Gumbolia.5381

I wrote the PlayOnMac description - this is a small update FWIW. I had better luck with it when I updated WINE to version 6.0. Because the latest version of PlayOnMac (4.4.2) won't run on my machine (macOS 10.14.6), I stuck with 4.4.1. Unfortunately this means that it can't download anything (such as the other WINE versions). To get around it, I went [here](https://www.playonmac.com/wine/binaries/phoenicis/upstream-darwin-amd64/), downloaded the most recent WINE (version 6.0 called _PlayOnLinux-wine-6.0-upstream-darwin-amd64.tar_), and decompressed it into _/Users/[account name]/Library/PlayOnMac/wine/darwin-amd64/_. (Aside: I don't know why the tar files are called PlayOnLinux-* - they actually contain macOS dylibs.) WINE 6.0 then shows up as an option in PlayOnMac. Using this seems to help a bit, but performance is still not awesome.

@"raaahbin.7405 " : > the current version of PlayOnMac requires MacOS 10.15.x or greater I don't believe this is the case. I am running **PlayOnMac 4.4.1** on **macOS 10.14.6**. FWIW - I just ran AB meta and it was... playable-ish at lowest settings (set with the auto-detect thing). PlayOnMac v4.4.1 macOS 10.14.6 iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2019) 3.6 GHz Intel Core i9 32 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 Radeon Pro 580X 8 GB * Ran with 2560x1440 resolution. Tried lower, but no real difference in FPS. Higher than that looks better but then the UI gets too small (even when adjusted with the setting). * Mount kept getting stuck in the ground when mounting up (mentioned above). This used to be a bug in the official client which they sorted out at some point. It would queue up events and then zap me halfway across the map. This is super-annoying since I mount every 5 seconds. Then it takes 5-10 seconds to pop me out of the ground... * The standard problem - "30-40 FPS until I look around, then it drops to 2" * Opening bags was kind of slow - as if input was dropped and not being queued properly. All-in-all it's borderline whether I will continue with GW2 if this is the best I can get out of it. I will continue to explore.

@"Aragorn.8157": > [PlayOnMac ] starts to DL everything again Oh no! I have not experienced that and I have run it several times. Let me look at my setup to see if there's anything else I changed that I missed in the instructions. I did it once to get everything working, then a second time to write up the details, so it's possible I missed something.

Here are instructions for PlayOnMac: 1. download [PlayOnMac](https://www.playonmac.com/en/) 2. download the [GW2 64 bit Windows installer](https://account.arena.net/welcome) 3. run PlayOnMac and click **Install a program** on the left side of the window 4. down at the bottom-left of the window that pops up, click **Install a non-listed program** 5. read All The Stuff and keep clicking **Next** 6. _What would you like to do_? select **Install a new program in a new virtual drive** 7. name it something - "_GuildWars2_" 8. _What would you like to do before installation?_ - leave all unselected and click **Next** 9. _What kind of virtual drive do you want to create?_ - select 64 bit 10. wait while it creates "stuff"... 11. _Please select file to run_ - click **Browse** and select the GW2 Windows installer from step 2 (_Gw2Setup-64.exe_) 12. click **Next** 13. GW2 installer will start - click **Install** 14. wait a couple of hours for the download to complete and then play the game... 15. when you quit GW2 the first time, PlayOnMac will ask _Please choose a file for PlayOnMac to make a shortcut_ - choose **Gw2.exe** 16. name it ("_Guild Wars 2_") 17. it will ask again _Please choose a file for PlayOnMac to make a shortcut_ - click **Cancel** 18. now it shows up in the main PlayOnMac window - to run it just click it and select **Run** on the left side of the window

I tried PlayOnMac. I installed GW2 manually without a script using the defaults for everything. It runs, doesn't look awesome by default, and the framerate is very "bursty". Drops when looking around. I would see this in the official client as well, but it seems to be worse. I haven't started messing with any settings yet since it took so long to download the entire game again :-) I looked at the Linux script posted above and don't see that it does much other than provide a nicer interface to select some options, check some minimums, and handle a cursor issue. Ultimately it would be great to produce a script, but it is runnable without one right now. So if anyone else tries it and has some success - and can offer solutions for performance - please let us know...

There's a detailed thread [[100% Unofficial] How to play GW2 on Mac OS after the Mac client is gone](https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/121721/100-unofficial-how-to-play-gw2-on-mac-os-after-the-mac-client-is-gone) covering several options.

FWIW - I just downloaded [PlayOnMac](https://www.playonmac.com/en), downloaded the Windows GW2 installer, and ran through PlayOnMac. Once it reached the "playable" point in the download, I went into the game and ran around. So it seems to work at some level. Fonts look a bit wonky, but that could be a not-yet-downloaded thing, a setting, or just the way they look on Windows. Still totally readable and usable. This will be a better solution than virtualization since PlayOnMac uses [WINE](https://www.winehq.org/) which is more like a Windows compatibility layer, so it won't affect speed as much.

Same problem here. If this is time-gated, then it's extremely poorly explained/indicated.