Supercluster.7159

I also believe that RISC processors will be the norm for desktop computers in the future. It may take years but I believe it will come.

I've been playing since 2012 also and have lots of time any money invested. I've had a great time playing all these years and was happy to be able to play on my iMac. This is so sad and i'm shocked to see this happen.

My goal for 2021 is to quit playing Guild Wars.

> @"Titus.7694" said:

> Has the issue been fixed for you all? I am still having problems :(

I'm able to login now also. :)

Took a few tries but I finally got in.

Thank You!!

> @"Enyo.9657" said:

> Still crashing. It shouldn't take this long. Please give us an update. The hot fix didn't work.

The hot fix hasn't been put out yet...

Same here.

When I started GW2 I got a message from Apple saying 32 bit apps will not work in the future. Weird but I restarted and didn't get it again.

I agree, SSD is the way to go. I'm also on an iMac; Late 2013, 16 gb memory, GTX 780M, i5. It runs good on medium to high settings, 25-50 fps mostly. Still have a stutter when moving. It really shows when playing a Vista. I hope they can get this fixed but overall it is sooo much better than before.

> @"sunrun.4521" said:

> Has the hitching/jerkiness improved for anyone? It's still just as bad as ever for me. Starting to move anywhere or rotating the camera results in hitches that sometimes last two seconds, so an FPS of less than 1.

I still have a jerkiness. My FPS are normally good, averaging in the 40's with medium/high settings, but for some reason it jerks slightly when running forward.

Awesome Jon. Hope this helps with these issues. Can't wait to try it.

This may sound a bit trivial but since moving to the 64 bit native mac version I do not see my characters footprints anymore, in the snow or sand, on any maps.

> Interesting. I wonder if I've done something wrong or need to completely reinstall the game or something? Waiting doesn't help the issue. Thirty minutes later, I still have the same slide show effect. My husband has a brand new iMac with the best graphic card they had available and has performance similar to mine with the Mac Client. Both of us would obviously love to be able to use the macOS version rather than bootcamp.

>

> Any advice?

I really don't know why my setup works OK(most of the time) because I see others like you that have similar specs and are having a terrible time. It's frustrating not knowing why some people have good performance and others with the similar specs are having terrible performance. Now I do believe I should be getting **much** better performance with these specs based on what the Windows people are getting with similar specs. Hopefully Anet is still working on optimizing the Mac 64 client and we all see better performance in the future.

> @"ananda.5946" said:

> I've installed the 64 bit mac client thingie now to try it out. Maybe I've done something wrong, but it is way, way, way worse than the absolutely broken wrapper client. Standing in Divinity's Reach is like watching a slide show. What I did was install the new client and change my bar shortcut to the new one and launch. Seemed like this would be correct, but maybe not? Also, I should add that these specs, while getting a bit old, work fine on high settings in bootcamp.

>

> MacOS High Sierra v10.13.2

> iMac (27-inch, Late 2013)

> 3,4 GHz Intel Core i5

> 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

> NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M 2 GB

I have the same spec's except I have 4 GB on the GPU card and have the game installed on an external USB 3.0 SSD. I normally get 35 - 45 FPS outside cities and In the cities I get 25 - 35, but occasionally it will drop in the low teens(or lower) for no reason at all. Also when I enter a new area it sometimes will take a minute or two to become playable.

I really like this idea of running things from an external SSD drive. GW2 loads and runs faster for me and the internal temps are close to 10c cooler because of it.. I may be moving other things besides GW2 to an external drive.

Keep us posted on your results DrMORO. I'm thinking of just installing the game from scratch when I get my external SSD. But if what you're trying works I would probably just do that to save time.

Great thanks again for your help. =)

HAHA Thanks Figlilly. Did you have the 32 client installed along with the 64? I still have the 32 client in the Applications folder also. I wonder if I need to do anything with that also?

Figlilly, I'm looking at doing the same thing. What SSD did you get? And how did you go about moving it to the SSD? Thanks

> @Spurnshadow.3678 said:

> Why anyone runs the mac client is beyond me. It's basically a windows emulator and is extremely taxing and will never run well, or at least as good as the windows version. Never. Many mac games out there are using this widows emulator as a mac client type of thing. Stop it.

The new 64 bit version is native MacOS.