Guild Wars 2 with IHS?

[Espionage724]

Just wondering if anyone has had any luck with getting Guild Wars 2 working, or knows why it doesn't work?

It seems if GW2 is fullscreen, it will get to the character selection screen and to map loading, but once the entire screen refreshes during the map load, GW2 freezes.

The freeze only occurs when GW2 is being used with IHS. When GW2 is started on the host computer (with Steam Overlay), the freeze doesn't occur.

When Windowed, either the same thing occurs, or it just doesn't get to character selection at all. Using a custom d3d9.dll doesn't help either.

[S3007h]

I've had similar issues. On the remote machine, the screen will goes black at login but plays sound and lets you interact. (Streaming from Windows 8 to Linux Mint)

[Flauschibüsi]

I can't even get to the Game. As soon as the Launcher checks for updates and changes to the Login the Screen goes Black :(

[Espionage724]

Originally posted by Flauschibüsi:

I can't even get to the Game. As soon as the Launcher checks for updates and changes to the Login the Screen goes Black :(

I have -nopatchui -email EMAIL -password PASS as my launch arguments for GW2 (replace EMAIL and PASS with your details; and make sure nobody untrustworthy accesses your computer). That auto logs you in, and skips the launcher UI entirely (no idea what effect this would have when a patch comes out).

[Flauschibüsi]

Thank you Espionage, I will try it tomorrow :)

[mymacy]

hmm ive got a different problem.. i cant click on anything in the launcher.. keyboard input isnt recognised either.. i can see the mouse pointer (it actually changes to the gw2 one) but thats it.. ive got the same problem with SWTOR and i thought it had to do with some anti-bot mechanic as these are both mmorpgs but maybe its something different..
any ideas what i could do ?

[GeeEl]

Between -nopatchui, login details and -windowed I made it into the game, but I couldn't requested the camera with the mouse and the frame rate was awful.

[ThatSisyphean]

Originally posted by mymacy:

hmm ive got a different problem.. i cant click on anything in the launcher.. keyboard input isnt recognised either.. i can see the mouse pointer (it actually changes to the gw2 one) but thats it.. ive got the same problem with SWTOR and i thought it had to do with some anti-bot mechanic as these are both mmorpgs but maybe its something different..
any ideas what i could do ?

Hey, I had the same problem as you, found this thread, and found no solution. But I kept working on it and I got it to work. Here are my steps:

1. Load Guild Wars 2 on the host machine normally and change it to windowed full-screen.

2. Open steam on the host machine and add Guild Wars 2 as a non-steam game.

3. Right click Guild Wars 2 in your list of games and select properties.

3a. Enter | -nopatchui -email "your email" -password "your password" |
without the quotations in the target box after the file path.

4. Set gw2.exe in the Guild Wars 2 directory (wherever you installed it) to run as administrator. (right click, properties, compatibility, run this program as an administrator)

5. Set the steam client to launch as administrator as well.

6. Exit and restart steam on both the host and the client computers.

7. Enter big picture mode on host machine and open Guild Wars 2 on there.

8. Go to client machine and open steam in big picture mode and stream from "host machine" as you normally would.

This allowed me to use the mouse and keyboard and click things on the character screen. I haven't played long enough to verify it doesn't crash, but I figured I'd inform you asap. Also, I ended up with black bars on the side of the game. To get rid of this I changed the settings back to regular full-screen while playing on the client computer and alt-tabbed out and back in to the stream.

hope this helps.
nacho out.

[•Magnet]

Alt-tabbing does not work well for me with IHS and GW2. When I bring the game back into focus, it's just a black screen. And re-launching to fix this is seriously a pain. I'd have to RDP in, quit the game, disconnect gracefully with a batch script so it doesn't lock the host PC, then launch the game from the client again and never EVER alt-tab.

As a workaround, i alt-enter to windowed mode after launching the game (that is, for the streaming client app on the client machine). It doesn't LOVE when you switch the client back and forth between windowed and full-screen, but I find when the screen turns white after launching is the perfect time to do it.

Make sure your client resolution settings are correct. If the display freezes, return to the desktop on the client machine with Windows key + D. Then bring the streaming client app back into the foreground and the display should be updating correctly.