The one thing keeping me from swapping to linux- World of Warcraft
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The one thing keeping me from swapping to linux- World of Warcraft
Im addicted - what can I say...
So anyway... I have Fedora 5 dualbooted on my machine.
I have looked around and saw you could use Wine with Ubuntu and get WoW working. I assume using wine to get it working would be no different with Fedora?
I also saw that Cedega program, but if Wine works...
Anyway - Has anyone had any luck running World of Warcraft on Fedora? and what did you do?
This is pretty much the only thing keeping me from dumping windows at the moment.
I know that it will work with Cedega but I am not sure about Wine. I have not tried it myself, but I checked into it awhile back. Things might have changed since then, like things always do with Linux. Did you look at their websites? Cedega specifically said that it worked.
that was the last thing keeping me in windows too. i tried getting wine to work for about a month, downloading and installing the patches, compiling and installing the source, each time i ended up with errors compiling that i couldnt find documentation for, or if i did it didnt work. i didnt even get to try to configure it once wine was installed. i tried wine, winex, every related patch i could find, every how-to, nothing worked. finally i ended up just installing cedega and it works great - i play it almost every day.
this is about what i am going through right now. Trying to get wine to install correctly and WoW to install in wine. So far i don't have the correct version of wine installed from what i have read it is wine 0.9.17 and then there is a patch to that which is wow_patch_0.9.16.diff
I just took the plunge into linux 3 days ago. So far i have nvidia drivers instaled and dual monitors working. Hopefully i can help out in this thread if i can get it all figured out
I have FC5 with latest kernal and i'm running WoW through Winex/Cedega just fine. I prefer it in windowed mode but my brother-in-law runs fullscreen without any major decrease in performance. You may have to tone down the graphics slightly but other than that you wouldn't see any difference. For the most part it patches easily on it's own but transgaming.org forums always have helpful tips on how to get it working when Blizzard decides they want to make it more difficult for us Unix users.
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