World of Warcraft

What works

Everything tested.

What does not

Performance and frame rates are poor without workarounds.

Workarounds

Performance and frame rates are poor without the use of DXVK.

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What was not tested

All things PvP.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Nvidia
• Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

antiX-23_x64-core Arditi del Popolo

NVIDIA GA104 v: 550.107.02

Vulkan v: 1.3.239

X.Org v: 1.21.1.7

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

Memory: total: 32 GiB

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

ASUSTeK ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO

World of Warcraft has been running stably with Wine for many years. Occasionally, we have had issues with the Battle.net / Blizzard app. The app has either failed to load, update World of Warcraft, launch Warcraft reliably or all of the above. Unlike many of Blizzard's other games, World of Warcraft can be launch independently of the Blizzard App.

To launch World of Warcraft independently of the Battle.net app (recommended).

Create a seperate wineprefix to run wow:

• WINEPREFIX="%/path/to/wineprefix/%.wowwineprefix%" wineboot

You will need to change the %variables% above to look something like this:

• WINEPREFIX="/media/games/.wow" wineboot

Run World of Warcraft without starting the Blizzard App:

• WINEPREFIX="%/path/to/wineprefix/%.%wowwineprefix%" wine "/path/to/Wow/Installation/World of Warcraft/_retail_/Wow.exe" -d3d11

For example:

• WINEPREFIX="/media/games/.wow wine "/media/games/World of Warcraft/_retail_/Wow.exe" -d3d11

If you create a .desktop shortcut (or, for example, an Xfce shortcut) prefix the line with env, e.g.:

• env WINEPREFIX="/media/games/.wow wine "/media/games/World of Warcraft/_retail_/Wow.exe" -d3d11

Performance and frame rates can be quite low, to address this we recommend you use DXVK, this can easily be installed using winetricks:

• WINEPREFIX="/path/to/wineprefix/.%wowwineprefix%" winetricks dxvk

If you experience problems using Warcraft after installing DXVK please retest in new wineprefix without DXVK and report any Wine problems here. Problems with third party software (i.e. DXVK) should be reported to the team behind DXVK, do not report them here, we can't help with that.

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