Possible Guild Wars on Linux?

[darthsabbath]

Hey all,

I was browsing the Guild Wars website today, and found that they are at least considering releasing GW for other OSes. While I know we've heard it all before, and this may just be wishful thinking, I was wondering if anyone was aware of how Linux friendly NCSoft/Arenanet was.

I plan on writing NCSoft in support of GW on Linux, and invite anyone interested in seeing this game on Linux to do the same.

Website it guildwars.com, BTW.

Phil

[jdodson]

Hey all,

I was browsing the Guild Wars website today, and found that they are at least considering releasing GW for other OSes. While I know we've heard it all before, and this may just be wishful thinking, I was wondering if anyone was aware of how Linux friendly NCSoft/Arenanet was.

I plan on writing NCSoft in support of GW on Linux, and invite anyone interested in seeing this game on Linux to do the same.

Website it guildwars.com, BTW.

Phil

really depends how the programmed it. if they used opengl, openal, etc then it should be not too tough to port it to other OS's. if they wrote it using directx and the ilk, then it would be a bit more difficult.

[jdodson]

http://transgaming.org/gamesdb/games/view.mhtml?game_id=3370

[sc3252]

we should try and get support for this if they are considering, more native games the better I say. \\:D/

[RuKK]

We REALLY need more native games. Cedega provides decent support for a few games on some platforms, but even so its slow and reasonably buggy at the best of times. The other downside, other than not even being free, is that if you have anything other than a nvidia card, you might as well not bother. Even ATI users who can run native games perfectly have nothing but problems with Cedega.

[jdodson]

you guys are right, native games are really the way to rock. i have a few native commercial games(ut, ut2003, ut2004, neverwinter) and they are tons less buggy than running on cedega. the other week i finished ironing out all the cedega bugs for my system on hoary(upgraded to the latest version, so i guess i really didnt do much, though getting the old version to work was a pain in the ***). everything worked great in warty, however hoary broke cedega massively until the latest update.

anyways, i will personally email guild wars, i would purchase the game if it was native because it looks cool.

i also recommend emailing bioware on port the new dragon age game to gnu/linux. neverwinter nights is a native game and it rocks. dragon age on gnu/linux would be great. http://www.bioware.com

[N'Jal]

Just an idea, perphaps i friendly petition of all of us who would go out and buy a game that had native support even though we had to pay for it. I don't mind paying for games. I don't like paying for OS that are too expensive and not worth the code they are written in.

That wasn't really a go at Windows coz there are plenty of OS that you have to pay for and arn't that good, take Zeta (BEOS) for example, I really can't see It's amazing features that make it stand out in the crowd, and no matter who i speak to they can't tell me anything to make me want to buy it.

If anyone want's to try be my guest i have an open mind

[sc3252]

yes, a petition sounds nice, if we could get one up it would be a good thing, just dont forget to tell people about it. \\:D/, For the petition we could creat one online at http://www.petitiononline.com/. we just need a statement, some field names and types. If anyone has a good idea for a statement put it here, I am going to try and think of one but am no expert in persuasive essays/letters/petitions.

[fredriksa]

anyone who have got the game to work with wine or another free program?

please tell us :)

[theerga]

There needs to be a list of all the native games. If there is already one somebody should post a link.

[pulp]

There needs to be a list of all the native games. If there is already one somebody should post a link.

There indeed is a (complete?) list in German language: http://holarse.de/?content=/spiele/kommerzielle/

[Shakie]

And here is the translation to english:

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fholarse.de%2F%3Fcontent%3 D%2Fspiele%2Fkommerzielle%2F&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

[darkjedi8359]

Hey all,

I was browsing the Guild Wars website today, and found that they are at least considering releasing GW for other OSes. While I know we've heard it all before, and this may just be wishful thinking, I was wondering if anyone was aware of how Linux friendly NCSoft/Arenanet was.

I plan on writing NCSoft in support of GW on Linux, and invite anyone interested in seeing this game on Linux to do the same.

Website it guildwars.com, BTW.

Philhttp://img105.echo.cx/img105/2159/screenshot4eu.th.png (http://img105.echo.cx/my.php?image=screenshot4eu.png)
^^ so close, yet so far away :( with cedega 4.3.2... and like said above, I use ATI and cedega doesn't support it as well I guess O.o

[robtotheb]

Guild Wars is a great game but i lost interest quickly and went back to the brilliant UT2004 with Ubuntu.

Unfortunatly I can't test GW with cedega as I stopped paying for it at the start of the year as I never managed to get a single game to run using it!!!

I just hope as linux becomes more mainstream that game makers will start to produce for it, Arena.net included. With any luck microsoft won't take over the entire computer games industry before then... some how I can't see Halo 3 being linux friendly!

[darkjedi8359]

Guild Wars is a great game but i lost interest quickly and went back to the brilliant UT2004 with Ubuntu.

Unfortunatly I can't test GW with cedega as I stopped paying for it at the start of the year as I never managed to get a single game to run using it!!!

I just hope as linux becomes more mainstream that game makers will start to produce for it, Arena.net included. With any luck microsoft won't take over the entire computer games industry before then... some how I can't see Halo 3 being linux friendly!
I have been playing guild wars since some of the first world previews... One of my favorite games, and the only reason I keep windows lol.

[corza]

http://img105.echo.cx/img105/2159/screenshot4eu.th.png (http://img105.echo.cx/my.php?image=screenshot4eu.png)
^^ so close, yet so far away :( with cedega 4.3.2... and like said above, I use ATI and cedega doesn't support it as well I guess O.o

I have exactly the same problem, except I'm using an Nvidia Card. Strange...

[Prudentissimus]

I have exactly the same problem, except I'm using an Nvidia Card. Strange...
Guildwars works on my system.

[Malbojia]

If I'm not mistaken theres a massive wiki outhere based on games installation and tweaks using winex and cedega. I wish I bookmarked it at the time. But guild wars was covered on it.

[slux]

There is a list of ported (commercial) games here (http://www.icculus.org/lgfaq/gamelist.php?license=commercial) as the venerable Linux gamers' FAQ (http://www.icculus.org/lgfaq/) informs us.

I've tried the Guild Wars (beta) client. It got to the login screen when I enabled the desktop (crashed otherwise) but I couldn't test further because I don't have a copy. So it might work, not in fullscreen though.

[j0ma2]

I was not able to install GW using wine because I cannot unmount the CD1 to continue the installation of the CD2. So, I have installed it in windows and I have copied the folder to Wine.

It connects to Arena.net and updates, but It breaks... cannot play it :(

[Talamius]

*bump* because this is now officially supported in Cedega 4.4. Problem is once again it's a game with severe problems on ATi cards.