World of Warcraft

What works

Everything works more or less perfectly but it does require performance enhancements to run well.

I have personally:

Raided, used LFG to find dungeon groups, pet battled, done PvP, quested, upgraded Garrison, leveled from 90 to 100, installed multiple addons. That is really all you can do in the game...

What does not

Everything works except for heightened graphics settings. The problem is that Blizzard seldom updates their OpenGL support, so the graphics options are at the lowest settings possible (new models work just fine though). Otherwise the performance is comparable to Windows.

It does require some fixing to work, so follow the instructions below carefully:

1. Install WoW, I used Battle.net app to do so.

2. Run the game and enter the world (this will create some important folders and files) , then exit the game. The game will be horrible at this point, don't worry, we're about to fix that. Don't worry if fonts and such are messed up, just barrel through it and get yourself into the game.

3. Edit ../World of Warcraft/WTF/config.wtf

SET gxApi "OpenGL" <- found somewhere in the mix as "set gxApi 'D3D9'"

SET processAffinityMask "15" <- add this to the end of the document, it will run the game properly for 4 cores, I think you can set it to 3 or 7 for dual core but not sure, sorry. If you experience massive amounts of black stuff on your screen or severe lagg this setting is worth looking into.

4. Create a document in ../World of Warcraft/ called "start.sh" with the following content:

#! /bin/bash

LD_PRELOAD="libpthread.so.0 libGL.so.1" __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine WINEARCH=win64 wine Wow-64.exe -opengl

5. Run "sudo chmod +x start.sh" in terminal to make start.sh executable.

6. Create a launcher that launches start.sh in the WoW directory.

Launch WoW through the script and you're golden!

Workarounds

What was not tested

Botting, selling gold and similar illegal activities. Otherwise everything of importance was tested and ran exceptionally well.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

For its performance level the game deserves a Platinum rating, even if graphics settings are unavailable. Sadly though the game does require some extensive work to get it to work properly, so it only gets a Gold rating. I will be making a video at some point that guides you through the installation process on Xubuntu as well as showing a little of its actual performance while in game. When I make it I will add a link to it on this page. The following link might be useful when trying to set the "processAffinityMask" setting in "config.wtf": http://www.wowwiki.com/CVar_processAffinityMask