NOTE: Guild Wars usually doesn't require any special settings to get working. The advice listed below is only for those who require help installing, running, or troubleshooting Guild Wars.
Installation:
Simply use the installer found at guildwars.com. Unzip the installer and run it using Wine:
WINEDEBUG=-all will stop the flood of fixme messages generated from normal use. If you require debugging, omit this option.
Troubleshooting:
Make sure 3D works in native applications before blaming Wine. Try glxgears, or a 3D game such as etracer or supertuxkart.
Use the latest version of Wine, at least 1.0. Type 'wine --version' to check.
Try different versions of Windows in winecfg, such as Windows XP and 98.
Under the winecfg Graphics tab, try experimenting with the window settings if you have window/resizing issues.
Turn off Compiz Fusion desktop effects.
"Guild Wars has encountered an unrecoverable graphics driver error and must terminate" (bug #12870) is caused by fglrx, not Wine.
If you are having graphics issues, use regedit to try some registry keys:
UseGLSL=disabled
DirectDrawRenderer=opengl
OffscreenRenderingMode=pbuffer or fbo
RenderTargetLockMode=auto
Appending these flags to the run command may help you:
-dx8 - Uses DirectX 8
-dsound - Uses DirectSound
-nosound - Disables sound
Warning
Using FBO as the ORM crashes with fglrx drivers
This is not a Wine bug, it is a fglrx bug. Please do not open a bug for this, it will just be closed.
See the fglrx bug for more details, or check the HOWTO for this app for a workaround.
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.
ArenaNet Error
by Jesse Green on Tuesday January 26th 2010, 18:37
The game when it first loads attempts to connect to the ArenaNet server, however, the game cannot seem to access the internet despite the fact that my internet connection is stable. Does anyone know how to let Wine utilize the internet?
Wine upgrade broke graphics
by Annigma on Monday January 25th 2010, 1:21
GW worked fine with Wine 1.0.1, except when changing windows to browser (FF), typing, e.g. search, then returning to GW caused keyboard not to work. Also some minor graphical glitches e.g. black cubes instead of objects.
Upgrading Wine to 1..1.37 caused GW graphics to become unstable: log in screen fine, but once logged in to character choice window, screen just a mass of coloured lines. Tried Win98 and WinXP: same problem. Emulating virtual desktop doesn't help. -noshaders doesn't help.
That's all I did to get this game to work. Here are the reasons why they differ or not including from the values everyone else gives:
a. A lot of the other keys are not necessary. As per this document,
wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys most of the other values are already default. For example:
PixelShaderMode enabled (default)
RenderTargetLockMode auto (default)
UseGLSL enabled (default)
b. My OffscreenRenderingMode was chosen to be backbuffer because it was the only thing that worked. As per the document in (a), the three values that this parameter can accept are fbo, pbuffer, and backbuffer. I tried fbo and it caused system lockups in full screen and program-reported errors in windowed mode. pbuffer worked, but the character slots after getting past the login screen were not being rendered correctly (as in they were rendered but rendered with something completely irrelevant). This leads me to believe that it would cause other rendering issues. Thus, left with only backbuffer, I tried it out and it worked.
Now, what could be done differently:
* I did not try UseGLSL as disabled. You can give that a shot, but enabled worked fine for me. Your mileage may vary.
I hope this helps someone somewhere in getting this game to work with fglrx. It seems the NVIDIA guys have it easier.
Mouse cursor vanishing
by GyB on Sunday December 13th 2009, 10:51
Has anyone else noticed the following: after 3-4 hours of (perfect, glitch-free) gameplay the mouse cursor has vanished. That was the only bug I encountered while playing the game so far.
Guild Wars Prevent Laggs
by Carsten Tewes on Wednesday November 18th 2009, 16:42
Just don't forget to install the d3dx9 package with winetricks: wiki.winehq.org/winetricks (I have installed corefonts and ie6, too, but I think, d3dx9 should do it alone xD )
I had terrible fps and a ping over 600ms before I installed it, after it all worked perfectly, no laggs, ping between 50 and 150ms good fps-rates.
GuildWars on Ubuntu 9.1 64bit
by Ratko on Wednesday October 28th 2009, 15:55
I am used PlayOnLinux 3.7 default GuildWars settings to install game, and use latest WINE to play. All plays perfect on HIGH settings. I have everything enabled. So far I did not have problem with my mouse pointer disappearing as I had with 32 bit Ubuntu 9.04
My video card is Nvidia 9800 gt and processor Intel 7200 and 4Gb RAM
Disappearing Cursor
by devosion on Wednesday October 14th 2009, 5:11
The game runs absolutely wonderful on my ubuntu machine, better than Vista, after tweaking the registry and the wine configuration. The only bug I couldn't work around is involving a disappearing mouse cursor after playing the game for an extended period of time, usually over 2 hours. The cursor does not reappear and I am forced to restart. Any workarounds or fixes?
Using Synaptic and Playonlinux only, Gold performance.
by Lanseril on Thursday September 10th 2009, 12:12
Ok, here's a quick howto on how i solved various problems with GW on wine.
Firstly, i am running a 64 bit machine. my graphics cards are 2x 8600 GT nvidia. This is for nvidia only. This is done under Debian Sid Unstable. Apply the appropraite changes if you are using another distro or version.
1) Install correct drivers. I decided to upgrade my debian Lenny to Sid, and using the sid repos and only synaptic, installed an nvidia kernel and nvidia-glx. It'll be much easier if you're on a clean install. Make sure you do not mix repos, but the non-free official repos for your own distribution. Also, if you want to enable antialiasing, install nvidia-settings, read step 10 for more information.
2) Install using playonlinux. The wine version i used to install was 1.1.10. Two executables should be available, "Guild Wars" and "Update Guild Wars"
3) Using playonlinux, go to tools->manage wine versions. Select 1.1.27 and install it. click on the applications tab. Select "Guild wars" and switch the version to 1.1.27. Select "Update Guild Wars" and make sure the version is 1.1.10, which it should be. Otherwise, change it to 1.1.10.
4) Guild wars may still have choppy graphics, if you are running on a 64 bit machine. Open synaptic and install nvidia-glx-ia32. This allows GW to run properly. GW may run on the first try without nvidia-glx-ia32 but on subsequent tries, it will fail, giving a message "Failed to initiate 3D..."
5) run "Update Guild Wars", this may take a while.
6a) In playonlinux, click on guild wars and configure this application. First, select configure Wine. set windows version to XP. Click on the graphics tab. Make sure Pixel Shader is enabled, allow window manager to decorate the windows and allow window manager to control the windows. Everything else should be deselected. Vertex Shader support is to be set to hardware.
6b) Next, select Registry Editor. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER->Software->Wine->Direct3D. If Direct3D is not there, right click and add new Key. Add the following strings
* UseGLSL=disabled
* DirectDrawRenderer=opengl
* OffscreenRenderingMode=fbo
* RenderTargetLockMode=auto
7) Do not run Guild Wars just yet. If you have compiz installed, right click on your fusion icon and select Window Manager->Metacity. Restart your computer. It is essential to restart after disabling compiz, not the other way round. Don't ask me why you need to restart the computer.
8) Once your computer starts, do not compiz or any compositing manager. Run playonlinux.
9) Check if Guild Wars run smoothly. Turn off shadows( and reflections until you are sure you can run them.).
10) Only do this if you believe your graphics card is capable of running antialiasing. After, installing nvidia-settings, run it. Do this by opening a terminal(not root) and typing nvidia-settings. Under antialiasing settings, set to Override and 2x/4x. I do not recommending exceeding 4x. Anisotropic settings should be off as well as texture sharpening. This replaces the method of adjusting antialiasing through the in game menu, which is unavailable to you.
11) Enjoy the game. If your game doesn't run smoothly, or doesn't run at all, move to step 12. Remember, each time you turn off compiz to play gw, restart your computer. Thi
12) check your xorg.conf file situated in /etc/X11. Go to the appropraite folder and type gedit xorg.conf. Make sure your BusID is stated under devices. an example of my xorg.conf device section. Make sure your driver is the right one, nvidia in this case.
You need to state the BusID especially if you are running SLi like me.
My screen section is as follows. Add the right options if necessary, do not copy this blindly. Obviously, the resolution is unnecessary and SLi is unnecessary if you only have one graphics card..
Make sure you backup your xorg.conf before doing any changes.
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BUGS IDENTIFIED
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-Black/transparent textures. This solved when i migrated to Sid and played using playonlinux. New players entering the area, or when changing armor, problem still happens, but this doesn't cause any performance issues and solves once you load the next area. This may also be seen as 'hair not loading properly' when someone removes helm, such that he looks bald. As long as the next area load with the person not having the helm on, it fixes by itself.
-Shadows. Shadows look odd, thus my instruction to disable it.
-Options. When changing graphics settings, there may be a slight pause or hang, unlike when running in windows. Wait till the new settings are loaded, just don't change the graphics settings so often.
These bugs are very minor and you may not notice them at all. Good luck with your installation and i hope this helps. The performance I must say is Platinum. Minor rendering issues but only occurs under certain conditions. Gameplay is unaffected.
Display Settings
by Guy on Tuesday August 18th 2009, 15:02
I was able to install Guild wars but when I try to run it X11 opens with a blank white screen and the sounds of the game are playing. When I looked at the terminal I saw this error message:
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found 800x600x32 @0! (NoRes)
I am not sure how to fix this, but this seems to be the only problem I have so far.
Guild Wars still crashes when it starts to download files
by Katja Laakso on Friday August 14th 2009, 5:32
I'm using Gentoo linux (x86) and wine version 1.1.27. When game starts to download additional files, it crashes with the error:
err:seh:raise_exception Exception frame is not in stack limits => unable to dispatch exception.
I get the same error if i add "-image" option to Gw.exe.
Also this same crashing occurs with wine 1.1.12, i haven't tried older versions though.
Hey. I am trying to get Guild Wars to work on my computer. It worked fine through windows, but since installing ubuntu (9.04) it hasn't worked through wine yet. I have had varying degrees of improvement, but right now it keeps stalling when trying to load into an area from a town... any ideas of what I could do? I changed registry keys (fbo vs. pbuffer makes it crash in different spots), downgraded graphics, tried different wine versions... I don't know what else to do.
I'm really new to ubuntu and wine, so yeah. I'm probably not including all the information I should be (because I don't really know it). Anyways.
(I didn't knnow if there was a specific place to post help comments--I didn't know how to post it, if I even could, under the "bugs" section...)
RE: Help? by Chad on
Wednesday August 5th 2009, 22:40
RE: Help? by Mirrakor on
Saturday August 8th 2009, 18:18
hey
by Frost on Saturday July 25th 2009, 12:51
What was not tested
I didn't install the game.
Additional Comments
I give gold cause of other users issues.
???
You Gold rate a game you could NOT install or play?
Dont put a gold rate to a game if it doenst install or run.
Should be a garbage rate in that case :)
RE: hey by Patrick J. Plante on
Monday July 27th 2009, 19:03
RE: hey by Rookrock on
Tuesday July 28th 2009, 5:40
RE: hey by Frost on
Wednesday July 29th 2009, 12:06
RE: hey by Frost on
Wednesday July 29th 2009, 12:08
Black textures on body
by Lanseril on Tuesday June 9th 2009, 16:26
Ok, not sure if anyone seen this, but below i saw someone posting similar, but i'm not sure if its exactly the same. Here are some screenshots.
I installed gw on a 1.0.1 version, and then upgraded to 1.1.22. I used all 4 of the edits to the registry, because of some minor texture glitch. At first, guild wars runs perfectly fine, i'd say faster than my vista even on antialiasing. Loading a new area, occasionally, body parts of some players, sometimes myself, may load as black, and remain black.
Making any change to the graphics setting, such as ticking vsync, will cause it to become normal again, till you load a new area.
FX 5600 issue?
by Nathan Halliwell on Monday June 8th 2009, 5:39
I've been playing around with Wine for a while but when i upgraded my graphics card from a Nvidia geforce 4 to a Nvidia FX 5600 i started getting frame rates from 60fps to 5 - 1fps. Can anyone help me fix it?
Character Stuck in Borlis Pass
by N C on Saturday June 6th 2009, 11:37
I updated to version 1.1.22 this morning - everything was going fine until I tried to enter the Borlis Pass mission outpost - where the client hanged.
I tried my other characters and couldn't get past the loading screen with any except one.
So I rolled-back to version 1.1.20 - now it appears I can log on to my other characters except the one that is stuck in Borlis Pass. It still hangs on the loading screen.
This character is now totally inaccessible and I am out of ideas, even though I am using a previous version of Wine.
Since 1.0.22 installer & some downloads fail
by Boo Radley on Sunday May 31st 2009, 5:46
Testing GW on Wine 1.0.22 - Installer fails unpacking data from the CD. If you copy over an install from another box, the game runs OK - except it finds "errors" in it's Gw.dat file and repairs them every time on startup.
Removing Gw.dat should force the App to re-download all these bits, but this fails in the same same way the installer does.
If you simply wait for the installer to repair the .dat every time, it runs fine. NOTE: You want a late-model NVIDIA driver though.
Guild Wars on post-1.1.20 versions
by JuPi on Saturday May 23rd 2009, 13:13
As experienced by other users, GW gets stuck at the startup window and never makes it to the login screen unless:
- Pixel shaders are disabled, or
- UseGLSL is set to enabled
That's in Ubuntu 8.04.2 32bits with 2.6.24-24-generic kernel, Radeon HD4830 with fglrx 9.3 (9.4 and 9.5 don't play nice with Wine for me).
1.1.22 also made GW go through the data file repair which takes a good 20 minutes. Mind you, I've only launched 1.1.22 twice to check the difference between UseGLSL enabled and disabled, before rolling abck to 1.1.20.
With UseGLSL on I get some glitches with textures, the most annoying one being armor pieces getting stretched across the screen (think of a warrior having boots made of rubber, pinning them on the gorund and running towards the other side of the map).
Some other textures get bland, the profession "icon" on enchantments are missing and a few colors are wrong.
Won't install
by Micheal Wilkinson on Saturday May 23rd 2009, 12:42
Ok, Running wine 1.1.22 on ubuntu 9.04 (32), Nvidia 8600 GT (using nvidia's own drivers)
Downloaded the client as per wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_on_Wine starts installing fine gets to a point with around 5745 files remaining to download, the window disappears.
Running in terminal provides a large number of fixme: messages and then one final /err:seh:raise_exception Exception frame is not in stack limits => unable to dispatch exception./ but that appears way before the crash.... anyone got any ideas
Game window is not displayed
by Peter on Friday May 15th 2009, 17:11
Guild Wars: Game window is not displayed wine 1.1.21
i start update ok but Game window is not displayed for set my login for enter in follow but not work for me
Guid War login screen
by Peter on Thursday April 9th 2009, 7:28
i have one problem i start normal guildwars on wine 1.1.17 this version my guildwars work normal
and update wine for wine 1.1.18 i dont see guildwars login screen
guild wars start but dont see login
screen help me plasee
no log-in window
by Will Wisp on Friday March 27th 2009, 9:28
hi,
after looking for an entry with the same problem and being unsuccessful, here my problem:
I am using the newest version of wine (1.1.17). My graphic card is a Radeon 9800Pro (128 Mb) and because my Linux doesn't work properly with the fglrx driver I am using the radeon one.
The blockiness of former wine versions is gone, but with this also the log-in fields at the log-in screen as well as any other buttons in the window (Options, closing etc.). The background window and sound are ok. The console window shows a warning message (even with debug -all 'flag'):
*********************************WARN_ONCE*********************************
File r300_vertprog.c function r300TranslateVertexShader line 1032
Ran out of temps, num temps 13, us 2
Does anybody know how to fix this? And is this responsible for not seeing the log-in fields?
I tried different windows versions (best seems 2000) and combinations in regedit (especially UseGLSL enabled/disabled, OffscreenRenderingMode pbuffer/fbo, Multisampling enabled/disabled), without being successful.
THis and 3DS MAX 7
by killpotts on Friday March 13th 2009, 3:35
After getting 3ds max 7 to work, this game no longer works. I get No screen. Not a black screen, NO SCREEN. I can hear the sound, it loads, but there is no window or game screen.
A couple of problems
by Steve Lewis on Tuesday March 10th 2009, 8:50
First I'd like to note that i've tried all of the troubleshooting options here, and none of them helped. Also, I'm using wine 1.0.1 and native linux 3d games work fine. I'm using an ATI Radeon HD GPU.
When I load guild wars with the "Allow Pixel Shader (if supported by hardware)" box checked, I get music and a flawless background, and I can access all of the items at the login menu, I just can't see them. I see just the background and a cursor flashing if I have one of the text boxes selected.
When I load guild wars without the pixel shading box checked, I can see all of the text boxes and items, but the background has a few white lines running through it. After I log in, I can see my characters fine, although some of the graphics in the background are a bit off. The smoke and fire look wrong, and certain things like that. Also, every time I log in my characters have different colored armor - as if I had changed the type of dye applied to it in game (and all of the pieces are 'dyed' the same color)
Finally, when I try to minimize or restore the program, it's as if it chops my desktop up into tiny bits... everything still functions as it should, except i can't see anything - it's all broken and I can't make anything out. The only way I can fix this is by finding the edge of the window by noticing where my cursor changes from the guild wars cursor to my chosen cursor, and clicking (presumably where the close button is). This closes the program without a hitch and I'm back staring at my desktop.
Nobody else seems to be having serious problems like this, so I'm left assuming that I have done something wrong.
RE: help by Hew McLachlan on
Saturday March 7th 2009, 21:53
guild wars running kind of slow
by josh hanley on Thursday February 26th 2009, 17:20
guild wars is running kind of slow and every once and a while it laggs really bad for a couple seconds. my fps is 18 and my average ping is 301. i already put all the graphic settings to the lowest they can go. i dont know what else to do?
"Let me first say, I am spankin' new to Ubuntu, but am loving it so far...except for some video problems.
System specs:
Asus A8V-XE mobo
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
2x 512 Mb of PC3200 ddr ram
ATI x1650 vid card
There was a pretty slick auto update for the vid card, it downloaded and installed everything for the x1650, along with the user interface right from ATI. After I got wine and Guildwars all set up, it seemed to work, but my FPS was hovering around 20 on Guildwars; I pretty much gave up on Guildwars after many hours of forum searching, I think it's my hardware.
My problem is still this though, Whenever I had Guildwars up and I would click anywhere within the game, the wine window underneath would flash...every time I would click. It's doing the same thing for the visualizations on the Rhythmbox music player. I bring up the menu to change the visualization and can only see what DOESN'T come up over the actual visualization and if I click anywhere on the visualization I can see the music player underneath it, just like Guild wars.
What's going on?"
I've since re-upped my efforts to get Guildwars up and running. Help?
1.1.12 better than 1.1.13
by Shader on Monday January 19th 2009, 9:08
When I upgraded to 1.1.13 there were some new problems with textures... So I downgraded to 1.1.12. I'm not posting test results for 1.1.13 since I didn't test playing, it was just the errors in character select section. So if there is anyone experiencing graphic problems on 1.1.13, I would suggest them to downgrade to 1.1.12.
Black Screen on Load
by Jeff Hoogland on Wednesday December 10th 2008, 18:50
So installing works fine but when ever I try to load the game itself all I get is a black screen with the cursor... Any ideas what I can do to make this work?
