Guild Wars 2

I’m not sure where to post this. I hope this is the right section.

Anyway.

Does anyone run Guild Wars 2 on Linux? And did you manage to get decent FPS out of it? If so, please tell me how you did it.

I managed to get it to install, and i’m able to play, but the graphical lag is horrible and unplayable so for now i play it in windows.

I hear it has something to do with wine not being able to run guild wars 2 on more than 1 processor, but i don’t know…

I installed it trough PlayOnLinux, and it runs on wine 1.5.28 (or something like that).
Phenom II x6 1090t 3.2 Ghz
Geforce 9600 GT 512 MB
8 GB RAM

I know the graphic card is old, but it runs fine in windows, so there’s got to be some trick to make it run just as good on linux. I know that it needs more resources to run windows games on linux but if i play it in windows on high, i should be at least able to play it on medium in linux.

So. Anyone playing GW2 on linux and not getting low FPS on lowest settings? :P

I play it on a Mac (heard somewhere they are similar) and I get horrible FPS the entire time. Around 14 average.

Husky.6018:

I play it on a Mac (heard somewhere they are similar) and I get horrible FPS the entire time. Around 14 average.

Yes, in order to play it on linux or mac, Guild Wars 2 needs to run through wine. So they are simmilar. You still get more FPS than i do, i get like 5-10 max.

No one is playing it on linux? :P

Hi Veprovina. There is actually a separate Mac client that can be downloaded from the site and used without Wine. I know that doesn’t answer your question concerning Linux.

I should point out that ANet does not support GW2 on the Linux OS. It’s possible that fellow players might be able to help you with settings for optimal performance, but from what I’ve read in the past low FPS should be expected.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_2_on_Wine

There are a good amount of people playing gw2 on linux. It is as indicated not supported, and never will be supported. But it is very much possible,

Berelious.3290:

Hi Veprovina. There is actually a separate Mac client that can be downloaded from the site and used without Wine. I know that doesn’t answer your question concerning Linux.

I should point out that ANet does not support GW2 on the Linux OS. It’s possible that fellow players might be able to help you with settings for optimal performance, but from what I’ve read in the past low FPS should be expected.

Really? Mac client works on Linux without wine?
That i didn’t know. I’ll try that, thank you!

I know it’s not supported, i just don’t want to switch to windows every time i want to play it since i’m mostly on Ubuntu for everyday stuff like surfing and whatever.
Anyway, all i’m asking is if someone found that optimal settings. For now, every guide i looked at didn’t yield any promising results. Maybe i missed something, idk.

I’ll play with it some more, see what i can do, but if anyone has GW2 running at some good FPS i’d be happy if they can share what settings or wine version or whatever they’re using.

mercury ranique.2170:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_2_on_Wine

There are a good amount of people playing gw2 on linux. It is as indicated not supported, and never will be supported. But it is very much possible,

Yes, i know it’s possible, i can actually run it and play, it’s just that the FPS is horrible. Right now, for that reason i’m playing it on Windows (as it’s meant to be played, lol), but if i can fiddle with some settings to make it more smooth on linux that would be perfect!

I did look at that guide and it helped me install and run it. I just don’t know how to fine tune it to run better, that’s all…

I’ve been thinking of running it in wine or more specifically Crossover, but haven’t yet due to laziness and having to download a bunch of 32 bit libraries. It is basically the only reason I dual boot windows. I used to run GW 1 exclusively in Wine and it was mostly fine.

Probably if I get time over the holidays I will give a shot at it once I upgrade to openSUSE 13.1

/Open SUSE 12.3 64 bit.

Hmm, i’m using Ubuntu now. I’ve always had issues with openSUSE for some reason. The last thing it did is started to lag graphically on videos desktop and such, and later crashed and wouldn’t boot anymore. I have no idea why.

Seems my computer will accept only select few OS’…
Ubuntu works great, Windows is ok too, SUSE is unstable and Mint crashed my computer during an installation 3 times which in turn messed up booting and windows died with the crash too… :/ Arch wouldn’t even start the installation. :P

So yeah, Ubuntu… It’s not like i have a choice. :P Hahaha.

Wine especially behaves weird on Suse. It shouldn’t, but id does on my computer for some reason. IDK…

Anyway. Post here if you manage to get it running (you will, it works), but running at an ok FPS…

For now, everywhere i look on the net, people are saying it’s because wine uses only 1 core, and untill multi threading is added to wine, low fps with GW2 can’t be helped.

The only people who manage to run it at a somewhat playable level are the ones with some really heavy hardware. And even they report that they loose about 15 fps compared to running it on windows.

Well, one can hope for a native client, but somehow i doubt that’s gonna happen.

EDIT:
Also, how exactly does one install a mac client on linux? And use it without wine?

Veprovina.4876:

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EDIT:
Also, how exactly does one install a mac client on linux? And use it without wine?

I’m not certain, but there is the darling project. I wasn’t aware it was far enough along to support mac games though. Last I heard it was for command line programs.

http://darling.dolezel.info/en/Darling;jsessionid=13xg9rb3o7sjprpzzmyiuutn

Batdogi.7142:

Veprovina.4876:

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EDIT:
Also, how exactly does one install a mac client on linux? And use it without wine?

I’m not certain, but there is the darling project. I wasn’t aware it was far enough along to support mac games though. Last I heard it was for command line programs.

http://darling.dolezel.info/en/Darling;jsessionid=13xg9rb3o7sjprpzzmyiuutn

Thank you. I’ll check it out.
From what i breezed thorugh in the wiki, it doesn’t seem to be finished enough to run something like this.

I guess i’ll have to wait for wine to add multi threading support, or maybe run some overclocking type programs that speed the processor up…

The obvious, albeit a pricey thing would be to buy a new graphic card, but i’m not that into spending a lot of money for the one game i play. :/

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, wine 1.7.26, Phenom 9650, Nvidia 9600gt, 4Gb 800 MGhz DDR2. I have 11 fps mostly on the lowest settings.