Hello everyone,
As the title explains itself I'll be brief. Is there anyone here that plays 3.3.5 on Linux or has tried running it? Any pointers to disadvantages or issues along will be much appreciated. I saw some guides @ Google but as always the first-hand experience with this is always better. Anyways I saw the numerous changes that the staff did to the server and I would be happy to play this once again, at least as casual.
I hope to hear from you soon. Stay warm, winter is coming.
Marko
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Running 3.3.5a on Linux (Ubuntu)?
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Hello, i play wotlk on linux os. Need just wine and u are good to go. I got even more fps in dalanar than on windows os.
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If you can play on Windows, play there. Linux is not meant to run Windows games.
That said, if you are going to give it a try:
- Download PlayOnLinux (better than plain wine, will automatically download dependencies for you).
- Download any of our clients.
- Follow the setup steps, and replace the Program Files WoW folder for ours during the setup.
- Play.
From this point, you can tweak it as you like to make it work better for your hardware. But I personally run into memory problems after an hour play or so, so be ready to try out things.
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With all due respect, either your Windows machine is badly set up or you are not running it under the same settings on Linux.
You will never get more FPS by "emulating" a game, specially when Windows is running them under the proprietary DirectX.
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Yes, I agree and it makes sense for Windows to always run DirectX better. I am kinda in a transition to Linux so I want to make a decision if I want to say good-bye to Windows for good. Anyways thanks for the input, much appreciated.
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Yes you are right clean and legal windows operating system will work better than wine. But linux uses less resources and wine doesn't process everything just as Windows does since some things are just not implemented. And these little things gives more fps. Game loading time is shorter aswell.
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I have been a hard-core Linux user for more than a year now. When I made the transition I also thought that I had to choose between Linux and Windows, but you actually do not have to. Use Linux for what Linux is great for, automated tasks, command line stuff, programming, servers. ...
But keep a separate partition for Windows to game. You will not learn how to use any OS while playing anyway.
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You are just saying that Linux gaming experience is incomplete. I do not think that is a good thing.
Still, if your Linux is running games faster than your Windows, you should consider a serious cleanup, optimization followed by updating all your hardware drivers to the latest proprietary ones. Not only Windows runs them natively, but also has the very best GPU drivers which is one of the biggest downsides of Linux.
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It is incomplete but it is enough, since wow is fun to play not because of ultra beautiful graphics, so if i see game little bit different than on windows i really dont care about it.
I am not using windows for long time, linux can handle every task what i need.
GPU drivers for ati is a big problem, but for nvidia it is developed much better. Sadly for these companies it is not worth to spend money for optimizing and updating drivers more often.
