I have the client downloading. Just after it hit playable, I logged in to Lion’s Arch with the camera stuck in the ground. After it loaded a bit more, it went back to normal. I decided to try out the Silverwastes and nothing was loaded. I don’t think it pulls up that dialogue box that warns the zone hasn’t fully downloaded. I let it sit in the zone for a while, though nothing loaded. On closing the game, my Mac crashed. I think that’s mainly from the runaway memory leaks I get from running GW2 in wine-staging for hours prior to downloading the 64bit client.
Though from what I see I can run it on max settings with pretty solid FPS.
I really love the new zone and the story was great. My main complaint was the last fight in the story. As someone susceptible to motion sickness, I got a wicked bad headache and nausea from the spinning room. That fight was really hard and I kinda wanted a new Caudecus’ Manor dungeon path, but hey, I still liked the instance method.
Edit: I also caught that Steven Universe reference in the achievements. Way to be real subtle, huh?
I’ve spent almost all day trying to figure out what to give Blaine. Poor guy’s stuck in the well at the Lakeside Bazaar. All I can gather is he wants something tasty, “sticky and sweet” and can keep “rats from chewing” on him. Anyone figured it out or have any idea what it could be?
A thread for Mac users sharing their woes and solutions with the Mac client.
I’m sure some of you that updated to macOS Sierra has had a kernel panic or two when running the official release of the Mac client. For a while I thought it was a fault on Anet’s side, though it’s actually an issue with cider that the client is wrapped with. I’ve swapped from the official Mac client to the Windows 64bit client run with a modified version of the setup listed here: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_2_on_Wine#Using_the_64-bit-Client
The settings I have for DirectX in Wine are:
DirectDrawRenderer = opengl
OffscreenRenderingMode = fbo
StrictDrawOrdering = enabled
VertexShaders = hardware
VideoMemorySize = 1536M
I’m able to run the game in Ultra settings, save for the Shaders set to “Low”, on my Late 2013 iMac (2.7GHz i5 ) and the only issue I face is when Silverwastes farming and the world around me doesn’t load. Looks like I’m running on air, but at least I can follow the nameplates and jump around to keep up.
EDIT: So I found that changing the OffscreenRendering to pbuffer allows me to run on the highest settings, including high shaders.
I recently upgraded my iMac to Sierra. The first start up of GW2 lead to a kernel panic (probably from having quite a few things open), but the second start up was fine. The only issue I have is incredibly long load times.
I can’t interact with the door to get in to the cave while holding the flame. I go into combat, but don’t channel upon interaction to open it. Another storyline with blocked progress and another ascended trinket I won’t be able to get :C
Would it at all be possible for Mac players to compile their own game clients? I’m not entirely sure what sort of limitations there are with the GW2 client coding or what is included in the Mac App that would be considered sensitive data, but I do know enough to be able to compile with Xcode.
Though I would also have to question if the Mac App behaves similarly to the Windows installation where the executable calls to a different directory for the game’s information, or if the App contains all the data for gameplay.
This one would be for someone who’s good with coding. Would it be possible for a “transition” for the Mac clients to utilize Metal/OpenGL instead of DirectX/Direct3D? I know there’s issues when trying to emulate DirectX in an OS X environment.
So, to put it in a shorter and more direct way:
*Would it be possible to self compile a 64bit client without sensitive data being tampered with or exposed?
*Is the game data itself stored in a separate directory from the client app?
*Is it possible to replace DirectX with Metal/OpenGL for a Mac client app?
Return of the Crash.
Mac Crash 2: Electric Boogaloo.
Long story short, the constant crashing issue that was had when HoT was released seems to be coming back. I crash now at least two times an hour. Sometimes the crashes are upwards to about five or seven an hour. They’re usually, but not always, accompanied by major graphic issues like on http://i.imgur.com/ehtabKn.jpg
Some textures won’t load prior to a crash and appear as what I call “rainbow squares of death”. Sometimes my mini map or world map will bug out and be tiled rainbow squares.
Friends and I were playing in the guild hall with decorations. I leave out of the arena we were play building in since I had to go afk a bit. Come back to my computer to have a crash notice.
I know I’ve been having massive crash issues during meta events with my Mac client. Usually the large ones that require an organized map or a full map like Auric Basin’s Octovine, Tangled Depths’s Chak Gerent, or any part of Dragon’s Stand. It wouldn’t be as frustrating if there was a system in place to ensure we get our maps back after a crash or lag out…
Dunno if anyone’s ever posted about this before. The exclusive face’s eyes and hair disappear and leave for a rather awkward appearance. It makes me sad I can’t use it on my Charr.
The client crashing in OS X has resumed once again. While I do believe a 64bit client would solve these issues, I doubt one will be made any time soon. These crashes usually happen in organized events that result in the loss of map.
Astralaria IV: The Cosmos is one hell of a struggle.
Slaying the Eye of Zhaitan on an Arah retake is impossible if Arah is never contested to begin with! Isn’t it counter productive to beg for the defense event to fail? Or is there some means of jumping to a different map without LFG? I’ve been trying for a hell of a time to try and catch a contested Arah to try and get the Eye of Zhaitan with no luck.
Nice post but could you add the fact that Astralaria Vol 4 needs Defense on Gates of Arah to fail so in the retake we get 2 items one from the Eye and the Wizard. Either take out the defense event out of the game or make a workaround. It is my journey for the legendary, I shouldn’t rely of an entire map.
I want to echo this. I want to echo this so bad. I managed to find a map where Arah was contested and a small group managed to do the event without announcing. I rage quit so hard after that. I went off on a long tangent of how much I’ve spent on gems and how much time I put into the game and I can’t get the one item blocking about half the Gift of the Cosmos achievements.
Astralaria IV has a collection item gated behind the failing of Defense of Arah in Cursed Shore. (I mean, I guess technically it’s somewhere in the ‘Assault the Gates of Arah’ chain, but that never happens seeing as it’s so easy to hold and defend.
Been sat here pretty much all day trying to reason with people so they let it fail just once, but to no success. Would be nice if the “Magnification Lens” would be available from another source, such as the Eye of Zhaitan in Zho-Qafa Catacombs in Straits.
Also this. If it was the Zho-Qafa Eye of Zhaitan, it would be much easier and less rage inducing.
I’m also getting a good amount of frustration trying to get the Ley-Line Front Energy. It’s difficult now to complete Dragon’s Stand with the crash issues. I get kicked from my map in the middle of the events and can’t get back in.
So lets talk about Dragon’s Stand for a second. I’m sure the devs are aware of the crash issue with Dragon’s Stand (and the general Mac crashing returning). A guild member and I ran a map from the very beginning only to crash at the very end. While my guild member crashed before the cutscene, I crashed right after. None of us were able to talk to the merchants or return to the map since completed maps are essentially shut off. Is there going to be some sort of system put in place to safeguard us that crash out that ensures we can access our map again? Because re-running a meta event that takes about an hour to maybe two hours is a little too time consuming.
I’m working on Astralaria III and ran into some difficulty with the Wondrous Compass achievement. It says I need to take “Elder Dragons and Star Navigation Theories Vol. III”, the Skritt Salvaged Compass, and the Damaged Airship Compass to Scarlet’s home in Dry Top and use her workbench to create the Wondrous Compass. Yet on interaction with her workbench, it says I have nothing to make there. I have all three items required in the description on me. I’m not sure if I also need the Ancient Orrian Compass, and if that’s the case, it’s missing from the description of the Wondrous Compass.
I’m working towards the Luminate’s Backplate while collecting the different Auric Weapon skins and haven’t received the items for defending any side of Tarir (I’ve done them all more than once successfully before unlocking the achievement, and once on north, east, and south after unlocking) or for killing any of the champs that spawn along the Skritt events with Westwatch Outpost. The drop from the Tarnished Traitor’s chest hasn’t happened either, but I think that one’s supposed to be a chance drop, not a guaranteed drop. I’m not sure if I need to have a certain amount of map participation, if I’m doing something wrong, or if the rewards are bugged.
I have full Exalted Lore mastery, so that shouldn’t be a part of the issue.
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
2015-11-18 15:48:40.157 cider[2847:467972] CoreUI: Unable to create decompress stream for CSI image block data. (LZVN)
cider(2847,0xa3642000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=2146304) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
2015-11-18 15:48:40.160 cider[2847:467972] CoreUI: Unable to create decompress stream for CSI image block data. (LZVN)
cider(2847,0xa3642000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=2146304) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
2015-11-18 15:48:40.160 cider[2847:467972] CoreUI: Unable to create decompress stream for CSI image block data. (LZVN)
cider(2847,0xa3642000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=2146304) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
2015-11-18 15:48:40.160 cider[2847:467972] CoreUI: Unable to create decompress stream for CSI image block data. (LZVN)
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
2015-11-18 15:36:32.874 cider[2753:456685] CoreUI: Unable to create decompress stream for CSI image block data. (LZVN)
cider(2753,0xa3642000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=2146304) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
2015-11-18 15:36:32.876 cider[2753:456685] CoreUI: Unable to create decompress stream for CSI image block data. (LZVN)
cider(2753,0xa3642000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=2146304) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
2015-11-18 15:36:32.876 cider[2753:456685] CoreUI: Unable to create decompress stream for CSI image block data. (LZVN)
cider(2753,0xa3642000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=2146304) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
2015-11-18 15:36:32.887 cider[2753:456685] CoreUI: Unable to create decompress stream for CSI image block data. (LZVN)
Swapped to my thief from my revenant to work on crafting my Chaos Gun. Crashed after receiving mail from a friend. No prompt, no freeze, nothing. Game just closed itself out.
I’m unsure. I feel like the crash fixes from the previous patches were related to the Windows clients as the crashes have only gotten worse. It also doesn’t show us the report, so I can’t really say if what they’re getting is useful, especially when the window saying it generated and sent a report doesn’t pop up.
It’s constant for me as well, yet the game has run smoothly on my Mac for 3 years. Sometimes I’d crash at the Vinewreath boss after they introduced that, but it’s nothing compared to the constant crashing of HoT. Game crashes without warning anytime between 10-45 minutes of play time. They made all the new HoT maps rely on long event chains as the method of gaining mastery XP. I can’t finish any event chain fully to get credit and move on, so what’s the point until they fix it.
I think I’ve just finally had enough of grinning and bearing all the crashes. I can’t do Dragon’s Stand without crashing constantly. I can’t do Silverwastes without crashing. I can’t do any map meta event without crashing, and now I can’t go in to Lion’s Arch without crashing as I posted in this thread https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Lion-s-Arch-not-Loading-Properly
I’m gonna keep on posting with at least every other crash I get in hopes this will be addressed. I’d encourage other Mac users to do the same if they’re also experiencing crashes. Hopefully it will help the development team.
Right after posting I logged back in to Silverwastes to just barely catch Vinewraith. Right after looting from the big chest and one bandit chest, I crash again.
Fifth crash in Silverwastes. Getting really, really tired of these crashes. I put quite a bit of money in to gems and the release of HoT and can hardly play the game at this point.
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
libc++abi.dylib: terminating with uncaught exception of type std::bad_alloc: std::bad_alloc
cider(2409,0xb0096000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
cider(2409,0xb0096000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
cider(2409,0xb0096000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
cider(2409,0xb0096000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
cider(2409,0xb0096000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
cider(2409,0xb0096000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
cider(2409,0xb0096000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
cider(2409,0xb0096000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
cider(2409,0xb0096000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
cider(2409,0xb0096000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
cider(2409,0xb0096000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
cider(2409,0xb04aa000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
cider(2409,0xcca39000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
Warning: TSD slot 1 retrieved but the thread data has already been torn down.
cider(2409,0xcca39000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
Warning: TSD slot 1 retrieved but the thread data has already been torn down.
cider(2409,0xcca39000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
Warning: TSD slot 29 set but the thread data has already been torn down.
cider(2409,0xcca39000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
Warning: TSD slot 63 retrieved but the thread data has already been torn down.
cider(2409,0xb04aa000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
cider(2409,0xa3642000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
I crash on a regular basis on my Mac since HoT. I experienced no crashes prior to it. Makes me sad since I paid for the $100 preorder. Hopefully they’ll figure out what’s causing the crashes and get it fixed.
More Mac client related bugs. Lion’s Arch either crashes on load, loads partially then crashes, or loads onto a black screen and crashes. I’m not sure if this happens every time regardless since I’ve spent most of my time in the raids, but Lion’s Arch is where I have some characters parked. Makes it hard to swap around gear and such. If it persists, I’ll open the game through the terminal and post whatever crash information is there.
About thirty minutes in to playing with the new raids update and I’ve crashed about six times. What little stability my Mac client had before is pretty much gone.
As I’ve posted before, the Mac client has lost a lot of stability with HoT. At least on my end with El Capitan. After a while, I can only open the application by right clicking the app, showing package contents, going into MacOS, and running the cider terminal prompt. After a few more crashes starting Guild Wars 2 like this, it will crash without any error message or warning. Usually once the game is running I close the terminal window and play as usual, though this time I chose to leave it open in case of a crash. And once it crashed, I actually got some data on the crash! Posting this in hopes it may help with the Mac client’s beta development.
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
libc++abi.dylib: terminating with uncaught exception of type std::bad_alloc: std::bad_alloc
cider(4200,0xb052e000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
cider(4200,0xb052e000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
cider(4200,0xb052e000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
cider(4200,0xb052e000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
cider(4200,0xb052e000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
cider(4200,0xb052e000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
cider(4200,0xb052e000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
cider(4200,0xb052e000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
cider(4200,0xb052e000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
cider(4200,0xb052e000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
cider(4200,0xb052e000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
cider(4200,0xb052e000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
error: can’t allocate region
set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
cider(4200,0xa3642000) malloc: * mach_vm_map(size=8388608) failed (error code=3)
I crashed mid Dragon’s Stand event and got kicked from my map. Now I can’t join it because it’s full. I was in a party with guild members and I still can’t join back in. My salt level is very high since this is the second time it happened to me. Are there any systems in place to “reserve” my map spot when I crash or lag out like this? It’s making the end content extremely difficult for me to enjoy if I’m constantly being kicked from my maps.
The Mac client is exhibiting inconsistent crashing anywhere and while doing anything. Today alone I had four crashes in Silverwastes alone. One right after fighting Vinewraith so I lost all my map bonuses.
The inconsistent crashes are worse in Maguuma, especially Auric Basin. I’m unable to do any meta events without crashing and ultimately loosing my map. The game is almost unplayable from the constant crashes.
This happens roughly 3/5 times I go to do a world boss. It happens the most on Tequatl and Vinewrath where I’m on a map for a lengthy period of time preparing for the boss to happen. Most crashes happen in the beginning half of the event and character model limits are set to low. It’s not something that only happens on my Mac, either. On Windows this is also an issue, even when character model limit is set to the lowest. The crashing is more common on the Mac client than the Windows client.
I’m currently running on a mid-high end iMac that can run the game on high settings no problem. Tabbing out can sometimes cause the game to no longer accept input from the mouse, giving me no choice but to reload the game.
Moving and dragging the map can sometimes be either unresponsive or incredibly sluggish. Sometimes button mashing works, sometimes it doesn’t. Though the amount of frustration it can cause is very real.
So this has happened to me before in Harathi Hinterlands where waypoints, gathering nodes, hero points, vistas, and weapon skills randomly disappear; players randomly die; and strange teleportations happen on relog. This time it happened in Lornar’s Pass while I was out gathering. Seems this time I’m not the only one to get teleported to the very edge of the map.
