Yeah, I subscribe to Cedega, because I support what they're doing.
But tbh I rarely get to use it.
Steam doesn't work anymore, and WoW works much better with a default Wine installation, than it does with Cedega.
Using a guide from the Ubuntu forums... abbreviated a little...
-- Tweaking Wine registry.
Almost mandatory performance enhancing tweak
This is a simple registry edit for Wine that will dramatically increase the framerate in game for both ATi and nVidia users.
Open a terminal window, type regedit and press enter. This will start the Wine equivalent of the windows registry editor. If you are familiar with using the registry editor under windows then this is pretty much the same.
1. Find this key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\
2. Highlight the wine folder in the left hand pane by clicking left on it. The icon should change to an open folder
3. Click right on the wine folder and select [NEW] then [KEY]
4. Replace the text New Key #1 with OpenGL
5. Click right in the right hand pane and select [NEW] then [String Value]
6. Replace New Value #1 with DisabledExtensions (Notice it's case sensitive!)
7. Then double click anywhere on the line, a dialog box will open.
8. In the value field type GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object
Note: If you are unable to rename the newly created key "New Key #1" to "OpenGL" then expand the left hand pane of the regedit window using the vertical divider bar. You should now be able to change it. A known bug in Wine is causing this unwanted behavior.
Copy WoW accross from a Windows partition.
-- Tweaking WoW.
Edit this file ..../WoW/World of Warcraft/WTF/Config.wtf
Add the lines;
SET SoundOutputSystem "1"
SET SoundBufferSize "150"
SET gxApi "OpenGL"
Then just run wow.exe
Framerate is very nice for me, running Ubuntu 7.10.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 4:59 pm Post subject: Reply with quote
works great here, only issue i have is some of the textures far away look kinda funky in certain zones. other than that it runs very fast and works great using wine 0.47
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:35 pm Post subject: Reply with quote
yeah, works fine
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:26 am Post subject: Reply with quote
I get a much better framerate using this method, but the mouse cursor is extremely laggy.
Anyone know how to solve this?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:08 pm Post subject: Your advice is lame. Reply with quote
I get 3 fps after using your advice. Thanks
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:33 am Post subject: Re: Your advice is lame. Reply with quote
smitty_the_smith wrote:
I get 3 fps after using your advice. Thanks
Sarcasm, Fun!
If however you would like some support - it would be helpful if you provided some information.
What are your system specs, what distro are you running, have you installed binary drivers for Nvidia/Ati? Have you tried WoW with Cedega.
I provided this little guide because it is what worked for me. I did not say it would work for everybody, nor did I expect it to. But it has obviously helped a few other people.
There are alot of people in this community who are more than willing to help you. Myself being one. But if you want people to take you seriously, don't mock.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 6:10 am Post subject: i regret it, but you're right Reply with quote
I bought a cedega subscription only last week because wine would not run for some reason and i could not figure out why.
This weekend i installed ubuntu-studio 10 and tried wine first. It works MUCH better. At the moment i have wow running faster than it did on windows vista. Meaning it loads a lot faster and i think my framerate is better, though it's hard to compare that now. I do not have my vista installation any more. Wow is very stable too, running it in opengl mode, full screen. Didn't crash on me once.
Of course, vista was running 32 bit because of lack of support for the 64 bit version. (At least that is what they told me). Ubuntu has a special download for the AMD64 bit processor. I guess that also speeds things up.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 9:30 am Post subject: Reply with quote
Without Addons wine runs quite as good as Cedega, but the support for hardware cursor is missing in wine, so I prefere cedega.
Another reason for cedega is that wow will not run with my favorite Unit-frameaddon using wine, as long as there is no hardware cursor and better addon support in wine, I'll stick to cedega.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 5:04 pm Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks for the info! It works FLAWLESSLY for me.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 6:28 pm Post subject: WoW hangs on exit Reply with quote
I installed WoW this way and it works great. One problem is when i exit the game it hangs up and i have to Ctrl + Alt + Backspace to reboot the X-Server. Anyone one else have this problem and how did you fix it?
Thanks
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Update: I got it fixed...just upgraded my wine versions to 0.9.49 fixed the hang on exit
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 5:06 pm Post subject: Reply with quote
Runs sooo smoothly this way. but the cpu is at 100% and the damn over-heating alarm keeps going off.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 12:23 pm Post subject: Reply with quote
christis wrote:
Without Addons wine runs quite as good as Cedega, but the support for hardware cursor is missing in wine...
How do you get hardware cursor working in Cedega? :S
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 5:12 pm Post subject: Reply with quote
By checking the checkbox in the game UI :p
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 6:42 pm Post subject: Reply with quote
Janne wrote:
By checking the checkbox in the game UI :p
Oh the one that is greyed out? Great help.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 3:01 am Post subject: Reply with quote
Are you running wow in openGL or D3D with cedega? If you use D3D it should work "out of the box". Hardware mouse + openGL does not work even in windows so that can be a hard one