Beginner's Guide [Linux]

[Zarlock]

Hello, I'm trying to run WoW with Wine on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, but I'm having a couple problems. If I play fullscreen and I minimize the game, it will get frozen and I will have to close it and open it again. On the other hand, if I play in window mode there are like flashes all the time and it's very annoying, plus the overall performance is worse.

Any clue how could I fix it?

It's great to see that there are so many players using Linux, thanks for the help in advance!

EDIT: apparently, I fixed it by playing in maximized windowed mode.

[ThePunjabiPrince]

I downloaded the mac/linux client, and downloaded crossover.... however I did not do anything with crossover. I went ahead and started playing bc the launcher had worked. Now im trying again hours later and its not working. I went into crossover and tried to install whatever necessary to get it to work, but it tries to install battle.net, but I have no idea why its doing that if we arent trying to go through blizzard. Anyways I really want to play this game, it would be highly appreciated if some gave me a relatively simple step by step procedure to fix this or if easier start by scratch. Hopefully someone will reply soon!! Thanks!!

[jimmbo]

FEDORA RED HAT USERS:
1. make sure you have your non-stock video drivers/librarys installed.
2. put into console yum install wine.i686
after that is installed type
3. yum install wine.x86_64
after thats installed go to your wow folder, right click and open with wine.

[Carson]

Good guide! Thanks. Worked for me

[cfiore2012]

I don't know if this has been covered yet and I just missed it, but all the links to the photos describing dependencies to install seem to be broken. can anybody tell me what's supposed to be in the OP post concerning these?

[chubscub]

Thanks Ozz

Had the exact problem with gfx from your screen shot

SET gxAPI "OpenGL" worked like a charm.

[dextro]

I'm running a dual boot of Arch Linux and Windows 7, with my WoW clients installed on a separate NTFS hard drive (not C:\). I've googled around and I'm getting conflicting answers about whether or not it's safe to point wine directly to my WoW installs. As long as I'm not mounting the partition that contains my Windows install, would it be ok to do this? Will it cause any issues with the content on that hard drive?

Thanks

[Fragioplays]

I can't find config.wtf Help me please!

[schotty]

I can't find config.wtf Help me please!

For PlayOnLinux:

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 andrew  ⋯  Program Files  World of Warcraft Classic  WTF  ls Config.wtf
Config.wtf
 andrew  ⋯  Program Files  World of Warcraft Classic  WTF  pwd
/home/andrew/PlayOnLinux's virtual drives/nostalrius/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft Classic/WTF
 andrew  ⋯  Program Files  World of Warcraft Classic  WTF  



For Crossover:

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 andrew  ⋯  Program Files  World of Warcraft Classic  WTF  ls
Account  Config.wtf
 andrew  ⋯  Program Files  World of Warcraft Classic  WTF  pwd
/home/andrew/.cxoffice/nostalrius/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft Classic/WTF
 andrew  ⋯  Program Files  World of Warcraft Classic  WTF  


I don't feel like using standard wine, as I am too lazy to compile it myself (on RHEL 7.2). Besides PoL and Crossover work just fine and in many ways far easier.

And for anyone else that needs a hand with Linux related stuff, feel free to buzz me. Linux is my bread and butter, and I do use it exclusively at home (all laptops, desktops, servers, and routers). 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.

[mozibake]

Good thread. Having the exact graphical issue as in the OP image, running Kubuntu 14.04 with a GTX 650. Just bumping so I can find this thread when I'm back at my main PC and try the listed fix.