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They are listed here from the easier to the more difficult methods. There are three basic methods for installing WoW within Wine. See the WineHQ wiki for information: Installing WoW

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If you were unable to install Wine with a method found on that site, or if you are an experienced user wanting more control over the installation, then you may want to look into compiling Wine from source code. Please see and follow the installation directions for your particular distribution. Luckily a lot of energy has been put into making the distribution native installation methods available for a large variety of popular distributions. It is however fully compatible with CrossOver, and may also work with other derivatives of Wine.ĭifferent GNU/Linux distributions use different methods of installing software, which oftentimes makes it hard to make easy installation options available for all distributions, especially for large and complex projects like Wine.

This guide will only cover the Wine compatibility layer.

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Open-source drivers will nearly always be installed and working without any special configuration. Some distributions provide a way to install the closed drivers, but they are sometimes old, out of date, and may not support some newer chips. In general, the manufacturer's drivers will provide better performance, though this is not universal. NVidia and AMD graphics chipsets have two sets of drivers available: open-source drivers, and closed drivers usually provided by the manufacturer. In general, video on Linux will run more slowly than on Windows, so avoid video cards that only barely meet the minimum system requirements advertised by Blizzard. Distributions which use packages to organize their software may provide glxinfo in a package named mesa-utils or glx-utils.

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If direct rendering is not enabled, or if the command is not present, consult your distribution's documentation for instructions on how to get it working. Most distributions provide a utility called glxinfo which can tell you whether the drivers on your system are set up properly. All of these drivers use the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI), so you want to make sure the driver has that enabled. Most Linux distributions should work fine these instructions don't assume any particular distro unless otherwise indicated.ģD-accelerated video generally means something made by NVidia, AMD (formerly ATI), or Intel. A recent version of Wine, or something derived from Wine (such as CrossOver or PlayOnLinux).A reasonably recent video card with working 3D accelerated graphics on Linux.A 32- or 64-bit version of Linux on an Intel-compatible CPU.To play World of Warcraft on Linux, you need: However, with some careful research, and a bit of patience, it's very possible to do so.Īlternatively a streamlined process of installation and windows installation conversion is available via Play On Linux.

Given that the World of Warcraft client is no longer officially developed to work in Linux, the installation of it on Linux is a somewhat more involved process than on Windows, which it is streamlined to install more easily on. Currently, WoW is run on Linux by use of Windows compatibility layers. World of Warcraft had a client for Linux while it was in the beta phase of development, but it was later dropped and never officially released.

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Wine also runs on Macintosh computers with x86 CPUs under Mac OS X, but since Blizzard makes a Mac OS X native World of Warcraft client, running it under Wine is unnecessary and even silly. This article primarily talks about setting up Wine for running the MS Windows version of World of Warcraft.