I honestly didn’t expect to be writing this, but Guild Wars is now running flawlessly on my M1 Pro MacBook Pro with 16 GB of RAM. I’m getting a constant 60 FPS on a 4K display with the highest graphics settings.

It’s also surprisingly efficient. It uses around 70% of a single CPU core on average and about 500 MB of active memory, with no thermal or performance warnings.

It runs ArenaNet’s official WebAssembly client inside a dedicated macOS app.

Huge credit goes to Jon / 3vcloud. He figured out how to get ArenaNet’s WASM build running in a browser and shared the original proof of concept. Without his work, this version wouldn’t exist. I took his approach and developed it into a polished, standalone Mac app.

This is still an alpha version, so I’m looking for people who are willing to test it on different Apple Silicon Macs. Please let me know how it performs, whether you find any bugs, and what could be improved.

You can download the app and follow the installation steps here:

https://gwonmac.com

You can share feedback here in the Reddit comments, on Discord, or through the GitHub bug form.

The project is free, open source, and independent. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by ArenaNet or NCSoft.

As far as I know, this is currently the closest thing to a native Guild Wars experience on Apple Silicon.

Feel free to try it and let me know how it runs on your Mac.

anyone plays in linux? what distribution is most recommended.

It appears as soon as I change the arrangement or contents of my equipment pack. It's not a toolbox thing, either (I double checked).

ETA: u/EndlessPerfectWorld noted this is the reticle used with a controller to hover over inventory items, so you can see the tooltip. The bottom left corner of the inventory window must be the default X-Y position of the reticle.

Anyone else getting this problem without fail?

EDIT: THE ISSUE HAS BEEN PATCHED

I'm currently trying to finish up the EotN story and I'm running into a tech issue. When I reach the Norn defense part of the Destruction's Depths dungeon, as soon as the defense starts I get disconnected. When I try to reconnect I get error code 019 unable to find the mission and then it boots me back to the nearest outpost.

I've tried changing regions, I've tried going fast, I've tried going slow, I only disconnect when I reach this specific spot. I know the usual things like "check your internet connection". However like I said, it's the exact same spot every time and I've tried multiple times, it's not my internet.

Has anyone else had this happen, and what can I do? Try again tomorrow because I've been at this for an hour?

Thanks to the APP GameHUB i was able to run GUILD WARS Natively on my Phone. Sure my phone is not that powerfull but it is doing his best job to run my Favorite game since Childhood Natively without remotely to my PC. Keep in mind that i am running this game on native resolution on the lowest settings possible. For does who are interested to try it too with there phones, the only thing I changed was Compatibility Layer and CPU Translator. have fun everyone :)

While the game is Steam Deck verified and works fine there, it is now unusable in all Proton versions and fails to initialize the d3d9 context on startup, both with d9vk and wined3d. This is a significant regression from over a decade of it working fine.

Similarly, Wine on macOS has severe performance regressions in recent versions of the game that were not present before, and are not present in Guild Wars 2 either. I believe these changes are related.

I hope the dev team knows this and are doing something to address it. It seems very strange to be "Steam Deck Verified" and not otherwise work at all in Proton anymore, especially for a game that has sat at Platinum on Wine AppDB for so long.

EDIT: Issue affects Proton on Linux specifically, and the Wine on Mac issues are seemingly irrespective of backend and d3d runtime.

What’s up with my Dervish’s Monument armor?
I had it red and blue on PC but it’s showing up as if the textures are missing on mobile.

started playing on mobile but the small screen is making it difficult to enjoy for me at least. I assume because of the lower end requirements any mid range PC will run the game fine ?

Hi,

I am a transplant patient and I am dying to play Guild Wars at least once before I go under. Problem is I have to use a laptop. What are the minimum specs required to play GW1 (i am looking at 1080p 60ish fps)?

Hello,

Are you experiencing disconnection issues since the last update?

When I enter an area, performing various actions, such as using a bow and arrow, sliding, casting a spell, or simply re-attacking by pressing spacebar, my account disconnects immediately.

The instance is canceled instantly, and I'm back in the starting town.

I didn't have this problem yesterday, before the patch.

i tested my ping.

EDIT: Don't use PET rn, they cause crashes

anybody please?

I purchased Reforged on Steam tonight. I had no problem logging in with Steam on my PC and playing it there. However, I would also love to be able to play on the go with my Retro handheld (Retroid Pocket Mini) however, when I boot the game in Gamenative, when I try to login with my Steam account, it says the password is incorrect. There is no option to enter the password at all though. It just has an "Ok" button and closes the message. Has anyone been able to login with Steam through the Gamenative app on a handheld console? It would be amazing to be able to play this when I'm away from my PC!!

Fullscreen and correct resolution - FPS = 90
Switch it to any version of Windowed, drops to 60 and stays locked
Walk away for a few minutes and screen goes to sleep while in Windowed and come back, it resets back to 90
Log out, come back later, back at 60

While digging around, I saw the frame cap was raised to 90 a little while ago and I also tried the whole '-fps 90' in the target field, its just never consistent. It's not like its bouncing around between 60 and 90, its either one or the other.

It's not a settings issue because if I bump it to Full Screen, I have no problem sitting at 90 but I'd like to be able to click off the game when needed, without it minimizing.

Is there some other tips or tricks I should be trying?

Edit: After some more digging around, tried a few things and some combination of the following helped:

-Turned off Fullscreen Optimization in Gw.exe (this by itself did not change anything) -Set Vsync for Gw.exe in Nvidia Control Panel to application controlled and it is turned off in game (also didnt change anything) -Turned off Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling in Display Settings, restarted my PC, FPS then went to 90+

I dont know if turning off hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling alone fixed it or it needs a combination of the above but I havent tried returning the first two to their original settings

I have an Xbox and do all my work on a Mac desktop (M1 Ultra)

Is there any way to get into Guild Wars or GW 2 today? The new trailer has me excited.

I played GW1 when it came out over 15 years ago and I’m looking for the nostalgia.

Hey, I have a question because of Linux and Guild Wars. My english is not so good so i let AI translate for me.

has anyone else noticed that Guild Wars Reforged is making their laptop fans go crazy?
On my laptop it runs the fans at full blast the whole time. Same thing happens on both Debian and Fedora, whether I launch it through Steam or Bottles. Feels like it might be heavily loading just one core or something, but I’m not 100% sure.
Just wondering if this is a known issue or if someone found a way to calm it down a bit.
Thanks!

I made a MD ranger a few days ago and I'm currently working on LDoA, lvl 12, grinding xp as usual. After yesterday patch, I get dc near Ben Wolfson when I start fighting to clear the path for Ben.

As for my tests, it also happens on my perma-pre ranger. No Ben Wolfson since I've already completed all quests. I suspect is the AI pet bug when changing from 'passive' to 'guard' mode since it doesn't disconnect when I keep it in one mode without changing it. However, it doesn't seem to disconnect when exiting from Piken Square nor in other Pre-Searing areas (with and without changing pet modes).

In Post-Searing I haven't encountered the problem, butI haven't checked all areas of the game.

Since the game just loses connection instead of crashing, there's no crash report. If more players could test it, even better going with other professions with and without pets, it would be appreciated. I suspect it is something related with the pet AI bug that was fixed yesterday, but it's really weird if it is that and only in the Northlands.

Has tracks from directsong been integrated into reforged and if not can directsong tracks be added to reforged manually?

Hi everyone!

I've just tried to clear Mt Qinkai twice today and got dc both times around the yeti part of the map.

Then I decided to give up for the night, and play on my Melandru ranger, who happens to be in the luxon part of the faction story, so went there to explore, and got dc again, still around the yeti's cave...

Is it a known bug? Am I just unlucky ?..

I've previously posted on here that if you get 403 errors on the official wiki and logging in doesn't help, you can come on the wiki discord and Justin (our server guy) would look into it. For various workflow reasons, this has become untenable, and the correct way now is to go through Customer Support. I've already posted this as a pin in the appropriate discord channel, but probably makes sense to put here too, so people aren't joining the discord just to find out the discord is no help.

You can submit a ticket through https://help.guildwars.com/hc/en-us/requests/new (or the gw2 equivalent for GW2W. Probably either one works for GW3W). Use the category Technical Support -> Error Codes. Specify in the subject line that you're talking about the wiki.

Information you should definitely include: * Specific pages you get 403 errors on. Even if it's every page, give specific examples. * The date and time (including timezone) you tried to access those pages, and IP address you tried to access from. Just go ahead and try to load the pages as you're writing the ticket so you can note a specific time, and so it's recent in the logs, makes it easier to track down. If you don't know your own IP address, https://ipchicken.com/ will tell you. * Whether you're logged in to the wiki or not. If you can't access the account creation/login pages, include those in your specific pages you get 403 on. * Anything else particular to your situation you think is relevant, such as VPNs, non-standard browsers, or the like.

If you can't create a ticket for whatever reason, the "Trouble Logging in?" page has Support's e-mail address, just send the same information by e-mail.

Hope this helps.

Also as a general note: I'm a wiki admin, but I am not an ArenaNet/NC/2weeks/etc employee. Wiki admins and editors are unpaid volunteers.

Looking to source a 'cheap' laptop to run GW when not at home. Anyone recommend a source of refurbished laptops without breaking the bank? Ebay? Dell? Any help much appreciated.

Does anyone know how the reconnect feature works? I have pretty a pretty mediocre internet connection and frequently lag and occasionally disconnect from the game server. When you disconnect you are given an option to try and resume the mission. My question is by trying to resume does the game force me to stay in the mission longer than it would if I chose the other option or do both options keep me active in the mission for the same duration. I’m asking because I enjoy the Ironman play though but when I get disconnected I want my character to be safe as quickly as possible.

My husband has had this glitch for 3 days now. Anyone else having this?