3.4 GHz Intel Core i7 iMac with 8 GB ram and GTX 680MX (2gb) running 10.9.1.
LA has caused the 10 min interval crash for me for a very very long time (even on my old iMac and yes I’ve reinstalled the game several times yada yada).
It is why all my characters escaped from LA over half a year ago.
Edit: I do crash when booted up on windows too but that usually takes hours, not minutes.
Now I just hope they fix the crashing after 10 minutes bug. I’ll take 10 minutes of playable frame rates over what we were getting but it could still be improved. WvW nights I’m still going to have to use Windows though because I don’t want to punish my guild by having their healer be constantly stuck in queue due to game crashes.
Yeah, the flickering bug is really old (used to be much more common too). I haven’t experienced it in months, myself. It isn’t just a mac problem (not sure if Macs get it more often than Windows users, though).
Yeah, back to the crashing every 10 minutes bug. Oh well. At least it is playable now.
The bootcamp utility does everything for you. All you need is to buy Windows online from microsoft. It isn’t that hard.
You should make how you want your content more clear. Say something like, “Where is my playing months old content with occasional expansion packs?”
There fixed. Don’t act like waiting for an expansion is suddenly a bad thing. If guild wars 2 had a traditional expansion model we would have had an expansion by now before the game became a “boring grind”. Which is exactly what the game is now because of LS.
Besides, with expansions you at least CAN play months old content, with LS most of it is temporary.
But seriously, this isn’t a content issue. This is more of a delivery issue it seems.
It is both.
Notice how even one expansion has 10 times more content than al LS patches combined?
I never said it was a bad thing. I was merely flipping the exaggerated complaint in the other direction in an effort to illustrate how exaggerated it was.
You must buy a license to run Windows if you plan on running GW2 on Windows.
Oh, this is code for wanting large gaps of time with no content updates followed by a huge burst of new content.
You should make how you want your content more clear. Say something like, “Where is my mindless grinding of months old content with occasional expansion packs?”
But seriously, this isn’t a content issue. This is more of a delivery issue it seems.
I’m confused where we aren’t getting new content. Eotm was a rather substantial update.
My new iMac had no issues at all until the latest patch (that includes a bug or several that is going to be fixed). And remember, Macs can still run Windows (my iMac can run GW2 on basically max settings without an issue under Windows 7). The main thing that causes a performance hit for the mac client is that the port isn’t a native mac port (it uses a wrapper). So you will see an improvement running the game under bootcamp but it is up to you whether it is worth rebooting to play the game (for me, I was absolutely fine not rebooting until this patch).
So there is absolutely no reason to get a PC if you don’t want one (getting Windows is up to you, though).
So Scarlets plan was to make a giant pie and throw it at Lion’s Arch all along.
Chill is actually pretty useful (so is the blind).
I never really saw a need fore the fire signet, personally. But others might like it.
I think the only way live events would work is if they were common occurrences so people don’t zerg the zone. For them to be common they’d have to be relatively simple (essentially almost like the events that players throw…doubt players will ever be able to make events in game but it is an intriguing idea).
That almost sounds like you have corruption on your hard drive. Have you run the disk utility recently to check for problems?
Frankly, I think this fan made one is truer to her character.
Can you give us some info about your mac?
OS version
hardware
etc…
I think that was code for, “It’s a good thing because it reduces the cost of having a Mac port to the point where the client can exist.” not, “Our programmers are gods who can code the entire game in FORTRAN in their sleep. Mwahahahaha. Even now they are reprogramming the Matrix!”
I’ll take what I can get, but I hope some lessons were learned to avoid such game breaking bugs from hitting us again even if we continue with this type of “beta”.
If I may make an analogy…
My husband and I both have razer naga mice. I am left-handed and he is right-handed. Last summer, Razer released their naga for left-handed users. For that, I was very happy. However, once I paid for the mouse (same price as the right-handed model), I expected it to work just as well as the right-handed model. I would not be grateful just to have it if it was constantly performing at a subpar level and occasionally failing to work all together. Even if it were free, I would not be happy with it if it performed like that.
With GW2, we all knew it was a wrapper when we bought it, but we expected an optimised, fully supported wrapper product. That is not what we got. The lack of a mac team and, if the assessments of this transgaming are near accurate, explains a lot.
If, as they keep saying, the mac market is important to them, I hope to see strong improvements in the future. A game client should be transparent and the only thing we should think about is the game experience itself.
I’m not apologizing for Anet (seriously, look at my post history). But I’m trying to frame this in the right light so we have an an effective relationship with Anet.
Anet, for whatever reason whether it was being extremely optimistic or not understanding the mac gaming market, publicly released a very slap dash cider port that looks like it was a skunkworks project done by one developer in his free time.
We took this to mean there would be some sort of improvement from that state and that this port was just to hold us over in the mean time. Maybe that was the case. Maybe they hit some sort of legal issue or something (it wouldn’t be the first time a Mac port was destroyed due to stupid reasons… e.g., Torchlight 2). We don’t know. And honestly, Anet may actually be unable to tell us. This entire thing could be a run away train, if we’re going for metaphors.
Now then, that is why I keep pushing for alternate ways for Anet to communicate with us, in case there is some sort of reason. For instance, change the name of the client from beta to hobby. Yes, this probably won’t work in real life but it is just my lame brainstorming. And since we do seem to have some channel of communication open with Anet at the moment (the most we’ve had since launch) now would be the time for them to try to communicate what is actually going on with us.
Anet, we did not decode what you’re trying to tell us over the last year. We’re not sure if you’re flirting with the mac game community or if you are just being friendly and wish we’d go away (if we’re going for another metaphor).
As for what we can do, we need to be open to try to see it from their point of view (as hard as that may be with as little information as we have). That doesn’t mean we have to agree with them, but we should try to understand instead of just railing on them with no attempt at compromise.
yeah, it really only works for low rez stuff like power points or tv.
I think that was code for, “It’s a good thing because it reduces the cost of having a Mac port to the point where the client can exist.” not, “Our programmers are gods who can code the entire game in FORTRAN in their sleep. Mwahahahaha. Even now they are reprogramming the Matrix!”
I’ll take what I can get, but I hope some lessons were learned to avoid such game breaking bugs from hitting us again even if we continue with this type of “beta”.
I want them to let Eles use a focus.
Har har.
ba da chhhhhh
… but really, focus is fine. I loves me some s/f
Yeah, it isn’t completely useless (I use it at times). Still, it is the weakest of the weapons for Ele.
I want them to let Eles use a focus.
Har har.
The Mac Pro is so enticing. I keep hoping they make a really high end iMac someday because the workstation hardware isn’t needed for a lot of things. But let us know how it works (and after the performance fix if you get it before that hits).
Yeah, AppleTV extends fine. I’ve done it before for other apps (since I dislike running in windowed mode).
Ok, here’s a new update to the update:
The devs have developed a fix that should address certain performance issues you have been posting about, and that fix will be rolled out after testing is completed.
That’s not months from now, by the way. Testing is underway!
Mac client confirmed ! (and not a beta one)
lol :p but thanks for the update
I haven’t notice any significant difference in framerate. The only thing that improved it was turning antialiasing on (I usually run it off because antialiasing usually kills my framerate). I’m running with basically everything on high because everything on low doesn’t really change performance any (new high end iMac so it could run with about 30 fps before patch).
Frankly, I’m using a windows partition for the last couple days (because of getting in a certain other MMO) so I’m not sure if anything has changed since then.
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I love the overall silence and general lack of disconcern for our issues. GG Anet
Historically speaking, this is more than we usually get. Kind of depressing but whatever. Anyone have any ideas how we might fix this partially on our own? Like, is there a way we can somehow use an old version of the game (we were using an old version back when the mac patcher was screwing up)? I doubt we can, but it doesn’t hurt trying weird things at this point.
1. Elementalist
2. Engineer
3. Mesmer
Sent a PM to Gaile to see if this might be a possibility or at least to get some visibility to this post. Her response, “Sorry, that’s not my area of expertise.”
Feel the love everybody, feel the love….
It’s been painfully obvious we’re the “your call is important to us” territory for a while now. Really, the options are either try to find fixes on our own, make ANet aware, and just wait it out for a few months or quit the game. There really isn’t any point making demands because that kind of assumes they care about Mac users to any degree. Once we start seeing things like patch notes that detail expected bugs and areas for us to test in this “beta” or them renaming the beta to hobby or whatever I’ll at least have some faith in ANet to tell us the truth/have some level of communication with us. Until then, really don’t try to communicate with them on any meaningful level because you’ll just get frustrated and angry. There is no point in stressing yourself out yelling at a wall.
Edit: And if we do get some type of compensation I’ll take ANet actually talking to us in a conversation as being good compensation.
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I… don’t understand. How can anyone ever think this is getting better. How is this getting better? I am not bashing you, I swear. Please, explain to me how is this getting better. Because each new update is sending me into an abyssal depression towards the game’s future, and I am seriously worried about them not actually being able to turn this around away from the incoming crash zone.
Because if LA is destroyed, it means the living story is finally making real changes? At this point it doesn’t matter if other games have already done it, it matters that GW2 is finally doing it.
How is that hard to understand?
I thought we were rooting for more content, not for them permanently removing more chunks of the map for fun. But that may just be me.
To make new content meaningful sometimes things are taken away.
Good talk about that at DICE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq1YWbv-r0I&feature=youtu.be
Who’s betting the kids who have been playing Ghosts non-stop for over a year and a half will be separated? I’m betting a copper!
Speaking of that, I’m wondering how many incidental NPCs are going to get killed.
So this was the magnificant plan to conquer lions arch that Scarlet was working on for so long.
“Just send in all the trashmobs we have, will work out somehow because i am Scarlet”
Of course.
If you think this is about conquering Lions Arch you’re probably going to be wrong.
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I… don’t understand. How can anyone ever think this is getting better. How is this getting better? I am not bashing you, I swear. Please, explain to me how is this getting better. Because each new update is sending me into an abyssal depression towards the game’s future, and I am seriously worried about them not actually being able to turn this around away from the incoming crash zone.
Are you kidding me? I have never seen the such a major city change in games, LA is one if not the most important city in the game and it looks like they are about to change that.
Well you see major changes to the location of the main city all the time in MMOs (essentially every expansion). But I think this is the first time in an MMO the major city was taken away before a replacement city was put in game.
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I hope they have some balls and make LA a ruin after at the end of season 1. As Mordemoth is very likely to come at the end of this season (or might be the season 2 topic) it would be perfect to destroy LA for good.
Not just a few destroyed buildings that are slowly rebuild. I really mean burned to the ground.
In a Living Story the world needs to change permanently. I hope Anet really does this instead of reverting it to its former state after the story concludes with a few hints of what happened.
I don’t mind slowly rebuilding (by slow I mean take years) but it should be a complete redesign (current version of the city isn’t that well designed anyway).
If it took months to rebuild the lighthouse it better take years to rebuild anything approximating a city or I’m going to be disappointed in the hype.
First thought that popped into my mind after watching the video:
ArenaNet is destroying the most convenient hub in the game to craft and congregate so they can push more royal terrace passes and tradesman packages in the gem store.
I would say that there are many places more useful when it comes to Crafting than Lion’s Arch.
Personally I tend to use Rata Sum, it have close connection between TP and crafting and you don’t get all that pointless spam that you see in Lions Arch.
Not to mention the lag around the crafting stations. I “escaped” from Lion’s Arch to the Grove a long time ago.
Cute reference for the title, Anet. We getting eyepatches too?
Yeah, the Mac port uses a commercialized version of WINE from Transgaming. Currently we have framerate drops down to the 1-5 fps range (not drops of 1-5 fps, drops to 1-5 fps) when you have a group of people (varies in size needed depending on the machine) casting spells. It makes pretty much every medium to large group event impossible to play (WvW, EoTM, Marionette, Wurm).
Before this we had issues where the patcher was messing up and we had to find a work around to manually patch the game to the latest version. It took ANet support about a month or so to fix that.
And before that we had the usual disconnect/crash in Lions Arch issues. And so on.
Essentially, the Mac beta is barely supported (and they never tell us what bugs to expect, we have to discover those on patch day…its like Christmas every patch). You’d probably end up with the similar levels of satisfaction using a WINE wrapper (the mac forums are also pretty good at helping out with custom WINE wrappers since we keep trying to see if we can tweak the wrapper better than ANet can).
Oh and last fall during PAX ANet basically came out and said the Mac port was back burner and they’re not doing any active development on it. So yeah, don’t hold your breath for a Linux port unless SteamOS is huge or Valve pays them a bunch of money to port it.
Wow, I just noticed that when I have GW2 running and I start up VMWare Fusion with Windows 7 it completely lags Windows 7. The OS is running at like a thousandth of the normal speed (this isn’t the first time I’ve had VMWare Fusion running when I had GW2 Mac beta running…was testing something).
So it is seriously messing something up.
I keep hoping they put in multi monitor support some day so I can use my AppleTV mirroring for keeping a map/timers and ts visible.
And I disagreed and wanted to understand where the disagreement was coming from. I wanted to understand your point of view. Sorry that you don’t really care if I understand. I’ll leave you to your catharsis.
Light has about 4.5 sets (the feathered crafted set can work in a pinch). It is one of those things I’d love for them to add more of but don’t really expect anything because of the disproportionate effort vs # of people who would use it. At this point I’d be overjoyed if the flower back piece introduced during living story would have more color options (like a dye channel). I’m bored being stuck with just red and yellow.
Can you provide some more specifics? If you do not wish to find real problems and attempt come up with solutions that is fine too. Everyone needs to vent now and again. But if this is only for catharsis, then I would like to know so I can leave you to it.
Okay, so what is your definition for completing content? What prevents completion? what are some examples of incomplete content and what factors do you think contributed to each event?
Okay, we have a disagreement about what the problem is. Lets try to find common definition so we can talk about this. What do you mean by uncooperative players? Can you define what you mean by this and give examples?
Please don’t pick up kegs. At least half the people ignore you and pick up kegs.
Please range Warden 3. One platform always wipes because they melee.
So on and so forth.Why do players in this game have such a problem listening to orders? In games such as Eve Online, if a Commander tells you to do something people actually listen.
Because GW2 is a game for casuals and people that do whatever they want to do. Start a guild and annex an overflow for your guild. Don’t bother trying to pug content that requires a large amount of coordination.
This is an excellent way to make the situation worse in the long term.
What is the problem? There are communication issues regarding coordination of player actions in large groups.
How do you fix that problem? I can tell you hiding in an overflow will not fix that problem.
This leaves us with the question, are we okay with the status quo? Do we want to hide from each other out of fear?
orders? as in rage screaming/crying in chat until you get your way? i go out of my way to do the opposite and make them rage more lol
the problem with the majority of commanders is manners… if a commander actually turned up and said please and thank you for a change i would be more likely to follow their orders.
Yeah, it is like people don’t understand that you only lead because people allow it. No one has a right to lead, it is a contract between you and others. Currently, there is no real way to do that in PvE. Buying a blue dorito is not a contract between you and other players. It is bling. Fixing the commander system, frankly, will require a complete overhaul.
I assume you’ve tried to repair the client from the command line:
Note: you can’t just copy and paste the command from that page due to some formatting issues.
Not to mention elementalists also get conjurable weapons. I think everyone would love it if they put in some way to hot swap weapons out of combat (for every profession), though.
Honestly, I’d first contact support by email. You can find directions at: