Okay, it's finally up and running...sort of.
Installation and configuration.
First, this tutorial is NOT like Savage (A freeware game) and a valid CD-Key is required to activate your GW char. Now that that is confirmed, get the installation...
[coolcode]wget http://www.guildwars.com/downloads/gwsetup.zip[/coolcode]
--22:11:48-- http://www.guildwars.com/downloads/gwsetup.zip
=> `gwsetup.zip'
Resolving www.guildwars.com... 206.127.153.151
Connecting to www.guildwars.com|206.127.153.151|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 105,234 (103K) [application/zip]
100%[====================================>] 105,234 --.--K/s
22:11:48 (895.43 KB/s) - `gwsetup.zip' saved [105234/105234]Then unzip it to the current directory...
[coolcode]unzip gwsetup.zip[/coolcode]
Archive: gwsetup.zip
inflating: GwSetup.exe
[coolcode]ls -lah[/coolcode]
total 292K
drwxr-xr-x 2 czar czar 4.0K 2008-01-04 22:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 145 czar czar 12K 2008-01-04 19:23 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 czar czar 162K 2007-05-16 20:22 GwSetup.exe
-rw-r--r-- 1 czar czar 103K 2007-05-17 18:58 gwsetup.zipNow install...
[coolcode]wine ./GwSetup.exe[/coolcode]
Ok, once installed the best settings I found is to use the following (just add it to menu with
alacarte or type in terminal.) **Replace the "L:\\bin\\gw\\Gw.exe" with your location**
[coolcode]env WINEDEBUG=-all WINEPREFIX="~/.wine" wine "L:\\bin\\gw\\Gw.exe"[/coolcode]
I'm able to max out every setting (except max ground texture) and play in both full screen or windowed mode.
Guild Wars Linux Optimization
- Open
winecfg and set the default to Win98. In Audio set ALSA Hardware Acceleration to Emulation and check Driver Emulation.- Import the latest WINE repo. Add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt hardy main
[coolcode]sudo aptitude update[/coolcode]
Gw.exe Switches
-diag
Creates, at startup, a detailed diagnostic logfile which contains data about connection tests and hardware information, located in your game directory (..\Guild Wars\NetworkDiag.log). Useful for determining what is wrong when Guild Wars is not functioning properly.
Important: The program terminates after the logfile is created; since Guild Wars will not be able run with this parameter on, make sure to remove it once Guild Wars has finished creating the logfile. -dsound
Forces the use of old DirectSound software mixer. Good for users whose computers are not compatible with the newer version. -dx8
Useful for troubleshooting. Forces DirectX 8 compatibility; good for users whose computers are not compatible with the newer version. Using this switch with -noshaders may improve performance as well. -fps #
Limits the frame rate to -image
Forces the game to load a complete update. Important: The program terminates after the update is completed; since Guild Wars will not be able run with this parameter on, make sure to remove it after all the content has been downloaded. Downloading all the contents takes approximately 6 hours to complete at 150KB/s (broadband connection). Recommended: Create an additional shortcut on your desktop to Guild Wars that is labeled "Guild Wars Updater" and has this command line switch. -mute
Disables audio output, but still processes audio data internally (so for instance, lip syncing will still function). -noshaders
Troubleshooting option. Using this switch with -dx8 may improve performance as well. -nosound
Disables audio system completely. -noui
Disables the user interface, producing the same effect as when one pushes Ctrl + Shift + H in-game to toggle it. -perf
Displays performance indicators. Triangles, frames per second and transfer rate in bytes per second are displayed in white text in the upper-right corner of the Guild Wars window. -repair
Attempts to fix the GW.dat file, in which all update information is stored.
Warning: If a lot of content has already been downloaded through updates, be prepared for a long wait as Guild Wars reconstructs the file. -sndasio
Useful for troubleshooting. Attempts to use an ASIO driver in software mode. -sndwinmm
Attempts to use the Windows Multimedia audio driver in software mode. -uninstall
Uninstalls Guild Wars. -windowed
Forces Guild Wars to run in windowed mode. Note: You can easily switch to windowed mode by pressing ALT + Enter or clicking the window icon in the upper right corner while the game is already running.Also See
- http://czarism.com/wiki/gw- http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Command_line
Guild Wars: Eye of the North Works on Ubuntu Too
Just a quick note that Guild Wars: Eye of the North also works just perfect on Ubuntu Linux via Wine (using the tutorial above.)
Enjoy, cya in-game.
Re: Easy-Peasy Guild Wars on Ubuntu Linux
Thnx for taking time writing this guide. I will most certenly have a look into this as GW has been the only reason for me keeping Windows.
Cheers
Guild Wars settings
Everything seems to go fine until I get to this point:
It don't understand this part, and it doesn't seem to want to do this part. It runs, but it's incredibly sluggish. It's taking it around half an hour just to log into the area.
Also, I get this right before I start that part:
[coolcode]
fixme:keyboard:X11DRV_MapVirtualKeyEx keyboard layout (nil) is not supported
fixme:keyboard:X11DRV_LoadKeyboardLayout L"00000409", 0000: stub!
[/coolcode]
It repeats this A LOT.
Guild Wars settings
Okay, it's finally up and running...sort of. Half the screen is black with random colored splotches, and neither the keyboard, nor the mouse, are working. How do I fix these things? I have pretty much no command line experience, so I don't really even know where to begin.
Half the screen is black
This is due to wine's crappy direct-x 9 support, you MUST either 1) if running in direct x 9 DISABLE the post-processor option 2) *preferred* add the
-dx8 -noshadersto your desktop icon/other launcher.PS. wine-0.9.54 works great, wine-0.9.55 broke my guild-wars and I've been unable to try wine-0.9.56. Don't forget to add to /etc/apt/sources.list. This will get the latest version os wine as they are released.
Download wine_0.9.54~winehq0~ubuntu~7.10-1_i386.deb
OR
[coolcode]
deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt gutsy main
deb-src http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt gutsy main
[/coolcode]
Can we back up to the old verision
I have 0.9.56 and get crazy quater screen and it is all garbled and can't read it now it is kicking me out on linux all together.
If i install the .54 verision will it over write the .56?
Steve
Yes you can back up older version
If you install the 0.9.54 version it WILL replace the current version (without any flaws). If you worry about breaks in wine + guild wars simply download the latest deb files at http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/pool/main/w/wine/ and save them to your hard-drive. Then you can re-load the working archive if an incoming archive is busted.
P.S. I am however how running 0.9.57 in direct-x 9 mode (without issue). A purge was required to get that working (sudo aptitude -P purge wine) then install the latest. Without fussing with that, 0.9.54 also worked like a champ and the in-between gave some bad results.
Great Info - Minor enhancement
You might make a note or mod to your advice. If you change wine ./GwSetup.exe to wine ./GwSetup.exe -image the -image will preload all of the files for guildwars as part of the install. This eliminates the long lags while new areas load. Keep up the great work!
added gw switches
Ty for the feedback. Added to Revision of Easy-Peasy Guild Wars on Ubuntu Linux from Sat, 2008-05-03 11:24