Linux, Can't Play on Linux as Before

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How do you setup World of Warcraft to play on Linux?
I’ve used Play On Linux in the past, but since this problem Blizzard is having, I haven’t been able to do this on Linux. Need help.

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Play on linux is kinda dead. People use Lutris Now. Handles everything

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Linux isn’t supported for WoW, and they don’t program around it. You’ll probably have better luck discussing this on some Wine forum or /r/wine/

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Linux sucks now.

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blizzard doesn’t support linux at all. you’ll have to look for some linux gaming help on reddit and other linux websites.

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Haven’t played WoW on Linux in quite some time but yes, I’ve read that Lutris along with some of the DXVK stuff does wonders for WoW on Linux. OP, you should definitely give it a look.

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I just use stock OpenSuse 15.0 (they are up to 15.1 now, 15.2 soon.)

I don’t do any of that Lutris junk, or DXVK (seems kind of complicated, plus people have problems with it sometimes, as per the comments in wineHQ; Main use of DXVK is to play Wow in Linux with dx12, I think.)

  1. wine-staging (regular wine is broke for wow.)

  2. direct x 11 legacy (under which direct x, in wow settings.)

  3. plays fine. I’ve only been playing Wow in Linux, with OpenSuse, since the Burning Crusade expansion when I removed windows partition forever!

You can do lots more complicated things, with suggestions in the comments at

appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=36961

I had an issue, with fps, with wine-staging newest one. So In OpenSuse did

zypper search -s wine-staging

i+ | wine-staging | package | 4.19-lp150.1062.1 | x86_64 | Wine

shows me the installed version and other possible ones, went to one previous and now having no problems again. Zypper is OpenSuse, so under other Linux you’d be doing something similar with their updater.

zypper in --oldpackage wine-staging-4.4-lp150.614.1.x86_64

(in this case, with zypper in OpenSuse, --oldpackage lets you install the older one.)

Using one version older, of wine-staging, fixed my FPS issue (so play was good again, or as good as it gets on this older computer :wink: )

The same fixes would work, though, trying a different wine-staging version, under whatever Linux you are in.

Battlenet app runs fine for me too, with the same wine-staging.

Wow and FF online are all I game with, on this computer. Otherwise I play stuff like Red Dead Redemption 2 online on my Xbox one.

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