Guild Wars 2

Hey everyone, I only run macs so when I saw guild wars 2 had a mac port, I jumped for joy. Long have I wanted to play a wow killing game. The game is still downloading, should be done later tonight, im just wondering how will it run?? My mac is OP
My system specs are as fallows.

Mac Pro, mid 2012. OSx 10.8.2
2x 3.06 GHz Hex-core Intel Xeon
ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024M
12GB 1333 MHz DDR3 EEC

thanks for your imput:)

It will run bad. Spec independent. You will never get more than 30FPS playing solo. Never more than 20FPS playing dungeons. Prey to god if you want to have 5FPS instead of 3FPS when it comes to WvW battles.

The Mac client is a huge pile of crap since it’s not native and just emulated.

yeah thats why i asked, i have experience with cider gaming. I had hope, owell may just have to use bootcamp.

Gajalu is right. It’s gonna run like crap. I can run the Witcher 2 on high settings just fine but not GW2. SMFH.

Uhh…
I run GW2 on a 2012 MBP, 4GB RAM, Radeon HD 6750m, 2.2Ghz i7 on max settings and I don’t really have any problems. FPS goes between 15-40 depending on the area and the amount of people around but that is most certainly playable.

Video or it didn’t happen.

FlamingFoxx.1305:

Uhh…
I run GW2 on a 2012 MBP, 4GB RAM, Radeon HD 6750m, 2.2Ghz i7 on max settings and I don’t really have any problems. FPS goes between 15-40 depending on the area and the amount of people around but that is most certainly playable.

How? You and I have the exact same computer and I can’t run it on max settings.

Emory Miromme.3012:

How? You and I have the exact same computer and I can’t run it on max settings.

I’m honestly not sure what to tell you O_o.

With all settings on High it’s at 20 FPS, which I personally I find perfectly playable, putting Shading and Shadows (touching nothing else) to Medium boosts the FPS to 25, and putting them both down to low (once again touching nothing else) puts it at 30, which is really quite decent considering how intensive GW2 is. Also having shader and shadows on low (not off, just low) the game is STILL absolutely gorgeous, so I don’t get what you’re all complaining about. There is barely any visual difference between having those two settings on High vs. having them on low >.>