How I got Guild Wars working in Wine 0.9.23

**rasmus91** · October 20th, 2008

hmm.... if i go to: "system/administration/hardware drivers" should it then show any, or are those "special" drivers for anything?

**sinaen** · October 21st, 2008

glxinfo is something you put in a terminal.

**sinaen** · October 25th, 2008

well you got it to work?

i got my game to work and play with but i was only in for a while...
are there a Linux guild?

**ironstorm** · February 14th, 2009

For those who have had the "Guild Wars: Music Plays, No Game Window" problem, see my post here...
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...=2#post6732983

I'd be interested to know if people still have problems with that running it as an Emulated Desktop app

**rasmus91** · March 14th, 2009

well you got it to work?

i got my game to work and play with but i was only in for a while...
are there a Linux guild?

Sorry for not writing on this thread for a long time.

No, Wine opens a window now, i see the cursor on a black screen. then the screen gives a couple of flashes, and goes to ubuntu login screen.

I have updated to 9.04 alpha and the graphic driver for GMA 4500 is far better in this version. But the computer still does the same thing. I don't really know what to do.

I've tried Wine, PlayOnLinux, but nothing seems to work... Haven't got the big help lately.

Does anyone have a suggestion?

btw glxgears gives me more than 1100+ fps by now (got 250 before) and this is my output of glxinfo:

Code:

rasmus@rasmus-Dell-E6400:~$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: No (LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT set)
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, 
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, 
    GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, 
    GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, 
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_allocate_memory, 
    GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, GLX_MESA_swap_control, 
    GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_OML_sync_control, 
    GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync, 
    GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, 
    GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
GLX version: 1.2
GLX extensions:
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, 
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, 
    GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, 
    GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, 
    GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset GEM 20090114
OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.3)
OpenGL extensions:
    GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_draw_buffers, GL_ARB_fragment_program, 
    GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow, GL_ARB_multisample, GL_ARB_multitexture, 
    GL_ARB_occlusion_query, GL_ARB_point_parameters, GL_ARB_point_sprite, 
    GL_ARB_shadow, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, GL_ARB_texture_compression, 
    GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add, 
    GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar, 
    GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat, 
    GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two, GL_ARB_texture_rectangle, 
    GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_ARB_vertex_program, GL_ARB_window_pos, 
    GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color, 
    GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate, GL_EXT_blend_func_separate, 
    GL_EXT_blend_logic_op, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, 
    GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint, GL_EXT_copy_texture, GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, 
    GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_framebuffer_object, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays, 
    GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_point_parameters, GL_EXT_polygon_offset, 
    GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_secondary_color, 
    GL_EXT_separate_specular_color, GL_EXT_shadow_funcs, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap, 
    GL_EXT_subtexture, GL_EXT_texture, GL_EXT_texture3D, 
    GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_env_add, 
    GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, 
    GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias, 
    GL_EXT_texture_object, GL_EXT_texture_rectangle, GL_EXT_vertex_array, 
    GL_3DFX_texture_compression_FXT1, GL_APPLE_packed_pixels, 
    GL_ATI_draw_buffers, GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3, 
    GL_ATIX_texture_env_combine3, GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat, 
    GL_INGR_blend_func_separate, GL_MESA_pack_invert, GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture, 
    GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_light_max_exponent, GL_NV_point_sprite, 
    GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_NV_texture_rectangle, GL_NV_vertex_program, 
    GL_NV_vertex_program1_1, GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, 
    GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp, 
    GL_SGIS_texture_lod, GL_SGIX_depth_texture, GL_SUN_multi_draw_arrays

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rasmus@rasmus-Dell-E6400:~$

**aphirst** · May 5th, 2009

I am led to believe that if you follow the instructions detailed on this page, you can run Guild Wars at a playable rate with minimal instability on the recent line of Intel GMA chips.

**Torgas Prim** · June 13th, 2009

Have any others experienced GW having to repair the dat file every time you start GW? Eversince last month, I cannot get GW to load without that 20 minute process.
I had assumed it was because I was running it from an ntfs drive, so I installed windows, loaded my GW and it was fine. Defragged the drive. Moved a copy to my ubuntu Wine folder and tried launching from there but it still happens.

Any suggestions?

**nowhere@cox.net** · June 13th, 2009

I had this happening on my Windows box and a quick reinstall from the DVD fixed it. It seems that the download never completely fixed the corrupted files so it redownloaded each time. The corruption on my system came from a bad ram stick causing my system to crash four or five times in a row before I figured out which component was bad...

By the way, note to all: The latest builds from WineHQ repos breaks GW. I uninstalled and installed from the ubuntu Jaunty repo and it works fine. It's version 1.0.1 that's working...

**Torgas Prim** · June 27th, 2009

Found out the issue. Wine 1.1.24 is the culprit and has moved GW to the Garbage section of the appdb because of this latest update.
Reverting to an earlier version..I chose 1.1, has resolved it.
I hope they fix it soon at WineHQ

**kailkitsune** · September 7th, 2009

i entered every thing and know i have a small Q; ive been sitting here for about 20min, how long should this take?
*edit*
ok it finally stopped....... and now in worse off than before ill try and find a different root around this.