Guild Wars unplayable with wine 1.0rc5

[GNU_Raziel]

Hi,

I've tested wine 1.0rc5 today with fully up-to-date Debian testing, latest NVIDIA Driver and Guild Wars and here my report :
-Incredibly slow (run over-smoothly on the same system with windows XP)
-Absolutely no shaders displayed (char over-bright, horrible effects, ect...)
-Texture problem in login screen (i can see "junctions" of texture in the background)

I've tested many wine configurations (shaders, OffScreenrenderer, ect...) and the output if always the same, sometimes even more dirty...

I've tested other games (c&c3, quake 4-linux native binary, NWN-Linux native binary, some reflexive arcade games) and they run fine.

That's all, if someone expect the same problems, post here

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/6/17 GNU_Raziel <[email protected]>:

Hi,

I've tested wine 1.0rc5 today with fully up-to-date Debian testing and latest NVIDIA Driver and Guld Wars and here my report :
-Incredibly slow (run over-smoothly on the same system with windows XP)
-Absolutlly no shaders displayed (char over-bright, horrible effects, ect...)
-Texture problem in loggin screen (i can see "junction" of texture in the background)

I've tested many wine configurations (shaders, OffScreenrenderer, ect...) and the output if always the same, sometimes even more dirty...

I've tested other games (c&c3, quake 4-linux native binary, NWN-Linux native binary, some reflexive arcade games) and they run fine.

That's all, if someone expect the same problems, post here

Did you write to ArenaNet and tell them that you want Guild Wars for
Linux? Here is their contact page:
http://www.arena.net/contact.php

Let them know that you use Linux and that you would like to play their
game. If we start writing to the software houses, then they will
realize that there is a market for their products under Linux.

Dotan Cohen

http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il
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[Jochen]

Dotan Cohen:

2008/6/16 Zarl <[email protected]>:

After loading, Civilization 4 fails with the error below before
reaching the main menu/actually launching. I've searched the forums an
elsewhere and have not been able to find a solution. I'm currently
running Wine: 1.0-rc5 on Xubuntu 8.04-64 bit. I'm using the 173.14.05
Nvidia drivers, GeForce 8200 integrated graphics.

If this problem has an obvious cause or solution I missed, I
apologize in advance. However at this point, I just have no idea how to
proceed:

Well, the obvious problem is that you are trying to run the game under
an OS that it was not designed for

isn't that what wine is most attractive for?

Here is the developers' contact address:
http://www.firaxis.com/support/

Tell them that you would like native support for their game under Linux.

I guess you don't see this small circle here... I mean that one:

Linux is not recognize as a platform for games, because gamers do not
use Linux for games. Gamers do not use Linux for games, because there
are not many games.. especially cool ones. They are not many such games
for Linux, because nobody writes them for Linux. And finally nobody
writes them for Linux, because Linux is no gaming platform.

(I am using Linux here not as GNU Linux the kernel, but as a complete
system)

Also very often you get a cheap game from somewhere and of course it is
not the linux version then. I have never seen any linux version, not
even together with a windows version, for sale in any store. But I did
see Mac versions of games together with their windows versions being
sold. I won't say that writing to the developers about doing a linux
version of a game won't help, but I don't see that as an answer to
someone asking how to get a certain game running.

Also I don't think fireaxis will spend developers on a version that is
over 2 years old already and while they work on their next version
http://www.firaxis.com/games/game_detail.php?gameid=21

bye Jochen

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/6/18 Jochen <[email protected]>:

Tell them that you would like native support for their game under Linux.

I guess you don't see this small circle here... I mean that one:

Linux is not recognize as a platform for games, because gamers do not use
Linux for games. Gamers do not use Linux for games, because there are not
many games.. especially cool ones. They are not many such games for Linux,
because nobody writes them for Linux. And finally nobody writes them for
Linux, because Linux is no gaming platform.

(I am using Linux here not as GNU Linux the kernel, but as a complete
system)

I do recognize the small circle. That is why I write to the game
distributors and tell them that there _is_ demand for their products
on Linux. I am trying to break that circle.

Also very often you get a cheap game from somewhere and of course it is not
the linux version then. I have never seen any linux version, not even
together with a windows version, for sale in any store. But I did see Mac
versions of games together with their windows versions being sold. I won't
say that writing to the developers about doing a linux version of a game
won't help, but I don't see that as an answer to someone asking how to get a
certain game running.

Also I don't think fireaxis will spend developers on a version that is over
2 years old already and while they work on their next version
http://www.firaxis.com/games/game_detail.php?gameid=21

I do not want to see the 2 year old version ported to Linux. I want to
see the next version support Linux natively. Write to them and let
them know that you would love to buy their game, so please write it
for your OS.

Dotan Cohen

http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il
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