wine users - Aug 2009 - World of Warcraft, very slow

Hello,

I am using World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, in a debian stable, I am
using only stable pakages and only some program with backports

The line for backports are this
deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free

The line for backport of wine is this
deb http://www.lamaresh.net/apt lenny main

I install WoW in debian using the instructions of
http://www.wowwiki.com/Wine

My graphic is a NVidia GeForce 7600 GT, installed with the most actual driver of
nvidia, the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-185.18.14-pkg1.run with a the linux kernel 2.6.20,
manually installed.

I am using KDE 3.5.10, and the driver is ok, using a resolution of 1024 x 768 in
24 bits. In normal mode, all efects of kde are on. In the test of search de
problem of wow, all efects are OFF

Using wine, I have low fps, more low than the game in windows xp profesional. In
a 5 man instance, some fps down, fps monitor in yellow. But in 25 man instance
(called "heroic raid") I can't play because the fps are very low.
The fps monitor in the game are RED.

I was search in internet about more fps for wine, and I find some webpages with:

http://spiraledoutward.blogspot.com/2008/06/linux-and-wine-incomplete.html

I change the regedit of wine, but the fps monitor are low, very low, yellow or
red.

Have you checked through the possible fixes on the winedb page for WoW 
to see if anything there would apply to your system?

Yes.

I am preparig all for reinstall wine (and wow) and make a clean installation of
wow BUT using directx, maybe in this way the fps monitor turns green.

In the wow section in AppDB, says the patch 3.2.0 (name: Call the Crusade), says
only directx (not opengl by the moment), all efects at minimal and using some
backports.

Yes, it says work using directxm but I know people using wine + opengl + wow
under linux and it runs ok.

I update my wine version to 1.1.27, using the sources. If I use opengl using the
instructions of http://www.wowwiki.com/Wine, the problem is not solved: I have
direct rendering to YES, I write SET gxAPI "OpenGL" in the file
Config.wtf and I launch the game using -opengl.

Okay, seems run with opengl not run well for me. I read about wine + directx,
then I found this http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks. Then I read no support
available if I use winetrics.