Mac OS®X 10.7.X or later Intel® Core™ i5 or better 4 GB Ram or better NVIDIA® GeForce® 320M, ATI Radeon™ HD 6630M, Intel HD 3000 or better 25 GB available HDD space Broadband Internet connection Keyboard and mouse/equivalent The Mac beta version of Guild Wars 2 runs well on the below machines or better. Your results may vary if you’ve upgraded or changed your Mac hardware or are running on lower hardware specifications. IMac 21.5', 27' (Mid-2010) iMac 21.5', 27' (Mid-2011) MacBook Pro 15', 17' (Mid-2010) MacBook Pro 13', 15', 17' (Early and Late-2011) MacBook Pro 13', 15', 17 (Mid-2012) Mac Mini (Mid-2011). Click to expand.The game does not run for me under Bootcamp, well it runs but keeps crashing to a black screen at varying times of play. It runs under the Wineskin wrapper, very playable but could be a bit better. The new Guild Wars 2 mac beta release is the first time the franchise has moved away from Windows, and anyone who has already purchased the Windows version of the game now has free access to the Mac version as well. Announcing Guild Wars 2 for Mac. The Mac beta version of Guild Wars 2. I'll be sure to post an update about my performance when I'm finally able to download. It does not run at all under the newly released Cider Mac Client. I have been told by somebody who knows far more than me that even though my machine does not match their specs there should be no reason for the Mac client not to work, he is looking into it for me. Just to back this up, if you look inside the plist for ArenaNets Cider release, it is set to 10.6.8 min requirement. I ran some tests of my own on my Mid 2012 13' Macbook Pro. What did I observe? About 20-30 FPS in Lions Arch, and about 25 on WvW with lowest settings. Change a few things up like Anti-Aliasing and maybe medium animations and the FPS change is negligible, like -1FPS. It's actually impressive considering it has no optimization and I'm surprised that this is already being released. It's worlds ahead of Star Wars: The Old Republic though, hands down. A Mac release is a godsend! Mouse scrolling works perfectly fine on my Logitech Anywhere Mouse MX. Temperatures: I was getting about 40-50C, running iStat menus and optimizing fan control to the max, with a small fan right behind the exhaust, down from 68-80C on Bootcamp. Definitely a lot of room for improvement. Oh, my computer specs? 2.9GHz core i7 Processor that can turbo-boost to 3.6 GHz, and HD Graphics 4000 as my graphics card. I also have a 256 GB Crucial M4 SSD. I ran some tests of my own on my Mid 2012 13' Macbook Pro. What did I observe? About 20-30 FPS in Lions Arch, and about 25 on WvW with lowest settings. Change a few things up like Anti-Aliasing and maybe medium animations and the FPS change is negligible, like -1FPS. It's actually impressive considering it has no optimization and I'm surprised that this is already being released. It's worlds ahead of Star Wars: The Old Republic though, hands down. A Mac release is a godsend! Mouse scrolling works perfectly fine on my Logitech Anywhere Mouse MX. Temperatures: I was getting about 40-50C, running iStat menus and optimizing fan control to the max, with a small fan right behind the exhaust, down from 68-80C on Bootcamp. Definitely a lot of room for improvement. Oh, my computer specs? 2.9GHz core i7 Processor that can turbo-boost to 3.6 GHz, and HD Graphics 4000 as my graphics card. I also have a 256 GB Crucial M4 SSD.
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