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[edit] Wine 0.9.49

Before, main window would not show up but sounds still playing. Starting with a new Gw.dat has fixed that. I do not know wich wine or gw screw up the .dat file, but now i belive the direction on the article using wine 0.9.49 should work "out of the box". The only glitch i found during mission and RA play are:

  • Cursor still disapear some time after loading, moving the view around fix that.
  • Loading background image are some time black, while the rest of the ui(name of area, progress bar) are ok.
  • Shader on some armor get screwed up, they render all black or too shiny.
  • Others randoms glitchs on the scene. (But i get some on ms-windows too)
  • Window manager key; key bind to switch desktop, raise window, .. get in the way. Wine need to trap keyboard when in full screen or the window manager faild to honour the x11 hint.

Test was done using Ubuntu 7.10 with Compiz enabled and current GuildWars at the time of writing.

Failure to grab "all" keyboard in fullscreen create interesting effect. Image show Guildwars runing on desktop 1 and Gimp taking a screenshot on desktop 2:

--Bob 08:59, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wine 0.9.50, 51, 52

  • Cursor bug is fixed for the past 3 version
  • Load screen background image are ok
  • The window manager issue are fixed by disabling "Allow the window manager to control the windows"
  • Good result, very playable.

--Bob 19:46, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wine 1.1.2

Question: Tried disabling “Allow the Window Manager to control the windows” and I was unable to get GW to take the keyboard focus. Any idea if there is some other knob that I need to tweak to make that work? Anyone run into this? 76.17.47.152 03:47, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cannot get it working

I've tried all things you wrote, but I still cant manage to get GW running. It downloads all files, and starts the "main" window, but then the box goes all black. When I try to close GW I get the message that "This application is not responding", so I terminate it. When I try with Win98 and/or -dx8 I get the "graphics error" message. Any Ideas?

What video card are you using? Do you have the propre driver running? Also what the commnad glxinfo | grep vendor return? --Bob 12:07, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
I've exactly the same Issue. My graphic card is an ATI RADEON HD3850. Cyrgui78 - 08 Mars 2008
It's a pain to get most Direct3D applications to work under wine if you've got an ATI card, in some cases impossible. I haven't managed myself yet with recompiles, bug-reports, down-grading, etc. The last time I was able to play GW under Wine (actually that was on cedega, but it uses wine so same thing really) was before the SF-patch. Their drivers have been getting better since AMD bought ATI though, so I'm willing to bet it's just a matter of time. — Galil Talk page 03:23, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
I've been having issues getting Guild Wars to run under WINE myself (I'm using an ATI 9550 graphics card). I wonder if there is a DirectX-"clone" that's open source (HA!) besides OpenGL. I even tried to update my ATI drivers, but they slow my computer down tremendously, too. Quite annoying, really. I haven't tried doing much else game-wise with my Ubuntu install, either, but I honestly want to play Guild Wars, to be honest. :-/--JupiterStarWarriorTalk 03:05, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] GW on Wine on Mac?

I've looked all over the place, but is there any guide/information on getting GW to run on wine on a Mac? I'd love not to have to boot up Windows every time I want to play, but I can't seem to find any solid information anywhere. Kokuou 04:31, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Should work out-of-the-box on Intel Macs. It won't work at all on old PowerPCs. I don't have any information about a guide, but feel free to add anything you find to this article! —Tanaric 19:39, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
I expect you'll need to install an X server first, though. There should be guides on that topic -- maybe Fink has it pre-compiled? —Tanaric 19:40, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
Well, considering I'm fairly new to Macs (and even newer to the whole Wine/programming-thing), there's not much I'd be able to add, I'm afraid. If anyone knows of any information (preferably guide-like), though, I can certainly test it out and add any results to the article! :D Kokuou 00:27, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
This page could be a good starter, but getting wine to run in OSX isn't quite as easy for big applications. In some cases you need another X server than apple's (x.org). That page has the "current status" though, so you can keep track of their progress: http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX — Galil Talk page 03:29, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Apparently there's some issues with the os x builds of darwine and x11/gl. I haven't been able to get this to work on the mac yet, but it works great under linux... 71.146.90.229 06:06, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cann't connect to Arena Net

This is an issue I keep having with Guild Wars under the latest wine (.57). I get an error that won't let me connect to the game at times. I am guessing it's a port/firewall thing, but it has connected before.

I've seen this too, occasionally. Not sure why, but if I keep trying, it eventually connects. 71.146.90.229 06:07, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ubuntu

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=283122 has a script that sets up most of what you need automatically, it worked great for me. --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:24.167.239.71 (talk).

[edit] Wine 0.9.59

I'm using Kubuntu Gutsy and my Wine version is 0.9.59. Seems like the current wine disabled ctrl, alt and shift key. Anyone can confirm this? Previous version didn't have any problem though. Greenery 16:29, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

I will try tonight. --Bob 22:51, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Fixed in Wine 0.9.60 :) turn off compiz/beryl. And error is reported. Dominator Matrix 22:52, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Woot a new wine to build! --Bob 22:59, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
I don't use compiz/beryl and I haven't tested Wine 0.9.60, but from the bug 12610 the latest Wine (0.9.60) still has this problem. Greenery 13:10, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
The key work, it just that your window manager might capture them to do special action. On my setting Alt+Right click pop a window placement menu. --Bob 20:49, 20 April 2008 (UTC)


Installs perfectly, loads and runs well in windowed mode and is fully playable. This was in Kubuntu 8.04 on nvidia 9600. Have some problems switching back and forth between full screen and windowed mode. --Staun 18:14, 20 May 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Wine 0.9.60

Using the new graphic option in winecfg, "Allow the window manager to decorate the windows" OFF and "Allow the window manager to control the windows" ON it is posible to switch from full screen to windowing without screwing up the Gw.exe window. Going to windowing from full screen wont restore the desktop resolution tho. --Bob 20:53, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ubuntu 8.04

If you pick on that newly released version you may notice some change in wine usage. Ubuntu now protect the first 64k of adress space by default. As a result wine output some: 
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 00000000-00010000
Guildwars seem to run just fine with that change. But if that ever becoming a problme to you, you can test: 
sudo sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=0
If that improve gw on wine you can make it permanent by editing slash-etc-slash-sysctl.conf; locate 
# protect bottom 64k of memory from mmap to prevent NULL-dereference

# attacks against potential future kernel security vulnerabilities.
# (Added in kernel 2.6.23.)


vm.mmap_min_addr = 65536
and set vm.mmap_min_addr = 0

--Bob 22:35, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

You need to do this in the new Fedora Core 9 as well. --Valshia 18:10, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] whine?

i totally laughed my ass off XD "Guild Wars on Whine" - sounds like GW on crack - Y0_ich_halt 16:22, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wine 0.9.61

This version probaly fix the Ctrl and Alt key problem some have reported. I had best result by disabling the WM to decorate the window and allow the WM to control the window. Without WM control Guildwar never get focus and no password can be entered. This also allow to switch windowing/fullscreen using the top right corner buttons.

Also, Wine will code freeze soon for the upcomming Wine 1.0. the first release canditate will be out around 9 May 2008 and actual 1.0 release ship in june. See the release plan for more information. --Bob 16:09, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fedora Core 9

The new Fedora Core 9 came out 2 weeks ago. There are a couple of issues to be noted. For reference, the official repositories currently use wine 0.9.58.

  • They shipped with a pre-release version of Xorg that needs to be downgraded to use 3D acceleration with Nvidia and ATI cards. For instructions: Nvidia/ATI.
  • Has the low memory protection issue also noted with Ubuntu. See that section above for workaround.
  • Running any wine program may cause a hard lock. [1][2] Workarounds are 1) edit out the lines from system.reg mentioned in the links or 2) wipe the ~/.wine directory and reinstall gw and anything else.

I hope this helps any FC9 uses having problems. --Valshia 18:50, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Nvidia shipped an updated driver with Xorg 1.5 support so it should work fine without downgrading. If you did downgrade there are instructions to reverse it. The Livna repository has the new driver too, so you should skip downloading from freshrmps if you use livna to avoid package conflicts. --Valshia 21:49, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] FreeBSD 7.0 and Wine 1.1.1

Just installed Guild Wars on my FreeBSD machine. Looks good, no serious problems detected. Bottleneck of gaming is performance - my system is low-end, and runs GW even on Windows XP not very smoothly. Never tried GW on Linux on my machine to compare it with FreeBSD's performance. So I can only recommend FreeBSD users to get faster computer or play at 9 FPS. Anyway, it is possible and no issues noticed in installation process and game.

One important thing - you should run GW with parameter -dx8, because Wine does not support DX9 atm. My own launch command is env WINEPREFIX="/home/de1m0s/.wine" wine "Z:\home\de1m0s\WinGames\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -dx8 -dsound. If you have any questions - please ask, I'll try to answer them. De1m0s 14:30, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

GW can run in dx9 since the 0.90 i think, and -dsound isent need anymore. That is why those flags are no longer part of the general Guild Wars on Wine guide. If you can, write a freebsd specific section. Here is a good start. --Bob 18:31, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
Without -dx8 there was no rendering, except for background color change. So I presume DX9 support is not full, anyway 1.1.1 is developer version now. About guide for FreeBSD - I'll write it after some heavy testing. De1m0s 19:11, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wine 1.1.3

I had serious rendering bug with this build. Hero window was transparent and party window disapear time to time. I tested this build as monk and the vanishing party window was not funny. I rolled back to 1.1.2 for nearly flawless playability. Looking forward for 1.1.4... --Bob 20:54, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

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