MCR

Hi All,
I play World of Warcraft, both from Windows and Ubuntu. I basically use
the same install of WoW on the Windows partition and play in Ubuntu
because its a pain rebooting into Windows all the time.

I haven't had any problems, and everything is working fine. I don't run
any add-ons, nor have I installed any dodgy programs in Windows.

I was wondering, If malware had been installed in WoW, would it work if
just WoW was run through wine? What I mean is, would I be protected
becuase the malware program would expect to be running on a windows box?

I am just curious.

In addition, for some reason, WoW frame rates drop drastically when I am
in (I assume) high bandwidth areas, like a capitol city. This does not
happen in Windows (If I am going to spend a lot of time in a city or I am
playing PvP I will reboot into Windows), any ideas how I fix this? I
guess its Wine, but don't want to complain as it preforms a stellar job!

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MCR
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Geoff

"MCR" <mcr.mame@nospamplzgmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
> I play World of Warcraft, both from Windows and Ubuntu. I basically use
> the same install of WoW on the Windows partition and play in Ubuntu
> because its a pain rebooting into Windows all the time.
>
> I haven't had any problems, and everything is working fine. I don't run
> any add-ons, nor have I installed any dodgy programs in Windows.
>
> I was wondering, If malware had been installed in WoW, would it work if
> just WoW was run through wine? What I mean is, would I be protected
> becuase the malware program would expect to be running on a windows box?
>
> I am just curious.
>
> In addition, for some reason, WoW frame rates drop drastically when I am
> in (I assume) high bandwidth areas, like a capitol city. This does not
> happen in Windows (If I am going to spend a lot of time in a city or I am
> playing PvP I will reboot into Windows), any ideas how I fix this? I
> guess its Wine, but don't want to complain as it preforms a stellar job!

any tips for a noob on how to get wow and wine to work on ubuntu ?

i install latest ubuntu 7.10 or whatever onto a fresh pc
copied my wow install over
ran it via wine
the process just seemed to chew cpu and do nothing, i left it for a few mins

pc isn't exactly top end hardware, but it's run wow ok when i run windows on
it
dual p3 800, 512 meg ram, geforce 2 ultra
(i just thought i'd stick the latest super duper linux dist on it and see if
i could get wow working, and check it out in general)

wow in wine just doesn't quite run as well as in windows i think
you will notice it more in citys and other such low fps area's
not much you can do about it really i think