Anyone playing on Linux?

[Thorchaic]

I'm looking at experimenting with two Windows 11 computers I have either back-grading to 10, or possibly Pop_OS or even dual booting on one or both.

Only a Windows client is available here for download, and doing a quick search I found Lutris for playing Windows games on Linux.

Anyone running Linux, can you please provide a quick run down or link to a How To: or video. I'd be very appreciative.

I have an Asus NUC which I'd like to go Pop_OS on, this I really only use for watching videos, and would try playing on as well.
The other is a Surface Pro 7 which I want to try 10 on.
Not that I mind 11 but like 10 better, and I think the NUC would perform WAY better with 10 or Pop_OS

Thanks!

[Shred]

Use Lutris.

[Thorchaic]

Does the game client have to be "installed" or can I just launch the EXE as I do in Windows?

Edit: I found this on Lutris' site https://lutris.net/games/world-of-wa...the-lich-king/

But what just popped to mind, can I have two instances of the game running at the same time?
I have two accounts and often will use one to help the other during quests or lower level dungeons.

[Shred]

You don't have to install it, you can add the exe to Lutris and launch it from there.

I haven't tried launching the client multiple times. Maybe try this https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gamin..._play/mkbrtz9/

[Pigachu]

You can just add game on steam and launch it there too. Heroic launcher is another good option. Check all of them, pick one, and use one for all non-steam games.

[Thorchaic]

Thanks all, I'll give it a try this weekend and update for posterity's sake.

[phrias]

You use a windows version then use wine, lutris (it's wine behind), or others. I used to play on fedora

https://www.winehq.org/

[IcarNS]

I've played on Linux for years. Any modern version of Wine will do, or use some recent Proton version which you can always use wayland native, like proton ge. Lutris is nice because it manages launcher versions (Proton, Wine, etc) for you and you get a cool .desktop file. I honestly just launch it with my own desktop file, simpler, and keep the proton version up to date with pacman.

[phrias]

You forgot to write/said : "I use arch btw"

[Galerius]

Even with Steam you can play wow on Warmane and run the HD version. There's Youtube tutorial how to run non steam games on Linux Steam.

[Caramis]

Linux Mint and Lutris, worked fine. even got like 5% better FPS on it compared to Windows 10 with nVidia 2080S 8GB GPU. can recommend

[balancerFX]

1. Enable multilib repository

# Edit /etc/pacman.conf and uncomment:
[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

sudo pacman -Syu

2. Install Wine

sudo pacman -S wine wine-mono wine-gecko

3. Install DXVK

sudo pacman -S dxvk

# Apply DXVK to the WoW Wine prefix
WINEPREFIX="/home/USER_NAME/.wine-wow" setup_dxvk install

4. Create shader cache directory

mkdir -p ~/.cache/wine-shader-cache

5. Mount the Windows partition

# Install NTFS support
sudo pacman -S ntfs-3g

# Create mount point (replace PARTITION_UUID with your actual UUID)
sudo mkdir -p /media/USER_NAME/PARTITION_UUID

# Find your partition UUID
sudo blkid | grep ntfs

# Add to /etc/fstab (replace PARTITION_UUID accordingly)
echo "UUID=PARTITION_UUID /media/USER_NAME/PARTITION_UUID ntfs-3g
defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000,nofail 0 0" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab

# Verify mount
sudo mount -a

6. Install the launch script

Save launch_wow.sh with your values substituted:

#!/bin/bash
export __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE=1
export __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_PATH="/home/USER_NAME/.cache/wine-shader-cache"
export DXVK_FILTER_DEVICE_NAME="NVIDIA"
export WINEPREFIX="/home/USER_NAME/.wine-wow"

# Navigate to the WoW installation directory on the Windows partition
cd /media/USER_NAME/PARTITION_UUID/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a/

# Launch WoW in a virtual desktop using process ID for unique naming
wine explorer /desktop=WoW_$$,1920x1300 Wow.exe

chmod +x launch_wow.sh

7. (Optional) NVIDIA drivers

# Install NVIDIA drivers with Vulkan support
sudo pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils vulkan-icd-loader lib32-vulkan-icd-loader

[Audhdeeznuts]

I'm playing on Ubuntu. Like others said, download then use Lutris. Add an already installed game , select wine and add the exe file. Runs perfectly for me.

[Lurtzimus1]

I do as well. Do you know how to get the game to stop crashing with Error 132. I think it has to do with Memory Leaks. I am using HD Patches, and it runs at 180fps on my machine no sweat and just randomly crashes. Not often after patching to the 4GB version of Wow.exe but it still does occasionally.

[Shred]

I do as well. Do you know how to get the game to stop crashing with Error 132. I think it has to do with Memory Leaks. I am using HD Patches, and it runs at 180fps on my machine no sweat and just randomly crashes. Not often after patching to the 4GB version of Wow.exe but it still does occasionally.

What is the exact error message?