F7 and WoW?

[AJ Mitchelson]

Jason Viloria wrote:
> Chris wrote:
>> On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:32:45 -0700
>> Konstantin Svist <fry.kun at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> Chris wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Before I run off and remove my kids Windows2000 OS for Fedora, will
>>>> F7 play WoW?  HE wants to play Wow really bad but also wants to try
>>>> out Linux.
>>>>         
>>> Both Cedega 
>>> (http://games.cedega.com/gamesdb/games/alphabrowse.mhtml?letter=W)
>>> and CrossoverOffice 
>>> (http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?letter=w)
>>> support WoW
>>>
>>> Wine supports it too, supposedly 
>>> (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=9262, 
>>> http://frankscorner.org/) but I've had troubles using wine in Fedora:
>>> I tried running openCanvas in it and it wouldn't work.
>>> CrossoverOffice ran it perfectly and even supports wacom tablets out
>>> of the box.
>>>
>>> To reiterate: yes it's possible
>>>
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> Ahh - perfect!
>>
>> I'll experiment a bit before wiping his drive.
>>
>>   
> I was playing it until a few months ago using Cedega and my hardware 
> is  gefore 7900 GS with 2gigs ram and Athlon64 and WoW works  quiet ok 
> at about 40fps 1024x768 res.
> I would put it that it's down to anywhere between 25% to 50% less 
> performance than on windows depending on where you are in WoW and 
> number of mobs/players in your area.
>
> br
> jason
>
>
I'm running WoW on my dual core AMD machine using 64Bit Fedora 7 with 
wine 0.9.44 with no problems at all and have been for quite a while. I 
used the following as an invaluable source on getting everything running OK.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Linux/Wine

HTH

AJ