Massive thanks to ArmoredVehicle.2849! On and off I've been tinkering with GW2/PoL/WINE on Ubuntu for some time, usually resulting in a - at best - handful of FPS at an unplayable resolution. Linux is a challenge, being completely unfamiliar to me, but I am working my way through and learning one step at a time (seriously, this OS is so easy to reinstall ;)). Thought that I'd take the time to post here, firstly to say thank you for your efforts, but also to report that so far my M17XR4 (PROCESSOR, IVB, I7-3610QM, 2.3/2GB GDDR5 AMD Radeon HD 7970M) seems to run on average 20+ fps, sometimes higher depending on area, pop etc. I'm launching the script using DRI_PRIME, which has a noticeable effect, so I assume that I am doing it correctly - I can see the difference mainly at character select: with DRI_PRIME, I get 60 fps and without it drops to around 15fps. Can't get that in game, but I assume it's using the AMD (not sure how to tell). Thank you for all of your hard work putting this together :)
100% Tatwi. I've an old laptop, which I cannot afford to replace at the moment (probably for some time). Unfortunately, driver-wise, it has also been badly supported - just shy of a year after I purchased it, they stopped releasing drivers and it's been plagued with display errors, which initially I thought was an over-heating problem. Got to say, I've not been impressed. But it's way past time since I should have been getting to know Linux a lot better and I can't think of a better way than to try and get one of my favorite games to work... sort of, well in a roundabout fashion, I mean hey - it didn't crash once to... bzzzt