Guild Wars 2

I’ve been using the Mac Client from the moment it was available and I love it! I understand it’s still in beta, but I wanted make known with my experience thus far, some issues that I have that ANET might want to know about.

1. Won’t open sometimes, (vauge…I know) I will click the icon but nothing happens. So I went into my activity monitor and saw Guild Wars 2 under my processor names, which means something of GW is running, but nothing happens. When I forcequit this, and try to reopen GW, I run into an error that tells me the app can’t be opened, and I often have to restart my computer several times for it to open again, one time I had to install the entire game again..

This also happens when I crash. So I will be playing with friends, crash, and then have to restart my computer to get back into the game.

2. Crashing. Happens at least 2-3 times within a 5 hour period. It’s beta, I know, so I will expect that to improve? It happens in large fights (which sucks that I’m pulled out of awesome fights, luckily it doesn’t take too long to get back in.) When taking screenshots, and……then just randomly sometimes it seems. But to be honest, isn’t my largest complaint.

3. Windowed GW gets pushed down. I am running a 2560 × 1440 display, and I love to play in windowed to be able to use other applications. But whenever I use the windowed option, the top bar pushes gw2 just enough for it to cut off half my skills. (And for the record I am not talking about the Dock bar, i’m talking about the top menu bar.)

And then on more small thing. Screenshots. Would it be possible to have them saved to a specific location? I understand that for all things on the Mac is saves it to the desktop, but we all know that only us GW folk will take a couple hundred pictures in only a few hours with such a beautiful and memorable game. When I organize my pictures, file names repeat and make it nearly impossible to sort. This is more of a request then a problem. I understand if this something that can’t be done….but still

Well I think thats everything. All in all I am absurdly impressed that ANET has given us this option and have carried it out thus far with such amazing performance, especially as a LONG TIME GW fan from Prophecies to EOTN and now to GW2 on the MAC.

Thanks for your time.

And now if you’ll excuse me, I need to restart my computer to get back to playing!

Computer Info:

Processor 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2048 MB

For the benefit of any ANET person or other tech-savvy individual who reads this and wants to help, it’s always good to include your system specs. I simply put them in my sig, so I don’t have to type them each time I post. :-)

Bistouri.6038:

For the benefit of any ANET person or other tech-savvy individual who reads this and wants to help, it’s always good to include your system specs. I simply put them in my sig, so I don’t have to type them each time I post. :-)

Thank you for reminding me!

I haven’t really run any benchmarks, but I feel that my FPS should be much higher. I am running the game on medium settings and am averaging around 30FPS in most areas.

It’s adequate, but I feel like my Mac should able to smoke this game…besides that, I think this game is great…much better than paying a monthly fee for WoW!