Guild Wars 2

Hey all ^^

I’ve been playing the game since a month after release, and I’m beginning to think that competitively I can’t really get too much better when I have to run character detail in lowest settings to get reasonable frame rates in WvW. It’s hard to intelligently dodge certain attacks when the animations all look the same. I understand that a large part of the problem is the mac client being a cider port, so it not being native software means I get less bang for my buck in terms of CPU.

Getting a new (windows) computer is out of the question atm, and if a native port hasn’t appeared after 2 years I’m doubtful it ever will, so I’m asking what people’s experience with bootcamp is. I hear you can get much better performance with less stress on the mac: what kind of numbers are we talking here? I normally get 20-25fps when roaming in an almost empty map, around 8fps in zergs. What would bootcamp do to those numbers?

I have a late 2011 macbook pro, 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 processor, 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 memory, Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB. I hope those numbers mean more to you than to me.

TLDR: would you recommend bootcamp? Or would you rather wait and buy a new windows computer on the cheap?

Does your computer only have the intel graphics card? Or does it also have a dedicated graphics card? (if its a 15 inch 2011 MBP it should also have an AMD graphics card in which case you’ll get really decent performance – it’s the same machine that I have -Performance is far superior in boot camp! but your intel graphics card is going to limit just how much better i think.

I don’t play it on a MacBook Pro, but I used to play it on my late 2011 iMac using BootCamp and it plays great! No lag, no random crashes, etc. It’s very well worth the fact that you have to boot into Windows.

I honestly only switch over to bootcamp when we have one of those months where they break the Mac client and can’t bother to fix it.

The rest of the time I find the mac client performance acceptable enough (I have to bump my settings all the way down to lowest though around zergs or the client crashes after about 20 minutes, though). I have a pretty high end iMac so your milage may vary.

yes bootcamp is well worth it if you have access to a copy of windows. but if you have to pay the 120 usd to get a copy then probably not. Performance is about 25% better in windows on my rmpb 13 with 5100 iris graphics

@FlamingFoxx; I only have the 13" macbook, so it’s the integrated graphics only I’m afraid.

It sounds like it’s worth a look, so I shall look into it. Thanks all! ^^