World Of Warcraft Cataclysm is perfectly playable on Ubuntu 10 with Wine 1.3. We can install it by installing from the network, downloading all the game content from the Internet. If we have Catacysm having bought the retail version (standard or collector's edition) with the installation DVD of the game will be much faster. Just take note that we can not start it to install from the DVD and you must copy its contents to a folder on your Ubuntu system. Let's see how.

Install updated drivers.

The reasons are performance and compatibility. Nvidia graphics card you can follow the guide I made ​​a few days ago.

Install Wine 1.3 or higher.

We need version 1.3 or higher Wine to play WOW Cataclysm. We installed it from a terminal (CTRL + ALT + T) with the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get -y update && sudo apt-get -y install wine1.3

Cataclysm DVD copy.

Installing directly from the DVD does not work for several reasons. This is the key installation Cataclysm. We can not simply copy the files from the DVD because we are hidden. Then we will create a folder where we will copy the files. Another where we will mount the DVD in a way that we can see all files. And we copy from one folder to another.

Insert the game DVD in our optical disc reader and wait for it to automonte as usual until the icon on your desktop. Then open a terminal and enter the following commands:

mkdir ~/wow_dvd
sudo mkdir /media/cdrom
sudo umount /dev/cdrom
sudo mount -t udf -o ro,unhide /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom/
sudo cp -v /media/cdrom/* ~/wow_dvd

Take a few minutes to copy the files. The copied files are owned by root and we will change to be our user. Where it says "user" we will replace our user. We will use the following command adapted:

sudo chown "usuario" ~/wow_dvd/*

Install World Of Warcraft Cataclysm 4.0.x.

Finally we are ready to install World Of Warcraft Cataclysm. The following command will launch the installer WOW:

wine ~/wow_dvd/Installer.exe &

After a few seconds of the game installation begins. This opens the installation wizard that will do normally. If the installer warn us that we have enough equipment, we ignore and install anyway. The installation will take quite as much as in Windows, not for nothing are 11GB of data that are copied.

When installation is complete we will have a desktop icon to run the game. Then run the game from that icon and start the updates, installing patches and more patches and downloading lots of data.

If the installer crashes at some point we just have to force its closure and restart the program. The installation resumes from where it left off last time.

In my case it was not playable Catacysm until the updates came to the green zone. This may vary, feel free to try from reaching the yellow zone.

After the installation.

For performance reasons we recommend using OpenGL mode Catacysm World Of Warcraft. After the first run of the game is created in the WTF in the game configuration file Config.wtf. Edit it by adding:

SET gxApi "opengl"

Serve as a guide the following command to the terminal to edit the Config.wtf:

gedit ~/.wine/drive_c/Archivos\ de\ programa/World\ of\ Warcraft/WTF/Config.wtf

Gameplay.

In my case, the WOW is fully playable. The graphics are good, faultless display. The sound also, without the clicks I had in WOW LK 3.3.3 that forced me to restart PulseAudio. The graphics performance is correct. In Orgrimmar (Horde if I am xD), where hundreds of players gather performance is poor, but also goes well Windows. I can use the most common addons without problem. I would say the game is 99% playable. If yours does not discuss your experience.

Note: Tomorrow, February 9 enters the patch 4.0.6. May not work all (xD) but I hope not, are anticipated changes in classes, objects and difficulty of dungeons.

Derivative: WineHQ