Talk:Guild Wars 2 on Wine

Hope that this will help people. Partially copied from the gw1 version. If anyone doubts that this has a place on the wiki, let me say that this was a good article in the Gw1 wiki, and that it only serves to allow more people to play the game with more convenience. -- NilePenguin 16:05, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

How would you rate performance? Platinum? Any unusual graphics or sound issues? Key bindings? - C0c0c0 20:03, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

dx9single still required?

I'm running the game on wine without the dx9single tag (using wine-staging 64 bit with enabled CSMT), and it works just fine. The bug about multicore usage of gw2 in the wine wiki has been closed recently, and I can confirm multiple cores being used by wine (8 core CPU, gw2 uses up to 50%) The game also seems a lot more responsive without dx9single, but thats just after some quick comparission in lions arch. Overall: can I update this page a bit? Playonlinux/mac seems like the fastest and most recommended way to run gw2 in wine, and because of that I think it should cbe the first entry.

--Herochao (talk) 08:58, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

Odd glitch

I did what it said in the article to run Guild Wars 2 on my Macbook. While the program is downloading the files it needs, it crashes several times. Each time, I am able to run the program again and it will start from where it left off, but this makes me worried about possible future issues. Is this normal?

Here's what I know about my system specs: Mac OS X Version 10.6.8

Model Name: MacBook

 Model Identifier:	MacBook5,1
 Processor Name:	Intel Core 2 Duo
 Processor Speed:	2.4 GHz
 Number Of Processors:	1
 Total Number Of Cores:	2
 L2 Cache:	3 MB
 Memory:	2 GB
 Bus Speed:	1.07 GHz
 Boot ROM Version:	MB51.007D.B03
 SMC Version (system):	1.32f8
 Serial Number (system):	W88472D21B5
 Hardware UUID:	374E4E6F-B635-5C31-83F0-31DB181929BF
 Sudden Motion Sensor:
 State:	Enabled

Here's the error message:

• --> Crash <--*

Assertion: m_ioCount File: ..\..\..\Core\Platform\Windows\Exe\ExeIoConn.cpp(129) App: Gw2.exe Pid: 8 Cmdline: BaseAddr: 00400000 ProgramId: 101 Build: 14528 When: 2012-06-23T17:27:20Z 2012-06-23T13:27:20-04:00 Uptime: 0 days 0:06:40 Flags: 0

• --> System <--*

Name: Kitchen-MacBook IpAddr: 10.0.1.8 Processors: 2 [GenuineIntel:6:7:6] OSVersion: Windows 5.1 (32 bit)

• --> System Memory <--*

Physical: 1591MB/ 1792MB 88% Paged: 3183MB/ 3383MB 94% Virtual: 4093MB/ 4093MB 100% Load: 11%

• --> Process Memory <--*

Private: 0MB WorkingSet: 0MB PeakWorkingSet: 0MB PageFaults: 0

[DbgHelp.dll is C:\windows\system32\dbghelp.dll] [DbgHelp.dll version 5.1.2600.3264 (64/32-bit compatible)]

• --> ThreadPoolSocket01 Thread 0x27 <--*

• --> Trace <--*

Pc:0063184c Fr:3296f534 Rt:0063495b Arg:06ad67b8 00000000 3296f560 00631cc0 Pc:0063495b Fr:3296f544 Rt:00631cc0 Arg:06ad67b8 00000000 05366710 00000000 Pc:00631cc0 Fr:3296f560 Rt:0063054c Arg:06ad67b8 00000000 05366710 05366750 Pc:0063054c Fr:3296f604 Rt:0063062d Arg:06ad6730 06ad67b8 05366750 05366710 Pc:0063062d Fr:3296f620 Rt:00630695 Arg:00000001 81fc01bc 050731f0 0062fcef Pc:00630695 Fr:3296f644 Rt:0087736c Arg:050731f0 b40c714f 81fc01bc 01b48ad8 Pc:0087736c Fr:3296f67c Rt:00877414 Arg:81fc0f10 3296f698 7bc6505c 01b48ad8 Pc:00877414 Fr:3296f688 Rt:7bc6505c Arg:01b48ad8 00000000 3296f718 7bc6617a Pc:7bc6505c Fr:3296f698 Rt:7bc6617a Arg:00877392 01b48ad8 3296f6d0 7bc3fe84 Pc:7bc6617a Fr:3296f718 Rt:7bc65022 Arg:00877392 01b48ad8 3296f738 81fc01bc Pc:7bc65022 Fr:3296f738 Rt:7bc6d037 Arg:00877392 01b48ad8 00000000 00000000 Pc:7bc6d037 Fr:3296ff88 Rt:97766259 Arg:81fc0fb8 00000000 00000000 00000000 Pc:97766259 Fr:3296ffc8 Rt:977660de Arg:40833e00 00002803 7bc6cf40 81fc0fb8 Pc:977660de Fr:3296ffec Rt:00000000 Arg:00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

• --> Thread registers <--*

eax=7b8183ad ebx=7b82c86e ecx=00000000 edx=80000003 esi=00000000 edi=00000000 eip=0063184c esp=3296f514 ebp=3296f534 cs=0017 ss=001f ds=001f es=001f fs=1027 gs=0037 efl=00000246

eax-32 7B81838C 9000077c 000217e8 77a0ff00 9000077c eax-16 7B81839C 00020be8 6fa0ff00 9000077c 0001ffe8 eax +0 7B8183AC 67a0ff00 9000077c 0001f3e8 5fa0ff00 eax+16 7B8183BC 9000077c 0001e7e8 57a0ff00 9000077c eax+32 7B8183CC 0001dbe8 4fa0ff00 9000077c 0001cfe8 eax+48 7B8183DC 47a0ff00 9000077c 0001c3e8 3fa0ff00 ebx-32 7B82C84C 00000000 04244c8d fff0e483 8955fc71 ebx-16 7B82C85C 78ec83e5 89f44d89 7589f85d 0000e8fc ebx +0 7B82C86C 8b5b0000 04418b11 8b08718b 55890c49 ebx+16 7B82C87C 01e08398 c79c4589 0000a045 838d0000 ebx+32 7B82C88C ffffffe2 85a44589 853974f6 b83574c9 ebx+48 7B82C89C 0000000f 0f0ffe83 4589c646 2444c7a8

• --> Code <--*

0063182C cccccccc 568bf183 7e480057 8d7e4875 ....V...~H.W.~Hu 0063183C 14688100 0000bac0 f31c01b9 f4f31c01 .h.............. 0063184C e83f4200 008bcfe8 e8a9ffff 5f85c075 .?B........._..u 0063185C 0a8b068b 50048bce 5effe25e c3cccccc ....P...^..^.... 0063186C cccccccc 568bf18d 4e08e895 adffffff ....V...N....... 0063187C 464c5ec3 ff494c83 c108e995 adffffcc FL^..IL.........

• --> Stack <--*

3296F514 00631851 00000081 00000000 06ad6730 Q.c.........0g.. 3296F524 006338e7 06ad6730 06ad67b8 06ad6730 .8c.0g...g..0g.. 3296F534 3296f544 0063495b 06ad67b8 00000000 D..2[Ic..g...... 3296F544 3296f560 00631cc0 06ad67b8 00000000 `..2..c..g...... 3296F554 05366710 00000000 050731f0 3296f604 .g6......1.....2 3296F564 0063054c 06ad67b8 00000000 05366710 L.c..g.......g6. 3296F574 05366750 050731f0 7bc3c55e 00110060 Pg6..1..^..{`... 3296F584 00000200 00000200 00007dfc c0000135 .........}..5... 3296F594 3296f5b0 3296f5f8 7bc41e35 3296f624 ...2...25..{$..2 3296F5A4 7b810000 00000200 00110000 00000000 ...{............ 3296F5B4 00000000 00110000 0000000a 7bc969f4 .............i.{ 3296F5C4 3296f62c 00000000 00110014 7bc969f4 ,..2.........i.{ 3296F5D4 3296f63c 3296f600 00000000 00110000 <..2...2........ 3296F5E4 01b48ad8 3296f618 7b835a4e 3296f624 .......2NZ.{$..2 3296F5F4 81fc01bc 7b81804d 00000000 00000000 ....M..{........ 3296F604 3296f620 0063062d 06ad6730 06ad67b8 ..2-.c.0g...g.. 3296F614 05366750 05366710 7bc660fc 3296f644 Pg6..g6..`.{D..2 3296F624 00630695 00000001 81fc01bc 050731f0 ..c..........1.. 3296F634 0062fcef 81fc01bc 01b48ad8 00004000 ..b..........@.. 3296F644 3296f67c 0087736c 050731f0 b40c714f |..2ls...1..Oq.. 3296F654 81fc01bc 01b48ad8 7bc660fc 80000003 .........`.{.... 3296F664 3296f650 3296ec20 3296f6b0 008774d0 P..2 ..2...2.t.. 3296F674 87cff3b3 00000000 3296f688 00877414 ...........2.t.. 3296F684 81fc0f10 3296f698 7bc6505c 01b48ad8 .......2\P.{.... 3296F694 00000000 3296f718 7bc6617a 00877392 .......2za.{.s.. 3296F6A4 01b48ad8 3296f6d0 7bc3fe84 ffffffff .......2...{.... 3296F6B4 7bc7c070 7b82c900 7bc2027f 00000000 p..{...{...{.... 3296F6C4 00001f80 7bc660fc 7bc27f3e 7bc969f4 .....`.{>..{.i.{ 3296F6D4 81fc01bc 81fc0f10 3296f718 3296f6a0 ...........2...2 3296F6E4 3296001f 00000216 7bc66134 00140017 ...2....4a.{.... 3296F6F4 7bca001f 3296001f 7bc31027 7bc90037 ...{...2'..{7..{ 3296F704 00000000 00000001 7bc585ca 7bc96d80 ...........{.m.{ 3296F714 7bc6cf51 3296f738 7bc65022 00877392 Q..{8..2"P.{.s.. 3296F724 01b48ad8 3296f738 81fc01bc 81fc0f10 ....8..2........ 3296F734 7bc6cf51 3296ff88 7bc6d037 00877392 Q..{...27..{.s.. 3296F744 01b48ad8 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................ 3296F754 00000000 00877392 01b48ad8 00000000 .....s.......... 3296F764 3296f7c2 3296fb6c 32330030 35663639 ...2l..20.3296f5 3296F774 66003431 3c74616c 36393233 34313566 14.flat<3296f514 3296F784 3631003e 303c3631 3a303030 30303030 >.1616<0000:0000 3296F794 3233003e 35663639 66003433 3c74616c >.3296f534.flat< 3296F7A4 36393233 34333566 3336003e 63343831 3296f534>.63184c 3296F7B4 616c6600 33363c74 63343831 0000003e .flat<63184c>... 3296F7C4 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................ 3296F7D4 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................ 3296F7E4 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................ 3296F7F4 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................ 3296F804 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................ 3296F814 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................ 3296F824 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................ 3296F834 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................ 3296F844 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................ 3296F854 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................ 3296F864 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................ 3296F874 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................ 3296F884 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................ 3296F894 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................ 3296F8A4 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................ 3296F8B4 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................ 3296F8C4 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................ 3296F8D4 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................ 3296F8E4 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................ 3296F8F4 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................ 3296F904 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................

• --> Error Logs <--*

GetLogicalProcessorInformation failed, increase buffer bytes to 1536 Download failed for 0x0002e64e:0x00000000->0x0002e64e with error 7:0:0:0 (error:product:module:line) [tries left: 4] Download failed for 0x00047c27:0x00000000->0x00047c27 with error 7:0:0:0 (error:product:module:line) [tries left: 4]

• --> DirectX Device Info <--*

VendorId = 0x10de DeviceId = 0x0863 Version = 6.15.0012.6658 Description = NVIDIA GeForce 9400M Compat = 0x00400000 VidMem = 268 MB

Could you help?

Although I can't help, I do experience the same thing on my iMac with i3 Intel processor. I remember having read the same comment on winehq or someplace like it that most wine users on mac will get that. Another thing that has me more worried is that performance is very poor. I have deplorable frame rates (less than 1 fps), while my pc with poorer specs runs it very smooth. I hope it's just the "not optimized for GPU"-thing, although I fail to see why a smaller machine still runs it better. Helgan Iceglow 08:15, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

Broken Link

Guild Wars 2 Shortcut Icons - broken link. Please fix it!

It's been deleted it seems. It's not a simple case of a wrong link, that gives a different 404 error on Dropbox. - 10:40, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

I found an archive of the some nice GW2 icons (the city map icons from early betas) and I've converted them for use on the Mac. Here's the link. 209.195.115.23 05:43, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

Here's the official one used on windows in ICNS for the Mac users. To use it, you just need to right click on your GW wineskin (or whatever you happen to be using) and say "Show Package Contents". Then open Contents -> Resources and replace whatever ICNS that's in there with this one. Make sure you rename this one the same thing as the original ICNS that's in the file. 209.197.169.220 02:11, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Useoldlauncher flag, windowed mode and common graphical glitches?

I think it would be helpful to recommend the use of the -useoldlauncher flag to avoid the appearance of this bug with the launcher. Also, in terms of wineskin on the mac, it'd also probably be helpful to recommend running it in windowed mode. Alt+Tabbing breaks on Mac (don't know about Linux) when you try to alt+tab between native applications and fullscreen wine applications in my experience. We should also make not somewhere of the common graphical glitches when you run GW2 in wine on some hardware. If somebody else agrees, I'd like to see this added to the article. 209.195.115.23 05:55, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

Probably add it to a "Notes" section, as to keep the general instructions less cluttered. – Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 03:14, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

Minimising breaks on Linux, but switching virtual desktop doesn't (as of two stress tests ago) Illiander 18:18, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

-useoldlauncher no longer works. Illiander 19:23, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Unclear Instructions

For the step "Then, drag your Guild Wars 2 resources (the GW2.dat file and GW2.exe) into this folder" for Running Guild Wars 2 on a Mac using Wineskin, how do you acquire the "Guild Wars 2 resources"?

First of all, you need to sign your comments with four tildes. Now to answer your question: You can either run the GW2Setup.exe you've downloaded from ArenaNet in the Wineskin installer (when launching the Wineskin wrapper config app, there's an option that says "install software" or something like that.) or you can take the files you've already downloaded on some other machine and copy them in. If you do use the setup, your files may end up in a slightly different place than the guide says. If this happens, you'll just need to point the wineskin wrapper to the right location for your gw2.exe file.198.91.211.214 22:40, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

Sorry about that. After doing Install Software and selecting GW2Setup.exe, it seems like the install is working, but eventually the screen goes completely black. Not the black-bordered thing that other people have had (and I'm using the old installer suggested in the page), but just nothing. Do you know what I'm doing wrong? x_x Ferretsroq 23:13, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, I've got no clue. I have no issues installing, patching, downloading and launching on my Mac, but I get a crash after login. If it's your entire screen going black, then it could be the game launching in full-screen. Maybe installing a directX winetrick or something would help. If it's just a portion of your screen, go into mission control and select the actual patcher window. Even with the old launcher, I still get another random window besides the patcher - it's the same on Windows, it's just that the extra window is invisible on Windows. 198.91.211.214 03:56, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

I just launched the patcher on Crossover 11 without the useoldlauncher flag and my patcher just turns into a black box, so I guess you're not alone after all. Make sure your flag is entered properly. Also, a tip if you're downloading the whole game - the "-image" flag will set the patcher to download all possible resources. Apparently it can help stop the patcher from crashing if you have any issue like that. Can't confirm, because I haven't had such issues, but good to know, you know? :) 198.91.211.214 04:04, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

PlayOnMac not worthy of a mention?

What is the goal of this page? If it's having a clear and concise guide to running GW2 using Wine solutions and highlighting only the best ways to do so, I don't think PlayOnMac deserves a mention. IME Wineskin is a much better solution. Of course, this is just my opinion, and I won't be changing the page based solely on that. If we decide that PlayOnMac deserves a mention on the page, I don't think we need to give it its own section to say "download from here and follow the instructions in the PlayOnLinux guide" - it's a waste of space and makes the page feel cluttered and unprofessional. It'd be better to simply change the Linux section to "Playing GW2 using PlayOn Software" or the like and simply mentioning that there is both a Mac and Linux version available of the software in said section. 209.197.136.247 20:36, 22 August 2012 (UTC) I'm going to be bold and condense the sections into one as I've described above. If you disagree with this, feel free to revert. 209.197.136.247 20:42, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Camera mouse rotation

Is camera rotation with mouse broken or is it just me? Everything else seems to work, but I think this camera issue is quite severe. I read about applying some patches to Wine (RawInput3 or something?) but I can't seem to get it to work. I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit with the latest NVidia driver, and my Wine version is 1.5.11.

So, is there an easy way to fix the mouse camera rotation?

Try PlayOnLinux. It has a wine build with the rawinput3 patch applied along with a patch for the in-game browser. You can either run that wine directly after downloading it, or you could use PlayOnLinux's launcher system. You will still want the -dx9single flag. Illiander 06:55, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

In WineConfig, in the graphics tab, try selecting "Automatically Capture the Mouse in Full Screen Windows." This solved the mouse-camera rotation issue for me. Speitzer 1 October 2016

GW2 starts, then crashes

I start up GW2 w/ the -dx9single (or can't see it at all). It starts, I can log in and all, but then it crashes w/ the music playing in the background. Here's what the file says:

• --> Crash <--*

Assertion: m_ioCount File: ..\..\..\Core\Platform\Windows\Exe\ExeIoConn.cpp(129) App: Gw2.exe Pid: 8 Cmdline: -dx9single BaseAddr: 00400000 ProgramId: 101 Build: 15405 When: 2012-09-02T20:19:50Z 2012-09-02T16:19:50-04:00 Uptime: 0 days 0:04:18 Flags: 0

• --> Error Logs <--*

GetLogicalProcessorInformation failed, increase buffer bytes to 1536

I moved the .exe and .dat to the program Files/GW2/ file, as the install instructions stated. Anyone able to help me out here? Do I need to change something?

Black Lion Trading Company

Any fixes yet for this? I still can't access it. I'm running GW2 on Wine in OSX Mountain Lion. Risus 19:29, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

PlayOnLinux has a fix in their "Guild Wars 2" wine build. And the browser patch is linked in the Wine Forum's thread on GW2. About page 7 if I remember right. Illiander 06:33, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Patched Wine version

The standard version of wine has some shortcomings in threading with leads to extremely reduces frame rates compared to native windows. Especially on machines with low end/old CPU's and newer AMD models which er designed for treading heavily. There is however are new patch out there for testing at winehq.org For those who aren't the "asuren-type" and don't want or can't patch wine them self there is wine version available on launchpad.net witch also incorporates a few other fixes for Guild Wars 2. On my Ubuntu running notebook (weak Arrandale cpu) it increased the fps quite a lot and they are now just a wee bit below native windows. --Gronfir (talk) 14:47, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

http://projects.boxedfox.org/winegw2

There's a project mantaining gw2 to linux, take a look at http://projects.boxedfox.org/winegw2

Strangely low frames at logon

Hey I'm using wine-staging, (with the performance boosting option on), NVIDIA proprietary drivers, and Arch Linux. Gw2 consistently delivers < 1 FPS even at the login screen. Any suggestions on what I might have screwed up? 74.179.177.72 18:05, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

After last GW2 update installation fails - wine 7.13

Since the last GW2 update, the winehq page has a status of garbage with description that nothing works. Tried install on wine 7.13 and installer crashed. Running Manjaro Gnome Linux kernel 5.15 LTS. 173.80.202.132 20:14, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

Edit: Wayland totally seems not to play even a little bit nice with GW2 install and running. Switched to Xorg and everything works just fine! Just grabbed the latest ISO to reinstall and didn't know my distro had switched to Wayland as default.

Pixman 0.43.x-x causes launcher freeze.

Looking at the commits log from Arch, the pixman package hasn't been updated since Nov. 2022 and suddenly received an update Jan. 2024 that has caused the launcher to constantly fail to properly draw or freeze the DE. Downgrading from the 0.43.x.x to the last 0.42.2-1 package and preventing it from being updated has fixed the issues for me and may be worth including in the desktop freezing troubleshooting section.

Feedback 2024/08/14

Hi! I wasn't able to get Proton enabled on Steam for Mac. Has Steam for Mac ever supported this feature, and is there any way to use Wine/Proton on the Mac version of Steam? Thanks! I ended up trying just downloading Steam for Windows and running it through Wine on the Mac, and running GW2 through that. --73.109.213.231 23:46, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

Proton dropped Mac support in 2018 likely due to current shortcomings in Vulkan support in MacOS. Proton depends on DXVK which depends on the Vulkan standard being implemented by the graphics driver. --Voidvector (talk) 09:36, 11 September 2024 (UTC)