Guild Wars on CrossOver

About Crossover Games
CrossOver is CodeWeavers' commercial version of Wine, a reimplementation of the win32 API that allows the use of Windows applications on Linux and on Intel Macintosh systems running Mac OS X. CodeWeavers is the leading corporate sponsor of Wine development.

CrossOver Games, released on March 25, 2008, is the flavor of CrossOver that supports Guild Wars, and a free trial version of CrossOver Games is available for download here on the CodeWeavers website.

CrossOver Games Support
The Guild Wars entry in CodeWeavers' Compatibility Center provides forums and reporting space where Guild Wars players can connect with each other and with CodeWeavers staff to provide feedback.

Current known issues include:
 * Windowed-fullscreen switching on MacOS doesn't show/remove the title bar.
 * Restoring from minimization does not work properly.
 * Arrow keys do not work, but WASD keys do.

Installation Guide

 * See also: http://www.codeweavers.com/via/guildwars/



Starting Crossover Games
After installing Crossover Games, you will find the CX menu in your "Applications" bar under the heading "CrossOver Games"

Installing Guild Wars
Select the "Install Windows Software" Option which will start up the CrossOver installation Wizard. In the Available applications to install you will see an entry for "Guild Wars". Select that and click on "Next"



Installation Options
The next menu will ask if you want the "Express" or "Advanced" Installation. We selected the Express Installation and should work without any problems for you.



Bottle Options
You should be faced with a menu asking you about bottles. Bottles are used to keep configurations of applications separate from other applications. Crossover Games should present an option to install Guild Wars in a new bottle called "win2000" Unless you know what you are doing, keep that selection and click on "Next"



Bottle Creation
CrossOver Games will now create the required bottle and setup the bottle for use with Guild Wars.



Guild Wars Installing
After a few seconds you should see the usual Guild Wars installation screen. The screen should ask you where you would like to install Guild Wars.The default option is "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars". It's best to keep it to that default and click on "Ok"



Guild Wars Installation Path
Guild Wars will now install itself into "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars" according to the settings given by downloading the required data from the Internet. Once the initial download is complete it will restart the Guild Wars application and start the actual data download. below you will find a screenshot of what looks like. Once you reach this point you can either leave the installation to download the minimum required files to start the game, or if you have a complete Gw.dat file you can cancel the download at this point.

If you Cancel the installation at this point you can continue downloading the required data at a later time, or you can copy a complete Gw.dat file into the Guild Wars installation directory. If you followed the default options when installing Guild Wars you should find the directory to copy your Gw.dat file at

/home/$USER/.cxgames/win2000/drive_c/Program Files/Guild Wars

If you are on OS X, the default path will be

/Users/$USER/Library/Application\ Support/CrossOver\ Games/Bottles/win2000/drive_c/Program\ Files/Guild\ Wars



Installation Finished
Whether you wait for the installation to download all files or whether you cancelled the installation at the download point you will end the installation.



Crossover has created a new menu option for starting Guild Wars in your start menu. If you look under "Applications" you will find a option called "Windows Games" under which there is Guild Wars and finally an Guild Wars icon. Clicking this will start Guild Wars.



Boxset Installation
This installation guide does not work with boxset DVD's. At a latest stage I'll redo an installation with DVD's and see how well it works and if it's a viable installation method, I will document it here and at the codeweavers compatibility website.

Gw.dat file
It is recommended to have a complete Gw.dat file backed up before installing to make the installation a lot quicker. Once the first part of the installation is complete copying the Gw.dat file to the desired location explained above will result in a complete installation and starting Guild Wars will work as expected.

Anti Aliasing
As far as I know, Anti Aliasing is not supported in 3D Directly in Wine's implementation of DirectX. This however does not mean you cannot have anti-aliasing in games. It is possible with nvidia cards, as I have not tested ATI or any other cards, using the nvidia-settings application.

Running Guild Wars from command line
The easiest to start Guild Wars in CrossOver using the command line options is as follows

"/opt/cxgames/bin/wine" --bottle "win2000" --check --wait-children \ --start "c:/windows/profiles/All Users/Start Menu/Programs/Guild Wars/Guild Wars.lnk"

You can add the -image tag on command line as well in the following example

"/opt/cxgames/bin/wine" --bottle "win2000" --check --wait-children \ --start "c:/windows/profiles/All Users/Start Menu/Programs/Guild Wars/Guild Wars.lnk" -image

You can also use all ther command line options this way. For more information on command line options of Guild Wars see Command line arguments