Thread on slashdot about CrossOver Office 5 and Wine 0.9 Released, just thought I’d mention that I have World of Warcraft working perfectly with Cedega under Gentoo. I’ll have to post some screens of it. There’s a very vertical picture of the updater on the right there. The only real issue is that the bittorrent updater for WoW probably won’t work, so you’d probably have to manually copy WoW over from your Windows partition every time an update came out. If that sounds horrible, you could give this a shot. I did not try getting the updater working. The updater works fine, after it downloads an update it just relaunches and starts bittorrent’ing (verb?). That guide is good, I followed most of it bit by bit. I didn’t have to disable the death effect. Meh.

I’m very impressed with Wine recently. And the bottles concept sounds really neat.

My nvidia settings don’t stick but I’m sure I could script it to pick up FSAA settings and the like on boot up. Just haven’t done it. The nvidia drivers I am using are:


unicron ~ # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge -pv nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild R ] media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7676 0 kB
[ebuild R ] media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.7676-r1 -dlloader 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB


And that’s even on AMD64 arch. I can’t believe it all works. Good job Blizzard on ‘portable’ code (or at least wineable stuff) and good job to Codeweavers.