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Latest Linux Expedition
« on: February 12, 2008, 06:42:23 am »
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. :)
« Last Edit: February 12, 2008, 02:17:47 pm by Joe »
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.


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Re: Latest Linux Expidition
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2008, 11:06:03 am »
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.

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Re: Latest Linux Expedition
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2008, 11:31:38 am »
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.
« Last Edit: February 12, 2008, 02:17:58 pm by Joe »
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.


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Re: Latest Linux Expedition
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2008, 02:22:44 pm »
You're probably going to be stuck with OpenGL whilst using Wine for WoW.
And like a fool I believed myself, and thought I was somebody else...

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Re: Latest Linux Expedition
« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2008, 03:14:04 am »
That's fine by me. The installer just wanted DirectX, so I was like, fine bitch, have it.
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.


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Re: Latest Linux Expedition
« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2008, 04:14:30 am »
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! :)
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.


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Re: Latest Linux Expedition
« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2008, 12:44:29 pm »
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. :)
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Re: Latest Linux Expedition
« Reply #7 on: February 26, 2008, 05:02:19 pm »
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.
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.


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Re: Latest Linux Expedition
« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2008, 12:38:47 am »
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.
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Like all things in life, pumping is just a primitive, degenerate form of bending.

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Hey, I don't tell you how to tell me what to do, so don't tell me how to do what you tell me to do! ... Bender knows when to use finesse.

[13:41:45]<@Fapiko> Why is TehUser asking for wang pictures?
[13:42:03]<@TehUser> I wasn't asking for wang pictures, I was looking at them.
[13:47:40]<@TehUser> Mine's fairly short.