[SOLVED] Guild Wars 2 Bad EXE

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I can’t get Guild Wars 2 to even launch. I’m on Mint 19 and I have installed wine-hq. I’ve downloaded the installer from the Lutris website and now I get this:

wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winemenubuilder.exe"
wine: Bad EXE format for C:\Program Files\Guild Wars 2\Gw2-64.exe.

I know I can ignore the first line, but googling for the second wields nothing useful. It says I might be trying to run a 32 bit application with a 64 bit prefix or vice versa, but I have all 64 bit in the configs.

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Right click the game on lutris menu>configure>game options. Is the executable correct? Try pressing on it to confirm if you can find Gw2-64.exe.

The installer was published a day ago, so either something changed by the time you tried, or the update slightly broke the installer.

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Yes, the executable is correct. I’ll try with the new installer and report back.

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Okay, tried with the new one, same mistake. I looked again to see if I was seeing things with the executable and it’s apparently 0 bytes? :expressionless:

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Looks like they removed/moved it https://s3.amazonaws.com/gw2cdn/client/branches/Gw2-64.exe

Please try the updated installer.

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The new installer seems to be working! The game is actually launching and downloading itself now. Thank you!

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how did you fix this?

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Hello lunakyle, welcome to the Lutris forums!

To fix the error I used the installer linked by cxf: https://s3.amazonaws.com/gw2cdn/client/branches/Gw2-64.exe

Just replace it in the folder that Lutris points to.

Since it’s been 4 years, I am not sure if the solution remains the same, but it’s probably a good idea to try it.

If it doesn’t work, I recommend using ArmoredVehicle’s package instead, which you can find here: Playing Guild Wars 2 on Linux - Performance optimizations and more. - Account & Technical Support - Guild Wars 2 Forums