Guild Wars 2

Hi! I’m using the mac version of the game to handle the TP on the go (I have a pc just for gaming) and i have the problem that gw2 work only once. After the installation works fine, but after i close it i can’t reopen it again unless i resintall it.
When i try to reopen it simple doesn’t do anything. I can’t see gw2 on the activity monitor and there isen’t a login screen. I already tried to remove the application support folder and the -repair command in the plist file but it doesn’t work.

Can someone help me?
Thanks

Which version of OSX are you running, on which machine?

I’m using ML 10.8.2 on a macbook pro late 2008 (i know that is underspec but i just need it for the tp i don’t really care too much on the performance, but after the installation the client works so i don’t think is a problem of the under spec hw)

I have been having the same issue since the Mac wine port came out. I’m playing on a mid 2010 13" MacBook Pro with 8 GB Ram, Nvidia 320M, 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. I’m running OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion. If anyone has a fix for this please let me know.

Until a solution is found, I suggest you play GW2 on Windows via Boot Camp. It performs much better on my Windows partition than on my Mac partition anyway.

Also, reinstalling the game on your Mac is a lot easier if you have already downloaded the game and own an external hard drive. Simply right click on the Guild Wars 2 application (or two finger click if using the touchpad) and click on Show Package Contents → Contents → Resources → transgaming→ c_drive → GW2. The file you want to backup is GW2.dat. Once you have it on your hard drive, just copy it back to the GW2 folder once your installer has begun downloading the game. And it may be obvious, but you’ll probably want to close the downloader window before you make the copy.

I hope this helps!

Some people have mentioned that opening Activity Monitor and killing cider and/or transgaming will resolve the issue. Unfortunately that isn’t the case for me, but I would try it for yourself.

If like me you started GW2 and the Background of the login screen came up, the download bar blinked into existence a couple of times then vanished, keep the client open for a long while (~15 minutes in my case) it will fix itself eventually.

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Also, reinstalling the game on your Mac is a lot easier if you have already downloaded the game and own an external hard drive. Simply right click on the Guild Wars 2 application (or two finger click if using the touchpad) and click on Show Package Contents -> Contents -> Resources -> transgaming-> c_drive -> GW2. The file you want to backup is GW2.dat. Once you have it on your hard drive, just copy it back to the GW2 folder once your installer has begun downloading the game. And it may be obvious, but you’ll probably want to close the downloader window before you make the copy.

I hope this helps!

Thanks! I was already doing it, but is nice to say it for the other people in the forum
Killing the cider thread is useless because is doen’t even start at all
I tried to close gw using killall cider, it worked once but is pretty random. I guess there isen’t a fix for this bug

Have you repaired your disk permissions lately? Also, are you 100% sure there are no cider processes running in the background (checking Activity monitor sorted by name, rebooting, clearing RAM, etc)?

There is no cider thread active (also killall cider doens’t work because is not active, while if i do it when gw2 is open is killed nicely).
Rebooting doesn’t solve the problem (so purging ram is the same).
Well is not a big problem for me since i’m using it only for the trading post

What video card are you running?

I’m using the discrete 9600m gt

I have repaired my permissions, but had no success. I can’t help but wonder if my BootCamp partition is somehow interfering.

There’s no reason it would be. It’s an entirely separate volume.

I’m using a Macbook 2008 & can run the game in 10.8.2 with no problems.

I erased my Mac partition and did a fresh install of Mountain Lion and GW2. Everything works fine now.

Oh man, you didn’t need to do that. You could have made a new user account and tried it from there. Sorry I didn’t mention it sooner.