Mac FPS Stability
There’s nothing you can do to improve the FPS or stability other than ensuring no other programs are running while you run GW2, and turning the graphics settings down. Sorry :/
The simple fact is that the current Mac client isn’t very efficient – it uses Cider so you’re basically having to translate DirectX API calls to OpenGL in real time, which simply isn’t efficient, especially on such a CPU bound game to begin with.
What I can suggest you try is running the game using Wine with CSMT enabled – I’ve gotten better FPS that way.
You can also try editing the game’s configuration in ~/Library/Application Support/Guild Wars 2 and I believe the file is called config – basically it has a line for the video memory which by default is set to 256M. Try raising this to 1024M or so.
Hope this helps.
The simple fact is that the current Mac client isn’t very efficient – it uses Cider so you’re basically having to translate DirectX API calls to OpenGL in real time, which simply isn’t efficient, especially on such a CPU bound game to begin with.
What I can suggest you try is running the game using Wine with CSMT enabled – I’ve gotten better FPS that way.
You can also try editing the game’s configuration in ~/Library/Application Support/Guild Wars 2 and I believe the file is called config – basically it has a line for the video memory which by default is set to 256M. Try raising this to 1024M or so.
Hope this helps.
Edited the config a while back already. It didn’t improve anything
I have not however tried enabling CSMT. Can that also be found in the config?
The simple fact is that the current Mac client isn’t very efficient – it uses Cider so you’re basically having to translate DirectX API calls to OpenGL in real time, which simply isn’t efficient, especially on such a CPU bound game to begin with.
What I can suggest you try is running the game using Wine with CSMT enabled – I’ve gotten better FPS that way.
You can also try editing the game’s configuration in ~/Library/Application Support/Guild Wars 2 and I believe the file is called config – basically it has a line for the video memory which by default is set to 256M. Try raising this to 1024M or so.
Hope this helps.
Edited the config a while back already. It didn’t improve anything
I have not however tried enabling CSMT. Can that also be found in the config?
CSMT only applies if you run the game through Wine, which is another application that is commonly used for running windows applications on OSX. It is a separate thing to the GW2 client that you’d have to download. It may or may not work better. Wine also isn’t the most friendly thing for a newcomer. This is the page on the official Wiki about running the game in Wine, it might help you out if you’re interested in giving that a try: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_2_on_Wine