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    Question guild wars on wine

    i am trying to get guild wars on my ubuntu system cus my other system doesn't have a new enough video card so i was wondering if there was any way to get guild wars working in wine? or any way to get it working in ubuntu? i am going to try a virtual machine but i would rather not if there is an easier alternative such as some type of emulator or ANYTHING!!!
    just give me something to make my game work

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    Re: guild wars on wine

    A virtual machine won't work, they don't have hardware acceleration. Guild Wars will work fine in Wine:
    http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=8698

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    Re: guild wars on wine

    i am using wine but is winehq different?

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    Re: guild wars on wine

    No, WineHQ is just the name of the website that is the home of Wine (Wine Head Quarters).

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    Re: guild wars on wine

    the reason i said it wasnt working was because my mouse wasnt showing and it was really hard to click when i didnt know where my mouse was
    now my keyboard is working....

    i run
    Code:
    wine "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -dsound
    then when i type it types as if i am still on the terminal
    it is cus i set the windows wine is using to not interact at all with other windows, this causes it to think i am still in the terminal, but if i try to switch back then it makes the mouse not work again ...

    PLZ HELP ME!!!!!

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    Re: guild wars on wine

    That problem is caused by disabled the "Allow window manager to control..." option in winecfg under Graphics. Unfortunately, you usually don't want that enabled because it can screw up full screen games.

    Click on the "Stuff I've learned about Wine" link in my sig and look for the "Advanced Stuff" section. It describes how to create a launcher script that will launch the game in its own X session and eliminate any problems with the window manager.

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    Re: guild wars on wine

    how do i find where guild wars in located in wine?

    i mean in your thing it says to enter the game location and where it says game i put Guild Wars instead but i dont know what to put at directory
    Last edited by taehC; August 10th, 2007 at 05:17 PM.

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    Re: guild wars on wine

    $HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Guild Wars/gw.exe

    Open your home directory with the file browser and hit CTRL+H to show hidden folders. Look for a ".wine" directory, that is where your fake Windows install is. Inside that directory will be at least two more directories; "dosdevices" which just contains symbolic links to your drives, and "drive_c" which contains a file structure nearly identical to Windows (i.e. "Program Files" and "Windows" directories). Everything that you install through Wine can be found in the "drive_c" directory.
    Last edited by cogadh; August 10th, 2007 at 05:25 PM.

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    Re: guild wars on wine

    when i type
    Code:
    chmod +x ~/launcher.sh
    the terminal doesnt say anything and when i do the next step it doesnt work or when i try the other way it doesnt work in a different way
    Last edited by taehC; August 10th, 2007 at 05:36 PM.

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    Re: guild wars on wine

    Copy and paste the contents of the script you created into a post here, it sounds like something might be wrong with one of the paths in it.

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