Upgrading from Snow Leopard?
Upgrading the OS gives you better graphics driver support for OpenGL. But be forewarned that the new drivers are for the newer hardware configurations… if you have an older system, you may find zero improvement.
Ultimately you will find that it runs best under bootcamp. The beta client is just a wrapper to allow you to play a windows game on a mac. It is NOT a mac native port of the game.
Hey people,
I was wondering if upgrading from 10.6.8 to 10.7.5 has an impact on performance?
Playing the game on 10.6.8 medium settings and it runs good most of the times.When I log in I get this error (warning): https://dl.dropbox.com/u/66317396/Schermafbeelding%202012-09-26%20om%2013.45.52.png
I can see why hardware upgrades have an effect on performance of games, but I don’t see why software upgrades have an effect on performances? The lion only adds a few new features how can it increase a games performance? And why does it give me this warning while the game runs fine on a 10.6.8?
In most cases, Mountain Lion outperforms Lion and Snow Leopard. Most people who have problems have other underlying issues that are hardware or 3rd-party software oriented.
The only reason to hang on to Snow Leopard is if you have any PowerPC applications on your system that you absolutely cannot live without that are no longer being supported by their respective software manufacturers.
I don’t use PowerPC applications.
So upgrading software gives me a better graphics driver support for OpenGL? Still sounds like me upgrading software hasn’t a big impact on games performances, so why do I get that warning?
Because the game is not officially supported on 10.6.8
It may still work, but if you run into trouble you may have to find your own solution.
If you look at the minimum hardware specs for the Mac client, you will notice that they are only really supporting the latest hardware. The latest hardware shipped either with Lion or Mountain Lion, not Snow Leopard.
By telling you that Snow Leopard isn’t supported, they are re-emphasizing that the wrapper was only tested and found to run adequately under those configurations. So, even by upgrading your OS, your system still might not be supported if you don’t have one of those hardware configurations. If may run, it may not… it may run very poorly, or it may run ok. If you don’t have their minimum hardware configuration and their minimum OS requirement, you won’t get much support from ArenaNet should you run into issues with the port.
I don’t run Lion or Mountain Lion because neither OS offer me anything that I care to use. My system shipped in 2010, so it’ configuration is not supported. It runs beautifully in bootcamp. Why would I upgrade my OS to play a game at 1/2 it’s potential on a Mac? If it were a native port of the game, maybe, but not for a wrapper.