Guild Wars 2 Guide

Guild Wars 2 will satisfy any gamer who wants multi-player, roleplaying, looting, responsive storyline, crafting, pets, character development and of course... Combat!

Guild Wars 2 includes a dynamic event system replaces traditional questing, utilising the ripple effect to allow players to approach quests in different ways as part of a persistent world. Also of note is the combat system, which aims to be more dynamic than its predecessor by promoting synergy between professions and using the environment as a weapon, as well as reducing the complexity of the Magic-style skill system of the original game.

Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Guild Wars 2 in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the Free-To-Play version of Guild Wars 2 downloaded from their website. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

To learn more about PlayOnLinux and Wine configuration, see the online manual: PlayOnLinux Explained

Mint 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.8
Wine: 1.7.49-staging

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"

Look for the Wine Version: 1.7.49-staging
Note: Try using stable Wine 1.8 and 1.8-staging

Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right

Click Next

Downloading Wine

Extracting

Downloading Gecko

Installed

Wine 1.7.49-staging is installed and you can close this window

Go to: https://www.guildwars2.com/
Click "Play For Free"

Signup and login

Click "Windows Client Download"

or
Download the client from here:
https://account.arena.net/content/download/gw2/win

Save Gw2Setup.exe on your desktop

PlayOnLinux Setup

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install

Click "Install a non-listed program"

Click Next

Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next

Name your virtual drive: guildwars2
Click Next

Check all three options:

• Use another version of wine
• Configure Wine
• Install some libraries

Click Next

Select Wine: 1.7.49-staging
Click Next

Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next

Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows Version: Windows 7
Click Apply

Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Check "Emulate a virtual desktop"
Desktop size: 1024x768
Click OK

Installing PlayOnLinux Packages (Libraries, DLL's, Components)

Check the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next

Note: All packages will automatically download and install

Click Browse

Navigate to your Desktop
Select "Gw2Setup.exe"
Click Open

Click Next

Loading screen

Click "Install Guilde Wars 2"

Click OK

Sign in
Wait for preloading...
Click Ready

License Agreement
Click "I Accept"

Select a server in your area

Create a character or play as an existing character
Close Guild Wars 2 and continue with PlayOnLinux

PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select Gw2.exe
Click Next

Name the shortcut: Guild Wars 2
Click Next

Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next

PlayOnLinux Configure

Select "Guild Wars 2"
Click Configure

General Tab
Wine version: 1.7.49-staging

Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of Wine.

Display Tab
Video memory size: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses

Close Configure

Select "Guild Wars 2"
Click Play

Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs

Optimization

Click the gear or press ESC
Select Options

Graphics Options

Adjust:

• Resolution
• Refresh Rate
• Frame Limiter
• Interface Size
• Gamma

Advanced Settings

Adjust:

• Animation
• Environment
• LOD distance
• Reflections
• Textures
• Render Sampling
• Shadows
• Shaders
• Postprocessing
• Character Model Limit
• Character Model Quality
• Ambient Occlusion
• Best Texture Filtering
• Depth Blur
• Effect LOD
• High-Res Character Textures
• Light Adaptation

All changes happen real-time

Disable Preloading

Click the Wrench Icon
Scroll down to Streaming
Select "On Demand" from the drop-down menu

Note: This requires downloading the entire game on next launch, but can improve performance.

Conclusion:
Guild Wars 2 installation was simple and straight forward. Launching the game is slow on the first try, but tweaking the graphics requires a bit of patience. Make sure to use an Nvidia Geforce video card and the proprietary Nvidia drivers for best performance. My GeForce 550 Ti was able to run Guild Wars at a playable frame rate, but I was not able to crank all the display settings to high.

I found that disabling Streaming and turning down Shaders & Antialiasing improved performance without loosing too much eye-candy.

Gameplay Video:

Screenshots:

 

You should enable CSMT under the Staging tab in the WINE Configuration.

Having my textures on high seems to cause my game to crash after playing for a bit.
Turning it to low seems to fix it.

 

In the PlayOnLinux configuration window, adding -dx9single to arguments increases performance a ton.

I don't think Corefonts, d3dx9, or Tahoma are needed, I installed the game without any and I don't see any problems

 

In configure where it says arguments?

 

In configure where it says arguments?

http://www.gamersonlinux.com/forum/attachments/guildwars29-png.9468/

 

In configure where it says arguments?

Have a look at the general tab. There's a field for arguments.

 

Howdy, I followed the guide as listed above however after adding "gw2" as a shortcut (after installation) one of two things have happened (as I tried twice).

First time as I opened up "Guild Wars 2" (gw2.exe) the loader started redownloading Guild Wars 2, after fully downloading again I logged in and clicked "Play" - Agreed to the T&C and clicked accept - however all I got was a black box where GW2 should of been displayed and could hear what I assumed to be the games menu music but no video.

I deleted the virtual drive and installed again, this time adding all the options available to me (I forget the name of the other shortcuts but there were 3). I tried the alternative two first (which launched the loader, just as the GW2.exe did) but all three of them failed again.

As for now I've deleted them all and as of this moment accept defeat, however with any advice or tips (as I'm very new to Linux/Wine/PlayOnLinux in general and am also a bit of an idiot!) I'll be willing to give it another pop.


Anyway, I've got my GPU propietary drivers installed and will provide a link to the output of my "sodu lshw" below.

Again, thank-you for the guide and thank-you for reading!

sudo lshw
[sudo] password for utuna:
utuna
description: Desktop Computer
product: To Be Filled By O.E.M. (To Be Filled By O.E.M.)
vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
serial: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
width: 64 bits
capabilities: smbios-2.7 dmi-2.7 vsyscall32
configuration: boot=normal chassis=desktop family=To Be Filled By O.E.M. sku=To Be Filled By O.E.M. uuid=00020003-0004-0005-0006-000700080009
*-core
description: Motherboard
product: Z75 Pro3
vendor: ASRock
physical id: 0
*-firmware
description: BIOS
vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
physical id: 0
version: P1.80
date: 12/05/2012
size: 64KiB
capacity: 8128KiB
capabilities: pci upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer acpi usb biosbootspecification uefi
*-cache:0
description: L2 cache
physical id: b
slot: CPU Internal L2
size: 1MiB
capacity: 1MiB
capabilities: internal write-through unified
*-cache:1
description: L1 cache
physical id: c
slot: CPU Internal L1
size: 256KiB
capacity: 256KiB
capabilities: internal write-through data
*-cache:2
description: L3 cache
physical id: d
slot: CPU Internal L3
size: 6MiB
capacity: 6MiB
capabilities: internal write-back unified
*-memory
description: System Memory
physical id: e
slot: System board or motherboard
size: 16GiB
*-bank:0
description: DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1600 MHz (0.6 ns)
product: 99U5471-039.A00LF
vendor: Kingston
physical id: 0
serial: 9708409C
slot: ChannelA-DIMM0
size: 8GiB
width: 64 bits
clock: 1600MHz (0.6ns)
*-bank:1
description: DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1600 MHz (0.6 ns)
product: 99U5471-039.A00LF
vendor: Kingston
physical id: 1
serial: 470806E3
slot: ChannelA-DIMM1
size: 8GiB
width: 64 bits
clock: 1600MHz (0.6ns)
*-bank:2
description: DIMMProject-Id-Version: lshwReport-Msgid-Bugs-To: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>POT-Creation-Date: 2009-10-08 14:02+0200PO-Revision-Date: 2012-02-05 00:26+0000Last-Translator: Andi Chandler <Unknown>Language-Team: English (United Kingdom) <en_GB@li.org>MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bitX-Launchpad-Export-Date: 2015-02-19 11:31+0000X-Generator: Launchpad (build 17341) [empty]
product: [Empty]
vendor: [Empty]
physical id: 2
serial: [Empty]
slot: ChannelB-DIMM0
*-bank:3
description: DIMMProject-Id-Version: lshwReport-Msgid-Bugs-To: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>POT-Creation-Date: 2009-10-08 14:02+0200PO-Revision-Date: 2012-02-05 00:26+0000Last-Translator: Andi Chandler <Unknown>Language-Team: English (United Kingdom) <en_GB@li.org>MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bitX-Launchpad-Export-Date: 2015-02-19 11:31+0000X-Generator: Launchpad (build 17341) [empty]
product: [Empty]
vendor: [Empty]
physical id: 3
serial: [Empty]
slot: ChannelB-DIMM1
*-cpu
description: CPU
product: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz
vendor: Intel Corp.
physical id: f
bus info: cpu@0
version: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz
slot: CPUSocket
size: 1828MHz
capacity: 3800MHz
width: 64 bits
clock: 100MHz
capabilities: x86-64 fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase smep erms cpufreq
configuration: cores=4 enabledcores=4 threads=4
*-pci
description: Host bridge
product: Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 100
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
version: 09
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-pci:0
description: PCI bridge
product: Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor PCI Express Root Port
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
version: 09
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pm msi pciexpress normal_decode bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:40 ioport:e000(size=4096) memory:f7c00000-f7cfffff ioport:e0000000(size=268435456)
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Pitcairn PRO [Radeon HD 7850]
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=fglrx_pci latency=0
resources: irq:48 memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f7c00000-f7c3ffff ioport:e000(size=256) memory:f7c40000-f7c5ffff
*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: Cape Verde/Pitcairn HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7700/7800 Series]
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 0.1
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.1
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0
resources: irq:47 memory:f7c60000-f7c63fff
*-display
description: Display controller
product: Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 09
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: msi pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:44 memory:f7800000-f7bfffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:f000(size=64)
*-usb:0
description: USB controller
product: 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 14
bus info: pci@0000:00:14.0
version: 04
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi xhci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=xhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:41 memory:f7d00000-f7d0ffff
*-communication
description: Communication controller
product: 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 16
bus info: pci@0000:00:16.0
version: 04
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=mei_me latency=0
resources: irq:45 memory:f7d1a000-f7d1a00f
*-usb:1
description: USB controller
product: 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1a
bus info: pci@0000:00:1a.0
version: 04
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm debug ehci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ehci-pci latency=0
resources: irq:16 memory:f7d18000-f7d183ff
*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1b
bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
version: 04
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0
resources: irq:46 memory:f7d10000-f7d13fff
*-pci:1
description: PCI bridge
product: 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1c
bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.0
version: c4
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm normal_decode bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:16
*-pci:2
description: PCI bridge
product: 82801 PCI Bridge
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1c.4
bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.4
version: c4
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm subtractive_decode bus_master cap_list
*-pci
description: PCI bridge
product: ASM1083/1085 PCIe to PCI Bridge
vendor: ASMedia Technology Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci subtractive_decode bus_master cap_list
*-pci:3
description: PCI bridge
product: 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 6
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1c.5
bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.5
version: c4
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm normal_decode bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:17 ioport:d000(size=4096) ioport:f0000000(size=1048576)
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
logical name: eth0
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serial: bc:5f:f4:35:6f:4e
size: 1Gbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl8168e-3_0.0.4 03/27/12 ip=192.168.0.2 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=1Gbit/s
resources: irq:43 ioport:d000(size=256) memory:f0004000-f0004fff memory:f0000000-f0003fff
*-usb:2
description: USB controller
product: 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.0
version: 04
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm debug ehci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ehci-pci latency=0
resources: irq:23 memory:f7d17000-f7d173ff
*-isa
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product: Z75 Express Chipset LPC Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.0
version: 04
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: isa bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=lpc_ich latency=0
resources: irq:0
*-storage
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vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.2
version: 04
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: storage msi pm ahci_1.0 bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ahci latency=0
resources: irq:42 ioport:f0b0(size=8) ioport:f0a0(size=4) ioport:f090(size=8) ioport:f080(size=4) ioport:f060(size=32) memory:f7d16000-f7d167ff
*-serial UNCLAIMED
description: SMBus
product: 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.3
version: 04
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f7d15000-f7d150ff ioport:f040(size=32)
*-scsi:0
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*-disk
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bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
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capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 sectorsize=4096 signature=df6a310c
*-volume
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vendor: Linux
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,1
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*-scsi:1
physical id: 2
logical name: scsi1
capabilities: emulated
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: KINGSTON SVP200S
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sdb
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capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 sectorsize=512 signature=fcb8884c
*-volume:0
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physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0,1
logical name: /dev/sdb1
logical name: /
version: 1.0
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capabilities: primary bootable journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink recover extents ext4 ext2 initialized
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*-volume:1
description: Extended partition
physical id: 2
bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0,2
logical name: /dev/sdb2
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capacity: 18GiB
capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended
*-logicalvolume
description: Linux swap / Solaris partition
physical id: 5
logical name: /dev/sdb5
capacity: 18GiB
capabilities: nofs
*-scsi:2
physical id: 3
logical name: scsi4
capabilities: emulated
*-disk
description: EXT4 volume
product: WDC WD10EARS-22Y
vendor: Linux
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@4:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sdc
logical name: /media/utuna/447e4ff3-937b-4610-8cfe-e91e6119eb3c
version: 1.0
serial: 447e4ff3-937b-4610-8cfe-e91e6119eb3c
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capabilities: journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink recover extents ext4 ext2 initialized
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*-scsi:3
physical id: 4
logical name: scsi5
capabilities: emulated
*-cdrom
description: DVD-RAM writer
product: CDDVDW SH-224BB
vendor: TSSTcorp
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@5:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: SB00
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
*-scsi:4
physical id: 5
bus info: usb@3:4
logical name: scsi6
capabilities: emulated scsi-host
configuration: driver=usb-storage
*-disk
description: SCSI Disk
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@6:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sdd
size: 7616MiB (7985MB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: sectorsize=512 signature=00dad424
*-volume
description: Windows FAT volume
vendor: SYSLINUX
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@6:0.0.0,1
logical name: /dev/sdd1
version: FAT32
serial: 0ef9-b4c3
size: 7612MiB
capacity: 7615MiB
capabilities: primary bootable fat initialized
configuration: FATs=2 filesystem=fat

 

How's the game been for you mr. boo sir? I've been playing plenty of it since last week, mostly World vs World.

 

Howdy, I followed the guide as listed above however after adding "gw2" as a shortcut (after installation) one of two things have happened (as I tried twice).

First time as I opened up "Guild Wars 2" (gw2.exe) the loader started redownloading Guild Wars 2, after fully downloading again I logged in and clicked "Play" - Agreed to the T&C and clicked accept - however all I got was a black box where GW2 should of been displayed and could hear what I assumed to be the games menu music but no video.

I deleted the virtual drive and installed again, this time adding all the options available to me (I forget the name of the other shortcuts but there were 3). I tried the alternative two first (which launched the loader, just as the GW2.exe did) but all three of them failed again.

As for now I've deleted them all and as of this moment accept defeat, however with any advice or tips (as I'm very new to Linux/Wine/PlayOnLinux in general and am also a bit of an idiot!) I'll be willing to give it another pop.


Anyway, I've got my GPU propietary drivers installed and will provide a link to the output of my "sodu lshw" below.

Again, thank-you for the guide and thank-you for reading!

Hey Tuna, glad you could finally post here.
Before deleting the entire virtual drive again, lets check the debug
If you select "Guild Wars 2" and click debug instead of Run
A window will pop-up and output errors, fixme's and a bunch of other stuff.
Please post this debug in our PlayOnLinux forum so we don't clutter up the conversations here with long error files.

Are you able to play other games in PlayOnLinux?
Did you install 32-bit libraries for 64-bit Linux distros?

 

How's the game been for you mr. boo sir? I've been playing plenty of it since last week, mostly World vs World.

I actually had to uninstall Guild Wars 2 so I could have enough space to install a new game to test. I had no idea Guild Wars 2 was 32GB of data!!!

 

Yep! It's pretty big, Final Fantasy XIV is also around that size, and I think The Elders Scrolls Online too. It's pretty insane yet seem to be what we'll be expecting in the future...

I thought you would be playing it with the family, haha. Really recommend it. :]

 

The biggest I've see so far is Tera: 42 GB
I didn't have enough space on any of my machines to download it and test it.
I don't understand why its so big when games like Neverwinter and Skyrim are under 10 GB

 

Hey Tuna, glad you could finally post here.
Before deleting the entire virtual drive again, lets check the debug
If you select "Guild Wars 2" and click debug instead of Run
A window will pop-up and output errors, fixme's and a bunch of other stuff.
Please post this debug in our PlayOnLinux forum so we don't clutter up the conversations here with long error files.

Are you able to play other games in PlayOnLinux?
Did you install 32-bit libraries for 64-bit Linux distros?

I will post any findings to your post here;
http://www.gamersonlinux.com/forum/threads/installing-guild-wars-2.648/

Hopefully this is the right place (and hopefully it's not an issue replying again!)
Thank-you so very much for the reply and help - I will keep you posted and will probably next be able to give it a go on Wednesday, so speak to you then!

-Kind regards

Tuna

 

No problem, I hope that everyone can enjoy Linux and gaming.
Were you able to install those 32-bit libraries?

 

No problem, I hope that everyone can enjoy Linux and gaming.
Were you able to install those 32-bit libraries?

Hey there Booman, thank-you again for being so polite and noob friendly with me, I'm VERY grateful, I managed to install GW2 again but with the same problem (No video, just the music).
Where you ask if I was able to install the 32-bit libraries I'm assuming you (hopefully!) meant when setting up the PoL virtual drive? I ran the debug and have the log but don't want to ramble and post too much here - as you mentioned doing it on the forms, so with that said if you could message me or reply with everything I can give you and tell you I can reply on the forum thread previously posted - as I said thank-you so much for being so helpful and taking time out to reply to me.

-King regards

Tuna

 

I'm not sure which Distro you are using...
32-bit libraries have to be installed to play most games. Specially in PlayOnLinux (Wine)
In the past Ubuntu made a package called ia32-libs which you could install.
It would handle all of the 32-bit libraries required to run programs.

 

I'm not sure which Distro you are using...
32-bit libraries have to be installed to play most games. Specially in PlayOnLinux (Wine)
In the past Ubuntu made a package called ia32-libs which you could install.
It would handle all of the 32-bit libraries required to run programs.

Hello, I'm terribly sorry - I'm using Linux Mint, I'm sure I mentioned that but apparently not - deeply sorry. The only 32bit I remember was on the "32 bits windows installation" / "64 bits windows installation" - of which I clicked 32 - other than that I've not done anything other than explicitly what the guide has mentioned.

If there is more (or rather, other items I should download) it would be ever so kind if you could list them here & also I'm unsure if I should be posting in the forum link I posted or here (as I don't want to cause clutter!).

Sorry for the delay in my reply, my partner was taken into hospital and I've only just got back..

Again, thank-you for the time and help, you're a star!

-Kind Regards

Tuna

 

Don't apologize! I love to help!

Ok, since you are using Mint, go to:

• Menu
• Software Installer
• Search: ia32-libs
• Double-click
• Click Install

It might be a good idea to restart, not sure if you have to or not.
Then try launching Guild Wars 2 again.

 

Don't apologize! I love to help!

Ok, since you are using Mint, go to:

• Menu
• Software Installer
• Search: ia32-libs
• Double-click
• Click Install

It might be a good idea to restart, not sure if you have to or not.
Then try launching Guild Wars 2 again.

Thank-you so much Booman for explaining that as simply as possible, I would of gotten lost otherwise! I looked up "ia32-libs" and it said it was installed already - bummer..

I ran it under a debug and closed it (after the game "launched" only playing sound) but I'm unsure if it'll help if I'm honest (link here; http://dumptext.com/bmq7qnd7 )
I'm sorry to not be able to report any good news hopefully this will help as I'm starting to think I'm cursed with games in general lol!

Thanks again so very much for your time and knowledge - be well and hope to hear from you soon.

-Regards

Tuna

 

Thank you for posting the debug.
Unfortunately this might be a results of AMD drivers... really hard to tell.
You may have to update to the newest driver, but its not an easy thing to troubleshoot if the install goes wrong.

There are a lot of errors like this one:

p11-kit: couldn't load module: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so:

The /usr/lib/i386 means 32-bit library is missing.

We can try checking for ia32-libs in Synaptics Package manager, but the Software Manager doesn't lie.

I'm going to research your video card and see if others have similiar problems and how they solved it. You may want to do some searching online as well.

If you have a desktop, I suggest purchasing a new GeForce card and you will have a lot of success with game in Linux. Sad I know, but until AMD catches up with drivers, Nvidia is winning