Hi, I have installed and played WC3 on Linux quite a lot around 20031212 release. The game played almost perfectly and I was very happy about that. I have reinstalled it recently. I am currently running it under Wine 0.9 on FC4. I find the performance to be inferior to what it used to be. I am experiencing frequent short pauses ingame. It seems to be related to units and building selections, through direct clicks or marquees. It makes the game harder to play. I won't dare returning on bnet until this works better. My comp is a Celeron 1.4 GHz with 512 MB of RAM. I've had the same config since I started using Wine. How's WC3 working for you? What's your cpu? What is your distro?
On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 20:28 -0500, Philippe Anctil wrote:> Hi, > > I have installed and played WC3 on Linux quite a lot around 20031212 > release. The game played almost perfectly and I was very happy about that. > > I have reinstalled it recently. I am currently running it under Wine 0.9 on > FC4. I find the performance to be inferior to what it used to be. I am > experiencing frequent short pauses ingame. It seems to be related to units > and building selections, through direct clicks or marquees. It makes the > game harder to play. I won't dare returning on bnet until this works better. > > My comp is a Celeron 1.4 GHz with 512 MB of RAM. I've had the same config > since I started using Wine. > > How's WC3 working for you? What's your cpu? What is your distro? > >Well, if you started using Wine since 2003, before the config file was removed, it's quite possible that you'll need to do some settings in winecfg. However, settings don't typically need to be set special anymore. Looking at Warcraft 3's somewhat outdated entry in the Application's Database: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=1177 You should be running the game in OpenGL mode. Are you? Go to the game directory in a shell terminal and launch it this way: wine "Warcraft III.exe" -opengl Someone should update the howto, however, especially to refer to the 0.9 release. Thanks, Scott Ritchie
in my case it worked with the last version before 0.9 nearly perfect. Didn't test it with 0.9 yet, had to deinstall WC3. of course you have to use the -opengl - switch in the exe-file to get it played properly. in Direct3d - mode even the menu on startup is too slow to klick anything. well, i also expierienced some short pauses, but not very often. fewer the longer i played it seems. I have 512MB RAM, Debian SID, 2,4GHZ P4 and Radeon mobility 9600 64MB. well... perhaps it would be better keeping track of the circumstances that lead to this "pauses" perhaps then they can be avoided. maybe something with swapping? greetings, Ge0rgy Am Dienstag, den 08.11.2005, 20:28 -0500 schrieb Philippe Anctil:> Hi, > > I have installed and played WC3 on Linux quite a lot around 20031212 > release. The game played almost perfectly and I was very happy about that.> I have reinstalled it recently. I am currently running it under Wine 0.9 on > FC4. I find the performance to be inferior to what it used to be. I am > experiencing frequent short pauses ingame. It seems to be related to units > and building selections, through direct clicks or marquees. It makes the > game harder to play. I won't dare returning on bnet until this works better. > > My comp is a Celeron 1.4 GHz with 512 MB of RAM. I've had the same config > since I started using Wine. > > How's WC3 working for you? What's your cpu? What is your distro? > > > > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.org > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users