Re: Error running Guild Wars with .9.3

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--- Guillaume Vachon <gvachon@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I had the same probleme. I had to run it in a
> windows mode to get it 
> started the first time. Then, you can put it back to
> full screen and you 
> wont get that error anymore. 

> I hope this will help you
> 
> -- 
> Guillaume Vachon
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Ok, I'm willing to give that a try, but the only way I
know to switch GW to a windowed mode is from the
ingame settings, which I can't get to.  Or are you
reffering to running Wine in a windowed mode, which I
also would not know how to do? Thanks for the
suggestion!
> 
> 
> 
> Eatherington Philip a écrit :
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I gave this a stab a few months ago but gave up
> and
> > just set up a dual boot.  I'm running low on disk
> > space now and tired of messing with the muliple
> > partitions, so I'm giving it another go to get
> Guild
> > Wars running in Linux.
> >
> >
> > I'm runing Wine 0.9.3 on Kubuntu 6.06 (Dapper
> Drake). 
> > I'm able to go through the instillation without
> issue,
> > but when it actually tries to launch the game, I
> get
> > the error message form Guild Wars:
> >
> > "Unable to initialize 3D output.  Please verify
> that
> > you have installed DirectX8 and an updated video
> > driver.  Click the URL below to open a web page
> with
> > more information.
> >
> >
>
http://www.guildwars.com/support/en-3dinitializationerror.php";
> >
> > I'm running the command /pathtoGuildWars/wine
> Gw.exe
> > -dx8 -noshaders as I found this at the Wine HQ app
> db.
> >  I've tried searching the archive and the web but
> > don't seem to be able to find anyting on this
> > particular issue - I'm ready to accept that once I
> get
> > past this, there will be other issues that may not
> be
> > solvable right now, but it seems weird that nobody
> > else has had this error enough to even find three
> > relevant hits.
> >
> > When I run it from the command line, the shell
> fills
> > up with more information than the screen can hold
> -
> > almost all of it I can see is items saying things
> like
> > the following:
> >
> > fixme:dxdiag:IDxDiagContainerImpl_AddProp
> (0x1aa160,
> > L"szClsidFilter", 0x34f2e4)
> > fixme:dxdiag:IDxDiagContainerImpl_AddProp
> (0x1aa160,
> > L"szName", 0x34f2d4)
> > fixme:dxdiag:IDxDiagContainerImpl_AddProp
> (0x1aa160,
> > L"dwMerit", 0x34f2d4)
> > fixme:dxdiag:IDxDiagContainerImpl_AddProp
> (0x1aa160,
> > L"dwInputs", 0x34f2d4)
> > fixme:dxdiag:IDxDiagContainerImpl_AddProp
> (0x1aa160,
> > L"dwOutputs", 0x34f2d4)
> >
> > So I'm guessing it is my DirectX somehow. I have
> also
> > tried it without the -dx8 flag.
> >
> > Any insight is appreciated!
> >
> >
> >  
> >
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