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Dash

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Anyone playing GW 2 on Wine?

Thinking of assimilating the game into my Macbook pro via Wine. Just curious if anyone had experiences/advice with it.

Cheers!

~Dash
 
I ran a few of the BWE on wine (granted it was using GNU/Linux not Mac OS). It runs extremely well like the first game did (some people even report that it runs better in wine then it does in Windows 7 for them). The only problem I can remember it having is that the launcher has this huge black box that surrounds it. But like I said, that was on Linux, I have no idea if it will run just as well on Mac OS.
 
MoDSec said:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_2_on_Wine

Hope that's helpful.
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It does! Thanks. :D

Cynder said:
I ran a few of the BWE on wine (granted it was using GNU/Linux not Mac OS). It runs extremely well like the first game did (some people even report that it runs better in wine then it does in Windows 7 for them). The only problem I can remember it having is that the launcher has this huge black box that surrounds it. But like I said, that was on Linux, I have no idea if it will run just as well on Mac OS.
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Glad to hear. I was wondering if there would be any frame drops or such. My laptop isn't new to begin with, but it may just be enough. :)
 
I got really excited clicking on this post... thinking oh hey wine! I like wine! ..... but alas it was linux wine... hah. On a similar note I would be curious how the game ran on bootcamp in osx. If I ever get around to trying bootcamp, the only thing holding me back from going all osx I guess.
 
Necdel said:
I got really excited clicking on this post... thinking oh hey wine! I like wine! ..... but alas it was linux wine... hah. On a similar note I would be curious how the game ran on bootcamp in osx. If I ever get around to trying bootcamp, the only thing holding me back from going all osx I guess.
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I did the same thing. Dealing with Wine on Linux is part of the reason I run Windows 7. I program on Unix/Linux on campus (or ssh'ed in), but at home it's just more convenient to use Windows. *shrug*
 
I'm running the game on bootcamp currently. It runs exactly the same as it would on a windows machine with similar specs. If you can't afford a copy of Windows 7 for whatever reason, GNU/Linux really is the best way to go.
 
Cynder said:
I'm running the game on bootcamp currently. It runs exactly the same as it would on a windows machine with similar specs. If you can't afford a copy of Windows 7 for whatever reason, GNU/Linux really is the best way to go.
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Interesting. I use my mac book pro 90 percent of the time now and my pc for gaming and talking to friends through the day. I stopped messing with linux, besides our servers for work, I have no use for it anymore, or the time rather. I became an instant apple lover with my first macbook pro hah. Black turtle neck, coffee shop, and all. I can use all my tools I used with *nix and it works all the time no more spending hours rummaging forums or having the itch to try 10 other distro's a week.
 
Lol I got my Macbook pro falling under the false impression that it was better than a standard Windows PC for some reason. I thought "how could something this overpriced not be better." I regret buying it to this day, not because of functionally (although I was one of 2010 mbp buyers with the faulty 330m that took apple 2 years to provide a fix for), rather because I could have gotten something with better performance for less.
 
Cynder said:
Lol I got my Macbook pro falling under the false impression that it was better than a standard Windows PC for some reason. I thought "how could something this overpriced not be better." I regret buying it to this day, not because of functionally (although I was one of 2010 mbp buyers with the faulty 330m that took apple 2 years to provide a fix for), rather because I could have gotten something with better performance for less.
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LOL ok well I guess you win there, I spend around 2500 per PC anyways I guess, but I have never had to buy my own Apple product, lucky to be in the business that requires them :)
 
Just to add something new to this topic: One of the Anet devs on Reddit said that the team isn't pursuing a Linux native client, however; they did say that the team is actively making sure that new updates are compatible with WINE and don't break anything, as well as adding minor performance enhancements to Linux players using WINE to run the game.
 
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