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NameGuild Wars
VersionAll Versions
License Retail
URLhttp://www.guildwars.com
Votes 153
RatingPlatinum
Wine Version1.5.25
Mac OSX 10.6 Snow...
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Description
The current version available for Guild Wars. Includes Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall, and Eye of the North.
Old test results
The test results you have selected are very old and may not represent the current state of Wine.
Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)

What works
Logging in Playing


What does not
Nothing so far


What was not tested
Buying from the shop


Additional Comments

nVidia binary driver 295.40
Linux 3.2.15

It 2600k/8gig ram/GTX570

Plays well.
Test Results
DistributionTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?RatingSubmitter
ShowUbuntu 12.04 "Precise" x86_64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Mar 05 20131.5.25 Yes Yes Platinum Tyrannis Hawk 
ShowUbuntu 13.04 "Raring" x86_64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Feb 05 20131.5.22 Yes Yes Bronze Sworddragon 
ShowUbuntu 12.10 "Quantal" x86_64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Jul 21 20121.5.9 Yes Yes Platinum Sworddragon 
ShowArch Linux x86_64May 01 20121.5.3 Yes Yes Platinum an anonymous user 
CurrentDebian GNU/Linux 7.0 "Wheezy" x86_64Apr 25 20121.5.2 Yes Yes Platinum Angus Hedger 

Known bugs
Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
5486 Mouse driver cannot load 32 bit cursors CLOSED FIXED View
6250 Mouse cursor is not visible CLOSED FIXED View
6383 Dual-core not being correctly supported CLOSED FIXED View
7049 No mouse in Guild Wars CLOSED DUPLICATE View
7050 No shaders in Guild Wars CLOSED FIXED View
7211 Wine does not correctly launch Guild Wars CLOSED FIXED View
7400 Guild Wars: Mouse Pointer becomes invisible CLOSED DUPLICATE View
7521 err:d3d:IWineD3DImpl_CheckDepthStencilMatch unsupported format pair CLOSED FIXED View
7670 No battle sounds in Guild Wars CLOSED FIXED View
7693 err:dsound:DSOUND_MixInBuffer CLOSED ABANDONED View
7965 Guild Wars locks up with "too many concurrently active lights" error CLOSED FIXED View
8010 Guild Wars pvp viewer freezes with the log-in screen CLOSED ABANDONED View
8299 Enabling Hardware Vertex Shaders crashes Guildwars on intel CLOSED FIXED View
9172 GuildWars no sound at all CLOSED ABANDONED View
9263 Guild Wars terribly slow CLOSED FIXED View
9659 Guild Wars: Rendering of 3D models broken CLOSED FIXED View
10020 Guild Wars install and update fails with 0.9.47 CLOSED FIXED View
10277 Uninstalling software does not remove them from Programs menu CLOSED FIXED View
10416 Guild Wars shines mispositioned CLOSED FIXED View
10826 Guild Wars: Directional character shadows are not rendered. CLOSED FIXED View
10831 Guild Wars: "Observe" menu does not display additional information about selected game CLOSED FIXED View
10893 Guildwars Minimize Bug NEW View
11007 Shadows of character selection boxes appearing in Guild Wars CLOSED ABANDONED View
11135 Guild Wars does not start CLOSED FIXED View
11663 Guild Wars seems to hang with intel X3100 CLOSED FIXED View
12610 Ctrl and Alt do not work in Guild Wars CLOSED FIXED View
12646 Guild Wars hang on : GUild Wars hang on this : err:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_SetLightEnable Too many concurrently active lights CLOSED FIXED View
12844 Very dark graphics in Mafia, Guild Wars, Sim City 4 on ATI cards CLOSED FIXED View
12870 Guild Wars doesn't start - Error Message: Graphic driver error CLOSED FIXED View
12929 Games crash/wined3d doesn't work with ATI's fglrx driver CLOSED FIXED View
13395 Guild wars not start CLOSED FIXED View
13550 Wrong textures being displayed at wrong places. CLOSED FIXED View
13772 Guild Wars can be launched once out of 10 and no background in the game CLOSED ABANDONED View
13906 Guild Wars crashes on startup, before rendering scene CLOSED FIXED View
14094 Guild Wars crashes after patch screen with pbuffer CLOSED ABANDONED View
14433 GuildWars 3D rendering broken REOPENED View
14474 Mouse glitches in Guild Wars CLOSED INVALID View
14761 Wine does not support DRM content CLOSED ABANDONED View
14989 guildwars crashes when OffscreenRenderingMode is set pbuffer CLOSED DUPLICATE View
15041 Guild Wars: Typing into Char Fields CLOSED FIXED View
15069 Apps won't minimize and extra caption bar shows CLOSED FIXED View
15280 After minimizing Guild Wars and restoring, the mouse is not respondig correctly CLOSED FIXED View
16486 Apps not restoring correctly after minimizing twice CLOSED DUPLICATE View
16783 Guild Wars: Game window is not displayed NEW View
16988 Guild Wars - 'blocky' graphics CLOSED FIXED View
18675 GuildWars tries to repair the data archive on every start. CLOSED FIXED View
18794 Using FBO as the ORM crashes with (broken) fglrx drivers - not a Wine bug CLOSED INVALID View
18839 Installation crash Guild Wars CLOSED DUPLICATE View
18937 Guildwars fails to Install / Download content CLOSED INVALID View
19582 Guild Wars -- Crash on "patch" screens CLOSED FIXED View
19853 Texture corruption in guild war with fglrx 9.8 CLOSED FIXED View
22023 Incorrect rendering on OpenSolaris CLOSED DUPLICATE View
26490 Guild Wars: Black graphics in the Eye of the North addon CLOSED INVALID View
26499 Guild Wars: Maximizing the game from desktop panel needs lot of time CLOSED INVALID View
29118 Guild Wars: Texture is corrupted on some trees UNCONFIRMED View
29350 Ground Control II: opaque water CLOSED FIXED View
29872 Guild Wars: Character graphic is corrupted UNCONFIRMED View
29873 Guild Wars: Water graphic is missing CLOSED FIXED View
29874 Guild Wars: Freezes especially in Eye of the North CLOSED INVALID View
32060 Guild Wars: Input gets stuck UNCONFIRMED View
32061 Guild Wars: Launcher hangs sometimes UNCONFIRMED View
32062 Guild Wars: Game crashes sometimes on launching UNCONFIRMED View
32063 Guild Wars: Orange square appearing UNCONFIRMED View

 
HOWTO

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:

wine GwSetup.exe

Running:

WINEDEBUG=-all wine "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe"

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. Type 'wine --version' to check.
  • Use the latest version of your graphics driver.
  • 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. It is recommended to run the game in a virtual desktop for performance and other reasons.
  • Turn off Compiz Fusion or KDE desktop effects.
  • "Guild Wars has encountered an unrecoverable graphics driver error and must terminate" (bug #12870) is caused by fglrx, not Wine.
  • OSS graphics drivers (aka radeon/radeonhd/nouveau/intel) will provide poor performance with wine games, it is recommended to use the binary nvidia driver or fglrx for ATI

If you are having graphics issues, use regedit to try some registry keys:

  • UseGLSL=disabled (Use this if you have a low end graphics card, Intel graphics, or if you are having performance problems.)
  • DirectDrawRenderer=opengl (Already the default with up to date versions of Wine)
  • OffscreenRenderingMode=fbo (Already the default with up to date versions of Wine)
  • Multisampling=enabled (Already the default with up to date versions of Wine)
  • RenderTargetLockMode=auto

Appending these flags to the run command may help you:

  • -dx8 - Uses DirectX 8
  • -noshaders - Disabled shaders, along with -dx8 this will improve performance (but make the game look pretty bad)
  • -dsound - Uses DirectSound
  • -nosound - Disables sound

Other tips:

  • In Options > settings, set the refresh rate to 60hz or the highest you have listed that is within your monitors range and turn on vsync for improved responsiveness in some cases.

 
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.


 

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Catalyst 12.6 - 12.8 + Wine 1.5.12: no Guild Wars
by Emanuele on Saturday September 8th 2012, 7:08
Hi guys!

This message to report my experience with Guild Wars and the new version of Wine: bug 16783 (no login screen displayed) and also keyboard 'seems' not to work. Maybe, due to the fact that the text field are not appearing (just the cursor is flashing) the keyboard does work but the screen shows anything.

Anyway with my previous version of Wine (I cannot remember which one, maybe 1.5.3... or some 1.5.x) I had no problems at all.

SO if your Guild Wars game IS working fine PLEASE do not upgrade Wine nor AMD Catalyst driver :)

Just to recap:
Wine 1.5.x < 1.5.(maybe)5 + Catalyst 12.6 -> GW OK!
Wine 1.5.12 + Catalyst 12.6 OR 12.8 -> GW goes from platinum to garbage.

P.S.: of course I tried all the workaround (also if I'm not happy because the previous version does not need any of them!!!) but the only partial solution is to set Win98 as system. Ok, you'll have the screen with that but forget about keyboard: nothing can be pressed and so it is not possible to perform the login.

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in osx lion / mountain lion crashing bug
by Jerry Chan on Friday August 17th 2012, 11:40
when i pressing command to show the in-game NPC names or item name, plus you using mouse rotating, the game will crash in OSX lion or mountain lion.

in debug there leaving these message, hope to be having advice about this.

fixme:keyboard:X11DRV_MapVirtualKeyEx keyboard layout 0x0 is not supported
err:wgl:internal_SetPixelFormat Invalid operation on root_window
jerrychf-MacBook-Air:Guild Wars jerrychf$ wine -version
Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did not provide a socket path, verify that org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is loaded!
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\-version.exe"
jerrychf-MacBook-Air:Guild Wars jerrychf$ wine --version
wine-1.4.1

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looks great until
by Matt on Wednesday July 25th 2012, 8:35
My guild wars runs flawlessly until about 5 minutes in and then I loose my screen all together. what could be the cause?

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Graphic Flashings while playing Guild Wars on Snow Leopard (2007 iMac)
by steven on Monday July 16th 2012, 11:36
i recently installed Wine on my 24" 2007 iMac to play Guild Wars. Everything runs smoothly and the game looks great. However, there is one glitch.

On certain character, mainly ranger's pets, the pet has this flashing lines coming out of the character, and after a while, it really hurts your eyes looking at all the flashing graphic lines (not sure if you call that artifact or not - i'm trying not to get seizure while playing guild wars :D)

Graphic card is ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO and I'm running snow leopard (using X11 that came with snow leopard, not XQuartz)

I've tried googling for this issues, but can't really find any solution.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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GW Running Slowly
by Panama Craig on Tuesday March 13th 2012, 23:03
Ok a few things here...

I just freshly installed 11.10 and barely have anything on the system at all. I installed Wine immediately, got all of it's dependencies, then downloaded and installed Guild Wars! I've tried every registry key entry that is listed to help improve performance. I even used the tags -dx8 -noshaders and saw litterally no performance increase. I ran it as a desktop module, and made sure to update my drivers to the proprietary drivers from nvidia... by the way, here are my machine's specs...

Intel Core i7
NVidia GeForce 260 GTX
4 GB of DDR3 RAM
Ubuntu 11.10 32 bit
Current NVidia Drivers: 295.20 32 bit drivers

The 260 GTX is an 896 DDR3 GPU that could run this game and WoW, or SWTOR fine under Wine. It's not a top of the line graphics card, but it's by no means a bad one either. It's a very nice card. Anyways... Can someone help me figure out how to get Gw.exe running pretty decently? I know when I've had Ubuntu on my computer before, it ran fine, and I think the only thing I've done to my computer is replace it's video card since then. Is upgrading really downgrading in Ubuntu? LoL... 10-15 fps is unacceptable... 25-30+ is acceptable, someone help me get it to this point. I don't care how it looks in the end, and yes I've tried tanking the display settings... it still doesn't seem to increase performance.

If someone wants to debug whats going on, I can provide logs. Provided you show me how to make those logs lol.

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Better graphics
by Thomas Benn on Friday March 9th 2012, 3:29
Howdie,

I kinda feel that GW should look better than it does for me. I have ALL settings maxed, yet screenshots on the internet I come across just look better. Do I need to enable DX10 somehow, and if so, how would I? I used winetricks to install dx10 and added -dx10 to the start up of GW, but that seems to do nothing.

Any input?

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Guild Wars Trial, OSS Radeon driver & Wine 1.4 rc4
by Martin on Friday February 24th 2012, 8:18
I recently switched to the OSS Radeon driver instead of the proprietary one. Sweet performance boost, especially with Compiz. However with Guild Wars, not so much.

Specifications:
Wine: 1.4 rc4
OS: Ubuntu 11.10
Kernel: 3.0.0-16-generic
xserver-xorg-video-ati/radeon: 1:6.14.99+git1202211255.688c8a~gd~o
mesa: 8.1~git1202220907.ab79d2~gd~o

The Guild Wars start up screen simply hangs when it begins to load the game.

No errors are generated.

My current results in tracing this, are that it hangs right after 'WineD3D_CreateFakeGLContext getting context...'.

I'm still trying to figure out what may be causing it. Whether it is a driver issue, or wine issue still remains a question. Xorg.0.log by default reveals no culprits. But it is most likely a driver issue.
Nothing's set in stone yet though.

What I've tried so far:
All Windows compatibilities.
-dx8, -noshaders, -nosound, -dsound.
Compiz enabled and disabled.
With and without virtual desktop.


If anyone has had any luck playing Guild Wars with OSS Radeon driver, please let me know. Whether it's bad performing or not.

Should you run into the same issue then install the proprietary drivers instead. They do work.

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Wine compatibility broken as of Feb-23 2012
by Zakhar on Thursday February 23rd 2012, 16:06
New game update today broke compatibility.

Here is the message I got now (using terminal to show Wine errors)

*** glibc detected *** Z:\\home\user\Program Files\GUILD WARS\Gw.exe: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x7cd43fe0 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib32/libc.so.6(+0x6c231)[0xf7530231]
/lib32/libc.so.6(+0x6dab8)[0xf7531ab8]
/lib32/libc.so.6(cfree+0x6d)[0xf7534b9d]
/usr/lib32/nvidia-current/libGLcore.so.1(+0x8f717f)[0xf654617f]
[0x13dfb70]
======= Memory map: ========

That's with:
$ wine --version
wine-1.2.2
$ uname -a
Linux user-desktop 2.6.32-38-generic #83-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 4 11:12:07 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

If some of you have more positive results with a more recent version of Wine, feel free to add your feedback.

I did also try with the Ubuntu 10.10 (but not a more recent Ubuntu), same error.

It would be a pity to have to demote this application from Platinum to Garbage. I've played it on Linux for ages -with long breaks- and it was indeed Platinum.

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Guild wars failed
by bailey on Saturday January 14th 2012, 10:37
So I installed wine....Downloaded and installed Guild Wars. Started up fine right after install...but i couldnt connect to the server. So I did a reboot, and went to go fire it back up and Guild wars will not fire up. :\
Also...google chrome shockwave player now crashes. I need some asstance

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Works superb!
by Speed on Friday January 13th 2012, 19:39
Testing and it seems that the only thing killing the framerate is the Shadows setting, Medium or High bring the framerate from 60 FPS down to 10-15 FPS. I have 6GB of RAM and ATI HD 58xx with 1GB of memory using the newest mesa build with gallium.

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Updated Ubuntu to 11.10 and now nothing works
by Paul Hughes on Saturday December 3rd 2011, 12:45
Decided to finally update from 11.04 to 11.10 and after re-installing ubuntu I cannot load guildwars.

Have tried playonlinux, crossover trial, wine versions 1.2.3 and 1.3.28.

In 11.04 all of those had actually worked. Using AMD64 bit version of Ubuntu.

Paul

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no sound
by Thomas allen on Saturday November 26th 2011, 16:51
hi mine loads up just fine the only thing is theres no sound no login screen music no nothing im using 11.10

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  • RE: no sound by Astohan on Sunday November 27th 2011, 7:13
Guild Wars crashes on start
by Wazle on Saturday November 5th 2011, 10:37
installing worked perfect. but if i start Guild Wars the screen resolution changes and i still see my desktop, but having the guild wars cursor. what can i do? i am using wine 1.3.31

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Game Freezes after update
by Joshua on Saturday October 22nd 2011, 22:51
The game installs fine, goes through the update, but when it goes to open the main game window, it freezes, and stops responding.

I've tried adding the suggested registry keys in various combinations to no luck. Anyone happen to know what I might try next, or what I'm missing?

Just installed Ubuntu 11.10 the other day. Wine 1.3.31, and if the video card helps any lspci says I have a "intel corporation mobile 4 series chipset". Tried in the default unity at first, but now on the gnome classic with no effects.

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Lubuntu
by James Knight on Thursday September 15th 2011, 12:39
My main desktop is in the middle of a refit so I'm trying to get GW to run on my laptop. It's running the latest version of lubuntu with WINE 1.3.28 and I've successfully downloaded and installed GW. When I run the exe the launcher turns the screen black, the cursor changes to the ingame cursor, but then it freezes; when I go back to the desktop it says that there's an error and to contact WINE.

I couldn't fine anything specific about WINE and lubuntu, so I wondered if that might be the problem? I should add that although my laptop is old and feeble (Dell Inspirion 1300) it did use to run GW natively on Windows XP, so I know the hardware is capable.

No idea where to post this, so I hope this is ok - if not, feel free to direct me elsewhere. Many thanks!

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Works, But Doesn't Load
by Ruben Bakker on Sunday September 4th 2011, 4:49
All right, I got quite an exceptional problem that is terribly hard to describe. I installed GW from my EotN disc by opening it as folder and running setup.exe with wine. Anyway, installer runs, all fine and dandy. Then when GW is installed and I run it, I get the niche mountainy background, a music and a generally working environment. It is, however, unworkable. The following picture describes it best:
i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd436/nickshitbrick/Screenshot-1.png

Anyway, knowing the layout, I entered my email, password and name of a character, and logged in. I get this screen:
i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd436/nickshitbrick/Screenshot-2.png

Next thing I do is press enter, and the screen freezes + music stops.

Some details:
Ubuntu 11.04
ATI Radeon HD 5800 series (using proprietary driver)
Wine 1.3

Yeah... I'm not all too familiar with wine and how to set it up, so feedback would be awesome.

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Wine 1.3.23 and Ati HD4650 (catalyst 11.6) problems
by thedukesd on Wednesday July 6th 2011, 13:44
Wine 1.3.23
Catalyst 11.6
Ubuntu 11.04

To make the game actually work I had to make this settings:

PixelShaderMode=enabled

(this seams to be set by the Wine profile for Guild Wars, without it Guild Wars use the dx8 engine, set to disabled it actually has the same effect as using -dx8 or -noshaders)

DirectDrawRenderer=opengl

(to be honest I think this is completly useless, with or without it I get same fps so i belive it's the default)

UseGLSL=disabled

(without it after I start the game everything is black, after login most of the texture are black)

StrictDrawOrdering=enabled

this last setting i needed to fix some texture coruption (the texture coruption is really annoying), but the main problem is that with this on i have ~50% less fps then without it and this cause around 15 fps in some area.

I tryed the settings in the how to posted here and the settings from here wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys, all of them seams not to have any effect.

Is there any way I get more fps without using -dx8 or/and -noshaders

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can't insert @ in the login screen
by Chaya on Thursday June 2nd 2011, 6:01
Hi
i installed Guild Wars on my mac with wineskin and it works perfectly fine. But i can't manage to login because i am not able to insert the "@" in the login screen. i've already tried copy and paste, alt+l and to insert it as a special sign but nothing seems to work. (i'm using 1.3.21)

thanks for your help

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cannot connect to AreaNet
by Richard Gionfriddo on Monday May 2nd 2011, 15:13
the game installer downloads the client, but then when the game goes to update, I get the following message:

GuildWars is unable to connect to the AreaNet network. Please verify that your Internet connection is working, or try again in a few minutes.

It does this every time, and I checked my Internet, and it works fine. I am even using the same computer to type this right now.

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by Andrey on Saturday March 5th 2011, 8:04
My problem was in ATI drivers, new version helps me.

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GW+radeon=trouble
by Andrey on Friday March 4th 2011, 12:08
I made a post on forum and making this comment because i have some problems with running GW with mobiliti radeon HD 5470. I like this game, so i'll be very happy if you help me.

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Game not loading...
by Ashley on Saturday February 26th 2011, 4:18
This is a "New" bug that I'm getting after installing some updates on Ubuntu 10.10.
I installed the game first thing, and didn't have much of a problem (apart from the graphics being all weirded out) and put this down to that I needed to update my OS.

Then, when I did all the updates, and restarted y machine, Guild wars no longer loads fully. Instead what happens is that the ArenaNet screen loads up, then the bacground music begins to play, but nothing else comes up.

Any help would be welcome, and I hope this information helps resolve the issue.

Cheers,

Ash~

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Doesn t start
by Davide on Sunday February 6th 2011, 11:00
Hello i have installed Guild Wars from playonlinux, but it doesn t start just resigne the desktop resolution and nothing more :-( some ideas please?

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White Footprints Graphical Corruption
by Lam on Tuesday January 25th 2011, 4:06
ATI Radeon HD 5750
Catalyst 10.12
Kubuntu Lucid 10.04
Wine 1.3.11 (Windows XP)

DirectDrawRenderer = opengl
OffscreenRenderingMode = backbuffer
RenderTargetLockMode = auto
UseGLSL = disabled

Does anyone else have an issue with footprints being graphically corrupted and appearing as white rectangles? I'm experiencing the same problem as this person on GW Guru: www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/footprint-problem-t10237517.html (example image at link)

From what I've gathered, this issue only seems to occur in the D3D9 codepath. If you launch Guild Wars with the -dx8 switch, this problem doesn't occur (but does disable a lot of nice graphical effects I'd like to keep, such as post-processing effects).

Additionally, if you change the Windows version from XP to anything lower, it simulates launching Guild Wars with the -dx8 -noshaders parameters (because it looks like Wine restricts the D3D9 codepath from running or something to that effect). This solves the footprints issue but makes the game look unrealistically bad. The realistic solution would be to just run -dx8 with Windows XP (similar to above).

The Gw.dat file is not corrupted. I found claims on Google that has suggested that it could be corrupted, so I redownloaded the entire game using the -image parameter and this problem still persists. Additionally, just the mere fact that launching the game with -dx8 solves this issue proves that it could not be a corrupted Gw.dat file.

I'm wondering if anyone else has encountered this issue and if anyone else that has found a solution.

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graphic stretching? i think
by Pete Sadler on Thursday December 23rd 2010, 17:23
not sure what you would call it
ompldr.org/vNnA4dw
so far ive only seen it happen to this cat model and a cape or 2

im using winebottler as i couldnt quite figure out how to install wine otherwise, running on an imac os x 10.6.5

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by Angus Hedger on Monday December 13th 2010, 0:31
Try turning off GLSL.

Also, can you pastbin and link a full log from running at terminal?

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Graphics problem ATI
by Splisskin on Sunday December 12th 2010, 21:12
I get garbled graphics with guildwars in fullscreen when entering character select. I have to ctrl-alt-F1 to tty then back to get rid of the garbled graphics. Then my characters vanishes except for their armor/effects. Going into windowed mode stops the garbling of the graphics but the bodyless avatars remain. There is one error stands out in wine output but can't find anything specific to this error that helps.


fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" (6.0.0.0)


[url=ompldr.org/vNmpldQ[/url]

Infos
2.6.36-ARCH X86_64
ATI Radeon 5870
catalyst-hook 10.11-1
catalyst-utils 10.11-1
lib32-catalyst-utils
xorg 1.9.2
wine 1.3.9 (same problem with previous versions of wine)
Winetricks version 20101106

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  • Fixed by Splisskin on Wednesday December 15th 2010, 15:22
Low FPS using given tweaks
by René on Friday December 3rd 2010, 21:11
i got about 16 fps regardles of what graphic settings i set, high or low.
i get no advantege of using the tweaks, if i stand still i get 70fps that drops to 16 every 3-4 seconds, running around gives me even less frames.

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laggy game play
by Redleer on Thursday December 2nd 2010, 12:08
im using wine 1.3.8 and when i run gw i get really laggy game have tryed changing my refresh rate and things, how could i make game run smooth?

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GW Installer
by Rick Thomas on Friday October 29th 2010, 20:34
I ran the installer through wine, and it loaded. When I choose the directory to install Guild Wars, a guild wars icon appeared on my desktop, and then my whole computer becomes non-responsive. I cant click on anything, though my skype call was still running. I had to force shut down. Any ideas why this happened? Was using 10.04 ubuntu.

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by Lanseril on Thursday October 14th 2010, 21:17
Sorry for the double post. If i have the time, i will post my settings when using fglrx. I am using Radeon HD3200 on my netbook. It runs guild wars ok, but not as smooth as windows. Still playable by a large scale.

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by Angus Hedger on Wednesday October 13th 2010, 15:32
What kind of problems are you having?

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  • RE: by Henne on Thursday October 14th 2010, 5:41
    • RE: by Lanseril on Thursday October 14th 2010, 21:15
      • RE: by Henne on Tuesday October 19th 2010, 7:41
        • RE: by Angus Hedger on Tuesday October 19th 2010, 9:23
        • RE: by Lanseril on Tuesday October 19th 2010, 14:50
          • RE: by Lanseril on Tuesday October 19th 2010, 15:03
            • RE: by Lanseril on Tuesday October 19th 2010, 15:03
              • RE: by Henne on Friday October 22nd 2010, 8:46
Guild Wars and fglrx
by Henne on Wednesday October 13th 2010, 5:23
I only can see, that Guild Wars works well with the NVIDIA support.
I´m using a 5870Ati Videocard. And the game always stucks while playing the game.

I´ve tried any possible regedit mode. Nothing changed. Is there anyone who plays Guild Wars well with a ATI-Video card?

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by Angus Hedger on Saturday October 9th 2010, 10:48
Just incase you dont see the response to the other thread, I will be on irc.freenode.net in #winehq

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  • RE: IRC by James on Saturday October 9th 2010, 14:32
Wine version
by James on Saturday October 9th 2010, 10:42
All i really know because Im pretty new to linux is that im running wine version 1.1.42. And i have no idea if it even has a GPU driver...But give me a time sometime this late afternoon of when u can help me via IRC cause this messaging just takes too long(Central time). Thanks dude

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When screen minimized Comp seems to shut down
by James on Saturday October 9th 2010, 9:13
Im running linux mint 9 and if i run wine "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" it works but its full screen and extremely laggy, i know if i can get it to be minimized it would work but when i try to minimize it, it just like halfway shuts down the comp to where i have a black screen and cant do anything. The same black screen comes up if I run wine "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -windowed This problem is really starting to annoy me, is there any option that allows me to get by it? (Ive already tried WINEDEBUG=-all wine "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" just in case u were wondering, it is still super laggy)

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DirectSong
by Lanseril on Thursday October 7th 2010, 13:30
I can confirm that GW works with DirectSong installed. Follow the instructions for directsong as if using windows. Then use winetricks to install wmp10.

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error on wine 1.3.0
by ShadowCrystal on Monday August 23rd 2010, 14:30
if i start the game the interface looks great but the background is upside down.

Console brings many messages but everytime the same:

guerr:d3d:context_apply_clear_state >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GL_INVALID_OPERATION (0x502) from glDrawBuffers() @ context.c / 2159

is this an wine issue?

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Random crashes since 1.2
by Chris on Sunday August 15th 2010, 21:11
Hi all. I've been running GW on wine for ages now. I'm currently staying on 1.1.44, because it works pretty close to perfectly, and because starting with the 1.2-rc releases and 1.2 final, I get random crashes in the game with do not happen with 1.1.44. This happens almost always when inventory is open and I'm mousing over something within it.

Anybody else experience this? If so, is it fixed in 1.3?

Thanks!

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by HaTeMe on Thursday August 5th 2010, 17:22
Hey, thanks i will try this too tomorrow. Performance is good - but can be a bit better (Spikes sometimes).

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  • RE: by HaTeMe on Thursday August 5th 2010, 17:23
Low Framerate
by HaTeMe on Thursday August 5th 2010, 7:51
If you have a realy low Framerate with a moderate PC try to set the Refresh Rate in the Options from Standard to ~50 Hz (or what is aviable to you and supported by your Monitor).

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Buggy
by mothergoose729@gmail.com on Thursday July 8th 2010, 2:14
I tried the trial version and it appears that something is broken. I have to run in windowed mode up tell my character loads, or it will crash at the character selection screen. In the starter city frame rates suffer a lot, leave there and they are fine but there are other issues. The game has a lot of graphical glitches, textures going oblong and such, as well as body parts and other things not being present. Tried all the suggested registry tweaks. Using ATI drivers. I suspect that is to blame, or some sort of change in wine. Using 1.1.42 in Ubuntu AMD64

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  • RE: Buggy by millsm on Friday July 16th 2010, 23:21
    • RE: Buggy by millsm on Monday July 19th 2010, 9:41
new to linux
by Charlene on Saturday May 15th 2010, 8:46
So i am new to linux and very new to wine. I am trying to run guild wars and it loads just fine, but when i get to the login screen while the boxes to put my info are fine the background is just a solid wall of black. and once i log in i can see the smaller boxes with the backgrounds but the characters don't appear in them and the background behind them that usually has the characters standing there before u select who you want o go in as is also solid black. how do i fix it / what is the problem? sorry if this seems like a stupid question with an obvious answer.

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Low Frame-rate
by Cindy on Saturday March 6th 2010, 19:07
When I load GW it loads fine, but when I get the character screen it's frame-rate drops. Its like watching a slide show. When I enter the game, the frame-rate is just as bad. I am running the game on Ubuntu 10.0 and wine1.2 version 1.1.31-ubuntu3. I have an XFX nForce 630i mother board with an onboard GeForce 7150 and 2 gigs of ram... if that helps.

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error GLXBadDrawable
by Ixidor Boulemans on Sunday February 28th 2010, 4:47
I've installed GW with playonlinux. When loading it in the terminal, window shuts with next error:

X Error of failed request: GLXBadDrawable
Major opcode of failed request: 154 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent)
Serial number of failed request: 1025
Current serial number in output stream: 1025

I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 with the RadeonDriver for Radeon Xpress 1150. I've tested with wine version 1.1.10 en 1.1.38 with both the same result. I can accually run the game after the next command:

export LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=/usr/lib32/dri

but it is then very slow and with a few graphical bugs ('noise' and upside-down things)

I've turned Compiz to none effects, glxgears does work (around 400 FPS). I've changed the regestry keys like recommended (UseGLSL=disabled, DirectDrawRenderer=opengl, OffscreenRenderingMode=pbuffer, RenderTargetLockMode=auto) and also tried the Multisampling, without result.

I believe that I'm not the only one with this problem, but I've only found problem-cases and not the solutions ...

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No Login / Game Window
by tgraupne on Friday February 26th 2010, 16:24
Hi...

as the topic said, after i start GW, i see the Loading screen, and after that...nothing more. I can hear the LogIn Screen Sound, but there is no Window.

My system:

ThinkPad T61p
Intel T7700
nVidia Quadro FX 570M

Ubuntu 9.10 x64
Kernel 2.6.31-19
wine 1.1.39
nVidia Driver 185.18.36

I tried:

- install dx9 via winetricks
- Win XP / Win 2k / Win 98 presets
- i added this to the registry:

* DirectDrawRenderer=opengl
* OffscreenRenderingMode=pbuffer or fbo
* RenderTargetLockMode=auto

- i tried first with compiz,
- then compiz deactivated via fusion-icon

Need help :-(

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1.1.38 woes
by JuPi on Tuesday February 16th 2010, 15:10
openSUSE 11.2, fglrx 10.1

1.1.37 worked just fine, though since 1.1.38 I randomly get the following issues:
- GW crashes before the login screen with
err:seh:raise_exception Exception frame is not in stack limits => unable to dispatch exception

- PixelShaderMode set as enabled will most of the time result in an upside-down picture

- Degraded performance/fps (in the 40-50% range), which also happens in Dark Age of Camelot

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no anti-aliasing possible
by Will Wisp on Thursday February 11th 2010, 9:10
Hi all,

does anybody have an idea, why it is not possible for me to switch on anti-aliasing?

I am using a newer ATI graphic card and the fglrx driver with wine 1.1.37 on Ubuntu Jaunty, 32 bit. Multisampling is enabled in the registry.

I can switch on best graphics, but in the field 'anti-aliasing' only 'none' can be chosen.

Thanks for any suggestions

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Screenshots
by Attila Zimler on Thursday February 11th 2010, 7:37
First screenshot in the third row is not from Guild Wars.

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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?

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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.

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No keyboard response?
by Monkey on Saturday January 23rd 2010, 20:06
Dell Vostro 1500
Ubuntu 9.10
Wine 1.0.1

First run of Guild Wars fails with very stuttery graphics, texture glitches, and scrambled audio.

After adding these keys per an earlier post....
DirectDrawRenderer opengl
OffscreenRenderingMode backbuffer

...everything runs perfectly, except *no keyboard response*. All mouse-driven commands, menus, etc work perfectly. No keyboard inputs work.

Ideas?

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Guild Wars Rendering Issue
by Chris on Thursday December 17th 2009, 0:59
I've gotten Guild Wars running at an acceptable level using 1.1.34 on Karmic however I'm experiencing a graphical error.

img707.imageshack.us/img707/9496/screenshotguildwars.png

I seem to recall seeing this issue before. Has anyone seen this before or know anything about it?

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HOW I GOT THIS GAME TO WORK WITH FGLRX
by Lam on Monday December 14th 2009, 4:32
My system:

AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition
4 GB RAM
ATI Radeon 5750 -- Catalyst 9.11 (fglrx)
Kubuntu Karmic 9.10
Wine Version 1.1.34

I will detail the steps I used to get Guild Wars to work on my system. It was not as easy as I had anticipated as I am using the fglrx drivers.


1. Install the game as normal.

2. Run the registry editor (regedit) and navigate to the following location:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Software / Wine / Direct3D

Create a new key for Direct3D if it does not exist.

3. Add the following string values:

DirectDrawRenderer opengl
OffscreenRenderingMode backbuffer

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.

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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.

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wrong lingo
by William J May on Thursday November 19th 2009, 2:23
In my test data I meant to say built from source not from binary packages...got my linux vocab backwards, sry.

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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.

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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

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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?

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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.

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 8600 GT"
BusID "PCI:3:0:0"
EndSection

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..

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "metamodes" "1680x1050_60 +0+0; nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
Option "SLI" "SFR"
Option "TripleBuffer" "True"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Make sure you backup your xorg.conf before doing any changes.

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BUGS IDENTIFIED
==============================
-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.

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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.

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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.

Any help would be appreciated :)

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Help?
by Zoey on Tuesday August 4th 2009, 14:44
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...)


Thanks for any help you can give!

~ Zoey

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  • 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 :)

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  • RE: hey by Jon M on Monday July 27th 2009, 18:35
  • 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.

I'm going to put a link to a screenshot.

i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm164/poneeboyz/GW/Screenshot-2.png

This problem is present in both 1.0.1 and 1.1.22

Anyone found a fix?

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Clean up old comments
by Ken Sharp on Tuesday June 9th 2009, 15:06
250 comments are no good to anybody looking for useful information on this application.

Please clean up the comments and move any useful information to notes/howtos.

Seven maintainers should be able to handle that.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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by Micheal Wilkinson on Sunday May 24th 2009, 5:41
It also works on 1.1.20 if you want to try that one

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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.

i44.tinypic.com/2z66nwk.jpg

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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

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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

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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


linux ubuntu 8.10

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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.

Thanks for any suggestions

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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.

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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.

Thanks in advance :)

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help
by Jorge Ivan on Wednesday March 4th 2009, 21:19
how i change this registries?

* UseGLSL=disabled
* DirectDrawRenderer=opengl
* OffscreenRenderingMode=pbuffer or fbo
* RenderTargetLockMode=auto

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  • 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?

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Guildwars flashes back to wine window when I click anywhere in game.
by evan on Monday February 9th 2009, 7:50
I posted this here ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6696199#post6696199 as well.


"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?

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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.

I use Ubuntu 8.04 and have a Ati card(x850) btw.

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Finally Got it to Work
by Keith Myers on Sunday January 18th 2009, 19:14
Hey All,
After much tinkering, I FINALLY got Guild Wars to work. I kept a log of everything I did here k-disk.com/Linux/page.php?page=Linux:GuildWars . Thanks to all of the people who helped.

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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?

~Jeff

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