World of Warcraft Forum

Hi,

I have a very good video card on my PC atm nVidia 4GB GT 1050Ti and the performance via Crossover on my Arch Installation of WoW is awful.

I find this really striking as on Ubuntu I would get pretty nice FPS on my old videocard that was only 1GB.

I have been trying to find ways to amend the Crossover installation but no luck.

I am pretty sure my nVidia drivers are working fine.

I have been playing with wine, using my installation and I am getting better performance via:

sudo __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 wine .cxoffice/World_of_Warcraft-2/dosdevices/c:/'Program Files'/'World of Warcraft'/'Wow-64.exe' -opengl

is there any way to add the above openGL optimization line to my crossover installation?

Not sure if there are any better ways

Point to a script method:

1) Make a shell script. Presuming that the paths are identical :

#!/bin/bash
__GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 "/home/andrew/.cxoffice/battlenet/desktopdata/cxmenu/Desktop.C^5E3A_users_crossover_Desktop/Battle.net.lnk" %u

2) Change/Create .desktop file to the appropriate shell file.

The other method is to edit the .desktop shortcut (or create a new one)

1) Open up in your favorite editor your .desktop file. You can create a new one too, by opening up Crossover, selecting the appropriate bottle, selecting BNet, and right clicking on it and picking "Run With Options", then clicking "Create Launcher". The new one will be on your desktop.
For me, my existing one is at:
/home/andrew/.local/share/applications/cxmenu-cxoffice-d7d8cb3b-f98e-4b3b-b750-218ecd9b5589-1u1dab3-Battle.net.desktop

2) Add in an EXTRA line, above the existing .lnk one. So for me I have

Exec="LD_PRELOAD=__GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1"
Exec="/home/andrew/.cxoffice/battlenet/desktopdata/cxmenu/Desktop.C^5E3A_users_crossover_Desktop/Battle.net.lnk" %u

I did try the obvious just now of adding the preceding bit to the start of an existing .desktop file I had by just right clicking and it did not work, so if thats what you unsuccessfully tried, I hear ya. Too bad at least GNOME forces us into having to still go the extra mile to get some slightly advanced launch options for apps.