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Is Linux and WoW like oil and water?

I'm running this on a laptop with a 4070. I'm getting like 7fps in something I should be getting in the hundreds of fps with.

Then I rebooted and it's like the whole thing disappeared. I'm not a full linux guy... Yet.

Any advice would be appreciated. I was using Nobara.

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[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

What distro are you using?

[–] POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com 1 points 3 minutes ago
[–] highball@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

I've played WoW on Linux for twenty years. Blizzard has always said they unofficially support Linux. Occasionally the Blizzard launcher will have an issue, but Blizzard fixes it right away. All that to say, you should 100% have high expectation for WoW on Linux.

I use bottles to run Blizzard games with the latest Soda runtime. But as others mentioned, it's probably the integrated gpu that's getting selected. If you didn't use the automatic installer, (Lutris, bottles, etc., all have auto installers) for the blizzard launcher I'd suggest going back to that. But likely it's just the gpu selection.

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 hours ago

Make sure the game uses your actual GPU and not the integrated one.

Use lutris or bottles to set up and install battle.net automatically, from there install the game as you would under windows. Works just fine for me.

[–] zewm@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I’m running it locked at 240hz.

What distro are you running? What translation layer? Give more details to better troubleshoot

[–] POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com 1 points 2 minutes ago
[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 17 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

It's probably defaulting to the integrated GPU instead of the dedicated one. I think if you search this linux gaming on reddit you can find some similar problems with Overwatch and maybe a similar solution will work for WoW.

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 3 points 13 hours ago

I use bottles on PopOS and have no problems with wow.