64-bit Guild Wars 2 client officially released May 17, 2016. This is the ideal client to be using and should be considered the default client.
Application Details:
Version: | 64-bit Client |
License: | Retail |
URL: | http://www.guildwars2.com |
Votes: | 1 |
Latest Rating: | Gold |
Latest Wine Version Tested: | 8.0 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Over the last 2-3 days i have been playing the game as i would normally and all the content I came in to contact withe works as expected:
-Free roaming on the map in central Tyria, Harts of thorns and Path of Fire (can't check End of Dragons don't own that at the moment)
-Fractals
-Dungeons
-Trading Post
-Personal Banking
-Guilds and everything they include
-Chat
-Achievements
-Daily rewards
As for the technical aspect the game got almost no problems, no graphical glitches on high or low settings except that some times when entering a new map they are completely void except the player character and it takes a minute or two for every thing to appear as if the game leaves the loading screen to early, sound works and is clear of any distortion.
What does not
When alt-tabing out of the game the keyboard can stop responding if
that happens the Alt-key is most likely stuck pressing the Alt-key one
more time should fix the problem or tab back out, press and hold alt,
press tab once to bring up the tab menu (not sure if that is what it is
called) and finally left clicking on the guild wars 2 process should
also fix the problem
Moving the game to another monitor that is not designated as the
primary results in the mouse being stuck on the primary screen and the
game responding to mouse inputs as if the game was never moved, this can be
fixed by turning on the virtual desktop in winecfg and setting it to the
same resolution as the primary screen
Workarounds
Installed both tamoha and corefonts using winetricks to keep the
launcher from crashing as well as d9vk to actually get the game to run
When alt-tabing out of the game the keyboard can stop responding if
that happens the Alt-key is most likely stuck pressing the Alt-key one
more time should fix the problem or tab back out, press and hold alt,
press tab once to bring up the tab menu (not sure if that is what it is
called) and finally left clicking on the guild wars 2 process should
also fix the problem
Moving the game to another monitor that is not designated as the
primary results in the mouse being stuck on the primary screen and the
game responding to mouse inputs as if the game was never moved, this can be
fixed by turning on the virtual desktop in winecfg and setting it to the
same resolution as the primary screen
What was not tested
most of the PvE content there is just to much of it to test all of it
PvP and WvW, I just don't play those modes
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
There where some performance issues, frame rates can fall of a cliff if enough players meet a the same place and the initial loading times when stating the game can be very long but I don't believe this is caused by wine, it has been a while but I'm fairly sure I had these same problems when I played Guild Wars 2 on windows.
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Current | Ubuntu 22.04 "Jammy" (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jan 30 2023 | 8.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Samuel Reglin | |
Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Oct 20 2022 | 7.19-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Michael Clark | |
Show | openSUSE Tumbleweed (rolling release) | Jul 19 2022 | 7.13 | No | Not installable | No | Garbage | KosstAmojan | |
Show | Debian GNU/Linux 12.x "Bookworm" x86_64 | Jul 03 2022 | 7.12-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Taylor Talkington | |
Show | openSUSE Tumbleweed (rolling release) | Oct 24 2021 | 6.19 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | KosstAmojan |
Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
32010 | Guild Wars 2 updater uses always 100% of a CPU core | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
32152 | Guild Wars 2: Missing sound and game crashes on time adjusting | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
40299 | Guild Wars 2: Graphic shows through the ground | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
40300 | Guild Wars 2: Mouse gets temporary invisible on the Launcher | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
40843 | Guild Wars 2: Game crashes on uninstalling | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
41962 | Guild Wars 2: Mouse acts if raw input is broken if The Forest is opened in window mode | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
42145 | Guild Wars 2 crashes on some configurations | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
56646 | Ingame Web-UI fonts | UNCONFIRMED | View |
You can fully download all of the game data and any future updates required for Guild Wars 2 by appending -image
as a command-line argument to the Guild Wars 2 executable (Gw2-64.exe
or Gw2.exe
). An example can be found below:
WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/Guild Wars 2' wine 'Gw2.exe' -image
You can also check the integrity of the game data archive by appending -repair
as a command-line argument (this can take longer than 5-10 minutes to complete):
WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/Guild Wars 2' wine 'Gw2-64.exe' -repair
For quick guidelines:
-image
is recommended so you don't have to worry about streaming data during gameplayGw2.dat
for a while, it's a good idea to run -repair
on it every now and then after updates-repair
is highly recommended
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.
by Samuel Reglin on Monday August 28th 2023, 0:15
1. go in to the options menu and change the game to windowed mode
2. drag the window to what ever monitor it is supposed to play on
3. maximize the window
This should make the game run in full screen on a secondary monitor
by Rawfox on Sunday January 22nd 2023, 4:51
by framed on Thursday December 15th 2022, 19:25
by Wine Guild wars on Friday October 14th 2022, 9:05
by Stefanescu A on Sunday July 24th 2022, 12:16
Currently it works(launcher+game+dxvk) with Wine 7.2(the build lutris-fshack-7.2)
by Joël on Monday April 12th 2021, 13:04
Being unable to rotate the camera makes the game unplayable.
i'm going to attempt filing a bug report (i'm not confident in my skill to perform that).
by Joël on Tuesday April 13th 2021, 10:47
by Joël on Tuesday April 13th 2021, 10:48
bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50969
by KosstAmojan on Friday March 19th 2021, 3:44
No networkconnection possible.
by Lambda on Friday March 19th 2021, 6:45
by Lambda on Wednesday March 17th 2021, 5:42
by KosstAmojan on Friday March 19th 2021, 3:42
wine 6.0 to 6.4 has the bug.
No networkconnection possible.
by Lambda on Sunday January 24th 2021, 14:53
0120:err:sync:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 000000014218F170 "?" wait timed out in thread 0120, blocked by 0000, retrying (60 sec)
GPU is AMD Radeon RX 560 (as discrete GPU in a laptop).
by Bart Vaes on Thursday January 7th 2021, 15:58
I'm using OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 and for some reason the Wine packages are very old (latest=5.0, a year old but works flawless actually).
I get this output:
bart-at-localhost:~> mesa_glthread=true WINEDEBUG=fixme-all wine64 start /unix "$HOME/Games/Guild Wars 2/Gw2-64.exe"
bart-at-localhost:~> ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment.
Native Direct3D 9 v0.7.0.368-release is active.
For more information visit github.com/iXit/wine-nine-standalone
mesa: for the --simplifycfg-sink-common option: may only occur zero or one times!
mesa: for the --global-isel-abort option: may only occur zero or one times!
fixme:d3d9nine:D3DPERF_GetStatus (void) : stub
0140:err:winediag:MIDIMAP_drvOpen No software synthesizer midi port found, Midi sound output probably won't work.
fixme:d3d9nine:DRIPresentGroup_GetMultiheadCount (0x2077ba0), stub!
fixme:d3d9nine:D3DPERF_GetStatus (void) : stub
0140:err:sync:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0000000142153340 "?" wait timed out in thread 0140, blocked by 0254, retrying (60 sec)
0254:err:sync:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0000000142153000 "?" wait timed out in thread 0254, blocked by 0000, retrying (60 sec)
0124:err:sync:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 000000014218DEF0 "?" wait timed out in thread 0124, blocked by 0000, retrying (60 sec)
The last 3 lines get repeated and causes the freeze.
CPU: AMD FX-6300
RAM: 8GiB
VID: AMD Radeon RX 550
by Artemis3 on Saturday November 7th 2020, 0:07
by Bruno Oliveira on Friday July 17th 2020, 10:37
by Jen on Thursday June 13th 2019, 23:36
by Ricardo Rodrigues on Wednesday June 20th 2018, 21:55
Posting a Bug Report is a pain, so a comment will have to do.
I get a Black Screen when entering the game (after logging in) and this is because I changed the scale in xrandr.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Change scale: xrandr --output DP-2 --scale 0.75x0.75
2. Start the game.
3. Black screen, but game is responsive.
A lot of message errors will appear saying: X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found 1440x1620x32 @0! (XRandR 1.2)
Current Solution: HACK
1. Create a script to start the game.
2. Before the command to start, scale back: xrandr --output DP-2 --scale 1x1
3. After the command to start, scale: xrandr --output DP-2 --scale 0.75x0.75
4. Start the game (no black screen)
by Bruno Oliveira on Friday July 17th 2020, 10:44
you can create a .xprofile $HOME and /etc/xprofile
content of my xprofile:
xrandr --output HDMI-A-1 --panning 1920x1080 --scale 1.406x1.406
xrandr --dpi 141
The game works just fine for me ;)
vulkan+esync+aco
by Jeffrey Jensen on Tuesday March 6th 2018, 17:56
by Frank on Monday January 1st 2018, 22:55
by Bruno Oliveira on Thursday November 12th 2020, 13:19
This should be PLATINUM!