> @"Qida.5648" said:
> I tried CrossOver. Does not work IMO. Maybe someone here have a suggestion on how to get it to work?
> 1. I install CrossOver (20)
> 2. Select Application (Guildwars2)
> 3. They auto select Windows 7 64bit bottle.. install 64bit GW2 client.
> 4. Then i hit the CoherentUI error issue.
> 5. So i set command run -32 (32bit)
> 6. The download for the client begins.. but keep crashing after a short download.. So i give up there.
I had the same CoherentUI error at step 4. What worked for me was to navigate to the C drive of the Guild Wars 2 bottle (which was created after steps 2 & 3) and _manually_ open the Gw2Setup.exe instead of letting CrossOver attempt to automatically do it. Because I opened the Setup.exe _from within the bottle_, and not from some other location, it seemed to work. Two ways to get to the C drive within the bottle:
1. Right-click the bottle in the CrossOver UI > select "Open C: Drive" > look in both Program Files folders for the Setup exe file
2. Manually navigate to the folder: ~/Library/Application Support/CrossOver/Bottles//drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Gw2Setup.exe
I'll admit I'm a little unsure after-the-fact how I was able to install the 64-bit version by clicking what appears to be the 32-bit Setup exe, but I just used whatever the CrossOver app placed in the C drive folder after having confronted the CoherentUI error. The end result for me is that using the Gw2Setup.exe within Program Files (x86) installed the Gw2-64.exe, along with the 50gb Gw2.dat file, within Program Files in the drive_c folder.
One more thing: After I successfully installed the Guild Wars 2 bottle, launching the app from within CrossOver would give me the CoherentUI error again and fail to launch the game. CrossOver's launcher icons, whether created automatically or manually, aren't working for me. So the workaround is that I navigate to the C Drive folder by clicking the "Run Command…" icon > Browse button > navigate to and select Gw2-64.exe > Run button. Not convenient, but so far has successfully launched every time for me.
***note 1:** I'm running Catalina on an Intel MacBookPro 16, 2019 -- hopefully M1 w/ Rosetta 2 would behave similarly
***note 2:** I've only been testing CrossOver for a couple of days now. It's working ok. Biggest annoyance I've found is that the option key does not translate to the alt key, so any control keys I'd set to using opt/alt no longer work, and I had to remap them. However, using alt-drag to split stacks in inventory isn't working, and there's no way to remap it in the GW2 UI. This is not a problem using the native Mac client, and it wasn't a problem when I ran GW2 in Boot Camp three years ago, so I wonder if this is a coding issue in CrossOver's GW2 implementation. If anyone has experience with running CrossOver using other apps – any tips on getting the alt key recognized?
> @"Lord Warfin.1209" said: > I still have the Mac client installed and created a hard link to the Gw2.dat file from the Mac version in the Windows version so they share the same 50GB database. Thanks for the tip. I'd never created a hard link before, but it saved me 50gb of space. (For anyone else interested who's also inexperienced doing this, the hard link has to share the same name of "Gw2.dat" or the client will begin a full download.) > There is a way to get the option keys to work as alt. I've run into this same issue before with Wine and it's a matter of figuring out where to put the options. In this case the file is: ~/Library/Application Support/Crossover/Bottles/your GW2 bottle name/user.reg > > Add the following lines: > > [software\\\Wine\\\Mac Driver] > "LeftOptionIsAlt"="y" > "RightOptionIsAlt"="y" I had gotten Karabiner-Elements to change option-to-alt, but I prefer your idea to edit user.reg since it keeps the alt-key change localized to the bottle running GW2 rather than changing it everywhere. Thanks for the instructions.
