Guild Wars 2

I recently got a 5k iMac, and I can confirm that running the game at max resolution causes the chat log to be effectively unreadable. It also still suffers from all of the crashing problems all macs do thanks to the wrapper issue.

Hang on, I thought the problem with the mac client was because the outdated wrapper wasn’t communicating well with OSX, but from what you said, this is a memory leak inherent to the base coding of the game that affects all systems.

How did that kind of error make it into a final live piece of software? I would think something like this would have been apparent during alpha/beta testing of the original release.

What triggers in the program are supposed to release RAM again? Are they failing or simply not triggering often enough to keep up with demand for RAM?

FlamingFoxx.1305:

There’s an option in the games settings menu, either in the main tab or the graphics tab I can’t recall which, and it allows you to set the UI to small, large, or larger. If you have a 5K iMac or a retina display on full resolution then the UI is going to be smaller (just as it would be on a windows computer with the same resolution). One solution would be to play the game in a lower resolution, which would make everything a little larger.

Yeah, I got a brand new iMac, and I wondered if the higher resolution might have something to do with it. It’s kind of annoying, but I should probably run it at lower resolution anyway to help reduce the chance of a crash.

Well this thread doesn’t instill me with confidence. I’m glad I haven’t actually purchased the expansion yet.

From the thread, I gather I need to lower all the graphics settings to minimums to reduce crashes. Maybe you all could help me with another problem.

UI elements in the game (menus, minimap, chat log, etc.) are showing up incredibly small. I almost need a magnifying glass to read chat. I couldn’t find an option for scaling the UI under the UI options menu. Is it hidden somewhere else?

edit: I found UI scaling under the graphics options, but even at the largest setting, the UI elements are still very small (mostly a problem for the chat log).