Blackwood.9072

Is it just me or has the Mac client performance slowly been getting worse with each update since the Dragon Bash release? I've been tracking my FPS in high & low-volume areas. I've also been tracking in my home instance. Performance has decreased by an average of 1-2 FPS per each major release. I've gone from 30 FPS (not best, but it worked well enough) to stutters at 9-10 FPS in high-traffic areas and 45 FPS to 33 FPS in low-volume. Only my home instance (and other instance such as guild hall) has remained steady. Even lowering the number of actors on screen hasn't done much to help so I'm not sure where this performance drop is coming from. I thought it was a result of all the returning players but...

Is this a known issue for the mac: when attempting to report a bug in-game the message "Error creating screenshot" appears.

Performance observation: I've noticed that that the biggest performance hit is on high-population maps such as Mistlock or Lion's Arch. However, changing the Character Model Limit and Character Model Quality between Low/Medium/High does little to affect performance with only a 1-2 FPS change. Now, this makes perfect sense as even the invisible characters are interacting with the environment and thus affect me. However, even if the invisible characters are just standing around, even if they are out of sight I still experience the hit. As soon as the population drops (visible pop remains the same, invisible decreases) performance improves.