Comments on: Linux and WoW – a Q&A

By: Eric Sandall

Eric Sandall — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:28:26 +0000

There have been stories of a “mass banning” of Linux players, but this later turned out to be a mistake and Blizzard apologized to everybody and gave their accounts back.

Is incorrect. Blizzard did not unban all the users who were banned for using WoW via WINE. While this is a limited sample size, my wife was banned and all Blizzard would do is say, “We do not release what we find that says you are a hacker, but rest assured our logs prove you are one.” My wife only used WINE because I set it up. I had the same setup (cp -r’d the files over) on my computers, and we alternated who used what computers, and I never got banned.

By: Stormy

Stormy — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:31:54 +0000

hey I just wanted to ask if you have tried Debian at some point of time. From my own experience, it’s alot faster (1.5 min for K/U/X-buntu, 0.3 min for debian with same graphic env wtf?! ), and it can even go further if the graphic env is something like fluxbox although there are alot more faster ones out there. But all in all there are some pretty neat alternatives to Ubuntu when it comes to gaming.
Oh and btw if you haven’t read about it somewhere, Crossoffice is free for a month! If somebody doesn’t know what crossoffice is, it’s a commercial alternative of Wine, but it’s still an emulator. You can read why it’s free here: http://lameduck.codeweavers.com/ . Maybe you can get some extra frames per second who knows.

Greets,
Stormy.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:43:00 +0000

opps, didn’t finish my thought there. Anyway, this Linux thing you are doing makes me want to give it another crack. But I am pretty happy with my Windows setup right now, so I am probably going to build another computer to try out Linux/WoW. big sigh….

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:40:00 +0000

Pike you cannot do this to me! I am just getting back to huntering (and WoWing for that matter), and now you have me thinking of scraping everything on my pc in the name of linux! sigh….. I have dabbled, unsuccessfully, with Linux in the past. There has always been something in me that really wants it to work, but i was usually disappointed with some aspect of it.

By: Gibbiex

Gibbiex — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:29:00 +0000

I was able to get WoW under wine working finally, but it took a while. I have a ATI card which is bad for running Wine. And the framerate was pretty bad, ie 10fps or lower. 10fps is barely playable, and that was just wandering around zanga. I’m a raider so i need all this stuff to work, plus we use vent. So, yeah, would love to run under Wine, but natively the fps is 80ish or 90ish.

By: `zypher

`zypher — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:21:00 +0000

Currently, I play WoW unders Linux with Wine and successfully have ventrilo running as well, with a functioning ptt key =D

By: Pike

Pike — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:28:00 +0000

@ Cody -

I'm afraid I have not been able to successfully get Ventrilo working in Wine. I've gotten it installed and been able to log onto a Ventrilo server, but I cannot get the actual voice-chatting to work.

From what I can gather, Vent is one of the hardest things to get working correctly in Wine. But I think some people have done it, so it's worth it to check forums and such.

In the meantime, TeamSpeak has a native Linux client (I know, nobody uses TeamSpeak, but it's really all we've got at the moment...)

By: Cody

Cody — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:23:00 +0000

Have you had any success running Ventrilo in Wine? All the methods for getting it to run successfully on the ‘net seem unnecessarily complicated, and since you’re a WoW nerd like myself, I would appreciate any insight that you’ve got.

By: Doyce

Doyce — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:16:00 +0000

"World of Warcraft is unable to start 3D acceleration."

*sad panda*

Sucks, because other than that, it feels like I'm SO. CLOSE.

By: pelides

pelides — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:51:00 +0000

@Pike

It's funny. When I was laid off from a job in 2001, I inherited a Dell laptop from the company. Rather than put Windows on it, I installed SuSe Linux on it. Once I figured out how to configure the network card via the command line... I promptly put the ting away and enrolled in film school.

Now I have OS X, so I have all the UNIX'y goodness under the hood and I never have to see it... and that makes me very happy as an end user and video editor.

All that said, that was a great article. Linux is a great operating system and it keeps the 2 mainstream operating systems pushing forward, well, it helps push OS X forward. Vista, that 6 year development cycle was actually a regression to Win2K... but I digress.

I hope this article really helps people who use Linux get into the game.