It is correct: the client crashes every 10 000 files downloaded or so. Keep launching it again and again, the client can 'pause and resume' so don't worry about the crash ! As you can see in the picture I attached here, I run the client with wine 1.4, and the login screen appears without a problem as everything works out of the box (sound, animated graphics, login forms, etc...). The only issue is the transparency in the background of the client (launcher/patcher), but it is not important as the login screen does not suffer from this problem. [Image: http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/3218/gw2y.png ] (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/824/gw2y.png/) Let's see how wine runs the game engine !