Cough...Cough...Okay..Where was I?
Ah, yes. Slackware, wine, and WoW.
Well, many changes have happened since my last blog.
- WoW has come out with the much anticipated Cataclysm expansion, with it's new areas, redone old areas, and way too many changes to even contemplate, including updated graphics and other eye-candy (And the resultant greater stress on video cards, etc.)
- wine is up to version 1.3, and seems, at least to me, to be more stable and 'snappier' than 1.2
- I have switched to Ubuntu as my distro of choice for Linux. (Not that Slackware was bad, Not at all. But the INCREDIBLE ease of use and updating/package manager and GNOME as the default desktop make it slightly easier for me. Installing Mangler, a Vent client, in Slackware was next to impossible)
- My hardware has changed some. Not alot, but some. I currently run a AMD 5200+ dual core proc, 4GB DDR2 PC5300 ram, and two harddrives, one a 500GB SATAII, and the other a 250GB SATAII drive. Video is well served with a Nvidia 9600GSO PCI-X16 card, with 768MB DDR2 memory.
- And 5 new kittens running on my keyboard.
Most of the info in the previous post is still valid. But I have noticed, and PROVED, that WoW/wine/opengl is FASTER than WoW/Windows7 64bit/D3D.
Check out this video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQFBK1yNIxE
That was made just before Cata came out. I'm in the process of leveling new 'toons, and getting my 80 level characters to 85. Maybe a couple of weeks.
3am..Will update soon, and tell:
- How to get Ubuntu, and install it, and basic configuration to get you started
- How to get wine, install it, and configure it for WoW
- How to get World of Warcraft, install it, and basic configuration.
All of the above will be fairly general guides, due to your hardware and other things being different (For example, if you only have slow broadband, downloading the ENTIRE WoW install of 12GB+ of files and updates might be silly)
Stay tuned...
