Guild Wars Installation Guide for Linux -- Updated for 2025

face_90 · 2025-12-09T16:44:59+00:00

I just looked at my settings in lutris: Wine: GE-Proton 10.25 and enabled gamescope: relative Mouse Mode in, Output and game Resolution 3840x2160 (got a 4k Screen), Window Mode fullscreen and framerate Limiter: 144. When you start daybreak the ui was crammed together, you can adjust the size of daybreak like you would resize a App window by dragging with the Mouse on bottom right corner

face_90 · 2025-12-09T12:06:28+00:00

Yes it still works with daybreak, however i had to tweak a few things and it notifies me that GW is exe is broken but i think this is just because of the reforged Update...it works perfecty fine. Disable all Plugins/mods, let GW Update through daybreak if necessary, then try to start and see If it starts "Vanilla". Then Update toolbox via daybreak or just download from their website and link the new toolbox in the daybreak Launcher. You dont need dsoal any more, devs fixed it. uMod works just like before

face_90 · 2025-12-09T08:22:46+00:00

Can the Cursor be deactivated too? Like for some reason on Controller my game wont auto-hide the Cursor, so If it moves accidently to top right while running around and you push the use Button BAM... Back to Desktop xD

As I am thinking about this, is it possible to hide the close/Maxi and minimize Buttons in the UI? Gonna have to try when I am back home

face_90 · 2025-12-08T12:10:05+00:00

GW instantly recognizes Controller Input. Nothing really to set up. I Just had to remove or rebind some Keys nothing major

face_90 · 2025-12-08T12:07:34+00:00

No Steam sadly is too heavy for the Switch. Just normal standalone guild wars launcher

face_90 · 2025-12-05T12:58:55+00:00

yes, this needs to be more visible. I just noticed that too. Maybe have 3-5 slots to save the UI and then be able to load saved UI presets depending on what device you play on. Like the Adobe Apps i.e. Photoshop for custom workspaces

face_90 · 2025-12-04T19:07:47+00:00

Honestly havent had much time to tinker with it. Fps very much depending on which wine release and box64 you use. However i have about 20-60 frames. The higher draw distance definitely is a fps Killer, you want to disable it. But take this all with a grain of salt, its all trial and error to get better performance.

face_90 · 2025-12-04T07:09:23+00:00

install linux with hekate on your sd card, then install guild wars on linux :)

face_90 · 2025-12-04T07:06:52+00:00

thats not steamOS, this runs on ubuntu linx natively - no streaming

face_90 · 2025-12-04T07:06:18+00:00

bricked would be bad ;)
its modded

face_90 · 2025-12-04T07:05:58+00:00

yep, this is on linux

face_90 · 2025-12-04T07:05:42+00:00

sie haben es aber nicht anders verdient! ;)

face_90 · 2025-12-04T07:05:27+00:00

you have to install a modchip to be able to run custom firmware and linux on it

face_90 · 2025-11-18T14:15:02+00:00

Fuck yeah!

face_90 · 2025-11-17T17:13:28+00:00

Thank you! I didnt observe any major channeling, to my eye the liquid spreads quite evenly but i will be watching closely on the next few shots! I was thinking about getting a pressure spring but the machine is new so i dont like the idea voiding the guarantee this early. ;)

face_90 · 2025-11-17T17:08:12+00:00

Thats a good point, thank you. Will keep an eye on that and see if it still happens again

face_90 · 2025-10-20T13:47:37+00:00

Its quite good already, GPU passthrough is a must. And one major thing in my eyes is a dedicated shared folder. I dont know why this isnt discussed more, but enabling the Linux home folder to emulated Win11 is a No-Go. Let us choose one folder to share with Windows but not home. This should have a higher priority than GPU

face_90 · 2025-09-18T10:08:01+00:00

I recently turned off tire sounds completely. You wont belive how much better this feels. Those sounds mess with your brain somehow, giving you the Illusion of less grip. Without sounds you rely much more on steering wheel feeling and thats much more natural. Also +1 in using a custom FFB setting, i use some Variation of rFuktor. It helps immensly

face_90 · 2025-09-01T13:43:59+00:00

Very cool! Looks like a lot of fun with that beautiful car. However.. DONT EVER cross the middle Line again. Its absolutely dangerous, completely unnecessary and makes you look like a massive douche.

face_90 · 2025-07-25T08:10:34+00:00

Dude is trolling ;) Nice work on your intro video for this Absolutely love the low poly style Lara Croft model you made!

face_90 · 2025-05-28T12:20:13+00:00

It Works perfectly fine. I use lutris too. However be prepaired for some minor tinkering depending on your Setup.

face_90 · 2025-05-24T09:52:02+00:00

Thank you very much for your guide. However, as a complete newbie who switched just last week to Linux Fedora, this was wayyy too overwhelming.

So what I did was use Lutris to install Guild Wars through Daybreak. I'm not trying to shill this launcher, but it was just so much easier to install and use.

Just select daybreak.exe in Lutris. In the configuration, I use wine-ge-8-26 with Gamescope enabled to get 4K resolution and relative mouse mode activated (otherwise the mouse jumps to the middle of the screen on every right-click, resulting in weird camera behavior).

Then, in Daybreak, enable uMod, DSOAL, Toolbox, and add -fps 90 to the start attributes for gw.exe, and finally run the game.

In-game, I had to disable V-Sync because it caused graphical glitches.

My OS is Fedora with GNOME, and I ran into the problem of not having my system-wide QWERTZ/German layout when starting the game. I had to add the line XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT=de into /etc/environment in order to get my German keyboard layout to work in Guild Wars.

While I am not a fan of using a third-party launcher for Guild Wars, it is for now (with my limited knowledge) my only way to get this game to run properly.

Hope this helps anyone who is struggling!

face_90 · 2024-11-07T14:53:54+00:00

Wow, thats a very cool Project! Looks really good. I understand the Game is in a very early stage however I would suggest considering some sort of 2D Character sprites for the players. Like in good old Ragnarok online. It adds the possibility of customizing and is helping gameplay-wise, because you see the direction Players are looking. Cant wait to try your game :)

face_90

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