Guild Wars 2

I’ve been thinking about buying this game for a friend for Christmas but wanted to make sure it would run on his machine first.

Anyone know if GW2 would run on a 2008 Mac Pro with two 3.2 ghz 8 core intel processors, an nvidia 8800gt and 12 gigs of ram? If it will run on that machine anyone know how well it will run?

Thanks

What Operating System is it running? Snow Leopard, Lion or Mountain Lion?
And is that a Xeon processor?

Neither Snow Leopard nor Xeon processors are supported so there is no guarantee that the game will run, but there is nothing to say that it won’t either.

Hopefully someone else who has tried running the game with a Mac Pro can give you a better idea of what your friend could expect.

He’s running Mountain Lion and they are quad core Intel Xeons.

Yes, that machine will run the game, though not very good. Expect a framerate below 20 FPS with mid settings. Running it on Windows will get you up to 30FPS.

Your friend may want too look into upgrade options for the graphics card. MacPro users aren’t as restricted as other Apple users, with a few tweaks you can actually use a much more affordable standard PC card in a Mac Pro.

Naqaj.6219:

Yes, that machine will run the game, though not very good. Expect a framerate below 20 FPS with mid settings. Running it on Windows will get you up to 30FPS.

Your friend may want too look into upgrade options for the graphics card. MacPro users aren’t as restricted as other Apple users, with a few tweaks you can actually use a much more affordable standard PC card in a Mac Pro.

Thanks for the information. He’s going to be getting a new Mac Pro when the new ones come out next year so I don’t think he’s wanting to upgrade anything on the one he has currently.

Looks like I wont be getting him GW2 for Christmas.

Thanks again for the help.

diabluz.2860:

I’ve been thinking about buying this game for a friend for Christmas but wanted to make sure it would run on his machine first.

Anyone know if GW2 would run on a 2008 Mac Pro with two 3.2 ghz 8 core intel processors, an nvidia 8800gt and 12 gigs of ram? If it will run on that machine anyone know how well it will run?

Thanks

I play on a quad-core 2.66 GHz Mac Pro with Radeon 6870 video card. I purposefully set the game’s frame limiter setting to 30 (because your human eyes & brain don’t need more than that) and medium graphic details (because I don’t care any more than that when I’m busy playing a game). I am very satisfied with the performance.