[Wine] WoW using d3d

[tparker at etherstorm.net]

Sharing this in case it is helpful to any other WoW players with the opengl 
issues or to anyone working on d3d in Wine.

I've been trying World of Warcraft without the -opengl tag since Blizzard 
introduced their latest round of opengl breaking updates. I was very 
pleasantly surprised to find the game both playable and stable in d3d. I still 
have a couple graphical issues but they are not game crashing ones as in 
opengl. The two d3d issues I have noticed are:

1) temporary ground effects flicker between looking as they are supposed to and 
being crosshatched or patterned, not just in the new instances but during game 
play in general. Sometimes the flickering is very fast back and forth and is 
hard on the eyes, but it never leaves the area of the ground effect or turns 
into the big flashing polygons that crash the game like it does in opengl (Pit 
of Saron specifically). The effects this happens during are things like the 
circles on the ground from Death and Decay, Blizzard, poison puddles, ice 
crash circles (Hodir, the cave/tunnel run in PoS), the little circle shadows 
under players, ice/fog patches (during waves in Halls of Reflection or last 
boss in PoS)and any similar temporary ground effect. It does not seem to happen 
with Consecrate, Flame Strike, or other 'less solid looking' ground effects.

2) sometimes turning the camera angle will cause everything except the walls, 
floor/ground, and ceiling/sky around you to disappear. Any decorative 
items/carts/critters as well as other players and npcs can not be seen until 
the camera angle changes again. So far this has only happened in Culling of 
Strath, but I have not tested any similarly constructed areas yet to see if it 
is consistent. 

Other than that the game doesn't have any problems in d3d that I have ran 
into. The game is running for me the same as it did with opengl other than the 
graphics glitches - they happen more often in d3d, but do not go to the 
extremes or crash the game as in opengl. I am getting the same frame rates and 
camera/mouse response time and feel as in opengl.

WIne version - 1.1.32 installed via yum, only change from install was update 
MS C per the wiki right after last WoW patch.
Fedora 12KDE 32 bit
Nvidia 6150 SE, Nvidia driver 190.42 installed/updated via yum.