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Guild Wars 2

Mouse look still buggy and FPS is low

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Haywood Woensdag 29 Augustus 2012 om 9:18
HaywoodAnonymous

I know this is a work in progress, so here is my experience with Guild Wars 2 in playonmac over the last 2 days.

The mouse look is still very buggy. If I right click the camera spins and usually ends up in a weird angle. If I click again near my characters feet, I can usually use mouse turning to various degrees of success, but it is sporadic and makes combat and especially any of the platforming elements very difficult. I downloaded the Gw2 Beta 2 FIx.app wrapper from The Porting Team and the mouse issues have been resolved for the most part. It still isn't perfect but is very close. Can you look into the settings they are using to fix the issue in your build?

Your version does not suffer from the severe graphical issues I have seen in others. Big kudos to you...especially since I do not have the ability to do any of this myself, and am just hoping that posting here provides some good feedback. I do suffer from low FPS even with low settings.

I read this on the winhq comments "For anyone having performance issues, make sure you don't have any directx dll overrides. I made the mistake of installing directx with winetricks and when I removed them I went from 10-20 fps with some stutter on low settings to 50-60 fps on everything maxed except low shadows and reflections turned off. This is using a nvidia graphics card though."

Are there settings in playonmac to get these kind of results?

Thanks again for your hard work.

FYI...here are my specs:
Retina MacBook Pro
2.3 GHz Intel Core i7
8gb RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB
jwshep4 Woensdag 29 Augustus 2012 om 17:29
jwshep4Anonymous

I can not get GW2 to install. After the first downloading screen, the screen just goes black and won't progress beyond this. Considering you already have it installed, could you give me some things to try? Did you run into this issue?

My macbook is not as good as yours:
4GB RAM
2.5 GHz Core i5
Intel HD Graphics 4000 384 MB

Thanks!
Quentin PÂRIS Woensdag 29 Augustus 2012 om 18:59
Quentin PÂRISAnonymous

We are working on that
Haywood Woensdag 29 Augustus 2012 om 19:29
HaywoodAnonymous

I can not get GW2 to install. After the first downloading screen, the screen just goes black and won't progress beyond this. Considering you already have it installed, could you give me some things to try? Did you run into this issue?

My macbook is not as good as yours:
4GB RAM
2.5 GHz Core i5
Intel HD Graphics 4000 384 MB

Thanks!

Quote from jwshep4

This was the first wineskin I have used. I just followed the wizard and it worked for me. I didn't have to use any tricks to get it to work. Sorry you are having trouble.
Jtuck595 Woensdag 29 Augustus 2012 om 19:51
Jtuck595Anonymous

I Get the download screen and it will start and then refresh to 0kb(0kb/sec) Please help....ive been asking for a week
Jtuck595 Woensdag 29 Augustus 2012 om 19:52
Jtuck595Anonymous

and it freezes at 0kb forgot to mention
WrathWolf Maandag 3 September 2012 om 8:03
WrathWolfAnonymous

@ Haywood
I just tried Playing this and I only get around ~4 fps.
You suggested removing the DX DLLs?
How do I do that?

I have a Macbook Pro 2.4Ghz i7 on OSX Lion
4GB RAM
ATI 6770M 1GB

I have tried playing this after booting to bootcamp and I get 60+fps. Just would like to get it to work in OSX.
WrathWolf Maandag 3 September 2012 om 9:59
WrathWolfAnonymous

Also on a side note...
When I ran the game I looking OSX's Activity report and I could see that wine was using 227% of the cpu and only about 850MB or RAM.
Does wine on mac not make use of the multiple cores well?
Just trying to troubleshoot what the real issue is with my performance.
Quentin PÂRIS Maandag 3 September 2012 om 11:26
Quentin PÂRISAnonymous

Try with wine 1.4.1-GuildWars2
WrathWolf Maandag 3 September 2012 om 12:24
WrathWolfAnonymous

It ran about 20 fps, locked to full screen 1024x768 and had VERY bad graphic glitches coming from the character model and terrain disappearing.
nogoodnames Maandag 3 September 2012 om 19:53
nogoodnamesAnonymous

Hi all, new member. :)

Just thought I'd register to pop my findings in here to try and help...

I've tried installing GW2 using 1.4.1-GuildWars2 and get the same as I was with the other attempts I've had. Namely, it starts and does a small download (as to be expected), then goes to the black screen and stays indefinitely.

TLDR: Doesn't work. :)

I'm running a mid 2011 iMac, i5 2.5 GHz, 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3, AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512MB, and running OS X 10.8.1 (Mountain Lion).

Let me know if you think of anything else worth trying. :)
WrathWolf Donderdag 6 September 2012 om 15:48
WrathWolfAnonymous

Any other suggestions for making this work better under PlayOnMac?
I am going to upgrade my RAM today to 8GB and maybe that will help. But when it was using so much CPU... not sure it will help.
ThomasDrown Zondag 9 September 2012 om 20:11
ThomasDrownAnonymous

Hey Guys!

I got the game files from a friend to prevent me from downloading everything. So i was wondering if it's possible to install the game with existing files?
Quentin PÂRIS Zondag 9 September 2012 om 20:37
Quentin PÂRISAnonymous

Yep, save and restore gw2.dat
ThomasDrown Dinsdag 11 September 2012 om 17:20
ThomasDrownAnonymous

It works, awesome!

Too bad that i've a big drop on fps.. it's playable (with a nice look) under bootcamp (macbook pro 13 late '11) but under os x i've 10 - 15 fps less..
Kadynn Dinsdag 11 September 2012 om 17:40
KadynnAnonymous

I am able to get GW2 to run in playon, howvere I only get about 2-3 FPS. Unplayable with 1.5.12-GuildWars2 Wine Version.

With the wine 1.4.1-GuildWars2 build, I get 25-30 FPS but with horrid clipping.

I havn't installed or tried installing any other special drivers. Any advice?

iMac 27"
3.4 GHz Intel Core i7
16GB Ram
Radeon 6970M 2GB
Clint Dinsdag 11 September 2012 om 22:20
ClintAnonymous

Almost the exact same situation here as Kadynn above.
I get 3-4 FPS and a second+ lag with any version beyond 1.4.1 which runs at 12-15 but has very annoying clipping (especially on the moa birds). I've tried 1.5.11 and 1.5.12 but they are unplayable. I'd be happy with the results of 1.4.1 if the clipping could be fixed.

I know my way around computers but I don't know about changing coding or some such.

If anyone has some suggestions I'd love to hear. Thanks

iMac 27"
2.7 GHz Intel Core i5
16GB Ram
Radeon 6770M 512 MB
Dwightmmh Woensdag 12 September 2012 om 21:30
DwightmmhAnonymous

Hello, i used playonmac to install guild wars 2 yesterday. After installing it all day with crashes every 10 mins I finally got it installed and was able to go into the game and play.

Only problem is it is really laggy. Does anyone know how to fix this? In game I already selected "best performance" but it still lags. Is there a setting on playonmac I'm missing? I'm using snow leopard 10.6.8 on a late 2008 17 inch Mac 


Dwightmmh Donderdag 13 September 2012 om 5:20
DwightmmhAnonymous

So... I have Guild Wars 2 installed on playonmac. I played the game and it's laggy. I know it's testing. But 3 questions.

1. When will it be 100% playable with no lag

2. Will the game automatically be fixed or do I have to redownload it when it's done with testing. When all the problems get fixed will it fix it's self or do I re install? 

3. Currently I am experiencing 7 - 12 FPS. Is this normal? Will it improve or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks!
D

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Kadynn Dinsdag 18 September 2012 om 17:30
KadynnAnonymous

Devlopers of GW2 are working on a OS X client.

https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/A-client-for-OS-X/first#post154313

And announcement
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/announcing-guild-wars-2-for-mac-beta/

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