World of Warcraft & Cedega

Burning Crusade seems to work fine with these settings also :)

Odds & ends, some experimental options in the settings preferences. Let me know if anything broke ;)

Lots of tweaks and addons.

Sample template updated for WoW 2.0

A few minor tweaks to configuration tables.

Added GL extension tweak in my settings, if you use OpenGL mode, this will speed the game up greatly. Added taskset explanation for SMP users.

Been busy and off WoW for about a month, but I am back, and putting the project back on development. Expect to see updates :)

Added FAQ question about WoW being oversized in the launched window. The answer is to add the resolution to your xorg.conf file.

Page converted to DokuWiki.. Have fun!

This is the WoW on Cedega 5.2 HowTo, still in development! Alot here is still stolen from the original, so don't be surprised ;)

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This has been written for everyone out there getting frustrated with running WoW on Linux with Cedega. This task has proved frustrating. Even with Transgaming's notes and the menagerie of posts on their message board, many many people are still confused, can't get it working correctly, or at all. I hope this document helps!

My system is a Pentium-D 830 (3GHz Dualcore), 1.5GB RAM, nVidia 7900 GS 256MB PCI-E. I am running Ubuntu Linux edgy/i386.

The setup I am describing to use in this document is using Cedega in DirectX mode, with WoW encapsulated into a window by Cedega (making WoW use a “fake” full screen). To explain this further to not confuse anyone, the settings in WoW are for a full screen 1152×864 (by default in this HowTo), and the Desktop setting in Cedega limits WoW to 1152×864 (by defauit in this HowTo also). This will put WoW into a nice box, if your resolution is higher than this setting. You can keep the WoW window on one side, and use other things out of WoW. Playing a MMORPG is quite easier in a window due to if you need to see people IM'ing you, or reading a guide, etc..

Some people have asked “Why just not use the windowed setting in WoW” ? Well, for me at least this doesn't work properly at all, and still doesn't in Cedega 5.2. It will continuously load both of my core's until I move the mouse over it which will sync it back up. This is unplayable. Maybe something the TransGaming folk need to look at :)

NOTE: May have solved this problem, check this HowTo for taskset setup directions in Finishing Touches.

Here is a general list of things you will need to complete this howto:

• Cedega 5.2 or newer (now available from TransGaming).
• A little bit of Linux and command line knowledge.

This is the easiest way to install WoW in Cedega:

• Collect your CDs and be ready to do some swapping!
• Put the first CD in your drive, mount this CD, and copy over all files on it to any directory.
• Unmount, eject, and replace that CD with the second cd. Copy over the Tome file to the same directory.
• Repeat the last step for each other CD until you have copied all Tome files.

• Load Cedega.
• Make sure all your Cedega software is up-to-date by TransGaming → Check for Updates.
• Click Install button.
• Under Game Folder enter World of Warcraft (or anything you want, we will refer to it as this from now on though).
• Under GDDB Entry find World of Warcraft and choose that.
• Under Installer choose Browse and navigate to the directory where you have stored all of the files copied off of the CDs. Select the Installer.exe and click Continue.

• While installing WoW, you should be fine with using all of the default options that the install presents to you.
• The installer may crash at the end, this is ok, it has installed successfully.

Now we will begin to configure Cedega for running WoW.

• Click on World of Warcraft on the left column, so that it shows up in the right column.
• Rightclick on World of Warcraft on the right column, and choose Edit Settings for this Shortcut.

Here are some settings to try for yourself, these settings are adapted to my computer and how I like to play WoW.

I use an nVidia card, the 7900 GS 256MB PCI-E. I also run WoW full screen (well, as you will see below WoW thinks I am running full screen, Cedega pushes it into it's own window, explained below) but windowed, and I use DirectX mode.

Follow these instructions for each tab:

Here is a template Config.wtf for you, if you need it.

SET soundMaxHardwareChannels "12"
SET locale "enUS"
SET hwDetect "0"
SET gxColorBits "24"
SET gxDepthBits "24"
SET gxResolution "1152x864"
SET gxRefresh "60"
SET gxVSync "0"
SET gxMultisampleQuality "0.000000"
SET fullAlpha "1"
SET SmallCull "0.040000"
SET DistCull "500.000000"
SET trilinear "1"
SET frillDensity "32"
SET farclip "477"
SET specular "1"
SET pixelShaders "1"
SET particleDensity "1.000000"
SET unitDrawDist "300.000000"
SET movie "0"
SET movieSubtitle "1"
SET Gamma "0.800000"
SET readTOS "1"
SET readEULA "1"
SET MusicVolume "0.40000000596046"
SET SoundVolume "1"
SET MasterVolume "0.80000001192093"
SET weatherDensity "3"
SET gameTip "24"
SET AmbienceVolume "0.60000002384186"
SET uiScale "1"
SET mouseSpeed "1"
SET scriptMemory "81920"
SET profanityFilter "0"
SET cameraYawMoveSpeed "180"
SET cameraYawSmoothSpeed "180"
SET cameraDistanceMaxFactor "1"
SET CombatDamage "0"
SET minimapZoom "0"
SET gxFixLag "0"
SET EnableMusic "0"
SET EnableErrorSpeech "0"
SET EnableAmbience "0"
SET CombatLogRangeCreature "50"

You cannot change many video settings in WoW at this time running under Cedega. It will crash and possibly crash HARD, losing all your changed WoW settings and possibly requiring a reboot. Instead, edit the configuration file WTF/Config.wtf. Editing this file is a bit out of scope of this document, but you can find some tips in here for my settings.

Update: This has been getting better in the later releases of Cedega, but still not perfect.

• Q: I use SuSE and I can only see the .app executable, and no .exe files.. ?
• A: For some reason SuSE mounts these CDs by default as their MacOS filesystem. You can get around this by using the following command to mount: mount -t iso9660 /dev/yourcddevice /mnt/placetomount

• Q: I use Ubuntu and have a similar problem as above, I can only see the Mac install files.. what gives?
• A: Here is another fix but this one is more specific for Ubuntu:
• Insert the DVD, and wait for the icon on the desktop to appear.
• Close the nautilus window that appears, and open up a terminal.
• Enter: sudo umount /cdrom && sudo mount -o unhide /cdrom
• Complete the install as instructed in Cedega.
• Note: You cannot eject the CD from nautilus using this method. Please unmount manually by doing: sudo umount /cdrom

• Q: I get the 1152×864 window, but WoW still seems a higher resolution inside of it!
• A: You need to have “1152×864” defined as a resolution inside your xorg.conf file. You can google about editing this for your specific distribution.

• If you configured Cedega for WoW like mine, make sure the resolution in the configuration file WTF/Config.wtf has it's resolution set to 1152×864 and to full screen. This variable is SET gxResolution. Also, be sure that any SETs for the variable gxWindow are either removed totally, or set to 0.

Comments, constructive criticism, etc.. are all welcome to meff@spherevision.org .. thanks!