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i have a 4790k & in fractals whether it's syswine, or wine with staging patches it's garbage. Meaning 25-30fps, but feels like 15. At least on my system both staging & proton patches are needed for a good performance. (I don't have a problem, I don't need help, I just wanted to share my experience with this venture)

I tried playing GW2 with vanilla Wine 9.0, just for bonks and giggles. Unfortunately the performance is really really bad in fractals, it was good in meta events, it's like something's wrong with the GPU thread, because if I'm heavily cpu limited there is no negative effect. Back to soda 7 we go ^ This happens a lot on Windows as well, might not be L related at all.

Need more info. What are you using to run GW2? (Steam, Bottles, Lutris etc) What is your GPU setup, is this a laptop with a dedicated nvidia gpu that sits unused most of the time? ---- Nm, you are talking about Lutris presets. Yes, please do not use the Lutris community installer to run GW2. Install the Bottles flatpak, make a default gaming bottle & run the GW2 exe from that bottle to test what's what. (or even just install Steam & run GW2.exe as a third party steam game, though this is worse than Bottles)

Please read the last 2 pages in this thread. You'll find the answer as to how to fix it & what's causing it. Though if you are using Manjaro the downgrade process could be different. (though I think pacman is still pacman, so it should work.

It would be interesting to try running GW2 with the new Wine Wayland beta, or whatever it's called.

It's not related to Plasma or Kwin. It's easy to reproduce this crash on virtually any DE or WM config.

In case someone is a bit of a Linux noobie, but is still using an Arch derivative, then this is what they have to do to TEMPORARILY fix this problem: (Be advised that this is the exact practice that often breaks Arch systems down the road, though it's an easy fix) run this: sudo pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/p/pixman/pixman-0.42.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst And then edit your pacman.conf to disable updates for this package. (for example: sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf ) Add IgnorePkg = pixman to the [options] section!

I just wish there was a way to bypass the launcher, I'm using scripts to switch between my two accounts anyway. I would imagine many of you are the same. (I already did this before I migrated to Linux) Look at this 'awful.menu' I made to manage GW2 :-). https://imgur.com/MxC0s7P

Amazing job figuring this one out. Let's hope this bug is not niche enough for this problem to be ignored for months on end. Luckily I can still run the game, so don't have to downgrade, though I did test it. (I feel a bit dumb to immediately blame Anet, while did not even consider Arch farting in my face)

I heard rumors about a small subset of GW2 devs using the Steamdeck & GW2 working on the Steamdeck should be at least somewhat important to them. But yeah GW2's launcher has always been notoriously heavy with all those insane transparency effects running on top of a web browser?, I have totally though this exact event could happen one day.

Not it. I installed that after my daily fractals today, has no influence on this.

Okay so it is indeed impossible on Wayland, I just tried on Hyprland. So basically use X11 WITH COMPOSITING OFF and do not click with the mouse on anything before pressing enter to log in & pressing it again to play. (make sure the window gets focus without clicking into it, such as using mouse follow focus/sloppy.focus) Did anyone try it with gamescope on Wayland?

Same thing's happening to me, but pressing enter twice instead of using my mouse works, though the launcher is generating 100% cpu usage on one core, what a launcher! (unfortunately it's not arcdps)

And again..

I know of that option, does nothing for me. (wayland or x)

I literally don't know how to do that, or heard of that being possible. On KDE I have a desktop icon to turn off compositing & I'm starting GW2 with a shell script that turns off compositing.

Seems like you have it all figured out. I think for gaming X11 should be the default. Wayland works okay with GW2, but I have not yet figured out how to bypass compositing & doing DE meta at 20-30 fps is much better without. Since you are using KDE on the X11 session you can run 'qdbus org.kde.KWin /Compositor suspend' to turn off compositing temporarily & test GW2 that way. (latency > screen tearing, well for me anyway)

I also have errors sometimes, for example arcdps always gives me a rundll32.exe error. Dealing with these is not very difficult, as long as they are not crashing your game when left alone. For example you can make a new virtual desktop & call it 'Jail' & then just set up rules to send all the error messages to eat all the kittens there. Depending on the Window Manager you use there are various options to do this. Such as use 'xprop' to detect the precise Window attributes for the error message (case sensitive stuff) and then set up rules as needed. I don't know how to do this on Gnome, but in KDE you go to the Window Rules menu & you don't even have to use xprop, because KDE has a built in detector for window stuff. If you use a typical WM -such as i3, hypr, sway etc- based custom system, then the rules will go into the WM's config file.

Well, there are two separate issues that I can think of off the top of my head. The more probable: I don't know how much ram the mx110 has access to, but you need a lot more vram on Linux than on Windows. Try reducing the texture resolution to low & see if the crash still happens. Use 'Green With Envy' (or Mangohud) to monitor vram usage. With textures on High even reaching 5GB is possible! -- Well, when I had an nvidia card I tried not using any of its outputs to not waste the scarce VRAM on the OS, Steam Client, browser taps etc etc. My system always crashed that way a couple of minutes in. It's not unthinkable that something similar is going on with your dual-gpu setup. (whether it's intentional on Nvidia's part, or just a bug)

Look up Ventoy! It solves this specific issue of needing multiple boot sticks.

These things should be pretty stable in the sense, that the same runner within the same envo should behave the same way every day. Either something really weird is going on in your system, or you have wine processes getting stuck and interfering with each other, which you can fix with rebooting your computer, or maybe with using 'kill' or 'killall' commands to clean up everything manually. One other thing that sometimes happens is the shader cache getting corrupted. In that case deleting it can solve the issue, but I don't know where the driver's cache is on Nvidia, or if Baldur's Gate 3 stores those files separately and where that could be within the prefix, but this is an avenue worth exploring imo, if rebooting does not fix it. (I've completed Baldur's Gate 3 with the Heroic Games Launcher running Proton GE-15 as the runner, never had a problem. ) (If you use Steam to run games owned on Steam, then Steamplay takes care a lot of the backend kitten like this for you, so any normie should be able to run any popular game there without worry)

(Steam uses 200-300mb of vram, which can make a difference with a 3gb card with GW2.) For me the big one is that it takes longer to launch games with Steam, with GW2 on my system the time to get to the launcher is much faster with Bottles and the new embedded Chromium browser (TP, Gem store etc) is much more performant. + Steam itself is not very fast to start up, it has to wait for login auth there before you can play, if you are too eager & click your shortcut too early, sometimes -rarely- it glitches out. (then you have to kill Steam & wait for the whole process again) disclaimer: I've been using Steam to launch GW2 for 2-3 months, then I used the Heroic Games Launcher for a while & now finally started using Bottles just a couple of weeks ago.

Did you update your system before it stopped working, what updates did you get? Did you run 'flatpak update' since stuff broke? >Distro is Mint 21.2 Cinnamon. You are on X11 then.

If he cannot set it up properly of course, but I don't even know what he is doing wrong. All I know is that running GW2 in Bottles is very simple, it works out of the box with a few clicks. (add the gw2 folder in Flatseal > make a gaming bottle > run GW2.exe from bottle)

Do you know where they are on Windows? You have to find where your prefix folder is and once there it will have a drive_c subfolder and you just -from there- navigate all the way to appdata>roaming or whatever it is to find them. (if you use bottles you will easily find where the prefix is, because Bottles has a "browse files" option within the three dot menu. Though I recommend to disable the screenshot hotkey in game & set up an external screenshot saving solution, though I only know how to do this on kde and if you want a responsive one, it can get quite involved. (Print screen bound to run a command like this: 'import -window root -quality 100 /home/ME/Pictures/screenshot_"`date +%%Y%%m%%d%%R%%S`".jpg' , but you need a distro that has imagemagick installed, or you have to do that yourself too, as I said it's quite involved) There are legit very good reasons not to use Steam. (to get to character select faster, to not run the resource hog that is the Linux Steam client etc)