Playing on WINE? Try my launcher shell script!

[Zolona]

If you don't know what WINE is and/or you are a Windows user, this is not for you.

Prerequisites:
wine and vanilla (obviously!)

Optional prerequisites:
ImageMagick and inotify-tools (auto-conversion of screenshots to PNG)
xdotool (auto-types your password from a file [WoW.pass])

View/Download:
https://gist.github.com/v2px/345192c95a4bde23c99d

any feedback is welcome

[anas2660]

Hello i'm very new here

I am quite new on linux and i am still having a bit of trouble understanding it all. i cant just go back to windows to play world of warcraft because i am signed up to a linux 1 year challenge at https://forum.teksyndicate.com/t/1-year ... enge/74682 . I am signed up as candfa.

The only way i know how to play games that arent native to linux right now is through playonlinux.
I guess that a script isnt actually a replacement for playonlinux but can you tell me how to set it up? Also if i get the time for it and it's as complicated to set up as i think, i might even make a little tutorial video for you

[Zolona]

Welcome to Linux!

I've never used PlayOnLinux but it seems like it's just a frontend that manages different wine installations.
If you are on Ubuntu, like it says on that link you posted, you can install a recent wine version with

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sudo apt-get install wine

and the other dependencies (if you want to use them) with

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sudo apt-get install imagemagick inotify-tools xdotool

Then you just save the script to a cool place with a cool filename (I keep it in the Vanilla directory and have named it launch.sh) and make it executable:

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chmod +x launch.sh

Edit it with your favourite text editor, ..

and it should just work:

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./launch.sh

from the directory where the script lives or just double click it.

[anas2660]

3 things

1)
It seems to be working

However i've tried to make it an executable, but only the command "./launch.sh" works. i can't doubleclick.
Sorry if i'm full retard right now xD

2)
Also my ingame fps is at an average of ~20 fps xD i just wanted to know if it was playonlinux, or something. whats your fps? if you have a fix, i would like that too

3) thanks for the quick response

[Zolona]

It seems like PlayOnLinux is setting the following values in WTF/Config.wtf automatically:

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SET gxApi "opengl"
SET ffxDeath "0"
SET SoundOutputSystem "1"
SET SoundBufferSize "150"
SET MasterSoundEffects "0"

Does this help with the performance issues?

If ./launch.sh works, the script is already marked as executable. In the desktop environment I use (MATE/Gnome 2), you can add program launchers to a panel - and you can give them a custom icon and a path to launch. Just try typing "<your desktop> custom launcher" into Google - it should bring uop some good results.

[anas2660]

i've tried that

after some tests it seems like my CPU use sometimes goes up to 75-90% usage. and when I go into processes
when it is that high WoW.exe only uses 5% CPU usage, and yet it still uses the most of all processes(added up they use about 20%). when it is like this wow is usually at 4-6fps

randomly my CPU usage will go down to 30% and the process WoW.exe then uses about ~20%.
this ofc makes more sense since the other processes uses the last 10% of the 30% CPU usage. when my computer is in this state I get about 37-40fps. This state does not last too long before going back to the first laggy state.

I tried with both openGL and direct3D as the graphics API and what I have found is that they give the same fps (as in with the 2 states I listed above) that is why I usually use direct3d since it has support for hardware cursor. as you can probably imagine a 5fps cursor is not fun to have

I have my suspicions about how it might be my CPU processing the 5k people online xD

[Zolona]

I'm sorry but I can't help you with that. Sounds really weird tho, please tell me when you found out what causes it.

I updated the script to fix a frame rate drop when taking a screenshot and fixed a bug where it would not exit cleanly.

[morno]

woo good job