Guild Wars 2

If you’re on an rMBP and getting really poor performance, it might be worth trying to reset your SMC. Back when I had this issue, games would drop to ~1/3 performance after my machine being on a while, and a quick SMC reset would bring it right back up. Also make sure to apply all the recent Software Updates since one of them should prevent the SMC from going silly.

From time to time when I get past a loading screen, my interface will begin to flicker very quickly. Seemingly each frame alternates between drawing different portions of the interface, and frequently components such as panel backgrounds or item icons will not be drawn at all. The only method I’ve found to fix this is to jump back to Character Selection or to re-log into GW2.

To me, it almost looks like the call to switch between back and front buffers got de-synchronized from the drawing code, and is swapping too early. I know GW2’s running under wine, but I can’t figure out any plausible way this could happen.

With the most recent (Aug 20) patch, this has become a much more frequent problem and it will sometimes take three or four restarts of the game to get it in a state where I can see my inventory.

I have a rMBP using the GeForce 650M graphics chip.

Has anyone else seen this problem and does anyone know ways to help address this problem?