Leo.3428

@"Barabeam.4638" and @"loseridoit.2756" - Thank you for the help and sorry for my late reply.

The summary of the situation is that I only upgraded the RAM of the PC laptop and didn't touch the Mac any further.

My wife, who played mostly sPvP, has stopped playing because of the proliferation of AFKs and bots, so I'm not in a hurry to find a solution anymore.

But we never know and I will investigate further. There are very few GPUs I can install on the ancient Mac, all being vintage cards that may sell costlier than newer (incompatible) cards, lol. Regarding Linux, the current GPU does have issues with both the open-source and manufacturer-provided driver - but I'm talking about startup, not WINE compatibility - I'm not there yet.

Thank you again. I will let you know if I manage to tweak something, in case it may help someone in a similar situation.

I think the delay is inevitable unfortunately. In a group, everyone will have a different ping time and will need to adjust for synchronization; the only way is for all to wait for the server to send the sounds. What worries me more is the octave switching bug which, as far as I know, hasn't been fixed yet, and this has been keeping me away from the instruments.

That said, I agree the bass lacks overtones, or texture, or whatever this is called.

Thank you @"Barabeam.4638" for the good advice :)

I've been holding off from doing this because I'm investigating upgrading the GPU - not an easy task at all on these computers though :D

I'm also upgrading the hardware of a (non-gaming) PC laptop that _may_ provide better performance.

Thank you, Lady of the Rings, for this wealth of comics!! The "Fly!" one cracks me up every time :D

To anyone reading this, I posted a call for comic collaboration in that thread: https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/120614/na-eu-any-comedy-rp

The Lady of the Ring and I have been preparing a pilot episode around Rata Sum for the last three or four weeks, and the team is about to expand. If anybody is interested in joining the fun, do get in touch.

Thanks for posting an update. Next time you have an issue you may get faster response in the troubleshooting section of the forum instead of the general one.

So when the game can't write to drive, it tells you it's your connection... I'm sensing a pattern here.

> @"Barabeam.4638" said:

> @"Leo.3428" The package uses dxvk which uses vulkan, so just in case your GPU doesn't support vulkan, you may want to try the legacy package >> Deprecated/Legacy Packages (WineD3D/OpenGL versions) from the original post. Also, it might help more experienced users to have more details about your hardware and the linux distribution you installed to give you guidance :) Best of luck

Thank you for the suggestions! The computer is a mid-2010 iMac with a Radeon HD 4670 (from around 2007 I think). I installed LXLE LTS and immediately ran into GPU driver issues which, as far as I gathered from the web, have no solution apart from considerably downgrading the kernel. I have detailed my struggles here: https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/121678/intel-chip-mac-dual-boot-with-linux-wine-gw2-for-windows

Update: None of the information I could find on the web has been reassuring. The old Radeon cards have been a problem since at least 2013, and I'm not keen on installing a 2010 Linux out of LTS for kernel-driver compatibility.

I did investigate a W10 boot but you know, it runs into even more issues on this old hardware.

I dragged my wife into the game, ignoring the red flags around the engine, and now she plays way more than I do. I owe her a solution to keep playing the game... I haven't played in a week, spending my time searching for that solution.

Rise Up - Yves Larock

"Rise up

I'm done falling down again

(...)"

Only 2:52 but lends itself well to loop

A note about the iMacs from before 2012: Bootcamp will not let you install Windows 10 but I read that you can force it manually and run into multiple driver problems. One can try and replace with older drivers to alleviate some of the issues. Because of this and limited storage, I'm trying a Linux install first on my wife's 2010 iMac. But i'm running into driver issues as well.

> @"dusanyu.4057" said:

> Your most welcome I have been a Linux user since 1998 so if you have any questions feel free to message me

Much appreciated! I am going slowly and will document my adventure here in case it can benefit someone in a similar situation.

So, this computer is an iMac from around 2010 with a Radeon graphics card. Due to the limited storage, I decided to leave Mac-flavored distros for later. For a moment I considered Tiny Core Linux but was afraid I would run into compatibility issues. I finally picked a minimal Ubuntu with some history record that may be more likely to make things easier. It goes by the name [LXLE](https://lxle.net/), and I put the image on a stick with [Rufus](https://rufus.ie/).

I partitioned the one drive using the Mac's built-in utility. 90% of the Linux space will be for the GW2 files, and 10% for LXLE and WINE. I booted from the flash stick and quickly sank into a black screen. After some research I learned that I should boot with the option "nomodeset" because the Radeon card is a problem - this much I had been fearing from the start. I was able to install LXLE and let it download what it needed for adjusting itself. I allotted 4GB for the swap partition, I can enlarge it if necessary.

Upon reboot I get the black screen again unless I start in recovery mode. From what I could read it is not advised to install manually the manufacturer-provided Linux driver for the oldest Radeon cards, but the open source driver is a problem too unless one downgrades the OS. This is where I am, researching the matter and trying to make sure that the OS will be able to use the Radeon for more than the basic graphical functions.

(Late edit for typos and wording)

Thank you for working on this package! I am wondering if I can use it on a Linuxified old Mac with an even older ATI graphics card. Do I just need to install the right drivers on top of the package, or will I run into conflicts with the package? Would I have more luck installing things bit by bit and tweaking as I go? Thank you!

I feel for you, my wife is in the same situation with little time to turn around.

Keep an eye on the Technical section: https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/categories/account-technical-support

People are discussing solutions, one of them may work for you.

@"dusanyu.4057" - Thank you so much for this wealth of info! I'll try all that (probably next weekend) and I'll let you know how it went. I didn't know there was a distro with a Mac-like UI.

@"tuck.2719" - That was the first solution I explored, but my wife's computer is a very old second-hand mac. Windows would be expensive and bloated just for this computer and just for GW2. Also the graphics card does not seem to have a pilot for W10, add to that the old DX9 that GW2 uses and I may be safer with Linux.

Following ArenaNet's short notice that they are dropping the game's Mac client, I'm looking for a solution for my wife to be able to continue playing the game on her Intel-chip Mac. I have some experience with Windows-Linux dual booting, but I know close to nothing about Mac computers. I get a sense that Mac-Linux dual boot is popular, at least among developers.

I'm not looking to be spoon-fed instructions, I can search the web and learn about Mac, but I would appreciate the opinion of people who already tried this configuration to play the game and can tell if the performance makes it worth the effort. I know there is a Linux thread here which is immensely long and I don't know if it mentions Mac computers.

Thank you in advance.

PS: Not looking to use Bootcamp and pay for a Windows license just for one game.

Although I'm cursed with imagination, I can't take a game's lore seriously and never RP'ed.

I still ended up making comedy comics out of screenshots, and I am wondering if collaborative comedic RP could be a thing.

Any leads or hints? Thanks!

> @"Alvarri.7049" said:

> If you read the forums at all then you know players have been complaining about this for many years!

Since 2017 indeed; that is, since mounts were introduced.

If ANet decided to remove free camera on mounts, why not simply disable camera rotation instead of making it look as if it works until it suddenly doesn't? I cannot find any explanation for this.

I thought this thread was closed to comments so I created a new thread the other day:

https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/120456/santa-charr-visited

> @"Evga.2471" said:

> Well, sorry there's no escaping. One does not simply leave a comment and not get gifts (Lord of the Rings meme reference). LOL

Indeed. I just logged into the game and got hit by an avalanche of gifts I didn't even know existed! Santa Charr is so immensely generous!

Now I want to find some very very rare item to give back...

Do we have some snowy party in game?

> @"Ronin.4501" said:

> (...) does anyone out there actually have a USEFUL suggestion for how to address this issue?

Make the server program robust, so the client side cannot dictate illegal moves to the server?

> @"Evga.2471" said:

> Let's do a barbecue. Has anyone tried dragon meat yet? Wonder if it's an exotic specialty food in a distant land?

There should be some Dragon Rib in Lava at Cook 500... Maybe we'll get that in the Cantha expansion?

By the way, I'm participating only for the fun of the conversation. Let Santa Charr visit the ones more in need of gifts :)

The risen rise to the rooftops.

And can't go down.


The skales scale up the trees.

And can't get down.


A rock shark emulates sand sharks, trying to get to the bouncer for a sharknado.

But cannot move an inch.

(This one is probably from ages ago, I found reports from the dawn of time.)


Then, when passing the portal South of the Fens to the Straits, I get teleported to the North-East of the Fens.

Only possible explanation:


> @"Funky.4861" said:

> Crafting per-character has always made sense to me; why should one character know max level crafting of a discipline they never studied or practised just because another character they will never meet knows it? Did they leave a note in shared inv or the bank? ^^

It makes perfect sense from a role-playing perspective. However, from the same perspective, why do all characters, even at level 2, start mastering bouncing mushrooms or canyon jumping as soon as one of them does? The game applies different logics to similar things and it doesn't make much sense overall.

Good catch. Next time I walk my moa by the river, I'll aggro all the scales onto the fisher.

> @"Evga.2471" said:

> Good luck on the secret workshop. Santa Charr has been there but he never told me how to get there.

I would guess the Far Shiverpeaks... There should be an achievement on it, or a super-hero point.

> @"Applewater.8702" said:

> Just before Primordus rises from his slumber and descends upon Tyria, raining down hellfire upon the land and raising his Legion of Destroyers to decimate everything in sight.

Nah, we'll be fine. Bogey Charr will fry Primo in its magma juice and we'll have a giant barbecue :)

> @"Calisanna.8732" said:

> 1 hr and 30 mins (52 secs) in friends. This was August 2019! “Upcoming months”

"Always with the teases..."