Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Wine rocks

When reinstalling my desktop, I left my Windows setup alone so that I could still play some games. Yet, rebooting only to play a game is not really ideal. I knew that Wine supported a number of Windows games quite well already, but I did not expect so much change since the last time I checked. So, when hearing that even World of Warcraft is quite nicely supported in Wine version 1.1.7, I could not resist checking if that was really the case.
And indeed it is. It took me some time to get it all running, but that was mainly due to one hurdle, being my graphics card. Eventually I found out that I had to compile a new kernel module for it (yay, NVidia) in order to get proper OpenGL support. On the other hand, it now runs just as if it were under native Windows: smooth enough as long as you don't enter Shattrath ;)
On the left screen: WoW... On the right screen: Nothing, but just enough to show that it runs :)

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