Ubuntu 13.04 + wine 1.5 + World of Warcraft

[amithiel]

Hello,

I'm sorry, i know this topic is spreaded all over the foruns, i spent 2 days googling. Problem is: all the info i found is alwas 2...3 years old.
I'm getting 20 fps on wow...almost not playable.
First, all the info you might need:

My specs:

- Asus ultrabook S56CM
- Core i7 1.9Ghz
- 6 GB Ram
- nvidia gt635M 2GB
- intel HD 4000

I'm using Ubuntu 13.04 x64 as my only OS. And GOD help me, i don't want to dualboot to play this game.
I'm only asking for at least 50...maybe 60 fps. In windows i got about 100+ fps.
i installed wine, no special tweaks i've made (maybe thats the problem)
Basically, i just want some tips & tweaks i can do to improove the game just a little.

Some aditional info:

I have bumblebee installed, so i can use nvidia. if i try to launch the game using:
"wine path/wow.exe" -> i get an error saying directx is not installed.
If i run the game with " optirun wine path/wow.exe" , the game runs, but with 20 fps. I suppose its using nvidia, right?

The kernel is the default one, i installed ubuntu some days ago, so i don't really changed anything besides the themes and such.
Thanks in advanced for all the help you can give me guys

[inlinerbutch]

Hi,

try to install WoW via playonlinux. This will solve the dependencies which you have in 13.04.

On youtube there is avideo tutorial availbale (not mine!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5cBIlwj5Ms

Best Regards,
Uwe

[amithiel]

oh, forgot to mention. i'm playing mists of pandaria

[lahmbi5678]

Hi,

I'm not playing WoW and don't have bumblebee, so can't test it myself.

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=28228 mentions that you could edit the file "config.wtf" to render via OpenGL. In that appdb article there's a discussion below ("low FPS"), which mentions, that one should "chmod +x config.wtf", though I have to admit, that I do not understand the logic behind that at all. If it's bogus, please leave a comment in the mentioned discussion.

[inlinerbutch]

Hi amithiel,

maybe this helps for you:

http://www.mmomeltingpot.com/2012/09/ru ... te-errors/

or the 'big knowledge base'...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=+Pandaria+WoW+Wine

Best Regards,
Uwe