World of Warcraft running with low FPS and seems unstable

Is Linux and WoW like oil and water?

I'm running this on a laptop with a 4070. I'm getting like 7fps in something I should be getting in the hundreds of fps with.

Then I rebooted and it's like the whole thing disappeared. I'm not a full linux guy... Yet.

Any advice would be appreciated. I was using Nobara.

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It's probably defaulting to the integrated GPU instead of the dedicated one. I think if you search this linux gaming on reddit you can find some similar problems with Overwatch and maybe a similar solution will work for WoW.
I’m running it locked at 240hz.

What distro are you running? What translation layer? Give more details to better troubleshoot
- Nobara
I've played WoW on Linux for twenty years. Blizzard has always said they unofficially support Linux. Occasionally the Blizzard launcher will have an issue, but Blizzard fixes it right away. All that to say, you should 100% have high expectation for WoW on Linux.

I use bottles to run Blizzard games with the latest Soda runtime. But as others mentioned, it's probably the integrated gpu that's getting selected. If you didn't use the automatic installer, (Lutris, bottles, etc., all have auto installers) for the blizzard launcher I'd suggest going back to that. But likely it's just the gpu selection.
I use bottles on PopOS and have no problems with wow.