Installing WoW

[ForgottenBassist]

Ok, out of all the problems I've had in the past, this is the big one. The one I can't figure out.

I have downloaded WINE and I have downloaded the WoW install.exe file and all goes good during installation (after i simply double clicked the install.exe file) but about half way through I got an error message that "installer is unable to read file C:/commen files/world of warcraft. I tried teh same thing on Z: and it did the same thing. What can I do to fix this or how else can i download/install WoW?

btw, i'm not running windows and linux, just straight up Ubuntu, nothing else, just that

[coopstah13]

I would go to WineHQ - Wine Application Database and look at the page for wow and see if anyone else has encountered this. I never had many problems with wow on linux.

[ForgottenBassist]

OK, so I've got WoW installed, but now, when I try and play it, the fps is really low, like it's lagging really bad. The sound plays just fine, it's just the graphics.

I don't have a graphic card, just the on-board graphics.

can anyone help with THIS?

[coopstah13]

make sure you are using the correct driver for your graphics card, and make sure you use opengl graphics in wow instead of dx

[ForgottenBassist]

can someone help me do that? Im kinda new to ubuntu/linux.

[mayorpacmanjones]

i saw a video once on youtube.com/linuxjournalonline about a program that uses wine technology to prace advance windows games in linux, you might wanna also try virtualbox

[coopstah13]

virtualization is not meant for gaming, it will not play at an acceptable level

what is your graphics card?

lspci | grep VGA

[ForgottenBassist]

virtualization is not meant for gaming, it will not play at an acceptable level

what is your graphics card?

lspci | grep VGA

The output for my card is:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

I also had a problem with linux and had to reformat my hard drive from the live disk and got everything set back up. but NOW when i try to launch he game i get an error:

[/home/kyo/My Documents/World of Warcraft/Launcher.exe]
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
note: /home/kyo/My Documents/World of Warcraft/Launcher.exe may be a plain executable, not an archive
zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /home/kyo/My Documents/World of Warcraft/Launcher.exe or
/home/kyo/My Documents/World of Warcraft/Launcher.exe.zip, and cannot find /home/kyo/My Documents/World of Warcraft/Launcher.exe.ZIP, period.


NOW what do i do?

[coopstah13]

did you have a separate /home directory?

intel graphics chipset has had many issues with current kernels, it is possibly adequate, but depending on your motherboard you could get a cheap nvidia or ati graphics card that will work much better and give you a serious performance increase

[murdershow]

Hi. I am also having trouble installing WOW. I need to choose a destination for the installation, but any folder I choose a pop-up says "Invalid path selected". Any idea oh kind one?