Guild Wars 2

I, like many mac users that play gw2, have grown tired of playing with the poorest settings possible, and still have terrible fps issues.

Today, on another desperate try to tweak somehow my gw2 fps, I decided trying everything I ever tried before + some tips Lacey gave me on my ticket.

Basically we have to open the config file that can be found as follow:
finder > go > hold left alt key > library > application support > guild wars 2

once you opened the file, change the following:
“VertexShaderHash” and “PixelShaderHash” from 300 to 275
and “MTD3D” from 4 to 1

once you’ve done that, save it and close it.

on the same guild wars 2 folder click on: p_drive > user > Application Data > Guild wars 2 > and delete your local.dat file

Now you will have to go back to the Library folder and find the following file and DELETE IT:
Preferences > com.transgaming.guildwars2.plist

Once you have done all that, clean your trash folder and do a SMC reset followed by a VRAM reset.

I tried that, and it almost brought tears to my eyes…. i have never seen my laptop run gw2 so smoothly on OSX.

Let me know if it works for any of you

what are SMC and VRAM reset? In deleting these things are we going to lose anything in-game? I mean..aren’t they there for some reason?

St Platano.9271:

what are SMC and VRAM reset? In deleting these things are we going to lose anything in-game? I mean..aren’t they there for some reason?

Your account files are stored on the games servers, nothing to do with your account is stored on your computer (same as any other online game) so you won’t lose anything.
Google SMC reset and VRAM/PRAM reset – the top result should be the instructions form apple on how to do them. They’re completely harmless resets that are often used to solve small problems relating to performance on apple computers.

exactly what flamingfoxx said.

those instructions were all obtained from Gw2 support and also through a little internet research.

I’m not 100% sure it’s going to work for everybody, it has greatly improved my gw2 like i’ve never seen before!

Basically we have to open the config file that can be found as follow:
finder > go > hold left alt key > library > application support > guild wars 2>

once you opened the file, change the following:
“VertexShaderHash” and “PixelShaderHash” from 300 to 275
and “MTD3D” from 4 to 1
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Once I open GW2 in my application support folder, I don’t see anything with those names, let alone anything I can change.

What are those values for and why from 300-275? Does that not compromise the graphics a little? Also as Macs are inherently more effective than PCs when with similar specs we really shouldn’t need to do this, if anything it should be the PC users who need to sacrifice graphics for performance, oh well….

Yifang.8260:

What are those values for and why from 300-275? Does that not compromise the graphics a little? Also as Macs are inherently more effective than PCs when with similar specs we really shouldn’t need to do this, if anything it should be the PC users who need to sacrifice graphics for performance, oh well….

That’s not really true, PCs are too varied for that statement to carry any weight. OpenGL and DirectX are just different. And we are running a directX a game through OpenGL, so yeah, it’s not surprising.

I think i spoke to soon about a “solution” to this issue.

After yesterdays patch my fps is bullkitten again after 5 minutes of gameplay or if i alt+tab!

Thanks ANet, if one thing I am sure now is that I will never be able to enjoy this game properly, so yeah ANet, Thank you very much for ripping me off, appreciated.

And my tp has gone back to badness, just enjoyed a few hours of a robust tp and then new build undoes my fix… Seems these patches upset the settings for the mac beta, inadequate testing or no consideration for it is the reason I suspect…
Not only did my simple fix make my tp work my game even improved in every way…

Another game I played that has a mac client actually runs well at least as good as the windows version but that game is run by idiots and is lacking anyway to be able to replace a game such as this for me…