Latest Linux Expedition

[Joe]

Wine 0.9.9 and WoW 2.0.0 installed. Patching to 2.3 with a megapatch I had laying around (thank God, that thing is 700MB!), then the smaller patches, then trying to milk my FPS for all it's got.

[Sidoh]

Sweet.  How well has it been working?  How much trouble was it to set up?

By the way, I thought this said "Latest Linux Edition", haha.

[Joe]

Well, I made directories for the WoW and TBC installers, copied over Install.exe and the installer tomes, plus DirectX's install folder. I got the edition of WoW that came with the trial DVD, too, so that was like 10 minutes of my time, maybe? Ran a nice little apt-get install wine, waited a minute, that was done. Ran the installers with a straight-up wine Install.exe, no problem. From there, I was at WoW 2.0.0, piece of cake.

Copied 2.3.0 megapatch via flashdrive, and tried wine WoW-2.3.0-enUS-patch.exe and was greeted with a friend "There is no patch file to install." WTF? wine WoW-2.3.0-enUS-patch.exe -opengl -- it works. Now, I don't know why running the patcher in all of it's Direct3D awesomeness didn't work, but who are we to question teh Linux?!1.

So, the patcher killed itself at 19% and I gave up for now. I'm going to go ahead and upgrade to gutsy (that's a huge download) from dapper, get a better version of Wine, probably have to reinstall WoW entirely since I bet I killed it with a half-patch, and then try again.

[Blaze]

You're probably going to be stuck with OpenGL whilst using Wine for WoW.

[Joe]

That's fine by me. The installer just wanted DirectX, so I was like, fine bitch, have it.

[Joe]

iago made me reinstall my vista hard drive, and since then, I've been too lazy. The HD is still on my desk, upside down, next to a bunch of other stuff, so if I get bored again this project shall continue!

[Explicit]

iago made me reinstall my vista hard drive, and since then, I've been too lazy. The HD is still on my desk, upside down, next to a bunch of other stuff, so if I get bored again this project shall continue!

Or you can mail that hard drive this way.

[Joe]

iago made me reinstall my vista hard drive, and since then, I've been too lazy. The HD is still on my desk, upside down, next to a bunch of other stuff, so if I get bored again this project shall continue!

Or you can mail that hard drive this way.

It's a 30GB, so probably not worth it's weight in postage.

[Explicit]

iago made me reinstall my vista hard drive, and since then, I've been too lazy. The HD is still on my desk, upside down, next to a bunch of other stuff, so if I get bored again this project shall continue!

Or you can mail that hard drive this way.

It's a 30GB, so probably not worth it's weight in postage.

Doesn't mean I won't be able to put it to good use.