• Guild Wars 2
• Standalone
• 64-bit

• FreeBSD 14.3 (Xfce)
• Wine (old WoW64)

• Install to default directory ¹⁾
• Email/pass → Save → [x] Auto-Play → Close

mkdir -p ~/'.wine' ~/'Downloads/Guild Wars 2' && wget -O ~/'Downloads/Guild Wars 2/Gw2Setup.exe' 'https://cloudfront.guildwars2.com/client/branches/Gw2Setup-64.exe' && WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2' WINEARCH='win64' WINEDLLOVERRIDES='winemenubuilder.exe=d' wine ~/'Downloads/Guild Wars 2/Gw2Setup.exe'

mv ~/'Downloads/GW2/Gw2.dat' ~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2/drive_c/Program Files/Guild Wars 2'

• Fixes CEF windows (trading post)
• Source

WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2' winetricks 'arial'

rm -Rf ~/'Downloads/Guild Wars 2'

• https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/actions ²⁾
• Last tested: dxvk-master-46488ce22c9b0d6839b6c88dbf12528fcae16be9.zip

rm -Rf '/tmp/dxvk-master' && unzip ~/'Downloads/dxvk-master-'*'.zip' -d '/tmp/dxvk-master' && mv -fv '/tmp/dxvk-master/x64/'*'.dll' ~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2/drive_c/windows/system32'

rm -Rf '/tmp/dxvk-master' && unzip ~/'Downloads/dxvk-master-'*'.zip' -d '/tmp/dxvk-master' && mv -fv '/tmp/dxvk-master/x32/'*'.dll' ~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2/drive_c/windows/syswow64'

• https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases
• Last tested: dxvk-2.7.tar.gz

rm -Rf '/tmp/dxvk-'* && tar -xvzf ~/'Downloads/dxvk-'*'.tar.gz' -C '/tmp' && mv -fv '/tmp/dxvk-'*'/x64/'*'.dll' ~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2/drive_c/windows/system32'

rm -Rf '/tmp/dxvk-'* && tar -xvzf ~/'Downloads/dxvk-'*'.tar.gz' -C '/tmp' && mv -fv '/tmp/dxvk-'*'/x32/'*'.dll' ~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2/drive_c/windows/syswow64'

WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2' wine REG ADD 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\DllOverrides' /v 'd3d8' /t 'REG_SZ' /d 'native' /f && WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2' wine REG ADD 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\DllOverrides' /v 'd3d9' /t 'REG_SZ' /d 'native' /f && WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2' wine REG ADD 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\DllOverrides' /v 'd3d10core' /t 'REG_SZ' /d 'native' /f && WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2' wine REG ADD 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\DllOverrides' /v 'd3d11' /t 'REG_SZ' /d 'native' /f && WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2' wine REG ADD 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\DllOverrides' /v 'dxgi' /t 'REG_SZ' /d 'native' /f

• 2025/08/20: TODO

mkdir -p ~/'.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/Guild Wars 2' ~/'Documents/Guild Wars 2/Screens' && nano ~/'.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/Guild Wars 2/Guild Wars 2.desktop' && sed -i 's/'CHANGEME'/'$USER'/g' ~/'.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/Guild Wars 2/Guild Wars 2.desktop' && update-desktop-database --quiet ~/'.local/share/applications'

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Guild Wars 2
Exec='/bin/bash' -c "cd ~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2/drive_c/Program Files/Guild Wars 2' && WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2' wine ~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2/drive_c/Program Files/Guild Wars 2/Gw2-64.exe' -autologin -bmp -nodelta -mapLoadinfo -ignorecoherentgpucrash -mumble 0 -useOldFov"
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Icon=/home/CHANGEME/.wine/Icons/GW2-256.0.ico
StartupWMClass=gw2-64.exe
SingleMainWindow=true
Actions=Update;Screenshots;Kill;Repair;Notes;

[Desktop Action Update]
Exec='/bin/bash' -c "cd ~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2/drive_c/Program Files/Guild Wars 2' && WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2' wine ~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2/drive_c/Program Files/Guild Wars 2/Gw2-64.exe' -image -nodelta"
Name=Update Game Data

[Desktop Action Screenshots]
StartupNotify=false
Exec='/bin/bash' -c "gio open ~/'Documents/Guild Wars 2/Screens'"
Name=Screenshots

[Desktop Action Kill]
Exec='/bin/bash' -c "WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2' wineserver --kill"
Name=Force-close

[Desktop Action Repair]
Exec='/bin/bash' -c "cd ~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2/drive_c/Program Files/Guild Wars 2' && WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2' wine ~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2/drive_c/Program Files/Guild Wars 2/Gw2-64.exe' -image -nodelta -repair"
Name=Repair Game Data

[Desktop Action Notes]
StartupNotify=false
Exec='/bin/bash' -c "gio open 'https://wiki.realmofespionage.xyz/games;linux;wine;guild_wars_2'"
Name=Install Notes

# End

mkdir -p ~/'.wine/Icons' && cd ~/'.wine/Icons' && wrestool --output='GW2-256.0.ico' --extract --type='14' --name='1' ~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2/drive_c/Program Files/Guild Wars 2/Gw2-64.exe' && cd ~

WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2' winecfg

WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2' winetricks

WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2' regedit

WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2' wineserver --kill

cd ~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2/drive_c/Program Files/Guild Wars 2' && WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2' wine ~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2/drive_c/Program Files/Guild Wars 2/Gw2-64.exe' -autologin -bmp -nodelta -mapLoadinfo -ignorecoherentgpucrash -mumble 0 -useOldFov

• -image

cd ~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2/drive_c/Program Files/Guild Wars 2' && WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2' wine ~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2/drive_c/Program Files/Guild Wars 2/Gw2-64.exe' -image -nodelta

• -repair

cd ~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2/drive_c/Program Files/Guild Wars 2' && WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2' wine ~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2/drive_c/Program Files/Guild Wars 2/Gw2-64.exe' -image -nodelta -repair

gio open ~/'Documents/Guild Wars 2/VerifyResults.log'

• -diag

cd ~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2/drive_c/Program Files/Guild Wars 2' && WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2' wine ~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2/drive_c/Program Files/Guild Wars 2/Gw2-64.exe' -diag

gio open ~/'Documents/Guild Wars 2/NetworkDiag.log'

gio open ~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2/drive_c/Program Files/Guild Wars 2'