Guild Wars

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Introduction

This document explains how to get the MMORPG "Guild Wars:Prophecies" (the first one) running on Cedega 6.0.1.

I haven't tried it on Wine, so if anyone wants to give it a go please feel free to add more information, nor have I tried the other GW games (I don't have them), though I would imagine they will work.

Install using the Guild Wars CDs

Create a working copy of the Guild Wars CDs

Create a directory GuildWars somewhere handy with 2 subdirectories called cd1 and cd2. In this example they are in my home directory, though they can be anywhere you have write access to.

mkdir /home/paulr/GuildWars
cd /home/paulr/GuildWars
mkdir cd1 cd2

Insert disks and copy them to these directories. These copy directories assume they are mounted in Gnome. You can copy them using Nautilus or whatever if you like.

(insert disk1)
cp /media/GWDisc_1/* cd1 -Rvf
(insert disk2)
cp /media/GWDisc_2/* cd2 -Rvf

Main Install

Run the Cedega program and Click on Install. In the Game folder enter "Guild Wars", and select "Guild Wars" for the drop down for Game folder type. GDDB entry select Guild Wars

Disk 1 mount

Open up a terminal, and move it near the bottom of the screen, make it very short so you can see it but it doesn't occupy much screen space. Guild Wars' Installer doesn't cope well with having other windows put on top of it, so makes sure you don't overwrite it on screen to read the instructions .....

The following code "mounts" the first CD, or the copy of it to be precise, onto a directory /tmp/cdrom

cd /tmp
ln -s /home/paulr/GuildWars/cd1 cdrom

Start Installer

Browse for Installer in Cedega to /tmp/cdrom/setup.exe, and click the Continue button. When the menu comes up Click on "Install Guild Wars".

Choose the default install directory. It will download things for a while, then "Install Data Archive" (your copy of CD #1).

At 40% it asks for disk2. Switch to the terminal at the bottom of the screen and type:

rm /tmp/cdrom
ln -s /home/paulr/GuildWars/cd2 cdrom

and click on okay. It now installs your copy of CD#2. When this has finished it will start downloading the rest of the game ; this takes a few minutes, even on broadband. You can tidy up by doing

rm /tmp/cdrom 

while it is doing this.

Using the downloadable client

It is now possible to use the downloadable client to install Guild Wars. Download the client from http://www.guildwars.com/support/downloadclient/ into the /tmp directory. The unzip it.

unzip gwsetup.zip

You may need to install unzip as it is not part of the default Arch install

pacman -S unzip (as super user)

The remainder of the install is similar to that from the CDs. In the Installer dialog, the program to run is now:

/tmp/gwsetup.exe

The game should then download and install to the same point as the installation above.

The System Video Card

Eventually it will finish. The screen will blink and a window will come up saying that it thinks your Video Card is unsupported hardware. Click on "No", you don't want to continue, which returns you to Cedega. You can also close the terminal Window.

First go and tidying up

Click on Guild Wars on the left pane, then the right pane, then press "Play". The screen will blink and the dialogue will come up. Don't click on a button.

If you look at the top left you will see a much reduced window - a few pixels wide and high. Use the mouse button to click and drag this window so it extends over about half the screen. It won't repaint and you'll get umpteen borders drawn.

Bring the "Unsupported hardware" box to the top, and click "Yes" this time. After a few seconds the login screen will come up.

IMMEDIATELY click on Options and set the screen resolution to something other than Windowed which it defaults to.

First time, the most risky, I choose something boring like 1024x768. You can always change it later.

Second Go

You can now play as normal. The next time you start it you won't have to go through that nonsense with the dialog - it should work as it does on Windows.

However, you cannot Windowise or Minimise the application - it will probably crash. This means when you create a character and start there will be a 10 minute wait while it downloads Game data. Just leave it alone whilst it is doing this, don't switch to any other application or anything.

Happy MMORPGing !

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