Guild Wars 2

I Absolutely love playing Guild Wars 2, I play on a Mid 2011 21.5-Inch iMac, 2.5Ghz Core i5, 8GB of RAM and an AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512MB.

I originally played the game on bootcamp and it ran perfectly on medium-high settings (40-50 FPS with zero latency) However constantly starting up bootcamp solely to play GW2 became a bit of a burden, especially when only wanting to jump in for a few hours or so.

I took the plunge after loads of research and decided that i’d rather lower the graphics a bit and use the Mac Client rather than constantly jump in and out of bootcamp.. well, it hasn’t gone well.

I lowered the graphics to low-medium and got a decent 35-45 fps but, get this awful jerkiness when my character walks anywhere, its almost a type of lag but it really isn’t bearable, especially after the smoothness of playing in bootcamp. I also get this horrible world map lag.

Is there anyone else with a similar problem? OR even better can someone resurrect this?

p.s I have played GW2 on the mac client previously (i put it on for a fews days when i first bought the game) and had no such problem.

THe game is “ported” poorly for the mac. That’s it. No need discuss any errors/glitches until the mods resurrect this forum. Just look at the last updates. October. Thats 3 month back.

dag.1397:

THe game is “ported” poorly for the mac. That’s it. No need discuss any errors/glitches until the mods resurrect this forum. Just look at the last updates. October. Thats 3 month back.

I haven’t actually heard of this issue from anyone else though? Not to this extent anyway, i’ve even tried running the game on the lowest possible settings and i still get the same result. It’s such a pain in the backside swapping from bootcamp. I have the entire bootcamp setup just for GW2. It’s so pointless.

Edit: I’ve just tried playing the exact same client on my girlfriends MacBook Pro 2012 and it’s an improvement on mine. Strange seeing as though her laptop doesn’t boast specs as good as, never mind better than my iMac.

Hey guys,

I have a Macbook Pro Mid 2012, Intel Core i7-3520M 2.9Ghz with 8GB of RAM.

I’m getting the same problem, except that I was previously running GW2 on OSX and wanted to try it out on bootcamp instead. I never had this problem while playing on OSX. The frame rate is higher (40-50) than it was on OSX, but now my character seems to move around slow for a bit, followed by it speeding up to ‘catch back up’ and compensate for the sluggish movement, and then repeating. All the characters around me are doing the same thing. An interesting detail is that it only happens after having run around for 5-10 seconds (if i have just returned from having downsized the client). before this time, the client runs smoothly. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.