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On addition to my first post about this subject, after close to 2 years it is time to revisit and revise the whole manual to get World of Warcraft running on Wine.

So, let’s make a few assumptions here :

- You have a system running at least Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid Lynx, fully updated.
- You want to play World of Warcraft on it.
- You came here for an in-depth guide on how to get that done.

Alrighty, let’s get cracking then !

First thing you need to do is make sure that you have the right drivers installed for your video adapter and that you actually have hardware OpenGL support up and running on your system.

This is usually accomplished by running System->Administration->Hardware and then installing the proprietary hardware drivers for your particular videocard.

OpenGL hardware capabilities are also referred to as DRI, which means Direct Rendering Infrastructure. Without it, OpenGL will heavily lean on your CPU for all it’s calculations instead of your GPU. When you run a rather CPU intensive program, such as a computer game like World of Warcraft, you really do not want to do without it.

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Since installing and running EVE with CrossOver was such a success, i decided to ditch the standard Wine installation alltogether and switch entirely to CrossOver. So that meant byebye .wine folder and start completely over again.

World of Warcraft is also a supported application, so i figured i just download the webinstaller again and use that as the setup to run in CrossOver. So, to put down the steps : I fired up ‘Install Windows Software’ from the CrossOver Games menu and told it I wanted to install World of Warcraft. For the setup file i chose the one i downloaded from the internet, and well whatd’ya know, it fired it up nicely and i could click the install button. Read more