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thaekor · Oct 27, 2007, 12:12 PM // 12:12

Just switched my desktop to Ubuntu 7.10 . Anyone know how to install GW on a Linux box? Is it even possible?!?

Luckily, I still have my laptop that I can play it on, but the desktop has a better graphics card ;-D

Yanman.be · Oct 27, 2007, 12:20 PM // 12:20

You need wine or cedega.

lordpwn · Oct 27, 2007, 01:20 PM // 13:20

You can run GW under Linux with Wine, a Linux implementation of the Windows APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). The easiest way to get the latest version for Ubuntu is to add Wine's package repository to your system's list. See http://www.winehq.org/site/download-deb for details.

As far as I know it doesn't support DirectX 9.0 right now, at least well enough for shaders to work, and there's some issues with the new sound system GW got a while ago, but if you start the game with the parameters -dx8 -dsound -noshaders it should run, though you'll miss out on a few effects.

Cedega may support the game a little better, but installing that (especially without subscribing) is a little tricky.

Also, if you have an ATI card expect crappy framerates - ATI's drivers for Linux are pretty bad and in some basic operations they're several orders of magnitude slower than Nvidia's (or some open source drivers for older cards).

lishi · Oct 27, 2007, 01:32 PM // 13:32

cedega will run it, not very well i might say

Miss Eisei · Oct 27, 2007, 04:50 PM // 16:50

Cedega runs it very well
ive used it for a long time, and the performance is just fine

if u chose getting Cedega i suggest u check her for help with settings
http://www.cedega.com/forum/viewforu...1090260 53655

also like lordpwn said, if u got ATI ur out of luck

, u will get shitty fps due to ATI's useless drivers

Faer · Oct 27, 2007, 05:02 PM // 17:02

I've played GW with both Cedega and Wine, and generally speaking, using Wine tends to be more user-friendly. Cedega is just a modified Wine anyway.

Short guide for you, in case you are very new to Linux.

Open a terminal, and type "sudo apt-get install wine". Then once you have that installed, download the GW installer from the website to your desktop. Open a new terminal (or just use the old one) and navigate to your desktop with "cd Desktop/", then run the installer with "wine < GW installer name here >".

You'll experience lots of graphical flaws simply because DX9 isn't supported right (or really at all, lawlz), and you may experience some loss of FPS compared to a Windows installation. Otherwise, it runs fine.

Unless of course you have an ATI card. Then you may as well just get GParted and make an NTFS partition so you can dual-boot to Windows to play GW.

arcady · Oct 28, 2007, 08:17 PM // 20:17

I wonder if this would work to let me play GW on my Mac laptop...

I see that Wine exists for OS X, but I'd need to buy a bigger laptop hard drive before I could test it.

hurdlebeast · Feb 17, 2008, 08:19 PM // 20:19

don't want to rez this thread, but just for informational purposes (use the search button, ppl

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

this helps a bit, it's a continuous thread on just this subject on the ubuntu forum. hope it helps

Mr.Kotte · Feb 19, 2008, 04:36 PM // 16:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by Faer

Unless of course you have an ATI card. Then you may as well just get GParted and make an NTFS partition so you can dual-boot to Windows to play GW.

Is it really this bad? <insert random red engine text here>, I say. (i'm sitting with a ATI 2600XT 512 mb)

Been using Ubuntu for a while and I must say its lovely, Its really a shame GW doesnt support it

Also thaekor - have a look at http://wiki.guildwars.com/Guild_Wars_on_Wine - Me and my friend managed to get GW running on his ubuntu using this command (from the terminal) DISPLAY=:0 wine "Path to guildwars/Gw.exe", if that doesnt work try using flags such as -windowed, -dx8 and maybe -nosound after the ""s.
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