[Playing Guild Wars 2 on Linux - Performance optimizations and more.]

11 hours ago, Terr.4758 said:

 

It's a few days later now and while I still don't think my FPS is higher, I think the stuttering when loading into a busy map and looking around is a lot less than with DX9.

before, with v-sync turned off, the stuttering was a big pain and the fps jumped around like crazy. with vsync a lot of frames are lost, but the stuttering was ok. I have the same, smooth experience now with dx11 on and vsync off. fps are a little bit higher overall, but not much - I guess dx11 can only do so much. BUT it was worth it.

 

also new 2.3.2 package works fine (manjaro stable)

[Playing Guild Wars 2 on Linux - Performance optimizations and more.]

so guys, problem solved!to answer your questions: I do have libpng16 installed, and yes ubuntu20.04 has ncurses6 as default. /wiki did not work either.I installed a neat little package called aa-notify. it interacts with apparmor and gives you a notification whenever apparmor is blocking something. and indeed, it was apparmor preventing firefox to be opened by the game. Which means yes, apparmor does its job - works as intended. So I temporarily set the firefox profile to complain and voila it worked. after that just put it back to enforce and gg.one could also add one or two rules to the apparmor profile so you dont have to turn it on and off every time you wanna buy gems, but as far as my experience with apparmor goes even if you add the proper rules it still doesnt work as you want it to most of the time lol.

Long story short: anyone who uses apparmor and has a profile for firefox active should watch out for this.

[Playing Guild Wars 2 on Linux - Performance optimizations and more.]

hey guys! thanks for the quick answers. i tried some stuff.first of all, I am running the custom wine package provided in this thread, with the exact install method, on ubuntu 20.04. I use firefox as default browser and, even though i have some crazy addons, it usually does its job or notifies me if something went wrong. The issue is, as mentioned above, when i press on "proceed to paysafe" firefox does not open at all. if its already open, it does not create a new tab or anything...

using xdg-open in terminal works just fine.I made myself a shortcut so i dont have to run the play.sh from terminal all the time, but right now i tried it because usually the terminal logs the complains. when i start the game it tells me it cant find some library (libncurses.so.5) but that has been the case ever since i installed the game, and it works just fine so thats not the issue. BUT when i try to "proceed to paysafe" or any other link of the gemstore (for example the privacy policy terms of sale you name it) it gives me an error message"XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/firefox/libmozgtk.so:libpng16.so.16: failed to map segment from shared objectCouldn't load XPCOM."which sounds like he knows firefox is my standard browser and wants to open it, but somehow cant.any thoughts?

first thing that comes to my mind, that could cause the issue here, is the standard apparmor profile for firefox (which i am using). tomorrow i will try again with apparmor turned off.

thanks again for the help

[Playing Guild Wars 2 on Linux - Performance optimizations and more.]

hey guys maybe you can help mePlaying on linux with the custom wine provided here works very well for me so far.my problem is as follows: I want to buy gems through the gemstore. so i select 800 gems for 10€ and set the payment method paysafecard (which i used to do in the past when i was playing on windows). for the transaction you get redirected to a paysafecard website, where you enter your code. for that usually your standard browser starts up, which in my case is not happening. obviously because im not on real windows... is there any way to fix this/make this work?I'm relatively new to the linux world, so I have to ask instead of fixing it myself

[Bug Reports: LWS4 Episode 5: All or Nothing]

as for a "bug" I dont know if this was mentioned already, but as of the patch the xp i get in pof just vanishes because the skyscale masteries are not hidden.... I dont care much about spirit shards, but still this is just bad. it would be great if you could hide the mastery like you did with the raid masteries, until you actually unlock the mount.

[Mythwright Gambit Raid]

@Illconceived Was Na.9781 said:

@Mini Crinny.6190 said:

@Benjamin Arnold.3457 said:Probably should have mentioned this sooner, but make sure you have a mesmer with a jackal portal if you want to make it through the raid on day one.

as always Mesmers are 100% required

I think it's more about making sure that everyone can get through even if they don't have a jackal (or have the mastery for the doggo portal).

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That said, it's a little weird. I'd prefer that there's an alternative that doesn't require a specific class. Even just having five people stand on buttons to activate an in-instance portal.

While I fully agree with what you said, nah. Anet loves Mesmer too much <3