Kivexor.8596 Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 @Hawken.7932 said:@Kivexor.8596 said:^ echo this experience, since the latest update my performance has dropped from 50+ fps to ~15.Have you tried resetting the PRAM and SMC? There's a looooong standing problem with Macs where performance can be slow after sleep, which sometimes can be resolved by doing this. Both my retina Macbook pro and iMac used to suffer from this.You're a life saver, it worked like a charm! Thanks so much :smiley: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormawachi.8670 Posted December 15, 2017 Share Posted December 15, 2017 Well I guess at it's not just the Mac beta people getting the brown, sticky end of this of this "update", so a massive server shutdown, or ddos attack. Enquiring mind want to know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aazo.2841 Posted December 15, 2017 Share Posted December 15, 2017 Old bug (from start of 64 beta) that keeps reoccurring and I keep sending in "reports to Anet" .. Bug is the crash on hitting start. Only work around is minimizing client then restoring it before hitting start and it then works. But if I don't do work around it crashes 100% of the time. Just wondering when this will eventually get fixed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galmac.4680 Posted December 15, 2017 Share Posted December 15, 2017 For me, only that horrible map loading times a a point. I'm always afraid if I join a group and enter some instance whether I was already kicked or still in this group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menadena.7482 Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 Well, having postprocessing on low did not keep the green snow away forever it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orenwolf.1953 Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 Jon,Any update on the screenshot failing for bugreports? I was going to open a bug about the snow in DR appearing green, but it wasn't able to save a screenshot, so I figured the report wouldn't be worthwhile without it.And thank you, so much for your work on the Mac client! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menadena.7482 Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 orenwolf-Have you played with graphics settings? I was able to get the green to go away for a few days by turning down postprocessing but then it came back and I was not able to get it to go away again. Not that it is a fix but at least it might be a workaround. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiXY.6841 Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 The client works great for a Beta :) I turned down the resolution a bit to get constant 30 FPS but I have the feeling that it gets better with every update with a few FPS more each time! Thanks guys, keep up the good work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Madison.6329 Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 Looking at the processes running from the cmd line my guess is it's the Coherent UI causing the slow down in performance. I can see the Coherent UI runs as a separate process from the game, if its a transparent window composited on top of a OpenGL context you will be hitting the window server compositing path on every frame. This is the same problem WOW has on the Mac, the ad-ware for Blizzard runs on a separate window under the fullscreen display. Everytime the ad-ware gets updated it hits the compositor path which is a huge slow down... it's about every 5-7 frame for WOW. The performance hit is enormous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Madison.6329 Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 Funny the game crashes which causes you to download the entire game again if it wasn't fully complete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheShallowCore.7613 Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 Every time I try to log in on the 64-bit client, I get the following:The game client was unable to connect to the log-in server. Please restart your client and try again. If the problem persists, contact Customer Support for assistance at http://support.guildwars2.com.Build: 85056Error Code: 58:11:5:535Yet whenever I use the 32-bit client I can log in fine. I've tried updating my system software, restarting my Mac, re-downloading the client, and yet nothing seems to work. I also deleted the com.transgaming.guildwars2 folder as I saw that recommended somewhere, but that had no effect. Does anybody have any possible solutions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sammiches.8127 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 So I decided to try out the macOS client against a hackintosh build.i7-8700k2x 1080s (yes, I know sli doesn't work on mac)32gb DDR4I found that much of the time my primary gpu that the game is running on is sitting around 50-60% usage. I'm looking at timings and I don't see the cpu waiting for the gpu often so I'm not entirely sure where the slow down is coming from. Cpu usage is pretty much the same as the gpu, sitting around 50% across the 6 non-hyper threaded cores. It seems that there is a bottleneck somewhere, I'll turn on my instrumentation to try and track down where if I can without a profiler / renderdoc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiXY.6841 Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 @Sammiches.8127 said:So I decided to try out the macOS client against a hackintosh build.i7-8700k2x 1080s (yes, I know sli doesn't work on mac)32gb DDR4I found that much of the time my primary gpu that the game is running on is sitting around 50-60% usage. I'm looking at timings and I don't see the cpu waiting for the gpu often so I'm not entirely sure where the slow down is coming from. Cpu usage is pretty much the same as the gpu, sitting around 50% across the 6 non-hyper threaded cores. It seems that there is a bottleneck somewhere, I'll turn on my instrumentation to try and track down where if I can without a profiler / renderdoc. An idea is to definitely check the hard drive I/O and see how much that is slowing down the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnus.5308 Posted December 25, 2017 Share Posted December 25, 2017 I lower the resolution and lower some of the settings and I get pretty good frame rates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sammiches.8127 Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 @PiXY.6841 said:An idea is to definitely check the hard drive I/O and see how much that is slowing down the game.Yeah I'm seeing a lot of IO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnus.5308 Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 I am running GuildWars2 off my external HD with HFS+ file system via USB 2.0 and it runs ok. Maybe some of you guys who are having issues are running off APFS file system on the internal SSD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EchoPadder.7546 Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 I am running off APFS file system on the internal SSD and it is super fast. I am always the first one to load. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrMORO.4627 Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 @EchoPadder.7546 said:I am running off APFS file system on the internal SSD and it is super fast. I am always the first one to load.Annnnd, may I ask on how the performance of the 64-bit Mac app is on your Mac setup?And also what specifically is your Mac setup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tactic.4691 Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 Was getting horrid fps, 2 fps, was running all stuff on medium, this Mac app for GW2 is no good lolMacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017)2.8 GHz Intel Core i716 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3Radeon Pro 555 2 GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slasc.3260 Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 I upgraded my mid 2015 MacBook Pro (with discrete GPU) to High Sierra yesterday, and my framerate in Guild Wars 2 dropped from around 30fps to 5fps, even when I turn things down. I think GW2 is using the non-discrete card, but I can't figure out a way to force it to change (I did turn off the automatic switching option in MacOS, which should have forced everything to the high end GPU, but that isn't working).I've been looking, but I can't:a.) figure out a way to make sure GW2 is running off of the discrete card andb.) if anyone else is having this issue or not.Any ideas? Thanks![update: After switching the "automatic switching" option off AND rebooting my Mac, the game started working correctly. I hope this helps someone in the future.] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rinda.3270 Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 @slasc.3260You can use this( https://www.google.ch/url?q=https://gfx.io/&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjx3qSD8LPYAhWG1xQKHV5aDxAQFjAAegQIFRAA&usg=AOvVaw1YLeGlIjMZA4z_Shu4MAuu ) to see witch card is used and I think it also can enforce the use of one or the other, but not sure about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rinda.3270 Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 @slasc.3260You can use this( https://www.google.ch/url?q=https://gfx.io/&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjx3qSD8LPYAhWG1xQKHV5aDxAQFjAAegQIFRAA&usg=AOvVaw1YLeGlIjMZA4z_Shu4MAuu ) to see witch card is used and I think it also can enforce the use of one or the other, but not sure about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grande.1803 Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 Hi there! Please help me. How can I change the install location on Macbook? I want install the game on my external HDD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menadena.7482 Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 @Grande.1803 said:Hi there! Please help me. How can I change the install location on Macbook? I want install the game on my external HDD. Just copy the app to another drive. Macs do not care if it is in /applications or not.I am running the 64 bit on my SSD because I had plenty of room and am enjoying the speed boost. Back in the 32 bit days I just had it on one of my non-boot HDDs in a non-standard folder. Amusingly, when people were migrating to the 64 bit version (which used the old dat) I had to re-download the dat because the 64 bit version did not see it in the default location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grande.1803 Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 @Menadena.7482 Thanks for your answer! worked perfectly! many cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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