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World of Warcraft on Linux Part 2: Ubuntu and The Burning Crusade.
By poika30 | December 22, 2007
With Ubuntu running, installing World of Warcraft and the Burning Crusade is a piece of cake.
From a terminal:
glxinfo | grep rendering
resulted in:
direct rendering: No <-- this needs to become a yes for WoW to run.
So Under system --> administration --> Software sources
--> Ubuntu software I checked all of the software sources.
I then went to system --> administration
--> Restricted drivers and enabled the Nvidia driver.
Then system --> administration --> update manager
No problems yet.
The next step was to install wine.
apt-get update
apt-get install wine
Then configuring wine.
winecfg
Of course I installed it as Windows XP.
Then I downloaded each of the huge files from Blizzard.
Original WoW - US Version
I ran the install files and bam! they installed and ran.
I did edit the config.wtf file but it had no performance increase...
The game ran like a charm from the start.
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