WOW unplayable because of graphical error

[gobbles2k8]

I downloaded Wine, coppied World of Warcraft from my computer with Windows Vista on to an external drive, then coppied it onto this computer with ubuntu 9.10. I can start it, but once I press play on the updater it looks like this
[/img]http://i895.photobucket.com/albums/ac16 ... 1277843894
I have a Dell laptop, without a dedicated graphics card, but WOW worked on it when I had Vista on it.

[gobbles2k8]

Oops, didn't put the image in correctly

[James Mckenzie]

gobbles2k8 <[email protected]> wrote:

I downloaded Wine, coppied World of Warcraft from my computer with Windows Vista on to
an external drive, then coppied it onto this computer with ubuntu 9.10. I can start it,
but once I press play on the updater it looks like this
[/img]http://i895.photobucket.com/albums/ac16 ... 1277843894
I have a Dell laptop, without a dedicated graphics card, but WOW worked on it when I
had Vista on it.

All computers have a video card.

Can you advise us what video card your laptop has in it and the video driver/version you are using?

James McKenzie

[gobbles2k8]

I know they all have graphics cards, I was saying it didn't have a dedicated Nvidia or whatever kind, instead one integrated on the motherboard
Anyway, I think that I have a
Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics
And I don't know how to check what driver version it is, but I just updated it yesterday

[James McKenzie]

gobbles2k8 wrote:

I know they all have graphics cards, I was saying it didn't have a dedicated Nvidia or whatever kind, instead one integrated on the motherboard
Anyway, I think that I have a
Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics

Yuck. Intel is well noted for their lack of Linux 3D support.

Hopefully, someone with experience can help, or you can look through the
FAQ as this question is asked quite frequently.

James McKenzie

[gobbles2k8]

I didn't see anything about it. So if anybody could help me, it'd be very helpful

[dimesio]

I didn't see anything about it. So if anybody could help me, it'd be very helpful

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-a96989f ... 7f6bcfd16f

The fact that the game may have worked fine on that system in Windows is irrelevant. The hardware may be the same, but Linux graphics drivers are not the equivalent of Windows ones, not even from nVidia, and as you've already been told, Intel's are notoriously poor.

[gobbles2k8]

I didn't see anything about it. So if anybody could help me, it'd be very helpful

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-a96989f ... 7f6bcfd16f

The fact that the game may have worked fine on that system in Windows is irrelevant. The hardware may be the same, but Linux graphics drivers are not the equivalent of Windows ones, not even from nVidia, and as you've already been told, Intel's are notoriously poor.

So basically what you're saying is that there is no fix for this?

[Jim Hall]

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 6:59 PM, gobbles2k8 <[email protected]>wrote:

dimesio wrote:

gobbles2k8 wrote:

I didn't see anything about it. So if anybody could help me, it'd be

very helpful

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-a96989f ... 7f6bcfd16f

The fact that the game may have worked fine on that system in Windows is

irrelevant. The hardware may be the same, but Linux graphics drivers are not
the equivalent of Windows ones, not even from nVidia, and as you've already
been told, Intel's are notoriously poor.

So basically what you're saying is that there is no fix for this?



Correct. Without proper drivers, it won't work.

Jim
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