Guild Wars 2

Getting anything from 30 to 50 FPS with some medium settings, slightly lower than under BootCamp Windows 7 installation.
I use a Mid 2009 iMac 21.5 with i3 3.06 GHz 8GB of RAM and ATI Radeon HD 4670 256 MB
Not too bad for a beta.

I’m using an iMac Mid 2010 21.5 with ATI Radeon HD 4670 256 MB and there’s a difference between OSX and Windows, this is due to two things I assume from other posts:
1-Game is not native in OSX so there’s an extra process to run so it is compatible with Mac OSX
2-The drivers for the graphic card are better under Windows than mac.
Cheers.

Hi Megan, you could risk it, it works for me on my 21.5 mid 2009 iMac i3 8GB memory. It runs also on my Mid 2009 MBP 13" which sports the same graphic card as you with Core 2 Duo 2.53GHz. I do not recommend playing this game with the kind of config you have, the system will run at very high temperature in average of 90celcius degrees with fan running at 5K RPM, this could eventually damage the system if played over a prolonged amount of time. If you insist of playing with your system, I would recommend purchasing a good cooling pad to help dissipate the heat.
Cheers

Which of the MBP do you have and what are its specs?

If you want to buy the MBP 13" I’d suggest to wait the new one with retina display is right at the corner of being unveiled.
As for which one to get, the faster the better, but consider that your MBP is not a gaming device and will strain with certain 3D game, if you are a big gamer I’d recommend the iMac which sports better processor and graphics than the MBP, but then again I’d wait as they are about to update them as well.

Ahahahaha your computer got scared of us it looks like :P

Yeah, mine luckily sports a NVIDIA chip
It’s blazing fast still though for other task but graphics comes short in some games.
Thank god I have my iMac though.

Hehehe correct just checked the specs
SSD are great I have one on my Mid 2009 MBP 13" but it’s not powerful enough to run GW2.

I must admit that if the game runs well on my iMac I certainly will prefer running it on Mac natively than having to reboot to Windows each time I wanna play.
Thank you ANET!

Geez, ur computer is custom made by the look of it, most of Mid2010 Macbook Pro 15" won’t be able to run it smoothly.

I agree with Enoch, it’s not a self contained program it runs an installer, as soon as you run an installer Mac OSX requires admin password.

vince.5937:

Mid 2010 MBP here. Expect permanently-high fan speeds, absurd temperatures, good performance and the occasional graphic hiccup/crash thanks to Cider.

Vince, there’s many version of the MBP which one do you have? The 13, 15 or 17 inch?

If you could attach a screenshot it might help figure out what is happening.

Awwwkitten#8230; I’ll still try it on my iMac Mid 2010 with 8GB of ram and see how it goes I’ll let you know guys how it performs.

Not sure if someone can answer this but here goes:
I have an iMac 21.5 Mid 2010 which runs perfectly the game under PC while it doesn’t meet the minimum requirements for the Mac client.
Technically the Mac environment is less stringent on the hardware and more “powerful” than Windows, the system requirements should therefore be the same not higher… Unless there’s something I’m missing.