Originally posted by cylonapplepie

There's your tutorial

It should improve your GW2 experience as game will run native on platform it was written on, but I wouldn't expect any serious improvements as game engine isn't handling places crowded by players very well in first place. You can tweak graphic settings, turn off player name plates (those can be bring up at any time by pressing modifying key on keyboard; not sure which one is on Apple keyboards as I haven't played GW2 on these machines in 4 years) to squeeze those frames but there won't be a performance miracle

OSX client is a Windows client + little piece of software called Cider that translates on-the-fly Windows code to be usable on Apple machines. Cider is the fork of Wine

Originally posted by Awthorn

Hi my beloved dev I don't know wich team im supposed to ask But are you planing an engine performance or something like that ?

Originally posted by MorbidEel

o_O

The Mac client doesn't automatically update to the latest like the Windows client?

Originally posted by magic_cookie_bar

No, I am using normal GW2 that I've been using since I began playing in 2012.

Originally posted by Leafbrains

I get client errors or crashes relatively frequently, however when the map issue happens I don't receive any error messages; just the black screen with map title/map icons and music from the map I attempted to leave, if I wait long enough my fans will run lower then turn off and viewing my activity monitor I can see a sharp increase in CPU load (from 22% to 95%) then a sharp decrease (from 95% to 14%). The game does not respond to any commands and will only close with force quit. I'm fairly certain I use the 64 bit client since I did a reinstall pretty recently; version 1.0.010382. I also just downloaded the new build and tried to change maps only for the same result.

Originally posted by magic_cookie_bar

For me, when I try to change maps, the game freezes. I get the loading screen or black screen, but nothing progresses. There are no notifications of error or crash. Have to force quit. I can access the Trading Post. Also, cannot switch characters, screen is frozen, music continues to play, have to force quit.

Originally posted by Xelazeratul

As a recent graduate looking for jobs this is all very useful, thank you!

As a side note, may I ask what you guys look for in code samples? For example, should they be complete projects or snippets? I'm still trying to wrap my head around what is being asked for.

Originally posted by Lorsio

Thank you for all those tips !!! It means so much to me :)

I think I fill most of those, so it's a relief :'). The only one I can be a bit behind is the math part where I'm like average/good, depending on the subject... Guess I'll try harder ! :)

Originally posted by Lorsio

Hi, I've already told that to Matthew Medina on twitter, but I really want to thank you guys for being awesome and what you did with Guild Wars. You are open-minded, talkative on social media and I could tell a lot more about you, but I'll just sum up by saying you "change" my life more than you think, and gave me a purpose in my life : working with you guys :)

I am a french student in computer science, and I'm studying to become an engineer. But because computer science cover a lot of stuff, I wanted to know what should I focus on, in order to have a chance to work with you ? By that I'm asking for languages such as C++/C#... & database stuff, that's what I like :)

I've already checked some job offer to give me ideas of what the response should be like, but I think it's better to ask here, to maybe have more details :)

Again, thank you so much for everything... You are awesome :)

Originally posted by Andulias

Here is a technical question - before PoF launched you said that thanks to upgrades to the engine you could increase the draw distance, which really helped make the PoF maps feel grand. Both LWS4 maps released so far however feature very restricted draw distance. Is there any particular reason for this?

Originally posted by maxOS1104

Any update on the Mac client issue that the client reads a ton of data off the hard drive?

Originally posted by Quarks10

I'm not 100% sure on these, but figured I'd put my thoughts in lieu of nothing else.

1. 32 bit Mac client is retired, 64 bit client is in beta (launched June 2017 or something), but from experience the 64 bit mac client runs decently well.
2. OpenGL wrapper for DirectX, I think. I did see one crash that mentioned Metal drivers in the dump - it's possible that you can change which driver your OS tries to use, but keep in mind it needs to wrap DirectX in some way. Because of that, your performance is going to be inferior to DirectX regardless.
3. Game is only built on DirectX. You can't natively use OpenGL

Originally posted by primitiveamerican

I’m on a MPB retina 2015 i7 2.2 ghz.

The problem is all the time, in combat, mount riding, everything. The cursor disappears and gets stuck in action camera mode but I didn’t engage it in anyway. It happens whether or not I’m playing with a mouse or trackpad.

To get it to come back I just mash the mouse buttons a few times and it comes back.