[NCLUG] Link for the Installing World of Warcraft with Wine NCLUG presentation
Paul Hummer
paul at eventuallyanyway.com
Wed Nov 14 09:49:11 MST 2007
Lisa and I were speaking about this last night at dinner. The biggest
reason I switched from my favorite distro Debian, to Ubuntu was the
package ages. The ATI driver in Ubuntu's Gutsy apt repo is 8.39.6,
which is quite new (I believe the most updated is 8.42), so much of the
headache of installing the fglrx driver is gone by using apt-get install
linux-restricted-modules-generic
The other settings, like the registry entry and the Config.wtf file are
for your own good. If you run WoW without them, you're probably not
going to have the best experience, and wine just might crash horribly.
Some of those settings tell WoW to use OpenGL instead of Microsoft's
DirectX, which wine is having a hack of a time trying to get working
(there's been talk of them abandoning it altogether).
Dennis Clark wrote:
> Lisa,
>
> That was incredibly detailed! It was also quite daunting - Do you have
> any idea how much of that was dictated by running Debian and how much
> would change for a Ubuntu system?
>
> Thanks for your efforts!
> DLC
>
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> For those who are interested, here is the link to the slides I used for
>> the Wine and Warcraft presentation for the November NCLUG meeting:
>> http://www.oblongata.org/tech/presents/wow_wine/wow_wine.html
>>
>> If you have any questions or if something doesn't work, let me know and I
>> may have an answer for you.
>>
>> --Lisa
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