World of Warcraft

What works

Gameplay elements:

• Login
• Character creation
• Questing
• Farming
• Raids
• PvP (World, Battleground and Arena)
• Dungeons
• Blizzard Shop
• Battle.net chat functionality
• Addons

Architectural elements:

• 64-bit
• d3d11
• Various graphical settings work without issues
• SSAA, FXAA

What does not

The battle.net launcher does not work with any preset other than Windows XP
Occasional graphical glitches in arenas (Blade's Edge Arena specifically)
MSAA produces a black screen regardless of setting (MSAA x2, x4, x8 or x16)
CMAA produces edges on geometry that are visible through some 2D UI objects, specifically the character information window, which should occlude them.
Fullscreen*

*I can't be sure about this, as I haven't tested it with another DE/WM yet.

Workarounds

Set Wow-64.exe to Windows 10 and Battle.net Launcher.exe to Windows XP in winecfg

What was not tested

• Pet battles
• Most of Draenor
• Voice chat
• Streaming
• OpenGL
• 32-bit

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Nvidia
• Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

I can't comment on performance beyond my own experience, I have a very strong system, my performance values may not be representative.

I'm getting between 30-130 fps on 10 (Ultra) settings throughout. In raids, my fps is consistently above 20fps but below 60fps, regardless of quality settings, so there seems to be a CPU limitation.

In my opinion it should get Platinum and not Gold, since the problems I've come across are either trivial or out of scope, but these exceptions are not defined in the Rating definitions, so I'll stick with Gold.

Tested on wine-2.21 (Staging), 4.14.13-1-ARCH, Nvidia 387.34, Gnome-Shell (X11)