F7 and WoW?

Sergey Katalichenka skatalichenka at constantcontact.com
Wed Oct 3 17:03:06 UTC 2007


Anyone actually raids with WOW running in Linux? How is the performance
in 25 man raids? 

P.S. Just yesterday they enabled in game VoiP. Any issues there? 



On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 18:50 +0200, Rudolf Kastl wrote:

> 2007/10/2, AJ Mitchelson <jason at mitcho.myzen.co.uk>:
> > Jason Viloria wrote:
> > > Chris wrote:
> > >> On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:32:45 -0700
> > >> Konstantin Svist <fry.kun at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> Chris wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> Before I run off and remove my kids Windows2000 OS for Fedora, will
> > >>>> F7 play WoW?  HE wants to play Wow really bad but also wants to try
> > >>>> out Linux.
> > >>>>
> > >>> Both Cedega
> > >>> (http://games.cedega.com/gamesdb/games/alphabrowse.mhtml?letter=W)
> > >>> and CrossoverOffice
> > >>> (http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?letter=w)
> > >>> support WoW
> > >>>
> > >>> Wine supports it too, supposedly
> > >>> (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=9262,
> > >>> http://frankscorner.org/) but I've had troubles using wine in Fedora:
> > >>> I tried running openCanvas in it and it wouldn't work.
> > >>> CrossoverOffice ran it perfectly and even supports wacom tablets out
> > >>> of the box.
> > >>>
> > >>> To reiterate: yes it's possible
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> Ahh - perfect!
> > >>
> > >> I'll experiment a bit before wiping his drive.
> > >>
> > >>
> > > I was playing it until a few months ago using Cedega and my hardware
> > > is  gefore 7900 GS with 2gigs ram and Athlon64 and WoW works  quiet ok
> > > at about 40fps 1024x768 res.
> > > I would put it that it's down to anywhere between 25% to 50% less
> > > performance than on windows depending on where you are in WoW and
> > > number of mobs/players in your area.
> > >
> > > br
> > > jason
> > >
> > >
> > I'm running WoW on my dual core AMD machine using 64Bit Fedora 7 with
> > wine 0.9.44 with no problems at all and have been for quite a while. I
> > used the following as an invaluable source on getting everything running OK.
> >
> > http://www.wowwiki.com/Linux/Wine
> 
> thats the wiki also mentioned on http://appdb.winehq.org which is the
> site i really recommend to push your knowledge and experiences to.
> 
> regards,
> Rudolf Kastl
> 
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > AJ
> >
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