Guild Wars 2

If you only do PvE, I can see how these new traits might not seem so good. But as and above poster said (Sorry can’t be bothered sculling to find out who!), all but the Skirmishing trait is great for WvW

+50% poison dmamge and condi cleanse on survival skills … look forward to that.

Atherakhia: If you do test whether the Keen edge Trait activates condo cleanse I’d be interested to know. Been wondering at that for awhile now and itching to try it out.

Ok spoke too soon.

Last time i checked, few hours ago now, TP worked gem store loaded, but could not buy gems.

Clicking on the button did nothing … as in it is completely non-responsive, not even spinning wheel.

Gem store working again now.

Cheers.

Not sure what happened, but thanks.

Hi Sarah and team,

TP was down for me last week as well, but worked after weekend patch and workaround. Thanks for that.

However, as of patch today Gem store is now down. I was able to sell stuff, but cannot access Gem Store.

Would also like to gain access to certain free and promotional items that are available today (transmute charges, for instance). So hopefully the offer can be extended … or something.

Look forward to seeing what can be done.

Thanks

Naqaj:

Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately Option #5 was one of the first things I tried.

Before I came to the forum boards I did a general search for Mac crashes that lead me to try that … to no avail.

I’ll try again however and report back.

EDIT: Tried that trick again of forcing a safe boot … crashed. No change.

Guy at Mac service centre has a feeling it is a hardware fault, something going a bit crazy and computer shutting down to save itself! Doing back up tonight and going back tomorrow morning.

SIGH …. Murphy’s Law, O’Reilly’s corollary …

Ok some further testing.

Before I start, however, I would like to make the proviso that the crashing has only happened since the 18/4 update. Nothing like this has occurred previously since purchasing MBP in August last year. The two events (update and crashes) seem to be too contemporaneous to be merely coincidental.

I don’t play any other games (at the moment) on my MBP, so was only getting crashes with GW2. I had played the Starcraft 2 and D3 demo late last year with no problems, so I thought I’d give them ago.

Started up Blizzard client, updated SC2 no problems. Began update for D3, got about 33% …. crashed … exactly the same as with GW2 … complete shutdown.

Power button wouldn’t reboot. Unplugged power, replugged, restarted, logged in … shutdown … unplugged, replugged, restarted, logged in properly.

Tested again. Opened blizzard client, D3 begins updating … 33% … crash and shutdown. Did not notice fans were going a bit this time, nothing crazy though, and base was (is) not hot (have observed it much hotter without problem).

So it looks like it is an issue not solely related to GW2. Perhaps overheating or CPU or something (not too good at diagnosing these things).

Will take it to Mac store tonight (hopefully, if I can get there before close now) to check.

Nonetheless, curious as to whether anything in 18/4 update would cause some thing like this to occur outside the game. As I said above, seems too contemporaneous to be coincidence.

Thoughts would be appreciated.

Wife was complaining about skills not proccing and animation delays after hot fix. She’s not getting crashes anymore.

I will get her to check tonight to see of problems are frame-rate related.

Me … I still can’t play at all due catastrophic crashes of game causing computer to immediately shutdown. So can’t check myself!

Queen.1867:

This is a joke there are no error messages so if anet checks those nothing will happen as they do anyway not care for mac users, the game crashes the whole system which requires to reboot.

Hi Queen, Been getting the same thing. Been posting here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/mac/Client-Crashing-2/page/6#post3782794

about it since update. Hot fix didn’t work for me either. Maybe head to that post (has Anet replies) and add your voice … maybe PM about it too. I would like to see this fixed fairly soon.

Was deliberately taking a break this week to relax and game a bit ….!

If anyone else is still having problems after hot fix, i advise heading to abovementioned thread and add your voice there.

Thanks Darksome

Michael.7129:

the problem i’m having with guild wars 2 is i open the client and i login and then i hit play and i just have a black screen i don’t hear music all it is, is a black screen and my mouse. the weird part is sometimes it logs me in and i have 0 problems, but most of the time i just get a black screen.

Try this post:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/mac/Black-Screen-After-Start-up

Hi Matt,

Still crashing for me.

Within 5 min of log on.

Switched to WvW and within a minute computer had turned itself off. No warning. Nothing. Was re-traiting, and then ‘BAM’ computer off. I then unplugged the power cord and plugged it back in and got the start up chime, but no start up. Unplugged and replugged and the could start up as normal.

One of my earlier posts contained a kernel log, that someone suggested meant that there was a typo or a missed phrase in the coding causing the CPU to spin out of control (or something like that !!!).

Please let me know if there is any more info I can provide.

EDIT: on the CPU issue it might be worth noting that when I ran it in windows mode and checked the Activity monitor, the game was taking up about 180% of the CPU. I never checked this before so have no baseline to compare it to, but that does not seem either right or good!

Thanks Matt. Much appreciated.

So just curious.

There seems to be 3 different types of symptoms here.

1: Complete crash of computer to shutdown with no warning, usually within minutes of logging on, region irrelevant.
—-- This is what I am getting and, for some reason, I need to unplug my power cord from my MBP in order to restart.

2: Game Crashes with error message.

3: Game freezes and must be force quit.
——— My wife is getting this problem, usually occurs when running dungeons. Though she can sometimes over an hour with no problem.

So I am wondering how these are related? and what could cause these three separate issues to occur (or not occur) on substantially the same computers?

Thanks for the update Matt.

Thanks Matt, look forward to more news.

Cheers

PMed on forum.

Can’t run game enough to submit ticket in game!

Note:

I am not getting error messages. As mentioned above, computer is just shutting down with no warning.

And does not matter the location either WvW or Divinity’s Reach … am on Kaineng so both are pretty empty too!!!

KarateKid:

Thanks for the explanation. I will admit that I am blissfully ignorant of internal workings, and coding. Just figured more info I can supply the better.

With your comment … I hope that what I provided above is of some use!

KarateKid? Sorry, what do you mean?

Apple system log from time game was running to crash is too long to post.

If necessary I can break it down to more usable size, please let me know if that would be needed. I also have the File System repair log as well if required.

What I did find interesting was the Kernel log. There was reference to CPU notifications. With past problems on OS machines, there was some question as to whether it was CPU related, so I include that below.

There was also speculation as to overheating issues, but as it ran fine yesterday and then not today, I don’t see how that could be a problem.
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Kernel Log

2014-03-18 18:47:56 +0100 kernel⁰: IOPPF: Sent cpu-plimit-notification last value 1 (rounded time weighted average 1)
2014-03-18 18:48:07 +0100 kernel⁰: IOPPF: Sent cpu-plimit-notification last value 5 (rounded time weighted average 4)
2014-03-18 18:48:22 +0100 kernel⁰: IOPPF: Sent cpu-plimit-notification last value 4 (rounded time weighted average 4)
2014-03-18 18:48:50 +0100 kernel⁰: IOPPF: Sent cpu-plimit-notification last value 1 (rounded time weighted average 2)
2014-03-18 18:51:25 +0100 kernel⁰: Longterm timer threshold: 1000 ms

The same for me as well.

Has been running more or less fine since November. Was a few problems on the way that suggested fixes solved. However, with new update game will crash the whole computer (as if power plug had been pulled … am on MBP 15 … more below).

Something that was strange. On the first crash or two, I managed to log into the game without the update occurring. My wife logged in to play (MBP 13), got the update and almost had no issue … crashed to Black screen during AC run but did not shut down and she was able to restart game and finish run.

I have tried clearing cache (Cmd, opt,P,R).

Have done a few searches. Seems some other brands (Asus, Acer?) of Windows OS were having this problem a while back. Could not find a solution.

Here’s specs, I’ll post what logs I could find as well:

Model Name: MacBook Pro, Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013
Model Identifier: MacBookPro10,1
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Memory: 16 GB

Intel HD Graphics 4000:

Chipset Model: Intel HD Graphics 4000
Type: GPU
Bus: Built-In
VRAM (Total): 1024 MB
Vendor: Intel (0×8086)
Device ID: 0×0166
Revision ID: 0×0009
gMux Version: 3.2.19 [3.2.8]
Displays:
Color LCD:
Display Type: Retina LCD
Resolution: 2880 × 1800
Retina: Yes
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Built-In: Yes

NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M:

Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x8
VRAM (Total): 1024 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0×10de)
Device ID: 0×0fd5
Revision ID: 0×00a2
ROM Revision: 3688
gMux Version: 3.2.19 [3.2.8]

ECC: Disabled

BANK 0/DIMM0:

Size: 8 GB
Type: DDR3
Speed: 1600 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: 0×80AD
Part Number: 0×484D5434314753364D465238432D50422020
Serial Number: -

BANK 1/DIMM0:

Size: 8 GB
Type: DDR3
Speed: 1600 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: 0×80AD
Part Number: 0×484D5434314753364D465238432D50422020
Serial Number: -

System Software Overview:

System Version: OS X 10.9.2 (13C64)
Kernel Version: Darwin 13.1.0
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