Guild Wars 2

Piia.7659:

Chris.9531:

2.4 Ghz i5 Processor
4g 1067 MHz DDR3 RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 256 MB
OS X 10.8

With minimum settings, I’m getting about 15-17 FPS max in open world zones. I’m afraid to even try PvP right now.

The System Requirements FAQ claims my Mac should run GW2 well or better, and that’s not what I would call my performance at the moment.

Chris,

There are two things that should help improve your performance

1. Check how much extra Hard Drive space is remaining after your install? (Click on the top-left Apple Icon -> About this Mac -> More Info -> "Storage" from the topmost navigation in this window). If you have less than 10-20% remaining, this is slowing down application performance. Try to free up some space.

2. Your card by design uses shared memory with the main memory, and the maximum memory you can install is 8GB. Upgrading your RAM would probably substantially improve your performance. It’s also pretty cheap at just under $50 bucks for the kit. Here’s a trusted source I’ve used for my RAM with price: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/8566DDR3S8GP/

Good luck!

2. This is incorrect actually. His card by design uses dedicated memory, not shared. The 330m GT is fast enough to run the game on medium settings with 35-50 fps on avg, just from looking at it.

I know this is an old thread at this point in time, but I think I can offer some insight on the situation because it never seemed to be resolved.
Your mac can run this game with much better frame rates but it is held back by the methods used in creating a mac port of the game. The Guild Wars 2 mac port was made with a cyder wrapper (wine for mac osx) over the windows game. This is what converts the game so you can play it on your mac. It is limited because it has to convert the architecture of the windows compatible client to a mac version. This takes processing power and can eat away at performance.

To overcome this issue the best solution is to go and get a copy of windows to install in bootcamp, while this was mentioned before in the thread, msi afterburner was also mentioned. Afterburner is unnecessary and could potentially create more of a problem then a solution to increasing performance.
Also 4 GB of ram should be more than enough to handle this game. I doubt you would see a significant performance increase from 4 GB to 8 GB.