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Agnostic

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2007

Impenetrable Mountain Fortress

I Spank For [EcTo]

A/

07 Feb 2012 at 02:51 - 41

I noticed that in your video you were using uMod. I'm interested in it because it allows for the use of command line arguments.
I tried to get it to work, and you were right in your post in the uMod thread. It is a little tricky to get up and running.
I got uMod itself running, but I don't see any changes when I hit the update button. I've been trying to get IGMM (All).tpf and Cartography Made Easy Complete Collection.tpf and so far no luck. Have you been able to get anything going with this thing?

Redd Rathe

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2011

The Redd Guild

N/

09 Feb 2012 at 05:57 - 42

You are a genius, you beautiful person you. I thought my Guild Wars gaming days were over when my laptop imploded and I learned that I would only have extremely limited access to a Windows computer, but nearly unlimited access to a Mac. But thanks to you and this Guild Wars client, which was extremely easy to install by the way, I can fill out my Hall of Monuments and have buttloads of Guild Wars fun, all on a Mac. You ever see me in-game (IGN: Redd Rathe), hit me up for some free stuff. :P

K A O S Theory

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2011

California

The Royal Dragon Riders [TRDR]

D/A

10 Feb 2012 at 00:44 - 43

Quote:

Originally Posted by Agnostic

I noticed that in your video you were using uMod. I'm interested in it because it allows for the use of command line arguments.
I tried to get it to work, and you were right in your post in the uMod thread. It is a little tricky to get up and running.
I got uMod itself running, but I don't see any changes when I hit the update button. I've been trying to get IGMM (All).tpf and Cartography Made Easy Complete Collection.tpf and so far no luck. Have you been able to get anything going with this thing?

Not that I remember, it just does not want to cooperate due to it using hooks to get into the game. It's the same thing with GwDressUp, and a zone timer that my guild is working on. I have been looking into it, but from here, I don't know if theres a way to get it to work.

Still, I have had some random successful runs, so I believe it is entirely possible. I'll keep you posted.

Gabriel of Ravn

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2010

Virginia

None, retired to GW2.

W/A

26 Feb 2012 at 00:41 - 44

Works great thanks for this got a MacBook Pro last week to work on some projects I have going on the side was getting really annoyed switching laptops to play games.

RAIC

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Mar 2012

Knights of the Keyboard Order[KkO]

R/E

01 Mar 2012 at 13:04 - 45

I can't seem to get this to work. I can only run it once, every subsequent run the icon just jumps up and down on the tray and freezes after a while, without starting anything. I installed version 1.2 three times now. First time it loaded the files but I got a black login screen. Second time, I put the "-image" command in wineskin. Downloading took ages and I was asleep when it finished, but as fas as I can tell, it never started after loading all those files. Third try got me to the loginscreen, but I wanted to make sure I can run it more then once, so I quit to check it out and turns out it doesn't. I refreshed the wrapper several times during the second and third try, no result whatsoever.
I'm certain my MBP is capable of running it, so that shouldn't be an issue.

I will try the 1.3 beta now, but I'm hoping you might have some sollution, as I have no other idea how to get this working.

K A O S Theory

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2011

California

The Royal Dragon Riders [TRDR]

D/A

01 Mar 2012 at 23:24 - 46

Quote:

Originally Posted by RAIC

I can't seem to get this to work. I can only run it once, every subsequent run the icon just jumps up and down on the tray and freezes after a while, without starting anything. I installed version 1.2 three times now. First time it loaded the files but I got a black login screen. Second time, I put the "-image" command in wineskin. Downloading took ages and I was asleep when it finished, but as fas as I can tell, it never started after loading all those files. Third try got me to the loginscreen, but I wanted to make sure I can run it more then once, so I quit to check it out and turns out it doesn't. I refreshed the wrapper several times during the second and third try, no result whatsoever.
I'm certain my MBP is capable of running it, so that shouldn't be an issue.

I will try the 1.3 beta now, but I'm hoping you might have some sollution, as I have no other idea how to get this working.

The client can take an unusually long time to start up in certain cases, you must be patient. Also, black screens can be an issue when this happens. If this happens consecutively, right click the app >wineskin.app> advanced > tools >refresh wrapper.

Also, you know that the -image command will not run the game if it is in there, it will just download all the files, once that is done, and you start up the game with the flag added, the client will do nothing. This is true for PC as well.

Tell me if it works out.

RAIC

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Mar 2012

Knights of the Keyboard Order[KkO]

R/E

06 Mar 2012 at 16:44 - 47

I might have not been clear about it in my previous post, but the first time it starts up immediately with the grey loading window. The second time the icon just bounces a while on the dock and then stops, without actually activating. So it isn't so much a long loading problem, but that it doesn't load at all. The only option is to force quit it. Refreshing the wrapper didn't change anything.

I have, however, found a work-around: Instead of just starting the guildwars app, you need to rightclick>show package contents>open wineskin>advanced>Test Run (debug mode)
Refreshing the wrapper might be neccesairy, but I haven't tested it without refreshing it first.

Way2dead

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2010

Me/

08 Mar 2012 at 18:20 - 48

after reinstall not able to run it without letting it freeze my macbook totally after 1-2 mins. not sure if i have a newer version than before.

K A O S Theory

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2011

California

The Royal Dragon Riders [TRDR]

D/A

10 Mar 2012 at 01:52 - 49

Quote:

Originally Posted by RAIC

I might have not been clear about it in my previous post, but the first time it starts up immediately with the grey loading window. The second time the icon just bounces a while on the dock and then stops, without actually activating. So it isn't so much a long loading problem, but that it doesn't load at all. The only option is to force quit it. Refreshing the wrapper didn't change anything.

I have, however, found a work-around: Instead of just starting the guildwars app, you need to rightclick>show package contents>open wineskin>advanced>Test Run (debug mode)
Refreshing the wrapper might be neccesairy, but I haven't tested it without refreshing it first.

Hmm, what mac os are you running? I have had a problem when it would just show a black screen and never boot up, and that it wont show at all. But refreshing the wrapper then trying again always fixes it for me. Sorry I can't say more.

Way2dead

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2010

Me/

10 Mar 2012 at 08:25 - 50

tried that too, no.thing changed. Im running 10.6.8. think i had the 1.2 when i had it at first, will just try that, but the new beta doesn't work for me.

RAIC

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Mar 2012

Knights of the Keyboard Order[KkO]

R/E

14 Mar 2012 at 18:46 - 51

Quote:

Originally Posted by K A O S Theory

Hmm, what mac os are you running? I have had a problem when it would just show a black screen and never boot up, and that it wont show at all. But refreshing the wrapper then trying again always fixes it for me. Sorry I can't say more.

I'm running OS x 10.5.8
But like I said, I found a way around it that works, so it's fine for me. Posted it, because others might have the same problem I had.

K A O S Theory

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2011

California

The Royal Dragon Riders [TRDR]

D/A

19 Mar 2012 at 04:09 - 52

New version 1.4 will be up momentarily.

This new version has Wine 1.4 installed into it. So far it has made my game more stable and less buggy, with the anti-aliasing enabled. However, I can't see everything, so please post anything that seems out of place whether graphics, audio, or control wise.

Also, the file size for this one is considerably larger than previous versions, because of this I have gone back to mediafire for downloading.

Metz

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Mar 2012

24 Mar 2012 at 02:41 - 53

I'm having a graphic rendering problem with the newest release, I get the following screen whenever I attempt to open guild wars. The Opening Music plays. I've tried refreshing the wrapper. There is no effect.

MacBook Pro
2.4 GHz Intel Core i5
4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB
Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2

K A O S Theory

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2011

California

The Royal Dragon Riders [TRDR]

D/A

28 Mar 2012 at 02:44 - 54

New version up, 1.5 uses Wine v1.5, in the updates itself it says "Fixed Texture Corruption in Guild Wars", which may or may not be the majority of the problems people are facing.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Metz

I'm having a graphic rendering problem with the newest release, I get the following screen whenever I attempt to open guild wars. The Opening Music plays. I've tried refreshing the wrapper. There is no effect.

http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/7...hicsissues.png

MacBook Pro
2.4 GHz Intel Core i5
4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB
Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2

Wow thats different haha, try the new release and see if that helps at all. If not, run the game in Test Run (Debug Mode) found in the wineskins.app. And post up the run log when you are done.

Metz

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Mar 2012

28 Mar 2012 at 21:13 - 55

Installed newest version. Screen looks the same. I ran it in debug mode, below are both of the Logs.

LastRunWine.log

LastRunX11.log

K A O S Theory

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2011

California

The Royal Dragon Riders [TRDR]

D/A

29 Mar 2012 at 03:25 - 56

Quote:

Originally Posted by Metz

Installed newest version. Screen looks the same. I ran it in debug mode, below are both of the Logs.

LastRunWine.log

LastRunX11.log

So far it seems that there is a problem with OpenGL on your computer. My best guess is it being your Intel Graphics Card, they're known to be a bit flakey when it comes to gaming.

I don't have the time to look into it further at the moment. But try using my 1.2 version, it has various graphical options turned off, it might be the best place to start at the moment.

Also, I'm thinking of making a video on how to make the wrapper yourself, so that the wrapper itself can be better tailored to your specific machine.

Metz

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Mar 2012

29 Mar 2012 at 04:17 - 57

The intel graphics card was my initial thought as well. However, I booted into Windows and the game ran smoothly. Maybe the difference is with the driver installed via bootcamp,but at the very least it doesn't seem to be a hardware issue.

I'm going to run a full system update and see if that could fix any of the problems.

EDIT: I ran a system update and that seemed to fix the problem. If you are having the same issue I did, make sure you upgrade to OSX 10.7.3 since it contains an OpenGL update from 10.7.2

Wika Sham

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2006

PA

The Black Parades [?????????]

Mo/Me

30 Mar 2012 at 06:06 - 58

Just a little bit of input, been having the same problems Metz has been having, screen will blink and freak out and cause my computer to freeze..

Metz

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Mar 2012

31 Mar 2012 at 05:38 - 59

What Graphics Card/Version of OSX? I fixed my problem by upgrading to the most recent version of OSX. Also, try using the -diag switch in the command line on wineskin since it will run the GW diagnostic utility which should tell you if it's capable of being run. (I'm not sure how it would work on a Mac via wineskins, but it's worth a try)

secretkillerofnames

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Apr 2012

07 Apr 2012 at 06:21 - 60

Heya

Thinking of returning. I've had GW running fine in Bootcamp before. Wanted to try in OSX but i've only got 10.6.8 and there is no point me upgrading to Lion until I get a new Macbook Pro. Can I get some confirmation will the 1.5 version work with 10.6.8?

chrs
Lloyd

K A O S Theory

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2011

California

The Royal Dragon Riders [TRDR]

D/A

08 Apr 2012 at 05:34 - 61

Quote:

Originally Posted by secretkillerofnames

Heya

Thinking of returning. I've had GW running fine in Bootcamp before. Wanted to try in OSX but i've only got 10.6.8 and there is no point me upgrading to Lion until I get a new Macbook Pro. Can I get some confirmation will the 1.5 version work with 10.6.8?

chrs
Lloyd

It should work fine with 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. I cant say for sure though, I dont have a mac on Snow Leopard.

Metz

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Mar 2012

08 Apr 2012 at 21:50 - 62

What are your system specs?

secretkillerofnames

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Apr 2012

09 Apr 2012 at 10:53 - 63

Quote:

Originally Posted by Metz

What are your system specs?

I have:

2010 MacMini
2.4ghz Core 2 Duo
4gb ddr3 1067MHz
Nvidia 320M 256mb

and
2008 Macbook Pro
2.5ghz Core 2 Duo
4gb ddr2 667mhz
Nvidia 8600M GT 512mb

I'm gonna try it out with a trial account.

Elysium Shall Burn

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Feb 2008

England

SCAR

A/

12 Apr 2012 at 21:23 - 64

Hiya, I want to get a more detailed install guide. I just bought an Imac and I want to get guild wars running on it. I downloaded the 1.5 edition, double-clicked and dragged the file to applications. It started loading fine, did the client download and went to launch. But I just got a black screen with the music in the background. Any help with how to sort this? Im trying other versions as im typing

Specs:

Intel core duo 2 - 3.06ghz
4 GB Ram
Geforce 9400M 256mb
OS 10.6.8

Any help would be appreciated

EDIT: Downloaded version 1.4 and it is running now.
Just downloading files for ToA.

Southbark

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Apr 2012

13 Apr 2012 at 07:33 - 65

Will this work with GW2. I just found this thread on google and have not played guild wars for a few years due to my switch to Mac. Want to get back in to it with Guild war 2 wanted to know if this will work for that or will I have to wait and see

K A O S Theory

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2011

California

The Royal Dragon Riders [TRDR]

D/A

13 Apr 2012 at 09:42 - 66

Quote:

Originally Posted by Southbark

Will this work with GW2. I just found this thread on google and have not played guild wars for a few years due to my switch to Mac. Want to get back in to it with Guild war 2 wanted to know if this will work for that or will I have to wait and see

I can't give a definitive answer to that as I dont have the GW2 client yet. However, It is most likely that it WILL work. We will just have to wait and see.

rathlord

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Apr 2012

15 Apr 2012 at 18:15 - 67

Well I just tried the 1.5 link, all i got was a bouncing icon and an entirely locked up computer- couldn't even forcequit. I'm going to go back and try some older ones. I'm using 10.5.8, on an old aluminum unibody Macbook. I did get the guild wars downloader popup for about 5 seconds, but then it just freezes. Tried several times.

I found it odd that the v1.5 link was only 3 mB, and 1.4 which I just downloaded (about to try) was several hundred.

Edit: Opening in debug mode is working better so far. It sems to be correctly downloading the files rather than just crashing my computer repeatedly. Will update when it finishes.

What will I be missing if I use v1.4 instead of v1.5?

K A O S Theory

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2011

California

The Royal Dragon Riders [TRDR]

D/A

16 Apr 2012 at 00:43 - 68

Quote:

Originally Posted by rathlord

Well I just tried the 1.5 link, all i got was a bouncing icon and an entirely locked up computer- couldn't even forcequit. I'm going to go back and try some older ones. I'm using 10.5.8, on an old aluminum unibody Macbook. I did get the guild wars downloader popup for about 5 seconds, but then it just freezes. Tried several times.

I found it odd that the v1.5 link was only 3 mB, and 1.4 which I just downloaded (about to try) was several hundred.

Edit: Opening in debug mode is working better so far. It sems to be correctly downloading the files rather than just crashing my computer repeatedly. Will update when it finishes.

What will I be missing if I use v1.4 instead of v1.5?

Not a lot, 1.5 has found to work more smoothly on later systems, but if it isnt working at all, I doubt you care about it.

EDIT: The 1.5 link was 3mb? It should be around 100MB, thats odd, let me look into it.

drchrono

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Apr 2012

A/

23 Apr 2012 at 03:49 - 69

Hey K A O S Theory,
Is there anyway to fully install all maps & such like you would do if you were playing on Windows? Aka adding "-image" to the end of the name in properties. Much thanks guy.

K A O S Theory

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2011

California

The Royal Dragon Riders [TRDR]

D/A

23 Apr 2012 at 22:48 - 70

Quote:

Originally Posted by drchrono

Hey K A O S Theory,
Is there anyway to fully install all maps & such like you would do if you were playing on Windows? Aka adding "-image" to the end of the name in properties. Much thanks guy.

For the Image command:
Go the app,right click, open package contents, then you want to hit the wineskins app, go advanced, and in EXE flags, put -image. Run the app, take it out when done.

drchrono

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Apr 2012

A/

24 Apr 2012 at 17:17 - 71

Much thanks K A O S Theory for your help as well as this unreal client! See you in GW and in GW2.

Net The Nabi

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2008

USA/NJ/EST

[LoD] IGN: The Netnabi

A/

25 Apr 2012 at 01:56 - 72

Just wanted to thank you so much if this works. It appears to be working fine so far but I did have to uninstall and reinstall it once before the visuals worked. O just bought the parts to a new PC and the PSU was DOA so until I can get it fixed/another one(which will be a while it seems) I need a place to play and my mactop pro is the best place. <3<3<3<3

King of kill3rs

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jun 2012

Dead

N/Rt

22 Jun 2012 at 04:16 - 73

I opened it and now the screen is black the pointer is showing and I can hear the music butnidk how to close it or anything

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Nvm it worked

King of kill3rs

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jun 2012

Dead

N/Rt

22 Jun 2012 at 09:02 - 74

Actually how do I right click on there and move my screen around?

King of kill3rs

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jun 2012

Dead

N/Rt

27 Jun 2012 at 16:18 - 75

how do you use texmod with this program when i try to open it it goes to some text

x1Drewx

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Aug 2012

02 Aug 2012 at 05:16 - 76

Hey I just wanted to say on behalf of everyone who downloaded this client... THANK YOU!
It works amazing and I have no lag over 100fps on my new mac, thank you so much, and I just created an account on this site to formally thank you for what you have given us. I have no quarrels with it, and I was looking in how to do a wine of it myself, however I stumbled upon this, and reading several of the comments it seemed that you were not getting the credit you deserve, so once again thank you for a beautiful port of GW.

K A O S Theory

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2011

California

The Royal Dragon Riders [TRDR]

D/A

02 Aug 2012 at 08:51 - 77

Quote:

Originally Posted by x1Drewx

Hey I just wanted to say on behalf of everyone who downloaded this client... THANK YOU!
It works amazing and I have no lag over 100fps on my new mac, thank you so much, and I just created an account on this site to formally thank you for what you have given us. I have no quarrels with it, and I was looking in how to do a wine of it myself, however I stumbled upon this, and reading several of the comments it seemed that you were not getting the credit you deserve, so once again thank you for a beautiful port of GW.

hah thanks, thats going on OP haha.

Swarz

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Aug 2012

Portugal

Here Comes Trouble [HUGS]

E/W

09 Aug 2012 at 01:31 - 78

hi,

are there any improvements in the ping and fps from 1.4 to 1.5? i downloaded and tried 1.4 a while ago (couldn't download 1.5 no matter what at that time; only now was it possible to download) and there are some breaks while playing.

lmnt2388

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Aug 2012

16 Aug 2012 at 22:21 - 79

Hello! So I just recently found out about Guild Wars from a friend and wanted to give it a shot on my mac. I made an ncsoft account and wanted to just give the trial a shot before I purchase the game. So I loaded your client, everything starts up, works great. However, when I go to login, I put in my account name and password, and every single time, it always tells me that my password is incorrect. BUT, I know for a fact that my password is being typed in correctly. So I was just wondering if this client just does not work with trial accounts or if something else is wrong. Thanks!

K A O S Theory

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2011

California

The Royal Dragon Riders [TRDR]

D/A

21 Aug 2012 at 03:15 - 80

Quote:

Originally Posted by lmnt2388

Hello! So I just recently found out about Guild Wars from a friend and wanted to give it a shot on my mac. I made an ncsoft account and wanted to just give the trial a shot before I purchase the game. So I loaded your client, everything starts up, works great. However, when I go to login, I put in my account name and password, and every single time, it always tells me that my password is incorrect. BUT, I know for a fact that my password is being typed in correctly. So I was just wondering if this client just does not work with trial accounts or if something else is wrong. Thanks!

That would be an account issue, the client would have nothing to do with that no matter what client it is. I would make sure you are typing it right, which it soaunds that you are, and make sure you havent linked the same account to Guild Wars 2. When I did, it changed my Guild Wars password to my Guild Wars 2 password. Also, the ncsoft account is NOT your guild wars account, so make sure you are not using your NCsoft account to log in.