I have a game by name of guild wars, that I would dearly love to be able to play on here, however seeing as I am new to this, I am not sure if wine will work here, if it does, which one to get, where and how, lol, or is there something else, perhaps Playonlinux? again, I'm not sure how best to do this...
I do know cedega is suppose to be good, however, I don't like to spend money lol (^cheap-skate^) if I don't have to.

Any help is much appreciated and most welcome.

Many thanks.

Mog.

Seems like running this game in WINE is well documented on their Wiki, and by the looks of it, has near perfect compatibility.

Guild Wars on Wine

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Additional to what MS3FGX already said, you can easily get wine from AlienBob's repository.

ok, thanks MS3FGX, just not sure which one to download, as I am not seeing a wine download specific to slackware, is there an similar package for a different OS that would work here, that I should look for, like maybe sourcemage or the debian package?

Many thanks.

Mog.

oh never mind, <<such a doofus
i found, it, thanks again

As TobiSGD said, use AlienBob's site. You will find it usefule for lots of packages

Edit, just saw your edit....looks like you are set then

Now I use crossover, which is in part wine for lazy people - but it does create links etc. so I dont have the specific wine details, although wine config is in crossover.

I have guild wars working fine - in fact it is just about the easiest I have had to make work. My only struggle were the video drivers in linux.

If you already have Guild Wars installed (say you are on a multi boot machine) then you can just set up wine, set up the drive mappings to map the same drive letter in wine as you have in windows, install Direct X in wine, and then run the gw.exe program straight (i need to check, there might be a couple other windows libraries needed). It will pop up a gw rebuild/repair screen asking for the path, then make as if it starts to download the whole game (but wont, as it will find the files).

You can get slackware packages of wine here; http://sourceforge.net/projects/wine...ages%2F1.3.24/

I find PlayOnLinux to be a gem, you can specify different wine versions and wine configs for each program, it creates easy startup scripts for each program in ~/.PlayOnLinux/configurations/installed/PROGNAME, I simply symlink these to somewhere in my $PATH. It also creates menu items etc

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