Guild Wars 2

I’m a bit worried about the release of the new expansion as for now I play gw2 using wine with terrible graphics and bad overall performance (15-20 fps which is great for this kind of game, WvW zerg sometimes drop to 10 and lower). So I fear to not be able to play this expansion due to lack of support for linux user if wine is not able to handle the expansion (might be unreasonable fear as expansion will probably use the same tech choice as the vanilla version).

Also this fear lead to those question:
- Is linux support is planned in the future?
- Am I alone playing GW2 on linux?

Thank you in advance for the answers!

Note: I don’t mind playing trough wine with bad performance because I enjoy playing the game!

Youre not alone playing GW2 on Wine. HoT Bump

I developed a rule for me: If its not running on Linux/Kubuntu, im aint buying it anymore.

Installed a parallel Windows for Diablo3, GW2 and some non Steamplay games and it suckerpunched me 1st try watching porn, installing 274 updates for 4h when i needed a fast restart, refusing drivers for my Xonar, bugging me to Download SpyOS (Win10) and craving for a virusscanner (which will decrease my expensive bought performance alot more). Kubuntu handles all that way better.

I would really like a GW2 HoT Linux Client, but i know ArenaNet well enough to know, that we wont even receive a response to this post.

If more people would know how much Windows sucks in a productive environment, there would probably be more money in it for a native linux client.
Especially since there is alreade a MAC Client.

lionskeep.8473:

Especially since there is alreade a MAC Client.

The mac ‘client’ is also a wrapper and has been in terrible shape for over a year. Also with no response.

We have been thinking about bootcamp, but you raised good reasons not to with all if those patches, spy os, virus thingies and so. It sounds quite annoying just to be able to play gw.

Poorly tuned drivers and wine/OpenGL overhead lead to very bad performance on Mac and Linux. I have Windows partition on my Mac just for gaming.

ananda.5946:

lionskeep.8473:

Especially since there is alreade a MAC Client.

The mac ‘client’ is also a wrapper and has been in terrible shape for over a year. Also with no response.

Yes, and cider is probably the #1 offender of why people with custom PC gaming rigs say you can not play games on a mac. Macs are not designed for PC games, of course, but natively written games play great. Sure, cider is handy for some things but not for a full-fledged game.

Back to Linux though. From what we have seen it will basically be an addition of content, not significant changes to how the engine works (I doubt they will do a complete recode of everything). Some optimal specs may get tweaked, like graphics or memory, but nothing significant.

Granted I have only tried using it under ubuntu on a laptop. It crashes the laptop every time though. So hopefully your linux machine has a bit more oomph to it.

Have you ever considered a dual-boot setup on your linux box? While it may seem backwards it is what many mac gamers do.

You are definitely not alone with playing on linux. I use PlayonLinux and it works great! i get an average of 30fps consistently, i start the game and let everything load for a minute and its all good. So far HOT seems like it is working just fine as well. Glad to see a fellow Linux die hard I use Fedora 22 at the moment on a Lenovo Y50 laptop.