Guild Wars 2

Hello,

I am new to guild wars 2, and wanted to see if I can run the game on my laptop. I have the following specs on the MacBook Air.

Processor: 1.3 Ghz intel core I5
Memory: 4 GB 1600 MHx DDR3
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 5000 1535 MB

Thank you for any support provided.

i have a pc that almost the same specs with you
it is i5 4450 with HD 4600 graphics, and i’ve got 30 fps

but i dont know if mac require more specs

You meet the minimum requirements so the game should run. If you’re planning on using the Mac Beta client to run the game however, your performance isn’t going to be great and you’ll most likely have to turn the graphics down quite low.

It will “run”, but whether you’ll enjoy the experience is a different matter.

I sometimes run GW2 on my Surface Pro 3 (i5 4300U 2.9Ghz, Intel HD 4400, 8Gb RAM). It’s not a pleasant experience… choppy frames, awful textures. I think the main issues with gaming on ultra-portables is that they thermal throttle quite quickly, thus they will always have lesser performance compared to similarly specced desktops. Plus a touch pad is completely unusable.

I do this only when I’m on the road to do simple things like dailies or TP. Maybe do a champ trains with the zerg. I wouldn’t be running 50+ fractals on my SP3.

Just give it a go… you may have a better experience that I did.

You’ll have a lot of troubles running the game.

The cpu will easily get thermal throttling and it will be bounching from 1.3GHz (which is not enough for the game) and the turbo frecuencies, bringing a lot of chopiness. Also it can get to the point to shut down.

And the gpu is only entry level, good enough to run the game a 720p or 900p at minimum.

Ansau.7326:

And the gpu is only entry level, good enough to run the game a 720p or 900p at minimum.

They’re using a Macbook Air which only has a resolution of 1,440 × 900, not that that makes much of a difference.