Guild Wars 2

I quit the game some time ago. Although the game is a lot of fun and I love the guild wars universe, the quality of the mac beta client destroyed the fun for me.
To get a close-to-smooth fps you have to play the game on the lowest settings.
If I want to play a game of this graphical quality I’d rather play Minecraft.

This made me quit in hope the promise “The performance will be a lot better when Mavericks hits live” will be true. Yesterday I checked the forums to see what people were saying about the performance with Mavericks. Most of the people said that nothing has changed but there were two posts saying that they can play WvW with high settings really smooth.

Skeptical as I was after reading this I had to try out my self in hope those posts weren’t trolling. I downloaded the 25gb client and logged in just to realize »I got trolled«.

Not only by the posts in the forum but by Arenanet them self.

Nothing has changed. The performance did not change a bit.

There are ZERO official informations in this forum about how far the Mac client is.
No information if or when we can expect a native client.
No information if the performance will ever reach a playable level.

I immediately deleted the client again.
I hope there will be some official information about the mac client soon.
And you officials stop telling me you are trying to find out anything about the mac client.
This can’t be so hard to find something out unless there is a million people working in your office and you have no clue who to ask.

I am disappoint.

This really depends on your computers specs. GW2 is not a low end game, if you have a high end mac you will be sweet, but if youre using a machine that is a couple of years old or has an intel graphics card then yes your performance is going to take a hit.

I have a brand new late 2013 27" iMac with Radeon Graphics and I never get more than 30FPS when being alone on a map. Never more than 15FPS in WvW. Actually never more than 3FPS when WvW Fights are going on.

Don’t tell me it’s about the hardware.

Prove me wrong and show me this Guild Wars 2 client on a Mac never dropping below 60FPS and I will believe you.

gajalu.8965:

I have a brand new late 2013 27" iMac with Radeon Graphics and I never get more than 30FPS when being alone on a map. Never more than 15FPS in WvW. Actually never more than 3FPS when WvW Fights are going on.

Don’t tell me it’s about the hardware.

Prove me wrong and show me this Guild Wars 2 client on a Mac never dropping below 60FPS and I will believe you.

Lmao, but if you loaded up bootcamp you would get almost the exact same FPS <— coming from someone who has had this experience.
GW2 is just really really poorly optimised, it’s not really anything to do with the OSX client. Yeah it runs better on Windows, but not much better.

On my MBP I get around 25-40fps with max settings on both the OSX client and on Windows (64bit Win7). I choose to run the game in bootcamp because it doesn’t run the fans up so much, but the bottom line is that it really doesn’t make that much of a difference…

The only people running GW2 at around 60FPS are people with proper high end gaming machines – which an iMac certainly is not.

Me: 2010 Mac Pro, 6x 3.33 GHz, Radeon HD 5870.
On max setting: I get 50 fps in my home instance with no other players. 30 fps looking at the Mystic Forge in Lion’s Arch from the bank steps. minimum of 20 fps in WvW in big battles.
when they say GW2 is a system-intensive game, they mean INTENSIVE. very few computers can run it perfectly on the highest settings. Some settings demand more than others, you should play around with them and find which you don’t need. More than a few make almost no visual difference but will cut fps in half – turn those to low.

huh… just noticed. iMacs don’t come with Radeon graphics cards. all of them are Nvidia GeForce somethingerother. I know it’s possible to replace the graphics cards in some imacs?

Mystic.5934:

Me: 2010 Mac Pro, 6x 3.33 GHz, Radeon HD 5870.
On max setting: I get 50 fps in my home instance with no other players. 30 fps looking at the Mystic Forge in Lion’s Arch from the bank steps. minimum of 20 fps in WvW in big battles.
when they say GW2 is a system-intensive game, they mean INTENSIVE. very few computers can run it perfectly on the highest settings. Some settings demand more than others, you should play around with them and find which you don’t need. More than a few make almost no visual difference but will cut fps in half – turn those to low.

huh… just noticed. iMacs don’t come with Radeon graphics cards. all of them are Nvidia GeForce somethingerother. I know it’s possible to replace the graphics cards in some imacs?

Only the new ones have Nvidia. All older iMacs used Radeon – same with all old Macbook Pro’s (which now have intel cards unless you want to shell out for the top end retina…)

yeah, but the last one with a Radeon was produced mid 2011. he said he got it late 2013