Curse

Retribution X · May 14, 2007, 04:36 PM // 16:36

Title says it all.

And if it's possible, how?

TurinPT · May 14, 2007, 06:57 PM // 18:57

yeah you can do it using wine, its a bit tricky tho.

heres a nice guide if your using ubuntu:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=283122

Raging Ember · May 15, 2007, 10:42 PM // 22:42

you can run it using a windows emulator?

Kuldebar Valiturus · May 16, 2007, 12:15 AM // 00:15

Some more info on Guild Wars and Linux:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=396399

Koradji · May 16, 2007, 10:16 AM // 10:16

i run guild wars in linux, i've never actually played it in windows, so i can't compare performance and such.

Two options i know of are cedega and wine, i'm using cedega. neither is perfect.

wine:
For me, a fresh install of wine 0.9.37 played GW fine, until it crashed after 10 min. I have no idea why and haven't pursued it. in wine, the graphics looked better than in cedega but i didn't seem to have sound effects.

Cedega:
Cedega isn't free, you can get it from www.transgaming.com
I've had game uptimes of 12 hours and more in cedega.
Cedega issues:
* sound often disappears after an hour or so
* with installs from the downloaded client, it's sometimes difficult to get the game starting properly, until it starts cleanly once. guild wars can't find the right graphics setting or something. cd installs don't seem to have this issue so much.
* Graphics /might/ not be as nice as expected, i have to try fiddling with that some time.

while neither is perfect, both offer some nice features.
* I can run games in a seperate X session, changing back to whatever i was doing in the first session easily, browser etc. If the game crashes i may only lose the X session i was playing in, not anything i was doing. Unless it crashes the video card or something, of course.
* Installs of windows games in wine/cedega don't touch any files used by the rest of the operating system. In cedega they don't even touch files used by other installed games, uninstalling completely is as easy as deleting the game's directory.

My most common cause of GW crashes in cedega, is when i change X sessions, and open too much other stuff, it doesn't recover well when i go back to it. This doesn't seem to happen in towns, and doesn't always happen outside them, and GW can easily be restarted. Yesterday i was happily browsing forums, gamewikis, chat, whatever, while death levelling a pet in a seperate X session.

Koradji · May 16, 2007, 10:36 AM // 10:36

Oh. forgot to mention.

In wine there's some sort of graphic glitchiness around the feet of your character. like an area always in shadow.
In cedega, the same glitchiness is only there when you are running two copies of guild wars at once on the same computer. as i'm doing at the moment in two seperate X sessions, just to test.
The glitch doesn't noticably affect play, and turning shadows off removes the odd patch.