Playing without Vulkan support (LINUX)

I'm wanting to migrate to LINUX, more precisely MINT. However, every now and then I like to play the same World of Warcraft, something rare but I do. However, I studied a little and saw that my integrated one does not have support for VULKAN (i5 650 3.2Ghz), which seems to prevent this game from running properly even with WINE or PROTON. I would like to know if this would really interfere and if anyone here plays even without VULKAN support or if I should continue on Windows. NOTE: "DUAL BOOT IS NOT VIABLE FOR ME, The only thing that stops me is this and only this (WOW), since I study more than I play, But in my free time I miss it"

I can't say I tried, but WoW was very much playable before Vulkan existed. Is Vulkan mandatory for Wine now?

There used to be a patchset called wine-d3d9 that worked very well but I imagine it's abandoned now.

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Originally Posted by Shred92

I can't say I tried, but WoW was very much playable before Vulkan existed. Is Vulkan mandatory for Wine now?

There used to be a patchset called wine-d3d9 that worked very well but I imagine it's abandoned now.

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Thanks for the information, but I really can't say for sure if this method works since apparently not many people share the same experience.

Install steam, then add custom game in your case wow executable, select to use proton (latest stable). You can choose opengl if you want in config file, but try without changing anything first. For me wow runs like on windows, even better

I have Vulkan support but its not complete so the game runs laggy and buggy with DXVK
it is possible to play with just wine without and using wined3d without any external modification and i played like that for moths until I realized that galliumnine exists and its so good
all you have to do is to create a 32-bit Prefix and install galliumnine in it using winetricks, here is step-by-step how I do it using wine-staging in Arch Linux:

1 - create 32bit prefix : WINEPREFIX=PATHTOPREFIX WINEARCH=win32 wineboot
2 - install galliumnine : WINEPREFIX=PATHTOPREFIX WINEARCH=win32 winetricks galliumnine
3 - add the game in Lutris and chose the wine prefix and 32-bit + make sure DXVK and VKD3D are ticked off in the runner options menu

I get about 50% more fps