Guild Wars 2

Nageth.5648:

I think you’re still misunderstanding. One of the new processes (maybe the one responsible for the TP) isn’t shutting down on crash. They’re all named “Guild Wars 2” but they’re not all the game engine that make all the graphics for the characters and worlds. Here is another example to help explain this better.

True, but not complete. For reasons having to do with how Activity Monitor handles display of some kinds of processes and the particular way Cider is used by GW2 you will not generally see the cider process, but the wineserver one will show up. IIRC Dragon Age 2 does things slightly differently and you see both cider and wineserver there if it locks up. This means that killing the cider process may have to be done from Terminal with:

        killall -s -m '^cider$'

which is a bit scary for people who don’t use the command line.

I’m having the same crashing issues, but failing to restart is the usual issue. A “cider” process is left running, that’s the core process that the Transgaming tech Anet is using to run on Mac requires. It’s basically WINE, so you may also have a leftover “wineserver” process. If you open up the Terminal app out of your Utilities folder and type (without the quotes) “pkill cider”, hit return, “pkill wineserver”, hi return it will tell any process by those names to exit.

Caveat: If you’re running another program under WINE at the same time you’ll probably kill those as well, but most people won’t have that issue.

ETA: I forgot that most people don’t have proctools installed, so instead there’s the slightly scary:

        killall -s -m '^cider$'

This will kill every process that is named “cider”, which should be safe unless you change the line. If you do it, copy and paste it – do not change it in any way lest you kill off a lot of random stuff you need.