help running guild wars 2 on mac

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strange...
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help running guild wars 2 on mac

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Hi,
i have a macbook white (2010 unibody but with ram bumped up to 8gb) running mountain lion (10.8.1) with wine 1.4.1 already installed (by the regular command line approach -macports xcode quartz e.t.c) i have the disk version of guild wars 2 and have been trying to install it with wine on the mac as buying another computer (or OS) is not an option.

when i put the disk (1) and navigate to the disk drive and type in wine Gw2.exe, x11 starts up ok and the initial installer image comes up ok (so far so good). However soon afterwards, the window becomes completely black. i left it to continue anyway and after a while a message came up asking for the second disk. put that in and it continued (still with black screen). after a while the GW2 folder in wine stopped getting bigger so i exit. when i type wine Gw2.exe into the terminal i get this message:
wine Gw2.exe
err:winediag:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated. Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path. Usually, you can find it in the winbind package of your distribution.
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x1cad000 0 0x32fdd8 4
fixme:process:SetProcessDEPPolicy (1): stub
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x32f2d4,0x32f900): stub

after leaving it for a considerable amount of time, x11 is not open and it has not progressed any further. I know something is happening as wine is right at the top of my cpu usage but the folder is staying the same size and nothing is being downloaded.

any help or ideas on how to get it running would be greatly appreciated :)
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Re: help running guild wars 2 on mac

Post by doh123 »

here is the best help I can give...

Stop using Wine to play Guild Wars 2 and get the Mac version of Guild Wars 2 "beta client" for Mac and use that... anyone who has bought the Windows version can download he Mac client from their website at no extra charge.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/anno ... -mac-beta/
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