Problem with Worl of Warcraft on Wine. Works very very slow.

nitroglycerine · Post by **nitroglycerine** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 3:29 am

Hi, I installed World of Warcraft on Wine, but I have a problem, World of Warcraft works very slow, and is impossible to play. Some time ago I tried World of Warcraft on Wine, when used Ubuntu and works great, but now works very slow.

Wine version: 1.3.25
O.S.: ArchLinux 64 bits with desktop environment Gnome 3.
Graphics: Mobile Intel GM45 Express Chipset Integrated Graphics
CPU: Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU T4300 @ 2.10GHz × 2
RAM: 3GB

The version of World of Warcraft is: World of Warcraft Wrath of The Lich King 3.3.5a

Thanks

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 10:03 am

On 07/25/2011 04:29 AM, nitroglycerine wrote:

Some time ago I tried World of Warcraft on Wine, when used Ubuntu and works great, but now works very slow.

Graphics: Mobile Intel GM45 Express Chipset Integrated Graphics

The last few updates of WoW have made the graphic requirements much
higher than they used to be. Blizzard doesn't even support the game in
Windows for Intel graphics cards anymore I don't think. Since the Linux
drivers for Intel cards are usually horrible you may not have any luck
with that card. Be sure you have the newest driver for your card, but if
that doesn't help your best bet would be to replace it with an Nvidia or
ATI card. Even a budget Nvidia card would be an improvement since their
Linux drivers are fairly well supported. If you or a friend have an
extra Nvidia or ATI card handy you could use that to test performance.

nitroglycerine · Post by **nitroglycerine** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 11:58 am

Thank you for the answer. I'm using a laptop, the graphics card is integrated

. I will try to install the last graphic card driver on Wine. Is there a choice?. Thanks

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 7:08 pm

nitroglycerine wrote:I will try to install the last graphic card driver on Wine. Is there a choice?

No, you can't install HW drivers with Wine. They won't work.

There is nothing you can do short of replacing video card (if it's possible in your laptop). Or replacing your laptop. Intel "graphics" is a joke.

nitroglycerine · Post by **nitroglycerine** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 3:31 am

Thank you, I thought it would be the graphic card, but World of Warcraft on Windows 7 in the same laptop work great, and a friend with similar laptop and same graphic card with Guadalinex O.S. (a GNU/Linux distribution of Andalucia, Spain) and Wine 1.3.24 play Wolrd of Warcraft without problems, so I doubt arise. Maybe I'll buy a desktop soon, I hope to have more luck with it. Thank you again, if someone know some configuration for WoW on Wine or something tell me please. Thanks

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:13 am

On 07/26/2011 04:31 AM, nitroglycerine wrote:

Thank you, I thought it would be the graphic card, but World of Warcraft on Windows 7 in the same laptop work great

Just sharing information - Windows and Linux each have to have their own
driver for the graphics card. Intel makes Windows drivers for their
cards but doesn't really make Linux ones. That is probably why it worked
in Windows but not in Linux. So technically it is the graphics card
-company- and their choice of who to make drivers for (or to open source
the information so users can make their own drivers) and not the card
itself, although Intel doesn't make very good video cards either.