WOW on fedora core 6

zell2195 · #1 26th April 2007, 11:19 AM

I recently switched from Windows XP professional to Fedora Core 6 and i was wondering am i able to play "World of Warcraft" The reason is that is my job, yes i have another computer for wow but its a laptop and i only play it at school when im at home i prefer to use my desktop because it is more powerful. Thanks i hope somone is able to help me..

InKo · #2 26th April 2007, 12:40 PM

as I know one can play WOW using wine.
here as root:

Code:

yum install wine-tools

if you have WOW installed on windoze partition, mount it

Code:

mount /dev/<win_partition> /mnt/win
cd /mnt/win/<Path of WOW>
wine WoW.exe -opengl

that must work for you.

zell2195 · #3 26th April 2007, 05:18 PM

where do i get wine?
And no i dont have wow installed on windoze
i deleted windoze because ihate it

stephanie.steve · #4 26th April 2007, 05:27 PM

go to the terminal window in your fedora core and type in su - then type in your root password now when that worked type in yum install wine

all wine is.. is a loader for .exe files

of course not every single program/game will run under it but I hear popular games do run under it

zell2195 · #5 26th April 2007, 05:34 PM

That sounds easy if only i knew what a terminal window was....
Im a noob

sentry · #6 26th April 2007, 06:23 PM

Click on Applications->Accessories->Terminal

Learn to love the terminal it'll make your life so much easier.

stanjam · #7 26th April 2007, 11:57 PM

Open a terminal. su - and enter your password so you can get to root.

type in yum install wine

A lot of people like to use Cedega for World of Warcraft. Cedega costs money (you need to subscribe, at least initially) and it is very close to Wine but it is also very game centric.

InKo · #8 27th April 2007, 09:47 AM

or simply type this here:

Code:

su -c "yum -y install wine-tools"

***bob*** · #9 27th April 2007, 11:13 AM

Moved to Gamer's Lounge

JN4OldSchool · #10 28th April 2007, 03:14 AM

Hello

did you find that terminal ok?

Vansolrick · #11 5th May 2007, 10:21 PM

After reading this page, I just have to ask. What is with the openGL option? Will that work on all games or only games made in openGL?

Janl · #12 5th May 2007, 10:27 PM

It's a switch for WoW. Alot of programs have switches you can use. Guild Wars has several which can come in handy if trying to play it under Wine/Linux.

ajamison · #13 10th May 2007, 06:04 PM

Question WoW runs so incrediably slow under Wine for me when this same machine exact specs running XP natively would run it fine. Is there a setting under wine that may increase the performance of games such as WoW