Gw2 runs really bad on my mac
whats wrong with 31 fps ?
If you have 30 or 60 or 90 fps its the same thing…
You will not see any difference.
ehh yes even though your eyes cant see it it feels smoother 35-40 would be ok
Check your mac for background processes that suck up CPU. For me, skydrive was sucking up a lot of CPU at times for no reason.
Yeah, Skydrive is a real pig (reason why I stopped using it even though I had space on it). What settings are you running the game at?
okay i have nothing named “skydrive” running and it has gotten a bit better with these graphis settings:Animation: Low
Antialiasing: FXAA
Environment: Medium
LOD Distance: Low
Reflections: None
Textures: Medium
Render Sampling: Native
Shadows: Low
Shaders: Low
Post Processing: High
Character Model Limit: Low
Character Model Quality: Low
which is pretty stupid since its higher settings…..
Glad to hear that things are running better for you!
I’m running lower than that (everything turned down except I still have that rendering at native) and run great.
The only other thing that popped into my head was external monitors. If I have my Mac plugged into another monitor instead of using it’s local one, the performance takes a dive for me even with a similar resolution.
okay i have nothing named “skydrive” running and it has gotten a bit better with these graphis settings:Animation: Low
Antialiasing: FXAA
Environment: Medium
LOD Distance: Low
Reflections: None
Textures: Medium
Render Sampling: Native
Shadows: Low
Shaders: Low
Post Processing: High
Character Model Limit: Low
Character Model Quality: Low
which is pretty stupid since its higher settings…..
mabearpig how much fps do u have?
ehh yes even though your eyes cant see it it feels smoother 35-40 would be ok
This isn’t even close to accurate. 30fps is NTSC television frame rate (well, more accurately 29.97 frames) so I think that’s where people got this idea that it is “the fastest the eye can notice.” It’s completely false.
Fighter pilots have been tested with the ability to notice images flashed for 1/220 of a second. This means the human eye can distinguish difference up to 220fps. Most of us can’t do this, but we can still see difference well above 30, or even 40. Keep in mind that a large segment of the population, myself included, can’t use a CRT monitor set to 60Hz because the flicker drives us nuts.
In gaming context, more motion means you need more frames. If you are standing around at the bank in LA, 18fps is probably adequate. In WvW, 18fps is going to look like a slide show.
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I put the Frame Limiter on 30 so that’s about where she stays. I have seen up to 60, which I was surprised for an Air, but with everything they’ve put in recently to help with the culling, I think it’s had a dramatic performance impact for me.
These are my specs:
MacBook Air 13-inch, Mid 2013
Processor 1.7 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 5000 1024 MB
Software OS X 10.8.5 (12F45)
mabearpig how much fps do u have?
ehh yes even though your eyes cant see it it feels smoother 35-40 would be ok
This isn’t even close to accurate. 30fps is NTSC television frame rate (well, more accurately 29.97 frames) so I think that’s where people got this idea that it is “the fastest the eye can notice.” It’s completely false.
Fighter pilots have been tested with the ability to notice images flashed for 1/220 of a second. This means the human eye can distinguish difference up to 220fps. Most of us can’t do this, but we can still see difference well above 30, or even 40. Keep in mind that a large segment of the population, myself included, can’t use a CRT monitor set to 60Hz because the flicker drives us nuts.
In gaming context, more motion means you need more frames. If you are standing around at the bank in LA, 18fps is probably adequate. In WvW, 18fps is going to look like a slide show.
i just told the other guy that u feel a difference between 30-60fps i never said anything about how fast the eye could see…..