Right now I'm working on boosting my FPS on WoW. I've already applied the DisabledExtensions fix, and I'm currently trying to get another fix to work. I've heard that using the following, you can get a boost in FPS:

nano -w ~/launch-wow.sh
put this content in your newly created file :
Code: ~/launch-wow.sh

#!/bin/sh
export WOW_PATH=~/".wine/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft" # Edit this, if You put WoW somewher else.
X :3 -ac & # Launches a new X session on display 3
cd "${WOW_PATH}" # Goto WoW dir
sleep 2 # Forces the system to have a break for 2 seconds
DISPLAY=:3 `which wine` WoW.exe -opengl # Launches WoW

Press Ctrl+o then Ctrl+w in order to save your file & quit nano.
Don't forget to make your script executable :
chmod +x ~/launch-wow.sh

After running the script, my screen blacks out, and my system crashes. Would anyone know the cause of this?

Currently Using:
Radeon 9600 Series
NFII Ultra Infinity

(PS - Anyone happen to have any other performance tweaks for WoW?

Honestly, I dont believe that you will have better performance running WoW in another X server, it will just take more memory from your system!

[]', FMC!

Hehe, you're probably right. Well, I'm still tweaking WoW's settings. It seems like no matter what settings I change, they have little/and or reverse impact on frames per second. I turned off all the major shaders, and I got less FPS than I did with all of the shaders turned on. Does anyone have any ideas? I'm also wondering whether or not it has to deal with my aticonfig settings....

I have a NVidia GPU, so I really cant help you with ATI conf!

I dont play WoW anymore, but I played it on Linux for about 6 months in a while ago.

How many FPS are you getting?

Sharers are good for FPS with NVidia too, I dont know why, but I get more FPS with sharers on too!

One thing that you have to find out is where the problem is. Wow requires a lot of your processor, a lot memory, a lot this and a lot of that too... the game is pretty heavy.

Once I sent an e-mail to nvidia asking if I would have better performance in WoW with 2 GPUs in a SLI configuration. They answered me that probably not a lot just because of the nature of the game, sometimes a better internet connection grants you better performance in this game than a better GPU.

Have a look on vmstat to monitor your system for a while during the game and them you can conclude where the problem is!

[]'s, FMC!

Throwing options back and forth, I've finally managed to get an FPS range around 25-50. I've got 1.5 gb ram, 3 gb swap space, Radeon 9600XT, and an AMD 3200 XP processor. I believe I've done as much as I can with it. My config.wtf is as follows:

SET locale "enUS"
SET hwDetect "0"
SET gxFixLag "0"
SET gxApi "opengl"
SET gxColorBits "24"
SET gxDepthBits "24"
SET gxResolution "1024x768"
SET gxMultisampleQuality "0.000000"
SET SoundOutputSystem "1"
SET SoundBufferSize "170"
SET SmallCull "0.070000"
SET DistCull "450.000000"
SET farclip "177"
SET particleDensity "0.900000"
SET unitDrawDist "100.000000"
SET movie "0"
SET Gamma "1.000000"
SET lastCharacterIndex "3"
SET readTOS "1"
SET readEULA "1"
SET MusicVolume "0.40000000596046"
SET SoundVolume "1"
SET MasterVolume "1"
SET realmList "us.logon.worldofwarcraft.com"
SET patchlist "us.version.worldofwarcraft.com"
SET realmName "Tanaris"
SET gameTip "50"
SET AmbienceVolume "0.60000002384186"
SET uiScale "0.63999998569489"
SET timingTestError "0"
SET accountName "WhereIsWaldo"
SET checkAddonVersion "0"
SET EnableMusic "0"
SET ffxDeath "0"
SET ffxGlow "0"
SET anisotropic "4"
SET gxCursor "0"
SET lod "1"
SET pixelShaders "1"
SET DesktopGamma "1"
SET shadowLevel "0"
SET weatherDensity "3"

Any more ideas to improve it?

Yeah, so running Wow on Windows with D3D gives me about 40-60 FPS vs the crummy 25-50. It runs a lot smoother, and with all pixel shaders and graphical enhancements enabled. Unlike on Linux and OpenGL, I have to dumb everything down just to get decent FPS. I mean come'on, you have to do a registry tweak just to get it past 10fps. Linux is great and all, but until I see better performance results from Wow on Linux, I'm sticking with my windows installation.

My machine:
AMD 3000+ 64
1GB Ram
80GB Memory
nVidia Geforce 7600GS
Gentoo Linux

My FPS: 60-100

With DX I cant get more tham 60-70!

Maybe you should complain with ATI for bad drivers!

[]´s, FMC!

What is your configuration for your wtf.config file? Could you post your settings? It might help.

PS
Hey, would it have anything to do with the distro that you're running it on? I noticed that I got better FPS with Ubuntu than I did Kubuntu. I was wondering if Gentoo and Debian might run WOW better than Ubuntu. A possibility?

I will try to find my WoW instalation and than I post my conf file, but I dont know if I still have it!

I told you to use vmstat to monitor your system during the game for you to know if the problem is memory, some heavy process stilling all CPU time or something like that, you could try it to be sure what is the problem. Different distros may affect the performance ´couse services and other things might still resources, usualy I stop postfix, apache, courier-* to play, this way I know that the game will have my entire machine just for it! lol

[]´, FMC!

Hey, could you elaborate on how I'm to use VMstat? *hasn't used Vmstat before*

With the above command I got one report every 2 seconds, on a total of 5 reports.

Take a look on man to understand the output, thats not something hard to understand!

[]´s, FMC!