Mac : Mac Pro supported?
I am sure it will be fine but you could contact Support (link at the top of the page) to be really sure. I seem to remember another player posting on here who had a Mac pro but that was many moons ago and I may be confused.
Although your machine looks like overkill, GW2 is run through a cider port on the Mac which means all that lovely ram you have will be wasted. I believe we only get the 32 bit version with all the memory problems that brings. Many Mac players use Bootcamp and say the game is like chalk and cheese once they switch to the dark side.
If you stick with the Mac side, you may find you have to lower your graphic settings to prevent memory error crashes. I have an IMac I7 and I lower mine to Best Performance, and then tweak them up a little so at least they are not too horrible.
The good news is Anet is working on a native Mac version though no one knows when that will be released.
Thanks, yeah all those cores and ram are more for Maya than anything else. Don’t fancy rendering animations on a quad core machine…
I don’t have an issue with doing the bootcamp thing at all as I have a Win 8.1 64bit Home license I can transfer from my current pc. I’ll just give Windows a whole 120gb SSD to use and keep OSX and data files completely on different drives.
Is cider like ‘wine’ for linux? I did get GW2 to run on wine under Arch Linux but the textures were often messed up.
Thanks, yeah all those cores and ram are more for Maya than anything else. Don’t fancy rendering animations on a quad core machine…
I don’t have an issue with doing the bootcamp thing at all as I have a Win 8.1 64bit Home license I can transfer from my current pc. I’ll just give Windows a whole 120gb SSD to use and keep OSX and data files completely on different drives.
Is cider like ‘wine’ for linux? I did get GW2 to run on wine under Arch Linux but the textures were often messed up.
Cider is a licensed version of Wine (well it was, the company was sold off to NVIDIA a little while ago). So performance is similar to Wine, with the difference that Wine has an active community working on it. Wine also works on OS X, though I think there’s better support for Linux.
If you’re able to bootcamp the game then do it. Performance will be far far better.
FWIW – GW2 Mac client does not run on a Mac Pro with a non-standard graphics card. I tried the GTX 970 and no go. I only got the client to start with the 5770 and GTX 680 cards.
It seems the “macdrv” section in the config file points to the standard OSX graphics drivers for NVidia and ATI cards, it does not pick up the custom NVidia drivers required to run alternative NVidia cards.
All my other Mac games that don’t rely on wine / cider work fine, and very well in fact on the GTX 970.
The GTX 680 produces about 30 fps on high settings at 1920×1200.
FWIW – GW2 Mac client does not run on a Mac Pro with a non-standard graphics card. I tried the GTX 970 and no go. I only got the client to start with the 5770 and GTX 680 cards.
I’ve been running GW2 on my mac with a non-standard GPU for years. GTX 760.
Thanks BDave, what is your setup like in terms of game file location, OS version etc? I managed to get it to run, but just once with the GTX 970.
My boot SSD isn’t big enough to hold the game data in /Applications, so I tried moving the game folder to another drive which contains all my other games / download / video etc. As soon as I did that I got the same error as when I installed the 970 card.
I’m trying to figure out how to install the game to another drive (not an external one) without having to download the GW2.dat file again. I have the file saved and can copy it into the correct location in the GW2 package.
If I try and run the setup file and install directly to a larger drive the installer runs some updates and then just crashes. It will start the install process fine when installing to /Application though.
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