[NCLUG] WoW on 3d systems that's not ATI or NVidia?

[Benson Chow]

As a hardware independent test, I tried to run WoW on my server (which 
has/uses the Nvidia closed-source driver).  Other than it running at 6FPS 
at 1024x768 on an GeForce4 MX420, Athlon XP 2200+ in Shattrath, it worked 
without any special hacks - the way it should be (tm).  This machine uses 
pretty much the same source base as my G965 box, both (all...) of my 
machines run Gentoo.

I'm using Wine-0.9.49, ALSA for this test on fairly ancient hardware. 
I do recall this card having some speed issues on a true Windows box 
(maybe 20FPS in Ironforge), but I suspect at 6fps it's running a little 
slower than it should, despite being in Shattrath.)  Also using the render 
rate is about the same in both OpenGL and Direct3D modes.  I get about 
1050fps on glxgears (slow,but DRI working), and glxinfo reports direct 
renderring enabled.

Now that I'm trying to get rid of this video/machine (the server shall be 
soon upgraded) and getting other "alternative" graphics solutions (i.e., 
Intel.)  I hope it's something screwey with setting up the 1.7.4 driver 
that's letting Wine cause the whole X server to die... but I may have to 
resort to using that newer 2.1.0 driver (both under Xorg 1.3 core) :( 
Dangit, I want my custom video timings!!!

How many frames per second are you getting?  Which Intel graphics chipset 
you have?

I think the mere G965 (X3000?) should be able to outperform the GeForce4 
MX420 by a considerable margin, so I hope it's actually at some playable 
(at least 15-20FPS under all situations)...

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Paul Hummer wrote:

> I've got a MacBook, running Ubuntu, using the Wine right out of Ubuntu's apt 
> repository, and an Intel based card.  It's running well (not nearly as well 
> as my ATI-based systems, but that might be because of a lack of documentation 
> for tweaks with these cards).
>
> Maybe if you could post your wine and xorg-versions (with any flags Gentoo 
> applied), we can figure it out.  I believe when I made my first attempt at 
> getting WoW to run in wine, my best resource was the Gentoo wiki, so there 
> may be some solutions there.
>
> Paul