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Awesomium crashed often too, I can't see how it was any better. Oh dear, I never had a single crash from it. Certainly it was infinitely better for me.

After giving up for the time being I dared to try GW2 today, SAB patch and expected to login, fail to swap maps etc (btw last time I tried I was able to enter wvw so the map swap bug applied less to instances for me) but the game is running normally again! While it's not all paradise, the character select seems somewhat slower than it was but that's far better than getting stuck so if you are having a revolting time with the 64bit client, heads up the 32bit client is working again! I am guessing whatever was wrong was fixed for the SAB patch, perhaps unwittingly as Anet said they don't support the 32bit a while ago. Hopefully we won't encounter this again, if we do or the day comes the 32bit is totally unplayable by then the mac 64bit client will be decent.

Indeed coherent is the process for our trading post and it's very volatile I despise it, much preferred Awsomnium, the former tp host pre autumn 2014 often didn't load fully so needed a game restart but the game still runs otherwise whereas Coherent is a babel to be kind, if Coherent crashes that kills the game. Why I became aware of Coherent was it caused me no end of grief especially within the first weeks of it's inception, I had over 100crashes of trying to run the tp and by chance when trying troubleshooting suggestions from Anet support I was able to not crash when using the tp, noticed then I did not have a browser open and that significantly keeps the host more stable. It's unusual, it's more stable now but the game definitely slows down with a browser open (So I do not use /wiki) compared to using the Awsomnium host, this would be an issue for older machines though, I've asked around people with newer or more powerful machines do not have such issues, nevertheless Coherent is a far less stable and resource hogging process than need be. If you've never experienced problems with it, just terminate the coherent.exe process and see the client crash… The mobile tp we have in GW2 is a blessing and curse vs other mmos, I don't recall many issues with mmos that had a static trading post and they certainly run faster however it is cool to be able to trade stuff when on the go to clear inventory etc rather than having to find a town every time… Coherent crashes aren't restricted to using the tp it can crash anytime and I think apps like Skype or teamspeak have a chance to crash it (Anything web related), with the client changed for PoF it's sadly typical for me to coherent crash when even just opening the client, this often would be at least 2 in a row of crashes….. One way to cut down on many crashes would be if Anet stop the coherent host crashing the game if the process dies. Awsomnium never crashed my game if the host wasn't working so why should Coherent? I'm not an expert but I think the Awsomnium era didn't put all the eggs in 1 basket (1 process, Awsomnium iirc were a few processes, which annoyingly often doesn't all startup so would need a client reboot but everything else ingame would work) whereas Coherent has, also the Coherent tp uses gaudy huge text and is considerably slower to do anything its only plus side are aesthetics though I don't see that as a plus, I pick efficiency for trading over colourful big text anyday. To finish off 1 thing that's always bugged me, well 2 crash reports. 'Success' and 'Succeeded', what stupid names for crash reports surely a good one to incite anger for the user, anyone knows what the heck these reports mean? I can't see crashing a game as a success!

Were you able to open it the first time to download the data file (~30 GB)? If not, delete it and download it again as it might be that something got corrupted making it not a valid file. It could just be the executable permission bit got turned off, but redownloading it will fix that and other potential issues. If you were able to launch it the first time and it downloaded the data try looking at the repair article on anet's site (which we were discussing above). You are running a 64 bit version of mac os, right? If they ever played GW2 directly from the 32bit mac beta client within the last 4yrs they must be on at least Lion so don't think it's worth asking that, the original client was able to work on Snow Leopard (The final 32bit OS X) till they updated the mac client in 2014 (Anet themselves said it worked fine in China, where it was released first but it caused many a problem for us mac users, mostly trading post problems with text format, the fix for that then was to update our client, which forced out the Snow Leopard users) The 32bit client alone often makes my mac hot, not as bad as it used to, often would exceed 100ºC first 3-4yrs. My mac's always been odd with it's cooling, it can cool too much in winter and not enough summer, had periods where the fan would be terribly grating and the odd warning errors with my fan from the system but I did nothing and it fixes itself eventually, anyhow not encouraging overall with the feedback with the 64bit client and lack of staff response doesn't help. That is a good point though, GW2 is not the most intense app on my computer, I expend more RAM using my browsers, yet indeed the heat GW2 generates is far worse.

That might be marketing speak. The MBP I use when on vacation is later then a 2012 and I can barely do my dailies without screaming. I would NEVER advise using a mbp for any game for the best experience. Irresponsible of them to say such a thing any case if it's clearly false. MBPs can run games well in my experience, at the very least far better than how it's gotten with GW2 after they switched from Awsomnium to coherent for the trading post host. Runs well and best experience are two different levels anyhow! I'm fairly patient I can handle low frame rates very well, prolonged loading not so well and instability and crashes get my goat...

Thanks for this, for mac 32bit users you need to press alt from the finder window to be able to access 'Library', from there application support from the 'Go' menu, then go to application support, GW2 > p-drive > User > Application Data > Guild Wars 2 & then open GFXSettings.Gw2.exe.xml and make the change.