Guild Wars 2

When I bought this game I originally bought it to run on my Bootcamp Windows 7 side but when the Beta came out downloaded this version so I wouldn’t have to reboot to play. I have had no problems with the Beta client, no crashes, no errors etc. There are some minor differences that have, as of yet, not interfered with my gameplay. I have a 2011 iMAC quad core i5 with 1Gb of video ram and 12 Gb of regular ram. I have mostly everything set on high and my fps is around 40. So far the only differences I have seen between the Mac Beta client and the Windows version are these:

1. I can’t select Hi Res Character Textures because that is not a current option with the build of the Mac Beta. Supposedly to run the Mac Beta it actually runs some sort of converter that simulates a Windows environment in Mac OS Lion and that environment is 32 bit and does take advantage of Mac OS X 64 bit architecture. Even people who have PCs and only have a 32 bit operation system can’t select this

2. The frame rates are, on average, 20 fps lower than on the PC side

3. There is a lag when moving the camera around when you are near or facing water. If you are not this problem goes away.

Other than this the game was run flawlessly

That all said they do need to upgrade our game to a 64 system to allow us higher resolution and tweak it to run better with the graphics cards we have. It would be a great if they ever make a version that will run natively to Mac OS X but that it is a dream. It would be nice if it would stop being called a Beta

Happy New Year

Anthony