The CodeWeavers people have already put in great support for DirectX 9 in their latest version for gaming, and it seems they are planning to also include version 10. Other things include support for .Net & GDIPlus. All this should be included in their latest release, version 7.2. For the expected 8.0, they plan on revamping the Linux UI, but also the Mac version is going to get some new goodies. Further on, better support for IE7, Office and much more applications is to be expected.

While I haven’t used any of their products myself lately, I must say I’m quite impressed by their efforts. Since I use Wine myself on an almost daily basis, I can vouch for the fact that the program has definitely reached a mature state. However when using the ‘vanilla Wine’, be prepared for a lot of tweaking. This is where CodeWeavers jumps in. They have been able to provide all this tweaking for you, giving you a working product out-of-the-box.

I’m usually not so enthousiastic about commercial spin-offs of Open Source products, but this one really is worth it’s money. If you’re not willing to spend time on tweaking & troubleshooting Wine issues, or would like professional support when stumbling upon a problem, then consider this product, I’m sure you’ll love it!

However, for those who run the WoW.exe (which is the actual game-executable) directly, this download has not happened yet. And a big download it is, for TBC-players, roughly about 1.6 GB, for Classic players about 2.6 GB.

To ease the update process a bit, I have made the updates for the TBC-players available online at this site. Just follow this link, and you’ll find a zip file which contains the whole 1.6 GB updates. If you’ve already downloaded one or more files and don’t need the complete zip, you also find the extracted version there, which you can browse and download only the files you need.

Enjoy, have fun and maybe see you in Azeroth .

Update: Patch files are no longer available through this site… Please use the normal built-in Bittorrent client to acquire them.