Thursday, January 10, 2008

Installing WOW under Ubuntu

Forgot to save what I did before unless I save it under the learning WOW blog.

I did not; however, with a lot of searching I finally found the magic google search string " wow ubuntu gusty wine" that leads me to this wonderful link: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WorldofWarcraft

It seems that I need direct rendering to get WOW to work and I don't have direct rendering with my ATI graphics card. I will definitely look to get a graphic card other than ATI next time I buy a portable PC.

It seems that there is a way around my graphics problem, but it may give me some poor frame rates.

WOW does support OpenGL and I can use an XServer for this.

It looks like I will need to reinstall Wine by rebuilding the most recent code.

This could be some work.

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