Guild Wars 2

I just recently got a new retina MBP. I haven’t play gw2 in over a year, my chief complaint being that it ran terribly on OSX and I was sick of running in sub-sample with absolute minimal graphics and only getting 15-20 fps. I decided however to give it a try since I got an upgrade.

My new mbp is much better than my last but I still have to run it with the lowest settings and barely get 25 fps. Is there anything I can do about this? Why is it so horrible compared to other games? Or is my hardware that bad?

Processor 2.6 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics Intel Iris 1536 MB

Hmm. I see. There’s still hardly anyone. There use to be what seemed like a hundred on the map and I see maybe about 20. Is there a new central hub or has the population declined that much?

I just got back from about a two year hiatus. I went to Lions Arch, where everyone used to be. I didn’t see a single player. Is there a new hub? Was I on a wrong server?

So my friend wanted to start playing again. However he needs his serial key to recover his password. The problem is, when he enters his serial key it says that it is invalid. When he tries to register it then it says that the key has been registered. He says that he has only ever used two emails and has tried both.

What should he do?

I got a new laptop recently. I’m running the latest update, Yosemite. I just downloaded the game and installed it to my apps, but when I try to launch nothing happens.

The game opens but there is no window. It’s active on my dock but if I click the icon there is no visible window.

Solved. Checked the sticky and entered the following into terminal.

/applications/guild\ wars\ 2.app/contents/MacOS/cider —use-dos-cwd C:Gw2 -- C:\\GW2\\GW2.exe -repair

For some reason they have some weird scrolling option checked that disables zoom function by default…

Open your options and uncheck “Mac Beta: Use scrolling gestures to change direction."

TactualRain.7109:

EDIT: On the mouse zoom, you can uncheck the option “Mac Beta: Use scrolling gestures to change direction” and your mouse wheel will work as normal.

I just found this before you posted. But thank you, anyways!

First off I wanted to say thank you so much!

However a major issue I have come across is the use of function keys in this game. For Macs, the function keys are pretty vital for things such as volume control and screen brightness. When I’m playing my mesmer and I go to shatter my illusions, my illusions sadly do not shatter. Instead, I toggle my screen brightness.

In order to bypass this feature we have two options:

1. Hold the “fn” key every time we wish to use the f1-f4 abilities in game.
2. Go into the systems panel and turn these functions off, so that in order to use the default functions, we must use the “fn” key and the corresponding function button.
3. Remap the f1-f4 abilities.

Option 1 clearly is not viable. While option 2 is perfectly viable, it is not the prefered method, as it is quite the inconvenience outside of gaming. And personally I don’t believe rebinding keys should be the go to answer, as it isn’t for many people.

What I suggest is this:
Give us an option to disable the default functions while in game so that we may more easily use the f1-f4 abilities without having to change the system preferences every time we wish to play. Other games such as Starcraft II have done this so I believe it is something that could be implemented in Guild Wars 2.

Thank you for you time and I hope you consider this suggestion!