Guild Wars 2

@Plantastically – sounds like you have the same issue as me.

I finally got the game to run through campaigns without crashing by having it set to the lowest of the lows (basically in the visual settings, using the “setting preset” that is the lowest). It looks like complete crap, but it runs and I can make it through a chain of events without having to quickly log back in and pray I didn’t miss the loot boss.

Though admittedly… this workaround kind of defeats the purpose of playing this game on such a spiffy screen. I’d be interested to know if bootcamp + gw2 plays nicely on the 5k iMac… (though myself, I’m probably not going to go through the bootcamp setup process… I had it before on a previous Mac and maintaining both partitions just to play 1 game was so not worth it for me).

I have the iMac 5K w/ i7 and it constantly crashes on me….

I’m talking with GW2 Support to troubleshoot it, but it’s taking awhile. The current theory is that that GPU and CPU are running far too hot during the times when it decides to crash. As to why they are running that hot, I don’t know. I haven’t played the game at full resolution (for the same reason Fhenrir said… UI gets too tiny, even if you scale it up to its largest size), but even with all graphics lowered to the bare minimum (and looking like utter crap), it will still crash.

I’m wondering if other iMac 5K users are having this issue too, or if this is a special case?

I’m hoping too… I think my issue is related to how many players need to be rendered on a screen at once. Which makes me concerned I won’t be able to play any of the new season 2 living story b/c I can’t party up.

I thought this would be over after the last update, but it still happens.

Any time I enter an area with a lot of players, the game freezes, then crashes (though my friend tells me my avatar remains in-game while it’s frozen, running in place until my game crashes). I thought it was Halloween Event specific, but it happened again in the Edge of the Mists (right as a big battle was starting too).

iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014)
OS X Yosemite (version 10.10)
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
4 GHz Intel Core i7
AMD Radeon R9 M295X 4096 MB

I just tried playing it on an i5 Retina Mac and it keeps crashing too.