Beginner's Guide [Linux]

[Kerpy]

OP here. Lost my main forum account and since there's no reset forum password button I couldn't reclaim the account, and therefore not edit the thread to make the forum links work again

Glad to hear that some of you got it working using the guide.

If requested I can do a youtube video on how to get things functional under both CX and PoL, and share a PoL archive of a stock Nostalrius install.

That would be awesome!

[Starflare]

tl;dr - vanilla wow with wine in opengl doesn't support hardware cursor; there's a patch for this but it's very outdated and meant to be compiled with a much older version of wine. Looking for a solution to play with hardware cursor and opengl.

Why has no one mentioned the biggest issue of running Vanilla WoW with Wine in OpenGL: lack of hardware cursor?

There are a few old posts on Linux forums mostly from 2008-2010 of a wine patch/fix that make it so the game uses your normal desktop cursor instead of the slow ingame non-hardware cursor, effectively simulating a hardware cursor. It requires you to compile a specific (and outdated!) wine version from source after applying a small patch to one of the source files. Obviously that's far from ideal now, since those patches were meant for older versions and no longer work.

I've even tried compiling an old version of wine with the hardware cursor patch it was meant to be compiled with but still gave me errors. Anyone know any solutions?

Sources:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1051483
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1051483&page=9&p=7643957#post7643957
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=96464

I can provide the wow-hardware-cursor patch file if anyone wants it since the download links from those forums are all dead.

[Xentro]

I agree with you. The way the mouse works in linux is just odd. Please let me know here if anyone found a solution because that's currently thing that's keeping me from playing on linux (and having to keep my windows install).

[birday]

somebody got multicore support to work? i never get wow to use more than ~105% CPU (i looked at top/htop). My gpu is chilling at ~50%. Can't get above 24 fps on the pvp server in IF (yeah sure tons of people there). Everywhere else, it's fine because there's not much load for the CPU.

[Euronymous]

somebody got multicore support to work? i never get wow to use more than ~105% CPU (i looked at top/htop). My gpu is chilling at ~50%. Can't get above 24 fps on the pvp server in IF (yeah sure tons of people there). Everywhere else, it's fine because there's not much load for the CPU.

Even modern wow client implementations unload most of the work onto one thread, with secondary and tertiary threads handling significantly less. You can't really optimize a game built before parallelization became widespread for multiple threads, unless you employ some external hackjob of dubious effectiveness.

On another note I don't really see the need to use proprietary software like Crossover, which is pretty much a paid version of Wine with some GUI and specific game support, when Wine serves our purpose just fine.