As you know, the Cedega forums are painfully slow, if you ever get an answer.

My situation is this:

I have WoW installed on my Windows partition.
I also have a 'copy' of the same, and working, on my Linux drive using wine.

My question is: Can I use the wine directory to run WoW under Cedega? I installed it under wine due to the install issues of WotLK. Was very easy: Just copied the /program files/world of warcraft dir to a dir under `/.wine/drive_c/etc..., and changed permissions. I use the 2 different installs of WoW so I get NO possibilty of Windows 'icky stuff' in my Linux partition.

What can I do for Cedega? I would HATE to have 3 different installs of WoW on one machine. The bloody thing is too big for even 2!

Usually I'd say no, it's not likely to work for most big programs, because each windows (or wine (or wine based)) installation has its own registry, and most programs create important registry and environment settings when they are installed (such as registration codes). Moving the program to another installation then fails because those settings don't get transferred. It's usually only small applications that don't rely on registry settings that can be moved around without trouble.

But if you say you were able to run WoW after just copying the directory, then it just might be possible. I don't know much about Cedega though, other than it was forked of of a now-ancient version of wine.

Why don't you just give it a try? Make a temporary back-up copy of your existing Linux installation, then try to run it under Cedega. If it works, great. If it doesn't work and corrupts something, then just fix it with the backup and install it a third time.

Of course that brings up the question, why would you want it running under both wine and cedega in the first place? I'd imagine that most people would determine which one gives the best performance and use it exclusively.

I did, and it always errors out. I think it has something to do with Cedega requiring certain permissions under the '.cedega' directory...

I'll try to dig farther

I gave up on Cedega, went to Crossover Games.

Works great.

I 'installed' WoW by creating a symlink in from the folder.

The thing I've found out, with my hardware, is the following:

(All installs/runs using their own 'tweaked' config.wtf file. Crossover Games creates it's own file that is supposed to work best with/Crossover. The wine config.wtf is modded by me with lots of tweaks. The Windows config is modded by me too)

• Crossover Games runs 10% slower (with both config.wtf files)than:
• Wine runs 10% slower than:
• Native Windows install

Speeds were determined by using ctrl-r in-game.

All of this may change after my hardware upgrade (It better!! I'm running very poor hardware right now)

I was on a search to see what ran best/fastest

And because I can't leave well enough alone...The quest for knowledge becomes overwhelming when you have nothing to do at 2AM