Re: Broken PC :-(

Jamie Kahn Genet <jamiekg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Zil <zen13097@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There I was on Saturday morning , with my multi-box team (now all just
around the level 79 mark), thinking that I'd either hit 80 on Sunday
or, failing that, next weekend, when all of a sudden my PC's screen
went black.

Crappy luck! :-( I hope you have better luck getting WoW running under
WINE - there are some great guides online to doing so and it's not hard
unless you run into driver issues in Linux.

I managed to get WoW running under Wine with almost no effort at all.

First, I made sure my Linux (Ubuntu) installation was up-to-date. It
took a couple of hours to download and upgrade everything, but now I'm
up to the 8.10 release.

Then I temporarily put the drive containing my WoW installation into
the Linux PC, and copied teh WoW installation directory across.

Finally, it's just a case of running "wine Wow.exe -opengl" and
it all just works perfectly.

Mumble (the teampseak-like chat program that my guild uses) doesn't
want to work under Wine, though - it complains that it can't open
DirectSound for output.

On the downside, the machine's not up to multi-boxing, which is my
main attration to WoW at the moment, but at least I can now get my
WoW fix if I feel the urge.

--
Zil, Level 80 NE Priest, Aman Shan're, Stormrage Europe
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