World of Warcraft on Laptop with Linux

[geekender]

Has anyone tried to do this? If so, what kind of framerates are you getting? I am running it on my desktop, but not on the laptop yet.

 

[Concillian]

What video card/chip does your laptop use?
I personally don't use Linux for WoW, but there are people in my guild who run WoW from Linux with Cedega.

WoW isn't terribly demanding on video card and processor, the linux guys in my guild are using Athlon-XPs with older nvidia cards and 1 gig. From what it sounds like from them, performance is pretty comparable to windows WoW, but many laptops do not have adequate 3D video cards to meet even the min. requirements.

 

[FallenHero]

Like Concillian said, your vid card and probably your ram will determine most of your performance in game. I'm not sure how difficult its going to be to set up on a Linux box, but I am assuming you would have to work out a couple kinks here and there to get comparable performance.

 

[geekender]

The laptop has an ATI Radeon 7500, a 1.6 pentium M and 1GB of RAM. It is the IBM T41. I am running it on Linux at home, but I have a Geforce 6800. The framerates are about half in linux of what they are in Windows, and I wanted to know if that was the same on the ATI cards.

 

[sourceninja]

Half of windows? Are you using cedega or wine with dx9? I've got a 6800GT and I'm not that much slower then windows.

 

[geekender]

But "not that much slower" on the laptop could translate to unplayable. I just wanted to know if anyone had tried it. Even if you have tried it on a Radeon 7500 that wasn't the mobile version.

 

[IlllI]

Originally posted by: geekender
The laptop has an ATI Radeon 7500, a 1.6 pentium M and 1GB of RAM. It is the IBM T41. I am running it on Linux at home, but I have a Geforce 6800. The framerates are about half in linux of what they are in Windows, and I wanted to know if that was the same on the ATI cards.

ati drivers for linux are terrible when compared to nvidia drivers for linux. thats one problem