World of warcraft, funky graphics

[Thecowking]

I'm running WoW:BC on FC6 with the latest wine, and my gfx card is (apparently) a Radeon 9550.
WoW runs, but at an appalling FPS (4-6 normally) when I'm in an open space in game. Oddly when I'm in a closed room, I get up to 40 or 50 fps. Also I have missing textures and lines all over the screen from sharp edged objects (only scenery though, not the characters or monsters)

I had the same machine (only with a geforce4 ) running wow under windows at 20+ fps everywhere. (as for why the card changed, see my first ever thread ¬_¬). So can anyone offer a resolution, or is it new gfx card time?

This is what it looks like (http://tinyurl.com/38kwwh)

This is how bad it can be (http://img156.imageshack.us/my.php?image=thisisworsehm1.png)

[brunson]

I didn't think generic Wine supported DirectX, which is probably why the video sucks. For a very modest donation you can get Cedega with support. http://www.transgaming.com

[Thecowking]

I didn't think generic Wine supported DirectX, which is probably why the video sucks. For a very modest donation you can get Cedega with support. http://www.transgaming.com
I thought about that, tried the trial for crossover, which specifically supports WoW, identical errors, even on a clean install. So I doubt it's wine that's at the root of this problem. I have heard it said that it's driver issues, but I'm uncertain.

[kalaka]

I have a Radeon 9200 and had the same problem until recently. It seems WoW sucks with our video cards + wine + fedora, so you have to stop using opengl and use d3d instead, this is done by running:
wine WoW.exe -d3d
also, if you're having sound problems, try running it with nice:
nice -n 19 wine WoW.exe -d3d
I'm using the latest wine from yum (wine-0.9.29). This solved all my problems with WoW (except for that double cursor problem everyone running the game on d3d has).
Hope I helped.

[Thecowking]

I have a Radeon 9200 and had the same problem until recently. It seems WoW sucks with our video cards + wine + fedora, so you have to stop using opengl and use d3d instead, this is done by running:
wine WoW.exe -d3d
also, if you're having sound problems, try running it with nice:
nice -n 19 wine WoW.exe -d3d
I'm using the latest wine from yum (wine-0.9.29). This solved all my problems with WoW (except for that double cursor problem everyone running the game on d3d has).
Hope I helped.

I'll have a go, but last time I was in D3D it was awful, have they patched it recently?

[Sl1k]

I was having many issues with WOW as well check out my thread, maybe something will help.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=734573#post734573

[nick.stumpos]

are you sure your using the correct dirver? what does fglrxinfo say also so you get good results from glxgears

[nightmarcus]

Run it in opengl and it runs fine for me. I had similar issues running it in D3D. Add -opengl to the command, or in the World of Warcraft folder there's a folder named WTF. In there is a config.wtf file. You can add the line "gxapi=opengl" and that will make it use opengl by default without you having to add the argument. It's covered in the Wine AppDB for WoW.

[Ambiguous-69]

dont make a modest donation to cedega, go to your P2P application, search it and download it. those dirty bastards who used wines code and then ofefred no help to Wine developers dont deserve a cent and are killign the prospects of windows games ever being ported to linux and detering gamers from purchasing it and showing there is a community of gamers in linux since there software does not work correctly and is slowly updated.

In my eyes there as dirty as bill gates the cedega company. i hope they go bankrupt.

[kalaka]

dont make a modest donation to cedega, go to your P2P application, search it and download it. those dirty bastards who used wines code and then ofefred no help to Wine developers dont deserve a cent and are killign the prospects of windows games ever being ported to linux and detering gamers from purchasing it and showing there is a community of gamers in linux since there software does not work correctly and is slowly updated.

In my eyes there as dirty as bill gates the cedega company. i hope they go bankrupt.
We're trying to keep things free (both ways) but legal, I dont think its a good idea for your to give out this kind of advice. Cedega doesnt charge that much anyway, its 55USD/12 months.

Either way, as I said before, I have WoW running in FC 6 with a Radeon 9200 and it works OK. Are you still having problems with it?

[Thecowking]

Run it in opengl and it runs fine for me. I had similar issues running it in D3D. Add -opengl to the command, or in the World of Warcraft folder there's a folder named WTF. In there is a config.wtf file. You can add the line "gxapi=opengl" and that will make it use opengl by default without you having to add the argument. It's covered in the Wine AppDB for WoW.

I'm running it in Open GL, but I've decided to say sod it and I've invested in a new Nvidia card. AS for the person suggesting that I steal from transgaming, for shame. If I felt it was worth it, I'd pay the money happily. As it is I find that Wine works well for me, this error is based on my gfx card not the coding of wine.