Guild Wars on OpenSuSE 11.1 64bit

[Johnfm3]

Hey, prior to my P4 given up the ghost, I was playing Guild Wars and WoW running OpenSuSE 10.3 32 bit with out issue. I was running wine 1.1.12, and had downloaded 4 dll's to get WoW working and setup Game/Registry/System to use OpenGL.

Now I have a AMD Dual Core 64 bit system, and I am running OpenSuSE 11.1 64 bit alone with wine 1.1.26, which is said to be supported with no issues.

Has anyone gotten this to work?

John Moore

[Johnfm3]

BTW: If I need to roll back to 11.1 32bit, or dual boot with OpenSuSE 10.3, that is an option I will consider.

[suse_amd64x2]

I am running Suse 11.1 64bit/AMD 64x2 and using WoW and wine without a problem. Had to play around with the config file a bit to get the graphics running ok but I didn't need to download anything extra. The only thing I had to do was copy WotLK from the disk to the hard drive before wine could install it since most of the files on that dvd are hidden.


Edit: Here is the link to the post I had about WoW and FPS incase you need to check it out at some point.

http://forums.opensuse.org/applicati...e-low-fps.html

Edit, Edit: I also use Icewm when I play WoW. KDE4.2.4 sometimes flashes some garbled colors onto the game briefly.

[Johnfm3]

So far, no good. I ended up doing a clean install of SuSE 11.1 32bit and installed from RPM wine 1.1.26, which is said to work with out issues. Now I cant even get it to install for me. During the download of the 5000+ files, it stops and close the window.

John

[suse_amd64x2]

What has 5,000+ files that needs to be downloaded?

The wine version I used was already in the repositories. I have the packman repository as well as the other ones.

I am using Wine version 1.1.9-1.11.1

[Johnfm3]

Guild Wars during the install process. I download the client from web, and run which downloads the install files from internet.

Got Guild Wars to work. Used wine 1.1.9 and OpenSuSE 11.1 32bit. No problems. Just had to dual boot my machine. Now I am looking to see if I can split my machine into two to allow my 2 boys to each play a copy of Guild Wars at the same time.

I am interested in running 2 Keyboards, Mouse, & monitors and setup the machine with 2 login screens too allow 2 users to log in an play a copy of the game.

John

Thanks,
John

[Johnfm3]

Or allow 1 user to run 2 copies of the same game with 2 different Keyboard, Video, Mouse Setups.

Currently I am running as root.

John

[caf4926]

Originally Posted by Johnfm3

Or allow 1 user to run 2 copies of the same game with 2 different Keyboard, Video, Mouse Setups.

Currently I am running as root.

John

You see the bold bit above.
You know you described earlier how you re-installed.
You might want to do it again.
SDB:Login as root - openSUSE

Unless of course you mean you are logged in as user and have started the game as root?

One thing you need to be aware of is,: If you mess things up you should delete it all in the hidden files section ./wine/drive_c/Program Files

Geoff's Linux tips - wine

FYI: In the future. Remember you can backup .wine and transfer it to a new install and it should just work. (You need the same username and dir structure as before) or of course you may not even format /home

Otherwise wine just works.

I find the best install method is from a terminal (I actually use dolphin with terminal panel) Navigate to the installer you have then do eg:
wine ./Setup.exe
(Where Setup.exe is the name of the installer)

[Johnfm3]

Yes, I am logging in as root. I know, thats an evil thing to do.

[caf4926]

Originally Posted by Johnfm3

Yes, I am logging in as root. I know, that's an evil thing to do.

WHY.
Completely unnecessary!