Hi,

First, I'd like to thank the dev's for their excellent work in enabling us mac users to play GW2! Keep up the good work .

Second, Wine v1.5.10 seems to be doing a great job at allowing me to have access to installing and loading the game. I've played with and adjusted the graphic settings in Wine and it loads pretty ideally, but there's a problem! After the 9 step character creation in the game, GW2 freezes up and I'd have to close the program. I had continued to tweak the graphics settings and switched to run -useoldlaucher but neither of those helped with this problem. I tried waiting for it to load (after creation), tried creating different characters, tried the "skip to end" option in character creating but I received the same results. Whenever I would close out of GW2, I would have to delete me local and temp files in my GW2 folder for the game to be able to open again.

This freezing seems to only be happening when GW2 tries to load the first set of cinematics for the game.

I've tried copying the entire Wineskin into /Applications and running my Guild Wars 2 wineskin from there but that doesn't seem to help either.

The path in the "Windows EXE" that I have used to execute the .exe file to load/play the game is:
"/Program Files/GW2/Guild Wars 2/Gw2.exe"

The physical location of my GW2.exe is:
/Applications/Wineskin/Guild Wars 2.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/Program Files/GW2/Guild Wars 2"

My system information is:
Macbook Pro
Processor: 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 4GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6750M 1024 MB
Software: Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4 (11E53)
Memory: 598.88 GB free out of 749.3 GB

Any suggestions are appreciated. If more details are needed let me know!

Hi,

Please run from command line (cd into the directory of GW.exe) and post terminal output.

and to do this in Wineskin and get support here, you need to forgo the use of Wineskin... you can use the "Command Line Wine Test" function and use the Wine build in the engine you have chosen to run normal command line Wine through XQuartz (Winetricks command line works too)... install and do everything to the default ~/.wine... no GUI stuff, but if you finally get it to work, you can move the ~/.wine/drive_c folder over into the wrapper, and the three .reg files... and set up the config of what to launch and maybe extra screen settings... and it should be good to go. While normal Wineskin engines are normal Wine, it really cannot be supported here because the whole interface is different and the main Wine devs and users do not know it to be able to help.

You might find someone else who has tried it out with Wineskin though over at Portingteam.com

So far I'm not aware of anyone getting terminal output related to this issue. In my case GW2 doesn't actually shutdown or crash, but it just freezes, which tends not to generate messages in your logs. Problem occurs with the normal wine as well (with or without rawinput), and reputedly occasionally on Windows too.

here it is

Pauls-MacBook-Pro:~ Deletal$ /Applications/Wineskin/Guild\ Wars\ 2.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/Program\ Files/GW2/Guild\ Wars\ 2/Gw2.exe
-bash: /Applications/Wineskin/Guild Wars 2.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/Program Files/GW2/Guild Wars 2/Gw2.exe: cannot execute binary file

Perhaps that's the issue!? lol. I'm pretty daft when it comes to this sort of thing and really don't know what I'm doing. Does anyone know of a suitable work around?



I'll test that out as soon as I've given up on the current setup. Seems even though the game isn't playable yet.. that being able to login, with music playing as normal and being able to build a character puts me fairly close to playing? I've been able to successfully download all the files and login but then hit this brick wall (game freezing after character creation). Looks really pretty minus not being playable -.-. Thanks for your help.

Hi,

you'd need to use a command like

wine /Applications/Wineskin/Guild\ Wars\ 2.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/Program\ Files/GW2/Guild\ Wars\ 2/Gw2.exe

or better

cd /Applications/Wineskin/Guild\ Wars\ 2.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/Program\ Files/GW2/Guild\ Wars\ 2/
wine Gw2.exe

This is why i said use "Command Line Wine Test" ... of course OSX cannot run a .exe file directly, if it could there would be no need for Wine.

Command Line Wine Test will open Terminal, then you basically need to cd into the install folder for GW2, and run whatever the setup program is called with wine... something like..
cd "/where/the/folder/is/at"
wine setup.exe

This will install to a drive_c in your home folder.. its ~/.wine (you can view this in Finder by typing "open ~/.wine" after its created on wine first use"

then you cd into the game folder...
cd "~/.wine/Program Files/Whatever Folder It Installed To/
wine Gw2.exe

Isn't normal Wine on command line fun?

Both of these gave me
"-bash: wine: command not found

This is what I followed pretty close to install/log into gw2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MvKocXi ... r_embedded

I've read other comments here about how people are getting stuck on "step 3" and getting this same "-bash: wine: command not found".

Either try to follow doh123's instructions or install plain wine via Macports.

yeah, cuz you don't have Wine installed... thats why I said run it through Command Line Wine Test in Wineskin.app... It launches Terminal for you in a special session with things all set right for wine to work so you won't get that error. Either that or you need to install plain Wine so its always available in Terminal. Thats easiest to do using Macports.

I'll try this out when I get home. Not sure how I was able to download/install Gw2 and log into it with no wine installed.

You used Wineskin which has Wine built into just the wrapper app. When I say no wine installed, I mean at a system level where you can just type and access it in terminal. This forum is for plain Wine only, and not Wineskin or other apps that use Wine. Running the Command Line Wine Test in Wineskin let's you do normal Wine usage so the special terminal is configured like you have normal Wine installed even though you don't... it uses the Wine that's built into the Wineskin wrapper.