Guild Wars 2

Model Name: iMac
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.93 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Memory: 16 GB
OS Version: 10.6.8
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My experience is as such:
I have downloaded the client, installed and patched it without any kind of problem.
When came the time to hit “Play”, I did so and ended up on a black screen. I had to reboot my iMac to be able to get out of it.
I tried again several times. I had to reboot once again, but the other times, it simply got out of the black screen by itself, showing an error message, but not long enough for me to make note of it.
Finally, after trying a few times, it let me into the game. I’m not too sure why it even worked this time.
However, if I get out of the game, it takes another several tries to get in again.

Once inside the game, though, I haven’t yet encountered any issues.
My framerate was around 30 with Antialiasing on and most graphic settings on medium.

That summarizes my experience so far. :)

I’m sure you already have.. but just in case, don’t forget to submit your specs with a ticket at: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/mac/Submitting-a-Support-Ticket-for-the-Mac-Beta-Client

I’ve done so. :) Thank you for the reminder, though.

they wont help you becuase you are using OS 10.6.8

10.6.8 is unsupported. You need to upgrade to either Lion or Mountain Lion, Apple only supports their most recent two operating systems (Lion and Mountain Lion) so Anet is doing the same.

FlamingFoxx.1305:

10.6.8 is unsupported. You need to upgrade to either Lion or Mountain Lion, Apple only supports their most recent two operating systems (Lion and Mountain Lion) so Anet is doing the same.

Apple is still supporting SL, just yesterday there was released updates for SL.
According to the monthly steam hardware survey SL still has a 27% market share (and 2.6% runs 10.5), which means 1/3rd of the macs are unsupported by Apple?

However I can understand that a third party like Anet won’t support it, although the GW2 beta runs fine on SL

It is unsupported “at this time”. It will most likely be supported some time later.
Not everyone wants to/can upgrade to Lion due to software incompatibility. :B