Guild Wars 2

would I have a disadvantage in pvp as a mac player?
I’m asking this because of the issues with lower frame rate as opposed to playing the game in windows platform.

can someone who pvped share their experience, thx.

my system specs are:
late 2011 macbook pro, 13 inch,
Processor 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5,
Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3,
Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB,
Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5

I haven’t had any problems on my 2009 iMac (3.06Ghz, ATI Radeon 4850 512MB, 8GB RAM), but whenever I’m doing sPvP or WvW I usually go into “Best Performance” so I don’t get any system lag out of the blue.

Ceribis.8104:

I haven’t had any problems on my 2009 iMac (3.06Ghz, ATI Radeon 4850 512MB, 8GB RAM), but whenever I’m doing sPvP or WvW I usually go into “Best Performance” so I don’t get any system lag out of the blue.

but what do you think of my system specs? would i run into troubles?

Vain.7643:

but what do you think of my system specs? would i run into troubles?

Unfortunately I would say you would. You have an Intel graphics card and you’d be running a highly GPU intensive game.

I have a 15" MBP with a 2.2 i7 processor, 4GB RAM and a Radeon 6750m graphics card. I can generally run the game in PvE with most settings on high and have a decent frame-rate, but for PvP I have to turn the settings down (The game still looks great with low settings so I don’t find that to be a problem). With the settings turned down a bit I get great performance in PvP, but I imagine with your graphics card being an intel your experience wouldn’t be as desirable.

Hopefully someone who has the same spec’d mac as you can reply to this and give you a better idea of what you’d be getting.

Current spec is:

Processor 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5,
Memory 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3,
Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB,
Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2

So pretty much similar to yours. I have to admit that I am forced to play on pretty much lowest possible settings except antialiasing which I have enabled. In WvW it’s usually easy 20 fps or around. As for latency and other performance issues never really experienced that so far.

Overally it’s not really perfect but good enough to have fun.

Hey Boridind, what about pvp? i have tried so many things and on high graphics option and was perfectly fine, but then again im not surprised as i used to play WoW and didn’t have any massive issues.
but im just worried about pvp and big world events, guess i would have to wait and try

also my frame rate is 30-40 is that good?

Vain.7643:

also my frame rate is 30-40 is that good?

It’s good. I don’t get too caught up with fps. If I don’t notice frames I consider that good enough.

Vain.7643:

Hey Boridind, what about pvp? i have tried so many things and on high graphics option and was perfectly fine, but then again im not surprised as i used to play WoW and didn’t have any massive issues.
but im just worried about pvp and big world events, guess i would have to wait and try

Well as I said I never really had any issues regarding sudden slideshow or similar stuff. And most of the time I do WvW, obviously often in some bigger groups against similar sized groups which sometimes gives easily 50-60+ ppl on the screen. I have to say that I had bigger problems while doing Drek with 20-30 ppl around me.

And Ceribis is right, as long as there are no sudden drops in framerate (often caused by other stuff than bad GPU) there is no reason to concern. Especially if as you say you are getting 30+ fps.

Could you btw post your settings? Asking cos you seem to be getting a bit better performance than I do (in my case it’s 20-30).

Boridind.8502:

Current spec is:

Processor 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5,
Memory 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3,
Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB,
Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2

So pretty much similar to yours. I have to admit that I am forced to play on pretty much lowest possible settings except antialiasing which I have enabled. In WvW it’s usually easy 20 fps or around. As for latency and other performance issues never really experienced that so far.

Overally it’s not really perfect but good enough to have fun.

Are you guys sure thats not just your other graphics card? I have the HD 3000 and a radeon installed in my laptop.

Actually I was thinking about buying external graphics card but since prices for thunderbolt adapters are not dropping really as of yet I for now gave up this idea:)