Guild Wars 2

Will there be a fix for the Mac client (yes, I know it is a wrapper) when HoT launches?

With the memory leak or whatever it is that devs have acknowledged, the game quickly crashes in any large group activity without turning the graphic settings to the lowest so that everyone is a purple blob (and even doing this is just a delay tactic rather than a bad solution). It has been over a year since the devs said they are working on it, but there have been no results and no further communication. With HoT being large group activity based (from what we’ve seen in the beta weekends), it was crash after crash after crash resulting in an inability to do the new content with other people.

People are upset over the hero points required to unlock the full elite spec, but Mac users have a more basic issue: the game crashes when you do group content. Will it be fixed?

Arena net has not said a thing about Mac beta client about this. No surprise because they never talk about Mac beta client. I guess will see when patch start. If there is some kind of thing that launch before patch that say TG Update (that is what we see in past when change to Mac beta client) then maybe they try to fix. Hard to say because like I say arena net never talk about anything with Mac beta client. Also now Nvidia own TransGaming (company that make the cider wrap). Never know what will happen.

I give up on that junk Mac beta client some month ago. It use to work not bad but in last year it get worse and worse and now almost can not play on it. I now use bootcamp window to play. It is like a new different game it work so much better. I only use for GW2 and nothing else.

I wish they would stop calling it a beta client. For one it is not a new client but a wrapper, as everyone knows. For the other a beta does not last for a kittening 3 years.

Would it not be simpler to run windows 10 in parallel? Then just boot up to your windows 10 to play the game. Have never used a Mac for gaming, but with the size of windows 10 now seems a good fix for the crashing issue.

Zypher.7609:

Would it not be simpler to run windows 10 in parallel? Then just boot up to your windows 10 to play the game. Have never used a Mac for gaming, but with the size of windows 10 now seems a good fix for the crashing issue.

Better to use bootcamp and run windows if have a copy of windows to use. That is problem for some people if they do not have copy of windows have to buy it. Also some people do not like to put windows on Mac for risk of extra problem or may not have enough drive space for partition. I use bootcamp windows 7 and it run much better and I only use to play GW2.

But big problem really is how bad arena net treat Mac beta client. It get worse and worse and no news of fix or anything. They do not even talk about client any more. On arena net page about Mac client talk about how staff can not wait to play on Mac client and how Mac client will run better with final version. Many promise on old Mac support forum how arena net hire Mac specialist and they all vanish. 3 year later beta client worse than ever.

Qugi.2653:

Zypher.7609:

Would it not be simpler to run windows 10 in parallel? Then just boot up to your windows 10 to play the game. Have never used a Mac for gaming, but with the size of windows 10 now seems a good fix for the crashing issue.

Better to use bootcamp and run windows if have a copy of windows to use. That is problem for some people if they do not have copy of windows have to buy it. Also some people do not like to put windows on Mac for risk of extra problem or may not have enough drive space for partition. I use bootcamp windows 7 and it run much better and I only use to play GW2.

But big problem really is how bad arena net treat Mac beta client. It get worse and worse and no news of fix or anything. They do not even talk about client any more. On arena net page about Mac client talk about how staff can not wait to play on Mac client and how Mac client will run better with final version. Many promise on old Mac support forum how arena net hire Mac specialist and they all vanish. 3 year later beta client worse than ever.

Could not agree more. The Mac client is absolutely horrendous and if you’re seriously looking to spend a lot of time with this game I’d recommend looking at Bootcamp.

The performance upgrade is unbelievable and you won’t have to deal with the quite frankly disgusting excuse for a Mac Client Anet have put out.

Do yourself a favour and look into it, especially if you’re able to get access to windows. I personally move up from everything low and barely over 30fps to everything on medium at around 40fps before I got my new desktop PC.

Zypher.7609:

Would it not be simpler to run windows 10 in parallel? Then just boot up to your windows 10 to play the game. Have never used a Mac for gaming, but with the size of windows 10 now seems a good fix for the crashing issue.

If we wanted to use windows, we’d have PCs. We didn’t buy GW2 until they sold a working mac version. And, it worked well for about a year, then they introduced a problem and have ignored it since. They still sell the game as Mac ready, though.

The thing is, we paid for a Mac ready game and saying to switch to windows is not a solution. They sold it to us as working on a Mac. I’m not asking for a miracle and for it to work as well as the windows version, but it is not even stable anymore and hasn’t been for a long, long time.

What I’d love to know is, are they going to fix it? It has been a really long time with zero communication.

Have you submitted a ticket giving a detailed description of the issue ?Maybe they are not aware of it.

Dynasty.5127:

Have you submitted a ticket giving a detailed description of the issue ?Maybe they are not aware of it.

They are definitely aware of it. One of the devs posted about it over a year ago saying they knew of the issue and were working on it. This was months and months after the issue first arose. So, it has been a known issue for a long, long time. They just stopped communicating and never fixed it.

Oh ok well good luck o you, I hope you get it sorted out.

Dynasty.5127:

Have you submitted a ticket giving a detailed description of the issue ?Maybe they are not aware of it.

These are issues that have been occuring since the mac client was released almost three years ago. So yeah, they’re aware of the issues. It just seems there isn’t much they can do about it, or that they just really aren’t willing to pay and have it sorted out. :/

ananda.5946:

Zypher.7609:

Would it not be simpler to run windows 10 in parallel? Then just boot up to your windows 10 to play the game. Have never used a Mac for gaming, but with the size of windows 10 now seems a good fix for the crashing issue.

If we wanted to use windows, we’d have PCs. We didn’t buy GW2 until they sold a working mac version. And, it worked well for about a year, then they introduced a problem and have ignored it since. They still sell the game as Mac ready, though.

The thing is, we paid for a Mac ready game and saying to switch to windows is not a solution. They sold it to us as working on a Mac. I’m not asking for a miracle and for it to work as well as the windows version, but it is not even stable anymore and hasn’t been for a long, long time.

What I’d love to know is, are they going to fix it? It has been a really long time with zero communication.

It was only a suggestion as a possible solution to your problem given we cannot help you otherwise and after 3 years it’s not likely Anet will either.

Dynasty.5127:

Have you submitted a ticket giving a detailed description of the issue ?Maybe they are not aware of it.

lol this made me laugh, people have been posting about this for two years now and sending support messages and nothing is being done, not even a response. The Mac clients has been in beta since launch, c`mon that’s not even right.

Vermagus.7804:

Dynasty.5127:

Have you submitted a ticket giving a detailed description of the issue ?Maybe they are not aware of it.

lol this made me laugh, people have been posting about this for two years now and sending support messages and nothing is being done, not even a response. The Mac clients has been in beta since launch, c`mon that’s not even right.

I don’t have a Mac so I was not aware of the circumstances around the issue, I’m glad you found my trying to be helpful entertaining.

Stopped working mid-game New Year’s Eve, have not gotten it to start since. Trying to re-install, stops after about 95mb. Sick of this, have been a big supporter and loved it, but about ready to give up the game.

Marina Demeretmonde.1064:

Stopped working mid-game New Year’s Eve, have not gotten it to start since. Trying to re-install, stops after about 95mb. Sick of this, have been a big supporter and loved it, but about ready to give up the game.

When this happen delete your settings from Application Support folder in user library.

Then relaunch and be patient, sometimes it takes a few minutes for the client launcher to update.

ananda.5946:

but Mac users have a more basic issue: the game crashes when you do group content. Will it be fixed?

The same problem still exists. The sad truth is it isn’t really ArenaNet’s problem to fix, they selected cider(RIP)/transgaming to make the mac client who it turn is using wine32 in cider. As far as I can tell they are still using a kind of old version of wine.

If ArenaNet was really serious about their mac client maybe they would work with the Wine folks to come up with a good solution. It could probably done with 2 or 3 skilled programers as a full time job.

Farming it out to Transgaming or Codeweavers doesn’t seem to really work for anyone. Wargaming (World of tanks has Codeweavers do their Mac client and it’s a mess too.

This of course is pure speculation on my part. They may already have dedicated staff on the Mac client. It may be a “buy our SDK and make your port” scenario instead of just “farming” it out to a third party. I still don’t believe it’s unsolvable.

axolotl.6435:

The same problem still exists. The sad truth is it isn’t really ArenaNet’s problem to fix, they selected cider(RIP)/transgaming to make the mac client who it turn is using wine32 in cider. As far as I can tell they are still using a kind of old version of wine.

If ArenaNet was really serious about their mac client maybe they would work with the Wine folks to come up with a good solution. It could probably done with 2 or 3 skilled programers as a full time job.

Farming it out to Transgaming or Codeweavers doesn’t seem to really work for anyone. Wargaming (World of tanks has Codeweavers do their Mac client and it’s a mess too.

This of course is pure speculation on my part. They may already have dedicated staff on the Mac client. It may be a “buy our SDK and make your port” scenario instead of just “farming” it out to a third party. I still don’t believe it’s unsolvable.

They are working on a native mac client.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Mac-Client-Out-of-Beta

Thanks! new news! It will be nice to finally see what happens when the TD meta completes. Or to take my graphics settings off of the minimum.

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