guild wars on wine

[taehC]

#!/bin/sh
#uncomment if launching from console session
#sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
#KDE use this instead
#sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop

# Goto game dir (modify as needed)
cd "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Guild Wars/Gw.exe"

# Forces the system to have a break for 2 seconds, X doesn't launch
instantly
sleep 2

# Launches game (modify as needed)
DISPLAY=:3 WINEDEBUG=-all wine "C:/Program Files/Guild Wars/Gw.exe"

is that all correct?

[cogadh]

Yup, that's what it was. The "Goto game directory" section shouldn't have the .exe in the path. It should be like this:

#!/bin/sh
#uncomment if launching from console session
#sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
#KDE use this instead
#sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop

# Goto game dir (modify as needed)
cd "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Guild Wars/"

# Forces the system to have a break for 2 seconds, X doesn't launch
instantly
sleep 2

# Launches game (modify as needed)
DISPLAY=:3 WINEDEBUG=-all wine "C:/Program Files/Guild Wars/Gw.exe"

[taehC]

it still doesnt say any thing when i type

chmod +x ~/launcher.sh

and then i use

./ launcher.sh

and it says

bash: ./: is a directory

so then i try to do this

sh launcher.sh

and it does a lot of things mostly a lot of waiting though...
man i hope i can get this to work!

i have been looking over your wine thing and i think that making the games own x server but will it fix the problem i have now?

[cogadh]

Can't believe I missed this, but you are missing the very first line that creates the new X session for the game to run in. The full script should be like this:

#!/bin/sh
#uncomment if launching from console session
#sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
#KDE use this instead
#sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop

# Launches a new X session on display 3. If you don't have an Nvidia card
# take out the "& nvidia-settings --load-config-only" part
X :3 -ac 

# Goto game dir (modify as needed)
cd "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Guild Wars/"

# Forces the system to have a break for 2 seconds, X doesn't launch
instantly
sleep 2

# Launches game (modify as needed)
DISPLAY=:3 WINEDEBUG=-all wine "C:/Program Files/Guild Wars/Gw.exe"

I'm assuming you don't have an Nvidia card, so I left the Nvidia settings part off.

[taehC]

SO CLOSE

now what happens is when i run it it has a gray screen and a X for a mouse
but thats it...

[cogadh]

You should get that at first and then the game should launch after a few seconds. If it doesn't, are there any error messages showing up in the terminal?

[taehC]

i waited about a minute and still nothing and after i press ctrl alt backspace it does have anything on the terminal
should i try the alternative way to make it work?

OH AND I FORGOT TO MENTION that i have xgl running i dont have beryl on at the moment but if xgl is on should that change anything? should i turn it off?

[cogadh]

Are you certain that the Guild Wars executable is actually "Gw.exe" (i.e. could it be all uppercase letters or lowercase letters)?

[taehC]

yes i am sure and
does me running xgl matter?
i dont have beryl running but i am in a xgl session

[cogadh]

Nope, that shouldn't matter at all.

Try this script, I know it looks the same, but I removed a line break where it shouldn't have been:

#!/bin/sh
#uncomment if launching from console session
#sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
#KDE use this instead
#sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop

# Launches a new X session on display 3. If you don't have an Nvidia card
# take out the "& nvidia-settings --load-config-only" part
X :3 -ac 

# Goto game dir (modify as needed)
cd "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Guild Wars/"

# Forces the system to have a break for 2 seconds, X doesn't launch instantly
sleep 2

# Launches game (modify as needed)
DISPLAY=:3 WINEDEBUG=-all wine "C:/Program Files/Guild Wars/Gw.exe"