On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Valek <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, I'm a newbie here, so please don't threat me too bad. :D > > I wanted to ask you .. Yesterday I installed Linux Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) on my PC, it's the first Linux OS I use on it and I'm pretty confused, but I'm trying to make it work anyway. > > I installed WoW, using this FAQ https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WorldofWarcraft. I followed it, step to step, except for the installation of Wine, which I installed manually by downloading a 1.1.6 version for Ubuntu 8.04. > > I had problems with my NVIDIA GeForce Go 6200 so I installed a NVIDIA driver, NVIDIA-Linux-x86-177.80-pkg1, which is meant to be good for the NVIDIA 6 Series. > > After all the FAQ steps and the driver installation I ran WoW, and everything went well, except for one thing. Low FPS, not too low, certainly not unenjoyable, but I got a lot of friends with an Hardware identical to the one I have who run WoW on Linux, and their is graphically wonderful, with High FPS. > > I would like to know if I made a mistake while configuring the game, or something like that. > > My Hardware (I have a laptop): > Intel Centrino 1700 mhz > 512 MB RAM > NVIDIA GeForce Go 6200 w/ TurboCache Technology > > I added in the config.wtf file the following lines: > SET ffxDeath "0" > SET ffxGlow "0" > SET M2UseShaders "0" > SET Sound_SoundOutputSystem "1" > SET Sound_SoundBufferSize "150" > > ... By the way, I didn't add the line SET gxApi "opengl" 'cause it gave me only a lot of problems; I wasn't able to reach anymore the bottom of the screen, and the FPS was a little more slow. > > If I set the lowest settings for background, textures, etc, I can play with a decent FPS, but the price is high ... Is there anybody who can help me ? [Crying or Very sad] [/url] > > > > > > Did you disable compiz? -- -Austin
