Cmdr. Kiro Heimdahl
Warrior
Far Shiverpeaks
Warrior
Far Shiverpeaks
Really?
Life goes on. Deal with it!
Actually they’ve stated all along they had an internal team working on porting options for the game. And they even had quite a few “wink wink nudge nudge” moments when asked about official Mac support.
That said, no one is forcing you to stop using your new PC for GW2.
Joke indeed.
I agree that the lack of communication was a little bit disappointing. I spent the last 3 days getting my hard drive to partition so I could run Win7 in bootcamp, and literally as I’m installing my Windows Updates I hear this announcement.
As you can imagine I’m a little sour that I spent that time configuring things when I could have just waited 3 days and played on the PC in the mean time.
The thing that we should take away from this is that GW2 is finally natively on OSX and we should enjoy.
@Mandy.4372
Don’t trash your Bootcamp partition just yet. This is a port using Transgaming’s Cider framework, not a native app. Performance will likely be significantly better using Bootcamp.
@Mandy.4372
Don’t trash your Bootcamp partition just yet. This is a port using Transgaming’s Cider framework, not a native app. Performance will likely be significantly better using Bootcamp.
Especially while it is in beta.
OTOH, now that I’m in I’ve been pleasantly surprised. Framerates are a fair bit better than when using Crossover, even at 1920×1200. A few minor niggles such as the mouse scroll wheel issue reported elsewhere, but very promising overall.
Well I’m not trashing my bootcamp partition since I can’t get the Mac Client to show me anything other than a black screen. I made a thread; maybe someone will have a remedy.
OTOH, now that I’m in I’ve been pleasantly surprised. Framerates are a fair bit better than when using Crossover, even at 1920×1200. A few minor niggles such as the mouse scroll wheel issue reported elsewhere, but very promising overall.
You can fix the mouse wheel issue in options. Uncheck Mac Beta: Use scrolling gestures to change direction.
Just wondered how long this was in the works? considering I’ve gone out and brought a PC when i am fully mac enabled.
Lack of comms on this is horrific considering you said you wouldn’t be supporting it.
Joke
They never said they wouldn’t support OSX, they only said there won’t be a OSX client at launch. And there wasn’t.
Technically, there /still/ isn’t an OSX client. There’s a Windows client with a Translation Layer wrapper. XD
Just wondered how long this was in the works? considering I’ve gone out and brought a PC when i am fully mac enabled.
Lack of comms on this is horrific considering you said you wouldn’t be supporting it.
Joke
And what about all those people who recently purchased a iphone4S a few weeks before the release of i5? Should they whine and complain too? Actually I can think of MANY similar QQs but here’s the thing – it’s a product – you’re not entitled and life goes on.
I agree that the lack of communication was a little bit disappointing. I spent the last 3 days getting my hard drive to partition so I could run Win7 in bootcamp, and literally as I’m installing my Windows Updates I hear this announcement.
As you can imagine I’m a little sour that I spent that time configuring things when I could have just waited 3 days and played on the PC in the mean time.
The thing that we should take away from this is that GW2 is finally natively on OSX and we should enjoy.
If you spent 3 days trying to get boot camp to work you have issues.. it is one of the easiest things in the world to do..
Just wondered how long this was in the works? considering I’ve gone out and brought a PC when i am fully mac enabled.
Lack of comms on this is horrific considering you said you wouldn’t be supporting it.
Joke
And what about all those people who recently purchased a iphone4S a few weeks before the release of i5? Should they whine and complain too? Actually I can think of MANY similar QQs but here’s the thing – it’s a product – you’re not entitled and life goes on.
No those people should lie down on the train tracks and wait for the train. In NO product cycle apple has EVER had were there more leaks and obvious reporting on the new phone being avilable. the Iph5 has been on the radar for months now.. if you bought an iphone in the last 4 months you definitely need to get out from under that rock you live under..
@Mandy …I can echo your sentiment, and while I didn’t look deeply into the whole Mac client thing, it all seemed to point to “no Mac client”.
This was my first Bootcamp experience. If it’s taking you 3 days, you may have some other issues. It really didn’t take long for me to go through the whole install process.
If you spent 3 days trying to get boot camp to work you have issues.. it is one of the easiest things in the world to do..
actually, since apple have been going downhill recently… bootcamp doesn’t download the proper gpu drivers. so, for simple folk.. they may struggle tryna get it to work. especially when they won’t be able to install latest drivers right away because bootcamp won’t let them.
Embrace the darkness..
This subforum is for tech support of the mac client, not mac client discussion.