Anyone here plays World of Warcraft

I am thinking of starting over now that I have a new box going to start playing on a new server and start from scratch again. Curious to see if any of ya play and on what server?

I will be playing it under Linux using Cedega.

 

my son 24/7

 

I played for about a year and got my paladin to 80. He's got like 5 purples and the rare mount or w/e it is.

Can't believe I blew all that time and money on something that I'll never even look at again.

 

Don't let yourself be tempted by that demon, I say stay away as far as you can! ksshhh

 

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Good point but I played it so much on my vista OS that I need to see how Cedega handles it. The best way to test it is to see how well it plays under Cedega.

 

My son is not paying anything, I AM !!

 

Cheap baby sitting FTW, not sure if I would consider it a blessing or a curse when my kids are old enough to be gamers. But it would be nice to get atleast a small break from them.

 

True...I've got some leverage over him at least for helping out around the house....

 

This thread should really be moved to HERE...

 

Well I wanted to see if anyone played Wow in Linux. We a close bunch here.

 

My dad did that with me.... Except that it was Ultima VIII and Heretic instead of WoW.

 

MMORPG is hell . I just wander, how you'll fare on your stripping machine with FPS, considering running it on linux. Give us some feedback when can ).

 

Can I ask why you are going to use Cedega when WoW runs perfectly fine under Wine and therefore saves you money, but you are using something that is not there purely for profit alone.

If you want to buy something get something like Crossover Games - at least Crossover put back into the Wine project whereas Cedega do not.

World of Warcraft is extremely easy to use under Wine and there is no reason what so ever to have to buy Cedega - just wasting your money at the end of the day.

I used to play WoW, but havent in over 6 months now, Oceanic servers, Horde FTW!! always ran just fine under Ubuntu using Wine.....)

helikaon: given that WoW runs just fine under both openGL and Direct X (although forcing openGL is usually the better way to go) you will find an improvement in fps when running under Wine, not a performance hit. Less background services or something like that!

Here are a couple of changes you can make to your .w_t_f (NBR filters!!) file in the game (just use gedit or similar)

SET gxApi "opengl"
SET ffxDeath "0"
SET ffxGlow "0"
SET M2UseShaders "0"

And here is one of the better guides out there:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WorldofWarcraft

 

Unfortunately, you loose shadows in Open GL and hardware cursor. Cedega runs the game in Direct X and seems 100% stable so far. The reason I decided to buy Cedega was, I play Left 4 Dead quite a bit and Cedega has been the only one that will run it very well. I did try Left 4 Dead in Wine but it was way to choppy and it would crash randomly. Crossover did not have good results. Cedega so far has been holding up great, only thing I wish I could get to work is the microphone in steam.

Now I dont know the politics about Cedega, Wine and Crossover but what I do know is I want the service that will play my games. Right now Cedega was the only that would play left 4 dead efficiently so I picked it.

To make comparison, in WoW I am geting 25 to 45 FPS in Ultra graphics setting in WoW 2x antialiasing graphics settings with shadows enabled at a resolutions of 1680x1050. Compare that to windows, where I had 8x antialiasing with 4 x Anisotropic and was getting between 45 to 75 FPS.

I have not change my setting to Open GL but with reading the Cedega boards, the increase is about 5 FPS more.


Now Left 4 Dead is a different story, thats holds very well to Windows Vista counterpart. I play that with 4x Antialiasing and everything on High including shadows and I dont ever see my screen drops under 45 fps.

So far I have been able to game comfortable with it. Maybe I should do a comparison between Wine and Cedega for WoW here. If there is any other game you want me to test let me know. I also got Warcraft 3 to run in Cedega and been playing that when I have 30 minutes to spare.

Ha, and my buddies said I would not game in Linux.

 

So, l4d is fluent in Cedega, huh? Well, now that certainly changes things.

 

I play Darkfall Online, but never tried to run it on wine, don't have much time for 'playing' with things. I could go with virtual box (that i have for testing purposes) but my ntb isn't build gaming-wise, so the performance decrease is big.