• World of Warcraft ¹⁾
• Battle.net App ²⁾
• 64-bit
• WineHQ AppDB

• Fedora Workstation

• As long as WoW support Windows 7, D3D11 should be supported, in which case DXVK should continue to work

• Install to default directory when prompted ³⁾
• [ ] Launch Battle.net when you start your computer
• Log-in
• Change Battle.net App settings
• Close

mkdir -p ~/'Wine Prefixes' && wget 'https://eu.battle.net/download/getInstaller?os=win&installer=Battle.net-Setup.exe' -O ~/'Downloads/Battle.net-Setup.exe' && WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' WINEARCH='win64' wine ~/'Downloads/Battle.net-Setup.exe'

• If using an installation drive that does not have at least 120GB of free space, install WoW first to get the initial download, copy the full WoW folder from somewhere, and then restore it

rm -Rf ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft' && mv ~/'Downloads/World of Warcraft' ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)' && sync

• Install World of Warcraft

• Requires 52GB+ free space

cd ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Battle.net' && WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' wine ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Battle.net/Battle.net Launcher.exe'

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rm -rf ~/'Downloads/Battle.net-Setup.exe' ~/'Desktop/Battle.net.desktop' ~/'Desktop/World of Warcraft.desktop' && sync

• https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk

• D3D11 to Vulkan

• https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases

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rm -rf '/tmp/dxvk-'* && cd '/tmp' && tar -xvzf ~/'Downloads/dxvk-'*'.tar.gz' && cd ~ && WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' '/tmp/dxvk-'*'/setup_dxvk.sh' install && rm -rf '/tmp/dxvk-'* && sync

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mkdir -p ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns' && gio open ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns'

• https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/details

• https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/storyline

• https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/overachiever

• Create Fonts folder in WoW root folder
• Drop fonts into this folder ending in .ttf and rename to the following

ARIALN

FRIENDS

FRIZQT__

MORPHEUS

skurri

• http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/CVar_weatherDensity

/console WeatherDensity 3

• http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/CVar_violenceLevel

/console violenceLevel 5

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rm -Rf ~/'.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/Battle.net' ~/'.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/World of Warcraft' && mkdir -p ~/'.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/World of Warcraft'

nano ~/'.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/World of Warcraft/World of Warcraft.desktop'

[Desktop Entry]
Name=World of Warcraft
Comment=TODO
Categories=Game;AdventureGame;RolePlaying
Exec=env WINEDEBUG=-all WINEPREFIX='/home/CHANGEME/Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' wine '/home/CHANGEME/Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft/World of Warcraft Launcher.exe'
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Path=/home/CHANGEME/Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft
Icon=5C12_World of Warcraft Launcher.0
Actions=Kill;Cache;

[Desktop Action Kill]
Exec=env WINEPREFIX='/home/CHANGEME/Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' wineserver -k
Name=Force-close

[Desktop Action Cache]
Exec=bash -c "rm -Rf ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft/Cache' ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft/Logs' ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/windows/temp/'* ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/users/'$USER'/Temp/'* && sync"
Name=Cache Clean-up

sed -i 's/'CHANGEME'/'$USER'/g' ~/'.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/World of Warcraft/World of Warcraft.desktop'

• 512×512 icon
• Only really necessary for desktop environments where an icon size larger than 48×48 is displayed ⁴⁾

mkdir -p ~/'.local/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps' && wget 'https://i.imgur.com/xZMEiix.png' -O ~/'.local/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/WBE5_Wow.0.png' && sed -i 's/5C12_World of Warcraft Launcher.0/'WBE5_Wow.0'/g' ~/'.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/World of Warcraft/World of Warcraft.desktop'

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WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' winecfg

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WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' winetricks

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WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' regedit

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WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' wineserver -k

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cd ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Battle.net' && WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' wine ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Battle.net/Battle.net Launcher.exe'

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cd ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft' && WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' wine ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft/World of Warcraft Launcher.exe'

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cd ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft' && 

DXVK_HUD='devinfo,fps,memory,version'

DXVK_USE_PIPECOMPILER='1'

WINEDEBUG='-all'

WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' wine ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft/Wow-64.exe'

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gio open ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft'

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gio open ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft/AddOns'