A friend of mine is keen for me to try World Of Warcraft but i'm not at all sure how to install and run it on Fedora.
Any walkthough's would be a great help
Cheers guys!!
A friend of mine is keen for me to try World Of Warcraft but i'm not at all sure how to install and run it on Fedora.
Any walkthough's would be a great help
Cheers guys!!
Hi,
Not a gamer myself, but have seen it many times run under wine. "yum install wine" as root in terminal, then (probably) install the game from the CD.
WWell,
I have wine running and to be fair i'm not really a gamer myself but i'm being nagged to try this so i was wondering what the pitfalls might be?
download and install playonlinux, http://www.playonlinux.com/en/
then click install when running, and you can select WoW from a list, and it will install it all for you without even having to download an installer, its magic
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz
Memory: 16GB
OpenGL Renderer: GeForce GTX 550 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
Operating System: Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug)
Desktop Environment: KDE 4.1.12
This website has been a hure help in getting World of Warcraft up and running on my box.
http://www.wowwiki.com/World_of_Warc...nality_on_Wine
Between two evils I always pick one I never tried before - Mae West
When you have friends who like to enjoy playing games and once they find something that they really like, they want their friends to try it out as well and here the poor guy will need help to try it out I have heard of World of War craft and it is quite popular with the gamers No wonder it has been recommended But whether it can be installed and will run on fedora is the question
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Last edited by sultanmg; 21st September 2010 at 03:10 AM.
I used to play World of Warcraft (Moved to Star Trek and Dungeons & Dragons Online). It wasnt too bad to run.
Basically follow this and you should be good to go:
1) Copy the DVD's contents to your HD. Trust me on this one. Well worth it. Do this for each expansion too. If need be you can use their downloader in Wine. I did. I digitally bought the Lich King expansion.
2) At the time it was prudent to use Crossover or Cedega to play it, but not so anymore (although Crossover Games may be a good thing for your pal to buy since it does simplify alot and games tend to work faster if a patch borks something up). But whatever route you go, its going to be Wine, Cedega, or Crossover Games. Use that choice to install WoW, Burning Crusades, and Lich King in the normal order you would on Windows.
3) Update it
4) Play
Now for #2 -- make sure that if your friend is on 64 bit, to use "yum -y install wine*.i686" since the app is 32 bit you need 32 bit wine. CXG and Cedega wont be an issue here. I dont recall if there are any additional libraries offhand, but if you have him skim over the WoW appdb.winehq.org entry, it should be straightforward. I know for Wine 1.3.1 (which is what I _had_ on my lappy to verify STO, DDO, LotRO worked in it) needs winetricks for some games. Dunno if Blizzard joined the gang with oddball .NET or VB/VC runtime garbage.
Other than that, I have been relatively pleased with Wine the last few years, as just about all my games work either perfectly, or good enough that I couldn't care about the slight malfunctions (ingame voice in DDO/LotRO for example).
And if he needs voice chat software, Teamspeak 3 has a great client, and for Ventrillo, use Mumbler.
Take Care!
hmm great.
One question about 3)
How do you avoid the "Window Fatal Error" when Blizzard-WoW-launcher tries to download new tools?
(affects only cataclysm or higher)
* Shell Wrapper and Runtime Modifier (SWARM): https://github.com/sri-arjuna/SWARM
* Yet Another Simple Script Installer (YASSI): https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?323099
* EFI Cheatsheet :: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=298546
* Windows 8+ & Fedora 20+ Dualboot :: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=298161