Guild Wars 2

Just a heads up that the MTD3D flag is on by default now. Mid to higher end machines should see a decent performance boost from it, lower end machines probably won’t see much of a change at all.

There is a known issue with Radeon drivers under 10.6 which is why 10.6 is under minimum spec for GW2. The fact that changing your shader quality makes the bug more reproducible means it is very likely this is the bug you are hitting.

I know you later said you are running 10.7, so this may not be the issue. Are you on the latest 10.7.X? It is possible the bug still existed in earlier versions of 10.7.

We will look into the focus issues. Thank you for the feedback!

Hi folks,

I see you have discovered the Cider config file. It is good to hear some of you are seeing improvements with the MTD3D setting. Please be aware that tweaking settings in this file can have side affects other than performance, namely stability. The MTD3D is intentionally disabled currently because of driver conflicts on the Radeon cards. We do intend on turning this back on once the stability issues have been resolved.

I am not telling you to stop making tweaks to the config file and you probably wouldn’t listen to me anyway. Please be smart and make a backup of the file and if you experience unusual crashes, revert your changes.

Both ArenaNet and Transgaming are continuing efforts to improve performance on the Mac client. We appreciate the feedback many of you have provided via this forum.

Happy Gaming,
—Brad

Bump. I didn’t have my pretty ArenaNet flag when I originally posted.