2008 iMac results

2008 iMac results

in Account & Technical Support

Posted by: Noobler.2679

Noobler.2679

A big Thank You to ArenaNet for adding Mac support!

See my signature for machine specs.

The Mac client installed without a problem. I found that frame rates were about 20% to 30% lower than bootcamp. Slightly jerky while rotating the view but still playable in 1050 and 840 height modes. Graphics setting: Best Performance.

However, I experienced a GPU lockup within 1 hour of play. This happened several times, and it happened whether running fullscreen, or in windowed mode. The mouse would still be active, but the screen was otherwise frozen. Sometimes I could remote login (SSH) and reboot the Mac, other times I could not even get a remote login prompt.

So sadly, I have to go back to bootcamp, where I have not experienced any GPU lockups after several days of play (before the Mac client was available).

2008 iMac 2.4GHz Core2Duo 4GB
Radeon HD2600XT 256MB
OSX 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard)

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