Guild Wars 2

Well, if I hook my laptop up to my vizio 1080p it runs with the graphics card installed in the TV rather than my mac one. Seems to fix most if not all of my graphics issues. now my setup is even more sick :P
I can sit in bed and play GW2 on a giant screen. Life is good lol

And as far as admins closing threads, I don’t understand why they would go back and do that? It’s like once a week they order pizza and decide to troll mac users. Then they laugh at our responses. A-net Trolls….

It might just be my graphics card, but I can only get about 12 to 18 fps. When i had it bootcamped though, I got about 30-40. Maybe my mac is getting old? I dunno. Specs say that I have this:
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB

As for the issue of my screen blacking out, I found a solution posted by Kyllaa:

“Clearing the gw2 folder deletes all settings stored locally on the computer.

I’ll post our full troubleshooting steps, read them completely before using some. It will be long.

1.) run software update to ensure all drivers and os are up to date.

2.) try repairing disk permissions via Disk Utility first. Then…

3.) repair the client install

Open Terminal

Type the following:

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

You can copy and paste that in, but (check the dash) you must change the dash before the word USE or this will fail the forum shows an em dash (—), but it is supposed to be 2 consecutive en dashes (-). Run it and let it go until finished. FYI if you type the command yourself or paste it, they are 2 dashes (-) side by side… I’m noticing one sometimes looks like an em dash… It’s 2 en dashes though. (the dash before USE is 2 regular dashes)… Reiterated due to previous confusion about that dash on these forums.

4.)Perhaps after doing that, if it doesn’t work, you can try to delete the contents of the gw2 data folder, it’s a pain to get to the right one: this step is a general fix for many t kitten ues, even without the previous steps

Mine is located under the hidden Library folder (navigate using finder, do not use spotlight to search)

/[yourharddrivename]/users/[yourusername]/library/application support/guild wars 2

You may want to copy/paste this folder to your desktop as a temporary back up, just in case.

Delete the contents of that specific folder (you should see files like this contained within “config, dyndata.dat, user.reg, userdef.reg, and folders p_drive and wineserver…namestuff…loca..[long name]” just to list a few), then re-run the client..

~~Your folder is probably hidden (as is the default). Hidden folders display as greyed out text and icons. I found this after googling:

http://m.wikihow.com/See-Hidden-Folders-on-Mac-OS-X-and-Other-Recent-Models

Others claim alt+clicking a file/folder unhides the contents, but that was never successful for me. At least the link has visuals for you. Hope it helps.

5.) If none of this works, check the sticky and submit a ticket, then please come back here and report the fix that worked for you.

6.) final thought, you may want to check support.mac.com to find out about resetting pram and smc. Worth a shot, right?

If this doesn’t work at all, submit a ticket after viewing the sticky and then come back here to post your solution."

It worked for me, so now I can play with my lil bro, but the lack of forum support from Devs is still very disheartening

I’m subscribed to this post so look forward to joining y’all in conversation.

Hey, I’ve been an avid GW player for about 6 years, and bootcamped my mac when the GW2 beta came out last spring. However, I deleted my bootcamp when the mac beta came out, thinking that I wouldn’t need it any more (only bootcamped for GW2). Now after the last patch, I can’t open the game at all, it keeps crashing after log in. The screen goes all jaggedy, or just goes black and my cursor changes, but no game. I have to restart my computer in order to exit. It’s a pain, and I’m bummed cause I just bought GW2 for my brother for his graduation present two days ago thinking we could play together at college. Now with all this stuff about Mac no longer getting any support from A-Net, I’m worried. Thoughts? Advice?