Guild Wars 2

Finally managed to capture it – hope it helps!

NSKL.3174:

OK so some of you guys are talking about the client being laggy af in the beginning. How did this get better over time? I have been waiting for hours over the last few days and my game is still laggy till the point where it’s simply unplayable.
The game runs very smooth on Bootcamp’ed Windows with the Windows client – however I hate swapping OS between making music and playing games.

Try setting your resolution lower, that really helped me! Here’re my graphic settings – maybe they’ll help you!

And one more – sorry about the length! I was ding Guild Missions last night, and I kept noticing, particularly in the Snowden Drifts puzzle, ghosting, where silhouettes of my character (in positions my character wasn’t facing) kept appearing against mist effects and such. I didn’t manage to get any screens of it in the instance, but, afterward, a chronomancer placed a well next to me, and I managed to capture this screen, which was similar to the effect I was seeing inside.

I hope all of this is helpful!!

Another thing, it’s hard to explain… when selecting radial skills, such as my Chrono’s wells, in narrow places, like the cave in the screenshot, and, like in between trees, the reticle will skip around, rather than going between them, or even a little ahead, the radius will skip behind my character, appear to be obscured by the parts of the environment ahead of the character, and can cause it to be placed where I didn’t want it to.

I hope… that makes sense?

And a few other things, I was doing the Rata Novus meta to get at the Zinn’s Study Guide vendor, and I had to reboot my client when various elements of the game, like icons and whole lines of text in menus just… vanished. It happened after the hacking event, just as the golem goes to attack.

Please forgive the messy inventory :P

Another thing I’ve noticed, when doing the Personal Story missions:

In the cutscenes sometimes there will be minor graphical glitches. Depicted is a friend of mine’s charr, and his poor charr’s ears and horns seem to have some kind of stain!

Also, there is often an overflow of text into the cutscene area if the dialogue is a little longer.

Big ol’ post coming. So, I’ve been playing a few days now, and I’ve noticed a few things!

Most prominent is a strange… I’d call it a “hatching?” For the shadows on the ground, which I’ll detail in screens. It seems to happen on any map, and only in certain areas? Sometimes I’ll tilt my camera and it will go to normal, until I move or tilt it another way, when it comes back.

It’s a little weird, but, sometimes (depicted in the screenshot from Tangled Depths below) it looks really pretty! Very artsy bugs!

I’ve got a MacBook Pro 15", Mid 2015
2.5 GHz Core i7
16 GB RAM
AMD Radeon R9 graphic chip.
macOS Sierra 10.12.5

Did some more playing. (I’ve got a mid-2015 MacBook Pro, 15", i7, 16 GB RAM, AMD Radeon M9 if that helps at all?) Noticed some similar graphical issues to the rest here; my poor charr has had some horrible mishap with his face… also in-game his pants aren’t pink, they’re black… (GW2: When the Fashion Wars fight back). This only appears to be a problem in the character select though.

Also, where there should be shadows in some instances, there appear to be lighting instead?

I’ve played with the graphical settings and I cannot seem to get more than 12 FPS no matter what I do, or where in the game I go. LA, to an empty Guild Hall, to Auric Basin, slow FPS…

But, when things do manage to finish through the hitchiness, I can see how this client could be gorgeously smooth! I am excited! Enclosed are some screenshots of the graphical issues I’ve mentioned.

Just downloaded it, and ran it. Between 12-14 FPS, very stuttery, and the resolution is… so very small, but that seems to be the norm.

I also noticed that if I alt-tabbed to another app with it running it bogged down the whole system. Typing a reply in Discord meant my words were a few seconds behind what I had typed.

Very excited this is happening, and I just… wow, I want to do everything I can to help make this a great client! What can we users do, aside from general bug reports?