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   From: Toby Newman    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: World of warcraft script   
   Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:00:01 +0000   
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   On 2007-02-12, MCR  wrote:   
   > I am using the stock Wine from the Ubuntu repositories.  The guides were    
   > mentioning copying DLL files and or compiling Wine yourself.  I didn't    
   > bother with this at all.  I did try installing WoW in Wine, ie:- to  my    
   > Home partition but this actually didn't work too well.  It seemed clunky    
   > (for some reason) and so I thought I would just go to the Windows    
   > Partition and run it directly from there (to see if it actually worked)    
   > and it did.   
   >   
   > I have a Core2Duo CPU E6300 overclocked to 2.67 Ghz (I cannot remember    
   > as it's been a while since I rebooted), I have 1GB of memory and a    
   > Nvidia 7600GT.  I am using the Nvidia drivers provided by Automatix    
   > (although I uninstalled automatix afterwards).  I get 60fps everywhere    
   > city/country.  I get some frame drops  with a lot of player characters    
   > around, but I think thats because of Lag.   
   >   
   > I use the default terrain detail that was selected when I installed it    
   > in XP.  The only problem I have is sound is poorer than Windows... I can    
   >   make out what is being said but it stutters like crap, but Linux does    
   > it too and I think it must me some kind of interrupt problem.  I am not    
   > bothered because my PC is in my front room and the sound is turned down    
   > most of the time anyway.   
   >   
   > When I am running it in XP there is no graphical difference to Ubuntu.    
   > It's silky smooth and the game plays the same.  The only problem I have    
   > is it is very addictive and talking about it here makes me want to play    
   > it now!   
      
   I wonder how much success I'd have sharing the WoW directory on my XP   
   box over SMB, and then pointing my linux box at that directory with   
   read/write permissions for Wine?   
      
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