Guild Wars (Platinum Application) now broken

Zakhar · Post by **Zakhar** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 4:52 pm

Hi forumers,

any Guild Wars players around here?

This use to be a Platinum application in WineHQ and I've played it for ages with Linux.
As of today (2012-Feb-23) they made an update in the game (they make that often) and it seems to have broken down the first grade Wine compatibility they had.

Here is what I get (running it with the Terminal to get the output of Wine errors):

*** glibc detected *** Z:\\home\user\Program Files\GUILD WARS\Gw.exe: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x7cd43fe0 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib32/libc.so.6(+0x6c231)[0xf7530231]
/lib32/libc.so.6(+0x6dab8)[0xf7531ab8]
/lib32/libc.so.6(cfree+0x6d)[0xf7534b9d]
/usr/lib32/nvidia-current/libGLcore.so.1(+0x8f717f)[0xf654617f]
[0x13dfb70]
======= Memory map: ========

That is with:
$ wine --version
wine-1.2.2
$ uname -a
Linux user-desktop 2.6.32-38-generic #83-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 4 11:12:07 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

... didn't try though if the game still works with Windows as I've long removed Windows from all my computers and don't wish to install it for the sake of a game.

And furthermore we do now start to have some nice casual games running natively: thanks Humble Bundle!

Didn't try either on a more recent Wine version as I stayed on the Ubuntu LTS that is now almost 2 years old and work awesomely for me.
If some of you have more positive feedback on an up to date Wine version, you are welcome to reply.

Of course I did also file a report to NCSoft, although game is not supported on Linux, the Wine error message suggests there is some wrong code (either a GP Fault or freeing a buffer twice) which might get un-noticed on Windows but wreck the havoc later when running the program for a long time.

garpu · Post by **garpu** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 11:17 pm

I just logged in and played it a bit, and no problems here. Have you tried updating wine? I'm using 1.3.37.

Zakhar · Post by **Zakhar** » Fri Feb 24, 2012 4:27 pm

Thanks Garpu.

Yes you are right, and I got the same answer on the main GW post on AppDB.

So on 10.04-LTS, GW is still broken with the standard wine that comes with the LTS: wine 1.2.2

But after adding the wine guys repo and upgrading to 1.3.37, I concur, it works again.
Only little difference, the sound issue is worse.

Previously the sound broke once in a while after long time of game, now it looks like it breaks quickly. I though I'd apply the "pulseaudio" trick, but I read now (>1.3.25) wine has direct support of pulsaudio.
So I assume the posts about the "pulseaudio" trick are not up to date anymore.

Nevertheless, when I look at the pulse thingy, it says that Wine is using the Alsa-plugin, and indeed, in the configuration, it says that it uses the alsa library.

Is there a way I can make it use pulse... I didn't find it.

... some more reading and searching to come then!

Post by **dimesio** » Fri Feb 24, 2012 5:13 pm

Zakhar wrote: So on 10.04-LTS, GW is still broken with the standard wine that comes with the LTS: wine 1.2.2

But after adding the wine guys repo and upgrading to 1.3.37, I concur, it works again.
Only little difference, the sound issue is worse.

1.3.37 is still rather old; the current development release is 1.4-rc5 (out today). Sound problems are being actively worked on, and people have reported improvements since 1.4-rc3, so it is worth upgrading. However, if you are using PulseAudio, you need to have the latest version of it and alsa-plugins installed, as both had bugs affecting Wine that have been fixed. I don't know if a new enough of version of either is available for that old a version of Ubuntu.