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Title: Is it possible to run overlay addons in WINE?
Draconicrose 11 Jul 2019
Hello GoL!

I play Guild Wars 2 through WINE, using the [fan pack on the official forums](https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/31192/playing-guild-wars-2-on-linux-performance-optimizations-and-more/p1). There is an addon that I would like to run, called [TacO](http://www.gw2taco.com), which overlays itself on top of the game window.

It's a separate .exe from the game. On a different Lutris build I tried to run the exe inside the same wine prefix, but it didn't work. As I don't know much about WINE and google is failing me, I was hoping the forum goers here would have a clue as to how to do this.
Shmerl 12 Jul 2019
I suppose it depends on the add-on. For instance Vulkan layer based overlays should work (for Vulkan use case).
Draconicrose 12 Jul 2019
I actually have no idea what the overlay is based on.
Avehicle7887 12 Jul 2019
Quoting: DraconicroseI actually have no idea what the overlay is based on.
Hi,

ArmoredVehicle here, I haven't dabbled with TacO in Linux but I'll look into it and if possible add a way to easily install it from that package. :)
Draconicrose 12 Jul 2019
Quoting: Avehicle7887
Quoting: DraconicroseI actually have no idea what the overlay is based on.
Hi,

ArmoredVehicle here, I haven't dabbled with TacO in Linux but I'll look into it and if possible add a way to easily install it from that package. :)
That would be so good! Using TacO is the only thing I miss from playing on Windows.
Draconicrose 4 Sep 2019
Quoting: Avehicle7887
Quoting: DraconicroseI actually have no idea what the overlay is based on.
Hi,

ArmoredVehicle here, I haven't dabbled with TacO in Linux but I'll look into it and if possible add a way to easily install it from that package. :)
Hey, have you had any chance to look into this?
Avehicle7887 4 Sep 2019
Quoting: Draconicrose
Quoting: Avehicle7887
Quoting: DraconicroseI actually have no idea what the overlay is based on.
Hi,

ArmoredVehicle here, I haven't dabbled with TacO in Linux but I'll look into it and if possible add a way to easily install it from that package. :)
Hey, have you had any chance to look into this?
Not yet, tbh I've been knee deep in PvP matches lately. I'll get around to it at some point though :)
Draconicrose 5 Sep 2019
Quoting: Avehicle7887Not yet, tbh I've been knee deep in PvP matches lately. I'll get around to it at some point though :)
That's fine! Thank you :)
Draconicrose 19 Jan 2020
Quoting: Avehicle7887I'll get around to it at some point though :)
Hey, did you ever get around to checking this out? I think my messages are getting lost in the official forum thread! TaCo is really the ONE thing I miss.
Avehicle7887 19 Jan 2020
Quoting: Draconicrose
Quoting: Avehicle7887I'll get around to it at some point though :)
Hey, did you ever get around to checking this out? I think my messages are getting lost in the official forum thread! TaCo is really the ONE thing I miss.
I tested it a few times and the overlay does work however there seems to be a transparency issue between it and the game. I checked the logs and TacO itself uses DX11 (basically an invisible window over GW2's DX9, also confirmed in an old dxvk ticket: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/1225 Not much I can do.

Here's what I get as of DXVK 1.5.1:
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Last edited by Avehicle7887 on 20 Jan 2020 at 1:09 am UTC
Draconicrose 19 Jan 2020
Quoting: Avehicle7887Here's what I get as of DXVK 1.5.1:
Oof that's unfortunate. Thank you so much for looking into it! Could you please tell me how you got the overlay to show up? Just so I can, in the future, keep an eye on these issues and check for myself whether it will work or not.

For people coming across this post, there is a workaround for XFCE at the time of writing: https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/comment/1275884/#Comment_1275884

Last edited by Draconicrose on 14 Jul 2020 at 8:50 pm UTC
Avehicle7887 20 Jan 2020
Quoting: Draconicrose
Quoting: Avehicle7887Here's what I get as of DXVK 1.5.1:
Oof that's unfortunate. Thank you so much for looking into it! Could you please tell me how you got the overlay to show up? Just so I can, in the future, keep an eye on these issues and check for myself whether it will work or not.
Run the game normally first, then open taco (as per the tool's quickstart guide don't put the files in the same folder as the game).
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