-# Added dbghelp dll override to fix a crsh in the Battle Net client.Installing World of Warcraft (Wo W) in Ubuntu or Linux Mint (with Wine) is pretty easy, however there are various crashes that can occur, especially if you're not using the latest Wine and also, the FPS can be pretty low without a few tweaks, so I though I'd document everything I did to get World of Warcraft to work properly on my laptop (Nvidia Optimus, so I was able to test the game with both Nvidia and Intel graphics), even in large scale Pv Ps and hopefully, this will help you play Wo W under Ubuntu or Linux Mint.

Alternatively a streamlined process of installation and Windows installation conversion is available via Play On Linux.

While this guide will only cover the Wine compatibility layer, Wo W is fully compatible with Crossover.

Before you begin the installation, you should run the following simple command, which will check whether your video card driver has DRI enabled, which allows Wo W to run much faster (you may need to install package If this line says "No", it means that the graphics data will be handled in software rather than directly by the graphics hardware, thus significantly reducing speed at which Wo W will run.

The following ports need to be forwarded for World of Warcraft to work correctly: However, in Wine the Direct3D mode is supported only through an emulation layer that runs on top of Open GL.

/bin/bash # Date : (2009-07-07 19-30) # Last revision : (2014-11-14 17-15) # Wine version used : 1.7.29 # Distribution used to test : N/A # Author : Asimov and Super Plumus # Contributor: freedumb2000 # CHANGELOG # [freedumb200] (2014-11-14 17-15) # Update Wine version to 1.5.29 (known to work with Draenor).