Guild Wars 2

After the last WWDC conference and the announcement that Metal is coming to MAC. Is there any idea if GW2 will be using it in their game engine as I heard it’s easier to run than OpenGL and WINE on the mac. On the unreal engine on the same hardware it managed a 10X performance boost. Any word from the development team?

Some answers would be all the more be welcomed as Transgaming just announced they sold Cider to NVIDIA:
https://www.transgaming.com/news/nvidia-acquire-transgaming-s-cross-platform-portability-technology?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TransGaming+%28TransGaming+Inc.%29

NVIDIA announced nothing solid about continuing Cider:
http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2015/06/11/nvidia-gameworks-studio/

I don’ t want to sound gloomy, but even if NVIDIA is unlikely to stop Cider on short term, the possible end of Cider on a longer term would imply the end of that flawed experience that is the Mac Client of GW2.

Anet, the Mac users have played the patience game long enough.
Is a native Metal client to be developed or should we quit as soon as we know NVIDIA’s plans for Cider?

Tetbanach.3712:

Some answers would be all the more be welcomed as Transgaming just announced they sold Cider to NVIDIA:
https://www.transgaming.com/news/nvidia-acquire-transgaming-s-cross-platform-portability-technology?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TransGaming+%28TransGaming+Inc.%29

NVIDIA announced nothing solid about continuing Cider:
http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2015/06/11/nvidia-gameworks-studio/

I don’ t want to sound gloomy, but even if NVIDIA is unlikely to stop Cider on short term, the possible end of Cider on a longer term would imply the end of that flawed experience that is the Mac Client of GW2.

Anet, the Mac users have played the patience game long enough.
Is a native Metal client to be developed or should we quit as soon as we know NVIDIA’s plans for Cider?

I may be wrong but reading that NVIDIA has simply bought the rights to Cider’s technology – they don’t now own Cider…
Also NVIDIA wouldn’t be likely to axe Cider as a way of playing games on OSX because macs primarily (if not all of them?) use NVIDIA graphics cards. It wouldn’t be very smart for them to make having an NVIDIA graphics card less appealing to mac users or to apple.

I really hope you are right. I can’t really say I perfectly know all the Apple references, but it seemed to me most the latest generation Macs were shipped with AMD cards.
If NVIDIA is absent from those machines, they will lose any interest they still might have in this market.

Tetbanach.3712:

I really hope you are right. I can’t really say I perfectly know all the Apple references, but it seemed to me most the latest generation Macs were shipped with AMD cards.
If NVIDIA is absent from those machines, they will lose any interest they still might have in this market.

The newest Macbook Pro has an AMD graphics card (which is interesting because the previous generation was NVIDIA, and then before that it was AMD). However, all the iMac’s have NVIDIA graphics cards. So it’s kind of a mixed bag :S

So… any thought on that or are all Devs focused on HoT right now?

Not a complaint though, but I think we all mac users would like some “official” answer as whether we can upgrade to future OS El Capitan or we’ll forever be stuck on Yosemite…

:)

We still havr ONLY DX9 for Windows .. and you really think they will make
a special renderer for the minority of Mac players or Linux users or C-64 user
or whatever ?

In resent days the rumor that Apple may be switching all their new systems to the ARM processor has pop up on the internet again if this happens say goodby to GuildWars2 on any new Macs.

Feirlista Xv.1425:

In resent days the rumor that Apple may be switching all their new systems to the ARM processor has pop up on the internet again if this happens say goodby to GuildWars2 on any new Macs.

does apple have access to a large enough chip fab? I do not think they do.

Feirlista Xv.1425:

In resent days the rumor that Apple may be switching all their new systems to the ARM processor has pop up on the internet again if this happens say goodby to GuildWars2 on any new Macs.

There would be absolutely no sense in Apple shifting to ARM processors for their computers… The internet is full of ‘rumours’. Very few of them turn out to be true.

This needs to happen. You can’t play GW2 on the Mac without setting everything to medium/low, and having to restart after so many polygons stretch out through the screen to the point you can’t see anything anymore.

Make Metal happen! Don’t forget about us! We are 10%! :P