So I finally bit the bullet, installed a second SSD and put Linux on it to test the waters. Tested out GW2 as a non steam game via Wine and while it runs, it runs very poorly with constant frame drops. Did anyone else try? How was your experience?
I have Nvidia GPU which I gather might be the most likely culprit but was interested in what your experience might’ve been.
I’ve played this easy for years now, first via Lutris and more recently through steam. I have no problems and performance is on par with Windows.
It runs flawlessly on my system.
What are you PC specs?
I’ve installed the Steam version of GW2 and then in the Steam console, you can tell it to use the standalone launcher. I can’t remember the command, but when I get home I’ll post it here.
I’ve been playing it through Steam since Windows 7 went EOL. No problems unless you count Taco not working.
Been running it via Steam for a couple of years now, feels like native, runs smooth, and is stable. So I would recommend that you install it from Steam store then use the “-provider Portal” launch option to make it show the gw2 launcher and sign in normally.
Forget Wine for GW2. If you are lazy just install Steam & add GW2 as an external game to run with Proton.
If you are not lazy, then install Bottles, give it permissions to the correct GW2 folder with Flatseal & then download the soda 7 runner in Bottles settings. After all this make a default gaming bottle, then change the runner in that bottle to soda 7, enable latency flex to lower the latency at the cost of slightly lower average fps & play. (7 is better than 8-9 for GW2)
(Bottles has some minor advantages over Steam & you don’t have to run the rather vram heavy & slow Steam client)
