dusanyu.4057

First what you bought is fine for GW2 save for the Graphics card hit up eBay and look for a GTX 750 ti low profile they can be had rather cheaply and will work in your computer. I used one for years to play GW2 at full graphics settings with no issues. They are also extremely power efficient and can get all the power it needs to run through the PCI-E slot.

Secondly I am seeing people say antivirus and firewall the one included with Windows 10 is as good as anything you can buy

https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/is-windows-defender-good-enough-for-your-pc combining it with not being a complete idiot on the internet ie don't torrent software run executable email attachments etc. etc.

As far as fa firewall don't you have one already in your router and a second in the form of Windows firewall things like ZoneAlarm have not been needed since the days of Windows XP SP1

cant say i want to see any races added it would take too much work add another race, starter area, voice acting for the whole game. but if it were possible and it could be anything i wanna play as a dragon :P

game mechanics are separate from game narrative

on "play on mac" this is basically a simplified fronted for creating a wine bottle to run a windows program in and is based on playonlinux and the install scripts are woefully out of date

The Only thing you will have to remember if you're on a mac laptop while using boot camp is you may need to use a fan pad under the laptop macOS does some things in the kernel to change the thresholds that thermal throttling happens at and windows does not have this so in order to retain good performance a third party cooling solution is necessary. Here is a link to a video of a e-celeb tech channel explaining it

> @"Leo.3428" said:

> @"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.

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> @"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.

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

> @"tuck.2719" said:

> Instead of messing around with running GW2 on Linux (and the potential weirdness that entails), why not just install dual boot Windows on the Mac using Boot Camp Assistant? It looks pretty simply based on Apple's support doc on it: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201468

he said why in his post

> @"Leo.3428" said:

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

while i understand you think this the easy way its probably not the best way economicly paying for a windows licance to play one game when you can use linux with verry little fuss for free

first download and burn a ISO to a USB stick one of the easiest to use for newbies is Ubuntu if you want a more Mac like interface i recommend Ubuntu budgie https://ubuntubudgie.org/

Next to boot from the USB hold down the option button as you turn on the computer. Then just follow the onscreen instruction for the installer (I can't say if partition resizing on HFS partitions)

as far as installing GW2 on Linux the first post on the lengthy thread has a wrapper for GW2 and intrusions on how to install it. it works great out of the box, but you may experience shader cache related stuttering if you are on a hard drive and not a solid state drive.

as far as optimizing Linux to get it to game better here is a great guide for it and even links to a video walkthrough of the process https://christitus.com/ultimate-linux-gaming-guide/

good luck

I understand you mac folks are unhappy, but you have to look at this from a developer's perspective.

1 porting a game engine from a Large instruction set processor to a recused instruction set processor is a huge undertaking and may not have anyone of staff who is versed in the ARM architecture. Compound the architecture with point 2, and you are looking at a complete engine rewrite.

2 Apple is dropping OpenGL for an in house developed 3d graphics API called metal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_%28API%29 and are also in the process refusing to adopt other industry standard API's like Vulcan.

3 Arena net is not the first game dev to leave mac users in the dark over this Zenimax has also ended Mac support for Elder Scrolls online https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/59187

this is not the first time apple has done huge changes to their product line that impacted users in a big way First the Jump from Apple 2 to Macintosh. One major change to Operating System kernels and, 4 major architecture changes on processors Motorola 68000 to PowerPC to x86 to ARM and with this new choice of dropping industry standard graphics API's they are forcing game developers asking is it worth supporting a Platform created by a highly unreliable company with a severe case of Not Invited Here syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here Just to reach 7.8% of players?

> @"aszy.3804" said:

> A Windows machine is not on the table. I did not know that GW2 was supported natively on a Linux machine - only ran with Wine. For now, I'll use the old machine - now 6 years old running a appropriately old Mac OS X to play the game - works perfectly. No CoherentUI issues. No crashes. Mostly wanted to post a PSA.

Sadly there is no Native Linux version for Linux, but the game runs fine using WINE along with some other translation layers with minimum frame loss on some systems miles very.

Now to the Mac my New I am assuming you're on one of the new ARM based machines? The chances of getting GW2 to ever run on an arm machine is very slim due to the fact that the emulation technology apple wrote for X86-64 applications to their new arm processor was not made for the demands of video games secondly apple has pretty much dropped support for all 3D APIs outside their own (metal) I have not looked into if adding X11 and XQuartz is a workaround for the metal issue but having a background in UNIX it feels like that may be why they said to try it beyond that I hope you kept your previous X86 based machine to play Guild Wars on because I doubt Arena net has any ARM guys on staff who can port the engine.

i have the chip and graphic card sitting here waiting for a few more parts to arrive advantage of working in a small privately owned computer store i was able to order the parts in sadly we were only able to get three CPU's and three cards and all of them sold on the first day and no we did not raise the prices too ethical.

To play gw2 you can get away with a used i5 dell optiplex from ebay and toss in a old GTX 750 Ti this is a 8 year old game

some online game companies are warning about the fact they are not supporting apples new special snowflake chip and that Rosetta can result in a less than desirable gaming experience you might want to hold on to your old Intel mac for gaming if you plan on "upgrading"

as far as wine in manjaro i can give you some tips

first if you are using a AMD GPU turn on ACO you can do this by editing /etc/environment and adding the following line

RADV_PERFTEST=aco

next for WINE both regular and 32 run the following command it will add wine, winetricks, lutris and all the required libraries as well as gamemode

sudo pacman -S wine-staging giflib lib32-giflib libpng lib32-libpng libldap lib32-libldap gnutls lib32-gnutls mpg123 lib32-mpg123 openal lib32-openal v4l-utils lib32-v4l-utils libpulse lib32-libpulse libgpg-error lib32-libgpg-error alsa-plugins lib32-alsa-plugins alsa-lib lib32-alsa-lib libjpeg-turbo lib32-libjpeg-turbo sqlite lib32-sqlite libxcomposite lib32-libxcomposite libxinerama lib32-libgcrypt libgcrypt lib32-libxinerama ncurses lib32-ncurses opencl-icd-loader lib32-opencl-icd-loader libxslt lib32-libxslt libva lib32-libva gtk3 lib32-gtk3 gst-plugins-base-libs lib32-gst-plugins-base-libs vulkan-icd-loader lib32-vulkan-icd-loader lutris gamemode winetricks -y

those two steps will give you the best possible gaming experience for any game you could want to play and not just Guild Wars 2

now i want a rifle Guardian spec

i played warrior in GW1 just made sense to stick with it

pretty sure the Ministry of Purity went ham on the Afflicted in guild wars beyond i highly doubt any survived over 250 years sence

defiantly needed, if Sylvari Pollen effects ere removed before launch because of concern about effects on older hardware how is bat plauge any better?

if you want mounts get PoF it's not that darn expensive and honestly you don't need mounts in the core maps

new version of wine shipped that is supposed to be a big improvement for gaming

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/linux/wine-50-released-with-numerous-gaming-improvements-for-linux/

> @"Fueki.4753" said:

> > @"DarkEmiLupus.2876" said:

> > Don't you get tired of hearing the word Commander all the time?

> Would you rather have Taimi squeak "Master!" everytime she returns as plot device?

> Or have everyone call you "master of Dragon's Watch"?

> Because we technically are that guild's guild master.

>

well we could go by "Poobah"

it will happen eventually anet wants all the weapons on all the classes over time

personally i would prefure to see a main hand axe

if you see fullcounter go up get out of are area and smack them with a ranged weapon it pops you don't get hit

I thought the point of PvP was to find insisting and creative ways to counter other players. but I guess Nerf Wars 2 is more fun than Guild Wars 2

Depends on the Charr. Smodur the Unflinching and the Iron Legion would probably open lines of communication and trade i would venture that Malice Swordshadow And Ash would be just as Welcoming (both Malice and Smodor were involved with the peace process with humans.) Blood on the other had would probably go all Borg on them and force them to assimilate.

Engineer only one of these professions that you could make a living with