, Wine 9.59, and World of Warcraft, and it took me some time to get it working, but I finally did. Now, however, I'm having several problems with the way it runs.

Namely:
-the mouse is very slow and skippy at moving when in WoW
-lots of objects in the game fail to render (the ground usually doesn't render either)
-my FPS in the middle of nowhere, with nobody around, and standing still is about 12fps with every option turned all they way down, and with the screen resoloution all the way down (it gets a lot worse during gameplay).

Did you try the registry tweak?

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=11329

Also make sure your GL is hardware accelerated and working correctly with your video card.

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-8bab60b ... 2aeb141647

[smwoodruff0908]

Ok, I upgraded Wine. I have a laptop, and think it has the Intel 945GM video card, is there a command I can put into the terminal to find out for sure though?

I do have the regisrty tweak in place, and I checked my GLX info, and this is what I got:

direct rendering: No
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 945GM 20061017 x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 7.0.3-rc2

So what does all this mean, and how can I get it working? I remember before I installed WoW that I had checked, and it said Direct Rendering: Yes, so I don't know if it was something with the wine install or maybe WoW that changed something with that?

[Jason Weisberger]

Well you're running a 945GM, that's really your problem. Wow does not run
at an equal framerate in Linux over wine as in Windows. For example, on my
Vista install, I can run over 60fps, on a Gentoo install with latest nvidia
prop drivers I get around 30. Your card in windows is probably getting
around 30 depending on your settings.

I'm running a 7950GT with a 6000+ and 2 gigs of RAM.


On 6/16/08, smwoodruff0908 <[email protected]> wrote:

Ok, I upgraded Wine. I have a laptop, and think it has the Intel 945GM
video card, is there a command I can put into the terminal to find out for
sure though?

I do have the regisrty tweak in place, and I checked my GLX info, and this
is what I got:

direct rendering: No
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 945GM 20061017 x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 7.0.3-rc2

So what does all this mean, and how can I get it working?

--
Jason Weisberger
[email protected]
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[smwoodruff0908]

Well, would that account for the graphics not rendering, too? I figured the fps would be lower, but right now my fps is between 1 and 7. I have a 1.7ghz Celeron M processer with 2gb of RAM. Wouldn't it still help out to get the direct rendering to work? I'm not super knowledgeable with the finer side of computers, so you'll have to excuse me for my lack thereof.

Well you're running a 945GM, that's really your problem. Wow does not run
at an equal framerate in Linux over wine as in Windows. For example, on my
Vista install, I can run over 60fps, on a Gentoo install with latest nvidia
prop drivers I get around 30. Your card in windows is probably getting
around 30 depending on your settings.

I'm running a 7950GT with a 6000+ and 2 gigs of RAM.


On 6/16/08, smwoodruff0908 <[email protected]> wrote:

Ok, I upgraded Wine. I have a laptop, and think it has the Intel 945GM
video card, is there a command I can put into the terminal to find out for
sure though?

I do have the regisrty tweak in place, and I checked my GLX info, and this
is what I got:

direct rendering: No
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 945GM 20061017 x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 7.0.3-rc2

So what does all this mean, and how can I get it working?

--
Jason Weisberger
[email protected]
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[Jason Weisberger]

I also see that according to your glx info, you're running Mesa, which is
software rendering. You'll need to follow directions based on your
distribution on how to get your video card working properly.

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 3:44 PM, smwoodruff0908 <[email protected]>
wrote:

Well, would that account for the graphics not rendering, too? I figured the
fps would be lower, but right now my fps is between 1 and 7. I have a 1.7ghz
Celeron M processer with 2gb of RAM. Wouldn't it still help out to get the
direct rendering to work? I'm not super knowledgeable with the finer side of
computers, so you'll have to excuse me for my lack thereof.


Jason Weisberger wrote:

Well you're running a 945GM, that's really your problem. Wow does not

run

at an equal framerate in Linux over wine as in Windows. For example, on

my

Vista install, I can run over 60fps, on a Gentoo install with latest

nvidia

prop drivers I get around 30. Your card in windows is probably getting
around 30 depending on your settings.

I'm running a 7950GT with a 6000+ and 2 gigs of RAM.


On 6/16/08, smwoodruff0908 <[email protected]> wrote:

Ok, I upgraded Wine. I have a laptop, and think it has the Intel 945GM
video card, is there a command I can put into the terminal to find out

for

sure though?

I do have the regisrty tweak in place, and I checked my GLX info, and

this

is what I got:

direct rendering: No
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 945GM 20061017 x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 7.0.3-rc2

So what does all this mean, and how can I get it working?

--
Jason Weisberger
[email protected]
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[Sleaka J]

Considering Ubuntu 8.40 doesn't actually exist, I'm surprised you got as far as you did.

[smwoodruff0908]

I created 8.40!! (Don't tell anyone else it exists!) hahaha, ok I didn't notice that slip up, but I fixed it. Thx.

Considering Ubuntu 8.40 doesn't actually exist, I'm surprised you got as far as you did.

So does anyone know how to get the video card working properly on Ubuntu 8.04? Thanx again to everyone!

[emkay]

Hi,

Ok, I upgraded Wine. I have a laptop, and think it has the Intel 945GM video card,

i got WoW running with an intel915 mobile with all tweaks registry etc. direct rendering enabled and "-openGL" is runs at ~20fsp so i guess with the intel 945 about 25-30~fps is possible.

The problem is this:

direct rendering: No

you have to enable direct rendering.
Make sure you got the corret drivers.