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Puddingbroodje

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2006

The Netherlands

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E/Mo

06 Jul 2008 at 10:57 - 1

I got a question about GW on Linux.
I want to install Ubuntu on my laptop, i know Guild Wars won't run on MAC or Linux so i want to try it through wine.

I don't know if this is possible and if it works, doesn't wine act like a third party program?

Fril Estelin

So Serious...

Join Date: Jan 2007

London

Nerfs Are [WHAK]

E/

06 Jul 2008 at 11:29 - 2

Quote:

Originally Posted by Puddingbroodje

I don't know if this is possible and if it works, doesn't wine act like a third party program?

Though I don't know for sure how GW will run on Wine, I can assure you that it's not considered a 3rd party program at all. It runs below Windows, so if you have a legit Windows, you're out of trouble.

Puddingbroodje

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2006

The Netherlands

Lovers of Whiskey and Women [LWW]

E/Mo

06 Jul 2008 at 12:06 - 3

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fril Estelin

Though I don't know for sure how GW will run on Wine, I can assure you that it's not considered a 3rd party program at all. It runs below Windows, so if you have a legit Windows, you're out of trouble.

i have a legit windows (Xp and Vista)

traeskapa

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2007

W/

06 Jul 2008 at 12:07 - 4

Well, running GW in linux works just fine, though I guess you need a GeForce card, because the ATI drivers are just plain crap.

I think there's an article about this on the official GW wiki, and an article in Wine's AppDB

Puddingbroodje

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2006

The Netherlands

Lovers of Whiskey and Women [LWW]

E/Mo

06 Jul 2008 at 17:50 - 5

so guild wars works fine under linxux without the use of wine?

got an 8800GT so that's not going to be a problem

@traeskapa:
i found a wiki page indeed:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_on_Wine
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Guild...on_Wine/Ubuntu
thx!

Miss Eisei

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2006

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Mo/

09 Jul 2008 at 00:15 - 6

If all your playing is GW i guess you can be "ok" with Wine
However if ur going fulltime linux and want to game more u might wanna look into Cedega
The new Cedega 6.1 is in Beta atm and has lots of new games and bugfixes making it worth the few bucks it costs to buy

i run Hardy/Cedega 6.0.5

Cuthroat Dibbler

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2006

UK

Lore School

Me/

09 Jul 2008 at 00:56 - 7

I have GW running in Wine 1.0 on Ubuntu 8.04 with no probs.
PC has the nVidia drivers *new* works lovely

MagicalHobo

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2007

Kindred Order of Souls [KOS]

D/

11 Jul 2008 at 06:22 - 8

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cuthroat Dibbler

I have GW running in Wine 1.0 on Ubuntu 8.04 with no probs.
PC has the nVidia drivers *new* works lovely

It also works well for me. I'm running Gentoo 2008.0 with the latest stable Nvidia drivers on Portage, using wine-0.9.61. The actual game gets slow at points, but I still need to do any tweaking.

It's easiest to just download the setup file from Anet's Guild Wars web site, install that, then copy the Gw.dat from your Windows installation if possible (if not, then try a -image or just download things as you go). Also, you do NOT need any sort of installation of Windows to run wine. The only thing a Windows installation would do for wine is provide DLLs to copy and use.

Lord Sojar

The Fallen One

Join Date: Dec 2005

Oblivion

Irrelevant

Mo/Me

11 Jul 2008 at 16:57 - 9

Wine is an excellent tool to use. However, your best bet would be to dual boot from XP/Vista for gaming, and use Linux for everything else.

Make sure you have updated kernel systems, as the old ones had that horrific key creation issue.

Rico the Spirited

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2008

Social Welfare Agency (Special Ops)

R/

15 Jul 2008 at 21:08 - 10

I've had success running Guild Wars in Wine. I love Wine. If they made a Wine plushie, I would buy it.

Rahja's right, though. I stopped running Guild Wars in Linux, instead setting up a dual boot system with Windows XP. (I have to swap between either operating system on a regular basis. It's easier for me just to dual boot the silly things.)

And in case you're wondering--I ran GW in Wine on my laptop with its little GeForce Go integrated whatever-number-it-is. While running Compiz Fusion. Here's a screenshot... so know that it works.