• World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King ¹⁾
• Patch 3.3.5a
• WineHQ AppDB

• Fedora Workstation
• Wine

• 2023/07/31: This works best on GNOME on Wayland on Intel UHD 630

• World-of-Warcraft-3.3.5a.12340-enUS.zip

mkdir -p ~/'.wine' && WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5' WINEARCH='win32' wineboot && WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5' winetricks 'winxp' && sync

md5sum ~/'Downloads/World-of-Warcraft-3.3.5a.12340-enUS.zip' | grep 'ab8284d28a063e8594d03636fbe28dc7' && unzip -qq -b -d ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files' ~/'Downloads/World-of-Warcraft-3.3.5a.12340-enUS.zip' && sync

• https://github.com/iXit/wine-nine-standalone/releases
• 2023/08/19: Sometimes from Xorg WoW will remain open on Exit and require manual killing ²⁾

rm -rf '/tmp/gallium-nine-standalone' && cd '/tmp' && tar -xvzf ~/'Downloads/gallium-nine-standalone-'*'.tar.gz' && cd ~ && cp --force '/tmp/gallium-nine-standalone/lib32/d3d9-nine.dll.so' ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/windows/system32/d3d9.dll' && rm -rf '/tmp/gallium-nine-standalone' ~/'Downloads/gallium-nine-standalone-v0.9.tar.gz' && sync

rm -f ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/windows/system32/d3d9.dll' && WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5' wineboot --update

• Start WoW at least once prior to running this

echo -e 'SET Sound_EnableHardware "1"\nSET gxApi "d3d9ex"\nSET violenceLevel "5"\nSET SmallCull "0"\nSET groundEffectDensity "256"\nSET spellEffectLevel "250"\nSET basemip "0"\nSET extShadowQuality "2"\nSET maxfps "75"\nSET componentCompress "0"\nSET gxCursor "0"\nSET SkyCloudLOD "3"\nSET environmentDetail "2"\n' | tee --append ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/WTF/Config.wtf' > '/dev/null'

nano ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/WTF/Config.wtf'

• Run this before first-start as there is not a default address

echo 'set realmlist wow.realmofespionage.xyz' | tee ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/Data/'*'/realmlist.wtf'

nano ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/Data/'*'/realmlist.wtf'

mkdir -p ~/'.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/World of Warcraft' && nano ~/'.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/World of Warcraft/World of Warcraft 3.3.5.desktop'

[Desktop Entry]
Name=World of Warcraft 3.3.5
Categories=Game;
Exec='/bin/bash' -c "cd ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/' && MESA_SHADER_CACHE_DIR=~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5' WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5' wine ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/Wow.exe' -d3d9ex"
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=wow.exe
Icon=WBE5_Wow.0

# End

mkdir -p ~/'.local/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps' && cd ~/'.local/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps' && wrestool --output='WBE5_Wow.0.png' --extract --name='101' ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/Wow.exe' && cd ~

WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5' winecfg

WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5' winetricks

WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5' regedit

WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5' wineserver --kill

rm -Rf ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/mesa_shader_cache' ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/Cache' ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/Cameras' ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/Logs' ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/Interface' ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/WTF' && sync

cd ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/' && 

WINEDEBUG=''

MESA_SHADER_CACHE_DIR=~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5' WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5' wine ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/Wow.exe' -d3d9ex

• 1280×720

cd ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/' && MESA_SHADER_CACHE_DIR=~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5' WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5' wine explorer /desktop='3.3.5','1280x720' ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/Wow.exe' -d3d9ex

• Default when no API is specified on command-line nor Config.wtf

-d3d9

cd ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/' && MESA_SHADER_CACHE_DIR=~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5' WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5' wine ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/Wow.exe' -d3d9

cat ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/Logs/gx.log' | grep 'CGxDeviceD3d'

gio open ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/Logs/gx.log'

• Theoretically™ the best choice

-d3d9ex

cd ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/' && MESA_SHADER_CACHE_DIR=~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5' WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5' wine ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/Wow.exe' -d3d9ex

cat ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/Logs/gx.log' | grep 'CGxDeviceD3d9Ex'

gio open ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/Logs/gx.log'

• Disables the in-game Video → Hardware Cursor option
• Limits Shadow Quality to blobs and no dynamic options

-opengl

cd ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/' && MESA_SHADER_CACHE_DIR=~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5' WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5' wine ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/Wow.exe' -opengl

cat ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/Logs/gx.log' | grep 'CGxDeviceOpenGl'

gio open ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/Logs/gx.log'

gio open ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/'

gio open ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/Interface/AddOns'

cp -R ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/Interface/AddOns' ~/'Downloads'