Wine with Guild Wars

lanternslight456 · Post by **lanternslight456** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 10:00 am

Hello all

I'm totally new to linux and wine so please bear with me.

I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and wine 1.2.3

I used the winetricks tool to get 7-Zip and Guild Wars.

7-Zip seems to work fine

(I have a windows machine and Guild Wars works just fine)

When I try to open Guild Wars first it says it's not responding then I get this:

How could I resolve this? If you need more details, let me know how to get them and I will. Thank you!

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 12:15 pm

On 06/09/2011 11:00 AM, lanternslight456 wrote:

When I try to open Guild Wars first it says it's not responding then I get this:

[Image: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-vkjt ... 0error.jpg ]

If you have updated your wine version, your linux kernel, or anything
X-org on your machine since the last time you installed your video
driver, remove and reinstall your video driver even if it is with the
same version. Any of those changes and cause problems that reinstalling
the driver usually fixes. If that doesn't apply to your system, check
your distro's forums for information on making sure your drivers are set
up properly for 3D programs. Sorry, I haven't used Ubuntu in years and
am not sure how they handle things anymore.

Post by **DanKegel** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 8:02 pm

What graphics card? Which version drivers?

You might try it with wine-1.3.21, 1.2.3 is getting a bit old.

I haven't tried Guild Wars myself lately...

lanternslight456 · Post by **lanternslight456** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 9:47 pm

Ok, I updated to 1.3.21 It now works and loads but even with the graphics set at minimum it was... laggy

graphics all displayed, no issue there, it just isn't smooth. I can't think of how to describe it really, it would play and freeze and play and freeze in about 1 second increments.

For the record though, when the game loaded the default graphics (everything set to high) it performed exactly the same as described above, like that wasn't affecting it at all)

I'm using the NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version 173) there is also a (version 96) available but it states that 173 is recommended.

Not sure what video card I'm using, but I know that back when I had Windows on the computer it ran this game smooth as butter. So though it could be a driver issue I'm confident that the card itself is capable.

Post by **DanKegel** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 11:53 pm

What graphics card (or chip) do you have?

You may be able to use the command

glxinfo | grep str

and/or

lspci | grep -i vga

to find out if you don't know.

Also,
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=9194
has a few suggestions (if you can find the wheat in the chaff)
that may or may not help.

lanternslight456 · Post by **lanternslight456** » Sun Jun 12, 2011 2:42 pm

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lspci | grep -i vga

returned this:

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)

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glxinfo | grep str

returned this:

server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
client glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce FX 5200/AGP/SSE/3DNOW!
OpenGL version string: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 173.14.22
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20 NVIDIA via Cg compiler