Tutorial:
So I’m sure that for many of us dual-booting converts stepping into the Linux world, one of the most common obstacles keeping us handcuffed to Windows is World of Warcraft. Well not anymore for me, thank you very much.
I went through many tutorials on how to configure WoW for Ubuntu, but I found the below link to be by far the most helpful AND up-to-date:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WorldofWarcraft
In truth, I did part of this the easy way. Once I had installed wine and configured it, instead of installing each of the disks (WoW + Burning Crusade) from Ubuntu, I just dragged the 10GB installation folder from the Vista side to Wine’s pseudo C drive \ Program Files directory, which by default is located here:
/home/<yourusername>/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/
So that’s much less hassle, and I highly recommend it if at all possible. The other excellent bonus of this method is that I didn’t have to reinstall or mess with any of my addons, of which I have several.
So once all the files were copied over, I followed the instructions from the link above and added this to my Program Files/World of Warcraft/WTF/config.wtf file:
SET gxApi "opengl" SET ffxDeath "0" SET ffxGlow "0" SET SoundOutputSystem "1" SET SoundBufferSize "150"
And if you want to run WoW in windowed mode, add this as well:
SET gxWindow "1"
I also created the shortcut indicated, and added that to my panel, complete with WoW SVG icon. Nice touch by the editors of ubuntu.com. So now I’m finally up and running with WoW in Ubuntu. One less thing tying me to Windows.
Note: Technically, I had tried this all once before, and it was kind of working, but it was with a lower end graphics card, and though I could log into the game, once in Azeroth, the ground was black everywhere I went, and lighting was all funky whenever I went in doors. Oh, and the text looked like Sanskrit. I probably should have taken a screenshot. So if you call that “working”, then this is old hat. Otherwise, its finally up. May my blades never dull.
