Guild Wars 2

Hey guys,

I haven’t been able to play the game at all for a while because my computer could not handle it. I just bought a new computer for simulations (it’s got an intel i7-5820k, a gtx970, and 32GiB of RAM). I thought I would give the game a go. It’s running at 15 FPS. Interestingly, increasing the graphics setting does not at all decrease my FPS and my computer barely even notices GW2 is a thing (unlike when I play a few steam games).

What can I do to up the FPS? I have implemented CSMT both on my own wine versions, git, and playonlinux. Nothing seems to work.

I’m afraid I might have to finally throw in the towel on this one.

Dualbooting isn’t an option?

kokiman.2364:

Dualbooting isn’t an option?

No, unfortunately not. Sorry.

You can try virtualization with the free Vmware player that is available for Linux. I read from some Mac users that running GW2 in a virtualization product gives significantly better performance than using the beta Mac client. The Mac client is simply running the Windows client in an wine-based emulator software. I assume this is true on Linux as well: full hardware virtualization performs better than emulation through wine.

The downside is that you need a Windows licence for the virtual machine.

Silmar Alech.4305:

You can try virtualization with the free Vmware player that is available for Linux. I read from some Mac users that running GW2 in a virtualization product gives significantly better performance than using the beta Mac client. The Mac client is simply running the Windows client in an wine-based emulator software. I assume this is true on Linux as well: full hardware virtualization performs better than emulation through wine.

The downside is that you need a Windows licence for the virtual machine.

Thanks for the input! I tried VMing on my previous computer, but again… that computer was orders of magnitudes slower than this one. That said, this game is currently the only reason I would install Windows. I feel like that’s a waste of resources.

*Disclaimer to anyone reading: I don’t want to start a flame war between Windows and Linux. I just want to optimize WINE. If it turns out that I have done everything I can, I’ll consider other options.

GW2 is fairly CPU intensive, and even if it doesn’t show on your computer as being heavy on the CPU itself, the process of converting the machine code instructions into Linux-compatible instructions is quite costly, as I’m sure you are already aware. In short, it’s not likely that wine will ever be able to perform on the level of native code, especially with the limitations of GW2.

Andred.1087:

GW2 is fairly CPU intensive, and even if it doesn’t show on your computer as being heavy on the CPU itself, the process of converting the machine code instructions into Linux-compatible instructions is quite costly, as I’m sure you are already aware. In short, it’s not likely that wine will ever be able to perform on the level of native code, especially with the limitations of GW2.

Honestly, I am not looking for the speed of native code. However, looking at my processors, none of them are even hitting 50% while running the game. The point is that I have a laptop that is ~6 years old running the game just as well as my new beefy computer. I have seen people running the game better and am trying to figure out what it is they did to do that.