If you have an nVidia card, you should have a little PCI/AGP card looking thing in your notification area, if not, go to "System -> Administration -> Driver Manager" Double clicking that will bring you into the restricted drivers manager, basically telling you "you can use a close source driver for more speed", just say yes, type in your password, and reboot. After that, hit alt-f2 to bring up the "run" box, type in "nvidia-settings-manager" (it will probably autocomplete for you) to tune your gamma/color/3d preferences, and make sure to apply it all. This will give you 3d accelerated drivers. The standard drivers give you 2d and some measure of 3d acceleration, but not much, since they're reverse engineered. ------------------------------------------- To install WINE, click on "Applications -> Add/Remove", select "All available software" from the dropdown, search for "wine", check the box next to "wine windows emulator", and click "apply changes". Now that it's installed, you'll need to configure it. Hit alt-f2, type in "winecfg" and click ok, click on the audio tab, make sure the "OSS Driver" box is checked, and hit "ok" ------------------------------------------- Now, you should have icons on your desktop already for your other drive partitions (if you installed it on the same system that you have Windows on). They'll correspond to the labels they have in My Computer on Windows. -------------------------------------------- You can either copy your WoW install over from your Windows install, Install WoW from scratch on your linux partition (recommended), or (if you're brave) just run WoW from your current install on your Windows drive.
To install it from scratch, make a folder on your Desktop named "WoW", and copy the "Installer.exe" and the "Installer Tome X.mpq" files from all of the cd's there. If you right click the exe, there should be a "Run with WINE" option, if not, you can open a terminal from the "Application -> System Tools" menu, and type "wine Desktop/WoW/Installer.exe" (note that Linux is, as all good operating systems should be, case sensitive, so type the folder name exactly...make sure to avoid spaces in folder names unless really necessary imo) -- run through the installer as normal, do the same thing for TBC, then patch)
Once it's installed and patched, click on "Applications -> Wine -> Browse c: drive", navigate to your WoW directory, and double click your "config.wtf" file. Add these lines :
SET SoundOutputSystem “1″ SET SoundBufferSize “100″ SET gxApi “OpenGL”
Save and close, and then you can go to "Applications -> Wine -> Programs -> World of Warcraft" and launch the game from there. I've found that it runs better in linux than windows, personally -------------------------------------- As previously stated, you should already have icons on your desktop for your other drives, if it's the same system. You should have full read/write access to any data on these drives, from music to movies (VLC is available in Linux, and is what I personally recommend. Other media players will complain about non-free codecs (xvid/divx and WM formats are included in this), but they will install regardless. For MP3, I suggest Amarok, available in the "Add/Remove" option.
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World of Warcraft: Kallaystra, Gweila, Steakumn, Tarathia [ Feathermoon/Horde ]
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