Arnalon.9247

For all you who don't want bootcamp, i found this link: https://asmaloney.com/2021/04/howto/running-guild-wars-2-on-macos-using-wine/ It works for me. The fps is total crap and you have to set your graphics settings to very low, but it *does* run on intel mac with Big Sur. You can even run arcdps with it. Install the dll in your bin64 folder and open the Config Utility, libraries, and add d3d9

Did some experimenting and noticed that turning the Render Sampling to Subsample actually made a significant impact, getting fps up tot he 30's especially in the core maps

I used to run the windows 64 bit exe directly on wine. It was not as good as native windows, but still got 30-40 fps while running the game in a window. Now with Catalina, I get crashes when I try to start it and have to use the Mac 64 client, which is horrible. Fps is generally in the 15 region, only occasionally moving up to 20 when there's nobody around. When moving the entire background goes blurry making the game look as if you're either drunk or looking through bad glasses.When I boot to windows, I get frame rates of 50-70 fps easily (this is the same hardware people!), dropping only when the map gets really busy, but still staying high.I think the people at Arenanet should be really ashamed of themselves of creating such a sub-par product and retract their advertisement that 'it runs on mac'. Instead, be honest and just say "It runs only on windows, but for Mac users we provide a really nice slideshow"