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

• Fedora Workstation
• Wine

• Install to default directory when prompted ³⁾
• Log-in
• Change Battle.net App settings
• Close

mkdir -p ~/'Wine Prefixes' && wget 'https://us.battle.net/download/getInstaller?os=win&installer=Battle.net-Setup.exe&id=undefined' -O ~/'Downloads/Battle.net-Setup.exe' && WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' WINEARCH='win64' WINEESYNC='0' wine ~/'Downloads/Battle.net-Setup.exe'

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

• Install World of Warcraft ⁴⁾

cd ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Battle.net' && WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' WINEESYNC='0' wine ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Battle.net/Battle.net Launcher.exe'

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

• https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk

• This is expected to be used to provide DXGI for VKD3D-Proton
• Untested, but DXVK by itself should work for D3D11 to Vulkan

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

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

• https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton

• D3D12 to Vulkan

• https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/actions/workflows/artifacts.yml
• Need to be signed into GitHub to be able to click artifact links

rm -Rf '/tmp/vkd3d-proton' && unzip -d '/tmp/vkd3d-proton' ~/'Downloads/vkd3d-proton-'*'.zip' && chmod +x '/tmp/vkd3d-proton/setup_vkd3d_proton.sh' && cd ~ && WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' '/tmp/vkd3d-proton/setup_vkd3d_proton.sh' install && rm -Rf '/tmp/vkd3d-proton' && cd ~ && sync

WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' winetricks 'win10'

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=Descend into World of Warcraft and join millions of mighty heroes in an online world of myth, magic and limitless adventure
Categories=Game
Exec=env MESA_SHADER_CACHE_DIR='/home/CHANGEME/Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' VKD3D_SHADER_CACHE_PATH='/home/CHANGEME/Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_PATH='/home/CHANGEME/Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' 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=5298_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/mesa_shader_cache' ~/'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'

• World of Warcraft (Battle.net App)

World of Warcraft

nano ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/steam-launcher.sh' && chmod +x ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/steam-launcher.sh'

#!/bin/sh

# Environment Variables
export MESA_SHADER_CACHE_DIR=~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft'
export VKD3D_SHADER_CACHE_PATH=~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft'
export __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_PATH=~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft'
export WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft'

# Working Directory
cd ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft'

# Launch
wine ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft/World of Warcraft Launcher.exe'

# End

Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/steam-launcher.sh

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

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

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

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

killall 'Agent.exe' 'winedevice.exe' 'World of Warcra' 'start.exe' -signal 'SIGKILL' --wait

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

WINEESYNC='0' 

DXVK_HUD='full'

WINEDEBUG=''

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

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

WINEESYNC='0' 

DXVK_HUD='full'

WINEDEBUG=''

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'

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

DXVK_HUD='full'

WINEDEBUG=''

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

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

• TODO

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