Not installing WoW using Wine

I' am still new at using Ubuntu and I did install Wine and updated the OS but when I tried using Wine to install WoW it loads the Updating Blizzard Update Agent screen but the progress bar stops at 25% and won't continue. I have the stable version of Ubuntu and the stable version of Wine basicly version 1.4.1. But is it because I' am using the older versions of the OS and Wine that's why it's not working right and not installing WoW?

 

If you don't have any experience using Wine, I recommend consulting a dedicated forum for Wine. And if you're not into a lot of work, I recommend not using Wine at all. Wine is very finicky and compatibility and stability are pretty bad in most programs. There are a few special versions of Wine for gaming like Cedega or Crossover Games but I find the whole thing to be a lot more annoyance than it's worth.

 

@Quix Omega, sorry to interveen but Wine is pritty good peace of software. I've played a lot of games on it.

@dustin_broke - You should chack the WineHQ Games DB and what status WoW is in. There shouldn't be a problem. I played SC2:WoL and it ran smoothly ... there should be some "hacks" on how to install it, but hey - this is what linux is - you shouldn't have problem in geting your hands durty.

 

Actualy I found out that using the latest version worked fine. I was using the stable version 1.4 and seems like that one doesn't work. If I used the 1.5 then WoW worked fine. I thought stable was better since then it would not have bugs but I guess latest is better.

 

Stable is a bit old ... I, personally always use the last one.

 

stable means there is a minimum of bugs and problems, but it does not mean compatibility, in the case of wine that version may have had something the did not work with the latest update of WoW and there for did not work, but in the newest what ever was broken got changed and now it works.

Stable is always good, mean less crashes, etc. but some time bleeding edge is needed.

 

Would you consider Ubuntu 12.10 stable now with all the updates that has been done?


Also when the 13.04 comes out will that be a new stable version? If so when is it coming?

Also another thing is that when I installed the 12.10 version the video card says unknown but is that ok? Or so I need to get a video driver for this OS? My netbook also says the same thing.

 

I do not know how stable 12.10 is, im the kinda person the loves bleeding edge, I am already running 13.04 in one VM and Manjaro (Arch Linux Based) in another. But i do think ubuntu release stable enough software.

Im not sure as to the video card but its probably not a good thing, I had 12.04 running on system then upgraded to 12.10 and had the same problem but I was going to wipe the system anyway so it didnt matter to me. I would look around on the Internet, someone probably already has a fix for it, and if not thanks to FOSS (Free Open Source Software) you can go back to 12.04 with no problem or cost.

 

Latest full release is probably as new as you want to be with ubuntu or variants (Linux Mint) as a sane person. I would not go any older than the most recent LTS release, but you're probably better off with the most recent release if you can handle keeping your system up to date.