World of Warcraft

What works

• Battle.net client (installation, log-in, and WoW installation)

• WoW authentication (log-in through Battle.net and directly with email/pass/2FA through Wow.exe, realm and character selections)

• Seemingly everything reasonable in-game gameplay-wise (questing, dungeons, battlegrounds, barrens chat)

What does not

• Lower graphical performance

Workarounds

• DXVK (improved graphical performance)

What was not tested

• Any kind of in-game voice chat and TTS options
• NVIDIA Reflex for latency modes (presumably need DXVK-NVAPI)
• IPv6
• Any interaction window using a web browser view (GM tickets?)

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Intel
• Driver: open source

Additional Comments

• Installation notes
• With Intel UHD 630, I get the best FPS with DirectX 11 Legacy (-10 FPS with DX11, and -15 with DX12)
• Spell effects (like changing Auras with a Paladin) tank FPS presumably from particle or spell effects, but lowest in-game settings for these don't help; unsure if it differs on Windows
• I test with GNOME on Wayland at 1080p@74Hz; Xorg session had terrible FPS stutter even at 60+ FPS
• I've tested distro-provided DXVK and vkd3d, DXVK 1.13 from official release on GitHub, and DXVK from master artifacts; none of them had any different experience or FPS in-relation to where it came from or the version
• I tested WoW Dragonflight 10.1.7.51536 (Sept 26 2023 build)