Fredag 18 august 2006 08:57, skrev Dennis Neumeier: > > Wine does not need any patches to install WoW correctly. You only need > > to patch Wine to run WoW if you have an nVidia card; if you have an ATI > > one, you don't need any patches for Wine at all. > > Ah... I should have read through all the lines at > http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=5109 - then I qould have > read the point that the patch is only needed for nvidia-users... Sorry! > > > You never need to re-install WoW, and you only need to compile/patch Wine > > if you want to use the newest Wine version all the time. > > Well, that could be an issue, I think. As Blizzard can change code of WoW > as they like, wine can then be one step behind. And then, it might be > necessary to patch wine to get WoW running correctly again, I guess. > There is seldom a need to patch Wine when WoW gets an update, but if Blizzard does something that breaks Linux compatibility, a patch is usually available on the WoW AppDB page within a day. Patching and compiling WIne is not very difficult, nor time-consuming (ca. 20 minutes). > This seems important to me, because if this really happens, some people > (like me) do think about installing a Windows just for playing games then. > On the other side, there's one point which seems quite interesting to me: > Most of the games nowadays can be installed on Windows and Mac. Now, what > about this Mac story? As far as I know, the modern MacOS are based on Unix, > so is it really that difficult for developers to make a linux port of the > game? It is very easy for Blizzard to make a Linux version of WoW, at least, since it can use OpenGL; but they don't seem to want it. I have seen some logos on their website saying this like 'Windows Advantage', so my guess is Microsoft is paying them to not release it for Linux (they had a Linux client for the first beta). > > Greets, > Dennis Alexander > > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users