Problems with WoW in Ubuntu 9.10

Hi,

I have just upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 and I decided that I wanted to start WoWing again. So I followed the Updated guide found at the Ubuntu Forums. Everything went well but when I start WoW I hear sound but I dont see the login screen, Thats with out the OpenGL added to the Config.wtf. When I add the OpenGL line to the Config i get the same thing but wow crashes.

System Specs:

Pentium 4
512mb ram
80gb storage
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro GPU

I dont think its my Rescources, because I have gotten Wow to run in Ubuntu with a P3, 256mb ram and a Intel GPU with Ubuntu 8.04.

Thanks in advance for any help you guys can give.

Tags: 9.10, ati, pentium., ubuntu, wow

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Permalink Reply by Dustin West on November 14, 2009 at 6:30pm: Just to confirm, what version of Wine are you using.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Gibson on November 14, 2009 at 11:42pm: Hm oh the horror of running wow with only 512. System minus what ur is takes even for unbuntu u might wanna add 1g stick in jus so the full aspect of the game in some higher content areas doesn't take up ur comps ram passed where ur insufficient and lag up. Don't know much bout ur graphics but it'll handle probly on low settings 30 gps prob lol as for ur problem........p; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Michael Browning on November 15, 2009 at 12:46am: My Wine Version is 1.2

I get 40-65 FPS with the FX set to medium in windows,,,so the GPU cant be the prob,,or can it?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dustin West on November 15, 2009 at 8:11am: No doubt Wow will be sluggish but I don't think your specs would keep the game from loading. I would make sure you have latest ATI driver. Setup wow to Emulate a virtual desktop at some lower resolution and see if that makes a difference.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Michael Browning on November 15, 2009 at 11:50pm: OK the Driver from ATI wont install, and i looked that up and i found a thread that said that that driver isn't compatible with the version of X.org thats in 9.04 or 9.10, or there's something with my Xorg File because when i type "glxinfo" it comes back with an Error that says BadCommand or somthing like that. but there is no option to repair Xorg in recovery Mode.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dustin West on November 16, 2009 at 5:44am: Not sure if you tried this. Here is link to ATI page, at bottom it has instructions for Linux Catalyst 9.3 install.

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