Anyone playing on Linux?

[IcarNS]

balancerFX steps are not needed. Also multilib is not needed anymore, wine is built with WoW64 patches in Arch.

[Shred]

Also, the performance of the ntfs-3g driver will never be as good as ext4's or whatever filesystem you use. If you are dual-booting and intend to play on Linux often, I recommend you copy the client over to your Linux partition. You can create a soft link to your {Interface,WTF} folders to keep them in sync between Windows and Linux.

[phrias]

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

Don't do that. First because before doing something like that you need to know what you doing otherwise you can seriously damage your computer. Futhermore it's for archlinux base. Second it's outdated it's the same as put an old forgotten engine in your car. Wine-gecko ???? why? it's an old version of wine made to run an outdated version of internet explorer. That won't help to run wow. Third You are trying to tweak the way wine translate to your computer with dxdv. It's already an advance lel of knowdlege most people don't have (like UUID,...). And nowadays wine is build with vkd3d since years. PLEASE DON'T RUN RANDOM SCRIPT OR CMD YOU FIND ON INTERNET, USE THE OFFICIAL DOC.

[phrias]

I made a mistake above gecko is firefox engine not internet explorer.

[Lurtzimus1]

https://imgur.com/a/zHpYrYh I also run through Faugus Launcher as its the most stable.