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Posted by: Siphaed.9235

Siphaed.9235

I know there are some that had legit issues with the server side connection, but those are few. Many of times though, the issue occurs with client side. This could be many reasons, though I left PC in the title.

1) Memory: Some people got a BSoD during this event, or any that includes more than 50 people on the screen. Roughly 70% of BSoD’s are caused by failing RAM chips or a lack of enough RAM on the PC.

2)In-game Settings: There are times that people have settings on High or even Medium and don’t have a PC that can stand it. Their RAM, CPU, and/or GPU all chug at high settings. It’s always suggested that for events like this to turn your settings down to the bare minimum lowest just to be able to deal with the 60+ players and 40+ Karka in the same area.

3) Computer Specs:

This is minimum:
Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or better
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, Core i3, AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 or better
NVIDIA® GeForce® 7800, ATI Radeon™ X1800, Intel HD 3000 or better (256MB of video RAM and shader model 3.0 or better)
25 GB available HDD space
Broadband Internet connection
Keyboard and mouse

If you’re only hitting minimum requires to play the game, there’s no surprise that stressing events are going to give issues. This isn’t ever recommended to have minimum for an MMO. It is because it’s just the lowest to RUN the game, not run well or stable, but just to run the client and boot it up.

4) Connection: There are such things as low connections. I only know of a few places in America that still have dial-up connection, but these places exist. Worse is a connection shared between multiple running devices in a single location off a router…and that worsens when you have people downloading/uploading as well.

Really hate to brag, but I was running the game client, Youtube, Pandora, and Teamspeak3 without any issues. Many in my guild were able to also play both the game and TS3 without disconnecting once; the only ones who weren’t able to loot the chest logged in too late beyond the event (sort of an own fault thing).

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Posted by: Ixal.7924

Ixal.7924

And another fanboy trying to defend the game.

There are lots and lots of reports of server lag. When your character can still move but the server does not update anything or does not register your button presses then it is not memory, graphic or any other PC lag but server lag.
And I seriously doubt that everyone who experiences this lag is on dial-up. I certainly am not.

(edited by Ixal.7924)

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Posted by: Uproller.1849

Uproller.1849

And your point is?

Get an i7 3770k with a ROG mobo to play this game? You know if everyone can get it, they will get it – they don’t need you to state the obvious.

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Posted by: Riel.2160

Riel.2160

I agree in map chat people were complaining about how they can’t move or see mobs etc

FPS (frames per second) = your PC problem
Lag / latency / DC = mostly Anet fault however there are some rare cases that your connection is at fault

Ixal > can’t even read
uproller > 3 years old cpu / gpu can handle it just fine on low without shadows or AA with at least 30 fps

for example
i5 2500 + nvidia 570 both are about 2 years old were able handle event on 60 FPS …

(edited by Riel.2160)

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Posted by: WaystedMined.7831

WaystedMined.7831

I love these people, who regardless of the fact that ANet has stated there is an issue, still continue to say “get a better PC”.

Culling? Get a better PC…
Lag? Get a better PC…

Even after ANet has admitted to issues such as the lag during the events and the culling of models when masses of player are grouped…and you still think the problem is on the players end? Get a clue already…

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Posted by: Owningtheair.8493

Owningtheair.8493

I hope this helps a few people who werent given this advice previously, but I’ll give you my own account. I personally know a whole guild of people who know this and much more about their pcs and what they can handle. They also know that if they want to play an online game seriously they need a good internet connection and to have a wired, not wireless connection. But just like myself on my 100 mb download connection and playing on lowest game settings possible for the best performance available, they and everyone else on my server at the time lagged an impossible amount on day 1 of the event. Thanks

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Posted by: Ekove.4586

Ekove.4586

1. If you have paid for the game, and got gear that meets the advertised requirements of the server, you should be entitled to participate in an event like this with such game changing rewards. Arenanet has to have these customers in consideration. Now I know minimum req. is usually not enough and it’s there to make more sales, but if you meet recommended, then there’s no excuse to make events that your set up can not handle.

2. Your text block is based on one huge assumption….Several people in my guild disconnected today and couldn’t relog for hours, none of them has a bad computer, or a bad connection (hell, all of them were still connected to mumble just fine). So don’t say these are “just a few”…they are, to my experience, the majority. Yours might be the opposite of mine, but basing your whole thread on your little social bubble is kittens.

3. Errr the d/c was only 10% of the problem, the other 90% was the fact that people couldn’t relog for HOURS, once the event was done on all available instances (multiple times by people who were lucky more than anything). So if the disconnection was a client side problem, the inability to relog was also a client side problem even though they have been logging into the game daily since release no problem, except when anet has those events that THEIR servers can’t handle?

So yeah I dont know what you’re trying to be here fanboy/elitist/know it all, but keep your assumptions for yourself.

(edited by Ekove.4586)

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Posted by: grizzlebizzle.9371

grizzlebizzle.9371

Well I know everybody on the shard I was on crashed to desktop at the same time because I was on vent with more than a dozen of them at the time. So not like it is all a client side hardware issue, or a connection issue, or anything other than some kind of fail on their end.

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Posted by: Kurow.6973

Kurow.6973

You know what you should do for those people, instead of making this thread?

Buy them all new computers. =]

…and before you start assuming I’m speaking for myself, I was/have been playing with 60 FPS with max settings and v sync on. However, server lag=/=pc issue. Not everyone’s lag issues are caused by their personal computer system.

During the event today, I had zero lag, until the leading Ancient Karka back to it’s nest portion started. Soon as that tree went down, boom…massive delay for EVERYONE…and it lasted almost all throughout the rest of the event.

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Posted by: Dempsey.8760

Dempsey.8760

My PC can not stop Anet from putting out a new build, your thread is invalid.

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Posted by: lynspottery.6529

lynspottery.6529

Don’t blame this event’s problems on any customers’ equipment. That line of thought is certainly out of the ball park.

Event crashes, bugs and what have you, had nothing to do with my system…the setup for this event was poorly implemented and the design left a lot to be desired – judging by all the issues that arose.

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Posted by: krs.7520

krs.7520

3 computers here, 2 real and 1 laptop.

The two stationary computers never dropped under 40fps, no lag, d/c nothing.
The laptop had 5fps and got d/c three times, didnt see mobs spawning, couldnt use skills.

Yes, there might be a chance our computers are to crap to play large gatherings, is that news to us?

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Posted by: Ixal.7924

Ixal.7924

Don’t blame this event’s problems on any customers’ equipment. That line of thought is certainly out of the ball park.

Event crashes, bugs and what have you, had nothing to do with my system…the setup for this event was poorly implemented and the design left a lot to be desired – judging by all the issues that arose.

So you know what caused the crashes? have ANet let you in on their debugging, or are you grabbing ‘facts’ out your behind?

Maybe ANet admitting that those are in fact server problems they are aware of? Or maybe using your brain and figuring out that when your input is not registered or delayed by X seconds but everything else moves fluidly then its is not a problem with the graphic card?
Fanboys gonna fan…

(edited by Ixal.7924)

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Posted by: Samfisher.7942

Samfisher.7942

I’ve got an i5 OC’d 1GHz above stock, a GTX 670, 8GB of RAM, a fast SSD and a decent internet line (everything was stress tested stable with 72 hours of Prime95 and Intel Burn Test each) so no it’s not a PC issue. Heck, my sound card probably costs more than most people’s GPUs.

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Posted by: Riel.2160

Riel.2160

3 computers here, 2 real and 1 laptop.

The two stationary computers never dropped under 40fps, no lag, d/c nothing.
The laptop had 5fps and got d/c three times, didnt see mobs spawning, couldnt use skills.

Yes, there might be a chance our computers are to crap to play large gatherings, is that news to us?

for many people yes they have wireless connection with poor connection and 6 year old laptop that barely meets minimum and then they complain about how horrible this whole things is

I have been very lucky as we did it without DC or lags and I agree that Anet servers are not best or even that maintenance fail

but I really wonder how many people got legit complains about lags

because many people do not know difference between latency and FPS and complain how everything was laggy yet they got 5 fps

again I know there been lots of issues server side but I bet that at least 35% of those complains are from people who have no knowledge of PC and blame Anet even if they PC reset from overheat…

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Posted by: Grumpy.8365

Grumpy.8365

1) Better computer and BSoD has little relationship. Rather, physically broken computer and driver issues and BSoD have relationships. If you run out of ram, we have something called swap. Things aren’t going to immediately get BSoD. And OSes are designed so that if it does run out of vram, no more memory is allocated to the program requesting it. So, GW would crash, not your OS.

2) I’m sure they’ll already do this if they have FPS issues.

3) Minimum specs, by definition means minimum required to run the game in a stable environment. That is the definition. Yes, it doesn’t mean it will run it well, but it means it will run it. Naturally, it means you shouldn’t need more to play. Otherwise, that’s false advertising and the buyer would be entitled to a full refund.

4) Connection: Highly doubt any player can do anything about this.

+) People are not rich enough to just buy a new PC when ever they feel like it. Let’s stop tackling all the problems from the rich man’s PoV.

+) Decrease in FPS can be caused by latency. The two are not completely independent of one another.

+) Since GW2 doesn’t even have oceania/asia servers, people from there are naturally going to have terrible connection. This can be caused by a slew of issues and as they have more hops and distance, there’s even more chance for them to have hiccups in the connection.

(edited by Grumpy.8365)

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Posted by: grizzlebizzle.9371

grizzlebizzle.9371

Even if 35% (wherever that number came from) had client side problems it is still fail design on anet’s part for that to even matter. You design this stuff knowing loads of people will crash and disconnect. It happens all the time. You can design around it. It doesn’t have to prevent them from resuming where they left off. Or getting the rewards they earned. They apparently didn’t care at all about that cause they didn’t address those situations. Then you add all the server problems on top of that and yea people are not gonna be happy.

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Posted by: Ironklad.2476

Ironklad.2476

I know there are some that had legit issues with the server side connection, but those are few. Many of times though, the issue occurs with client side. This could be many reasons, though I left PC in the title.

1) Memory: Some people got a BSoD during this event, or any that includes more than 50 people on the screen. Roughly 70% of BSoD’s are caused by failing RAM chips or a lack of enough RAM on the PC.

2)In-game Settings: There are times that people have settings on High or even Medium and don’t have a PC that can stand it. Their RAM, CPU, and/or GPU all chug at high settings. It’s always suggested that for events like this to turn your settings down to the bare minimum lowest just to be able to deal with the 60+ players and 40+ Karka in the same area.

3) Computer Specs:

This is minimum:
Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or better
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, Core i3, AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 or better
NVIDIA® GeForce® 7800, ATI Radeon™ X1800, Intel HD 3000 or better (256MB of video RAM and shader model 3.0 or better)
25 GB available HDD space
Broadband Internet connection
Keyboard and mouse

If you’re only hitting minimum requires to play the game, there’s no surprise that stressing events are going to give issues. This isn’t ever recommended to have minimum for an MMO. It is because it’s just the lowest to RUN the game, not run well or stable, but just to run the client and boot it up.

4) Connection: There are such things as low connections. I only know of a few places in America that still have dial-up connection, but these places exist. Worse is a connection shared between multiple running devices in a single location off a router…and that worsens when you have people downloading/uploading as well.

Really hate to brag, but I was running the game client, Youtube, Pandora, and Teamspeak3 without any issues. Many in my guild were able to also play both the game and TS3 without disconnecting once; the only ones who weren’t able to loot the chest logged in too late beyond the event (sort of an own fault thing).

Its got nothing to do with a computer when an ENTIRE overload map crashed at the SAME TIME!!!

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Posted by: Soja.5918

Soja.5918

If everyone could afford a better PC, then this problem wouldn’t exit.

But it does. It’s a little arrogant to respond to the problem with, “lol maybe you should have a better computer.”

FYI, I purpose built this computer to far exceed the minimum specs of modern games (indeed, that of GW2) and it STILL has issues in some cases. Slow/nonrendering dangers, lag spikes, what have you. Some things happen regardless of how beastly your rig is.

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Posted by: OnionXI.6735

OnionXI.6735

Its got nothing to do with a computer when an ENTIRE overload map crashed at the SAME TIME!!!

This. Everyone on the overflow map I was on crashed after 2 hours of the event and getting the Karka back to the nest. Then in another overflow map we’re finishing the second reinforcement event when it says new build available and destroys our progress (and last chance) at the event yet again.

I spent 3 hours working on this event and never got to see the end or get the chest and it had nothing to do with my PC.

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Posted by: lynspottery.6529

lynspottery.6529

Don’t blame this event’s problems on any customers’ equipment. That line of thought is certainly out of the ball park.

Event crashes, bugs and what have you, had nothing to do with my system…the setup for this event was poorly implemented and the design left a lot to be desired – judging by all the issues that arose.

So you know what caused the crashes? have ANet let you in on their debugging, or are you grabbing ‘facts’ out your behind?

Maybe ANet admitting that those are in fact server problems they are aware of? Or maybe using your brain and figuring out that when your input is not registered or delayed by X seconds but everything else moves fluidly then its is not a problem with the graphic card?
Fanboys gonna fan…

Thank you.

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Posted by: MibuGenjuro.2365

MibuGenjuro.2365

Jus explain this to me, how come Im lagging super badly even when doing Arah dungeon last weekend, with like only 5 ppl in the entire instance? I hav gotten more than 2500 tokens from that dungeon and never lagged like this before, and last night it didnt lag either, if the cause of lag is truly my PC, the lag should b constant no matter when I ran the dungeon.

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Posted by: MibuGenjuro.2365

MibuGenjuro.2365

If everyone could afford a better PC, then this problem wouldn’t exit.

But it does. It’s a little arrogant to respond to the problem with, “lol maybe you should have a better computer.”

FYI, I purpose built this computer to far exceed the minimum specs of modern games (indeed, that of GW2) and it STILL has issues in some cases. Slow/nonrendering dangers, lag spikes, what have you. Some things happen regardless of how beastly your rig is.

I really don think a better PC is gona fix the lag issue, as I stated above, Ive done the same dungeon countless times, and it only lagged last weekend, that should totally rule out PC’s role in all of this, it can only by internet, but after lagging really badly and cant play, I went out and tried to download some big files, got a speed of 250 kb/s, which kind of indicate that its not my internet either, can also watch youtube on 750 dpi without any lag, so there can only b one cause to this issue…

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Posted by: fadeaway.2807

fadeaway.2807

Sorry but i have a top of the range water cooled graphics behemoth and still suffered from the same problems a everyone else.

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Posted by: Arty O Donnell.1576

Arty O Donnell.1576

16gb RAM
i7 quad core @ 3.5ghz
2 graphic cards etc, and i lagged like a little kid.

Its not your pc, its the game.

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Posted by: Eugenics.6953

Eugenics.6953

Fanboys never lag.

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Posted by: MibuGenjuro.2365

MibuGenjuro.2365

Or at least they never wil admit to it

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Posted by: Avatara.1042

Avatara.1042

Yeah…this event’s issues were not computer related…

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Posted by: Nyamo.6415

Nyamo.6415

-Warning-

-Troll Alert-

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Posted by: TWMagimay.9057

TWMagimay.9057

because many people do not know difference between latency and FPS and complain how everything was laggy yet they got 5 fps

You do realise that ultimately having 5fps is a game design flaw, right? If you meet the recommended requirements and still find yourself in that situation, it’s not really your PC’s fault. I’ve seen that enough times. Some games are created to support massive player gatherings. While others are just too focused on the vanity side of things. Nothing wrong with that, but the devs should know the limitations of their game and work with them. If you know you didn’t optimize the game for 100+ people to be on the same spot at the same time, why the puppy would you make an event that forces 100+ people to be on the same spot at the same time?

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Posted by: Orissa.1872

Orissa.1872

We’ve got general servers problems. My PC can handle this game on pretty high settings with FPS of average 30-45 with some actions around (and it’s fine for me, I’m not pro-gamer who can’t do anything with less than 70). During this event FPS dropped to 7 (when I’m moving around and new area is rendered), max 12-13 (standing still, no new monsters spawning, no more people coming)

In dungeons I’m having up to 5-6 seconds lag, tho my ping is average 85-95, with maximum spikes around 160-170. I’m seeing the game like paused (but with free camera) for few seconds then insane skill-spam and people/mobs teleporting around me (everything goes smoothy then), and it’s all because of my crappy PC?
I wouldn’t complain about event itself, just the whole game became barely playable because of constant lags. Normal activities in open world and even instanced dungeons, everything might get frozen at any time and bring you undeserved death

(edited by Orissa.1872)

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Posted by: Nobody.4395

Nobody.4395

I don’t know anything about pc stuff, but I must agree, when my party start qq about fps and lag I didn’t have any lag and my pfs stand still at 40fps in the worst parts of the event

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Posted by: Eugenics.6953

Eugenics.6953

You had no skill lag during the first part of the event?

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Posted by: MibuGenjuro.2365

MibuGenjuro.2365

I don’t know anything about pc stuff, but I must agree, when my party start qq about fps and lag I didn’t have any lag and my pfs stand still at 40fps in the worst parts of the event

The strange thing is that not everyone lags, I hav a friend who hav the exact same PC and same ISP and he doesnt lag while I do, and some players couldnt even log on during final event while others played jus fine, this also remind me that during the first week or 2 after launch, alot of ppl cant log in at all while others are playing jus fine, so to me it seems Anet server issue always jus affect a selective number of ppl, so while u don lag at all does not mean the server was functioning properly.

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Posted by: tufy.7859

tufy.7859

I know there are some that had legit issues with the server side connection, but those are few. Many of times though, the issue occurs with client side. This could be many reasons, though I left PC in the title.

Most of the problems associated with client side will show up as invisible NPCs, since the game engine can’t render them so fast (example: friday/saturday event, WvW mass combat and similar). The slowdowns and eventual disconnects associated with sunday event, however, were related to massive overloads of overflow servers, which simply weren’t capable of taking the load of data. If you were on main server, you’re unlikely to have experienced any slowdown. Note that we’re not talking about a small delay of a few seconds, but delays of several minutes, on computers that usually don’t experience any delay at all (think i5, 16GB ram, 1GB+ graphic cards, SSD drives). Once masses began relogging, the login server lagged out as well.

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Posted by: JK Arrow.7102

JK Arrow.7102

I built a new PC- i5 3570k 8GB RAM with GW2 on an SSD a few months ago. It has never before had issues running GW2 nor have I had lag issues with my cable connection. I had massive lag for this event, to the point I couldn’t use skills. My whole guild had the same issue. Any further assumptions you want to make?

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Posted by: Trillistar.4071

Trillistar.4071

-travel to lost shores
-You have been moved to overflow…etc…
-click ok
-The world you have selected is full etc…
-kick to character select
-attempt to log back in
-start at top

This is what myself and many others experienced, thats server side, whether its an oversite in the code of overburdened servers I have no way to tell from my end, but it is definately not a fault of my more than adequate pc.

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Posted by: DanielDust.3742

DanielDust.3742

Your lies are structured in a way that is extremely similar to the LS event, terrible.

Game ran just as bad on highest and lowest settings without anything running in the background (4 constant frames), because ANET can’t afford decent PCs (in their case, servers), I agree with you on that part of “not being able to afford PCs”.

It also ran just as bad after an hour when my PC started running with no trouble at all, a music streaming website, with 18 other tabs on the RAM hungry Chrome, with the maxed out “actually enjoyable” WoW at 60 constant frames, while this garbage was being kept in the background running at 4 frames in itself.

I hope you are still actually interested in the game and you’re still able to enjoy it, despite this failed attempt at trolling (nope, you are not smarter than the average person on this forum), because for me this event ended any reason I had for keeping it installed or checking it from time to time, it was terrible and disgusting in any way, shape or form. Following all my friends that gave up on it a looong time ago.

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Posted by: Karganeth.8417

Karganeth.8417

I know there are some that had legit issues with the server side connection, but those are few. Many of times though, the issue occurs with client side. This could be many reasons, though I left PC in the title.

1) Memory: Some people got a BSoD during this event, or any that includes more than 50 people on the screen. Roughly 70% of BSoD’s are caused by failing RAM chips or a lack of enough RAM on the PC.

2)In-game Settings: There are times that people have settings on High or even Medium and don’t have a PC that can stand it. Their RAM, CPU, and/or GPU all chug at high settings. It’s always suggested that for events like this to turn your settings down to the bare minimum lowest just to be able to deal with the 60+ players and 40+ Karka in the same area.

3) Computer Specs:

This is minimum:
Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or better
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, Core i3, AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 or better
NVIDIA® GeForce® 7800, ATI Radeon™ X1800, Intel HD 3000 or better (256MB of video RAM and shader model 3.0 or better)
25 GB available HDD space
Broadband Internet connection
Keyboard and mouse

If you’re only hitting minimum requires to play the game, there’s no surprise that stressing events are going to give issues. This isn’t ever recommended to have minimum for an MMO. It is because it’s just the lowest to RUN the game, not run well or stable, but just to run the client and boot it up.

4) Connection: There are such things as low connections. I only know of a few places in America that still have dial-up connection, but these places exist. Worse is a connection shared between multiple running devices in a single location off a router…and that worsens when you have people downloading/uploading as well.

Really hate to brag, but I was running the game client, Youtube, Pandora, and Teamspeak3 without any issues. Many in my guild were able to also play both the game and TS3 without disconnecting once; the only ones who weren’t able to loot the chest logged in too late beyond the event (sort of an own fault thing).

Your arrogance it pretty funny.

Are some computers to blame for lag? Absolutely, that’s obvious. However, you could have the single best computer in the world and if the client’s server can’t handle the 100’s of thousands of people playing the game it doesn’t mean anything. You didn’t have lag? That’s nice, so apparently everyone else is wrong because the 10 people you know didn’t lag…. brilliant!

You may have thought you were trying to help, but just like the execution of Lost Shores, it felt short, by about a mile or so.

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Posted by: Zax.3061

Zax.3061

so where’s the OP? why is he not defending himself?

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Posted by: benfy.3541

benfy.3541

Fan boys – Fan boys everywhere.

Heres my BRAND new build;

Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-3820 (3.6GHz) 10MB Cache
Motherboard ASUS® P9X79 PRO: INTEL® SOCKET LG2011
Memory (RAM) 16GB SAMSUNG QUAD-DDR3 1333MHz (4 X 4GB)
Graphics Card 2GB AMD RADEON™ HD7850 – DVI,HDMI,2 mDP – DX® 11,
Memory – 1st Hard Disk 2TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 64MB CACHE

my internet 4-7 MPS. so please dont give that kitten i had lagg in excess of 2 mins. I was on a overflow but still.

NO BLADES. NO BOWS. LEAVE YOUR WEAPONS HERE!
NO BLADES. NO BOWS. LEAVE YOUR WEAPONS HERE!

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Posted by: MithranArkanere.8957

MithranArkanere.8957

Oh, so you weren’t affect!

So what? That doesn’t mean anything. The world is big, and there’s network bottlenecks all over it.
Many connections within a short time will increase the chances of being affected by one, and someone not being affected by one doesn’t mean they do not exist.

I’ve played games like Counter Strike:GO at maximum graphics, while downloading stuff via P2P, and still having no lag issues and ping always under 50.

But for this weekend, I even monitored network and disabled anything I could that was using any bandwith at all, and chat lines still took over 1 minute to appear after I write.

We can have the best computers in the world, and they can have the best servers in the world, and it would still not matter, because data has to go through many other computers in the world, that we can’t control (try a Gw2.ex -diag and see the network paths traced).
These paths will be different for many people, regardless of the ISP they have.

Things get worse in places with bad or old infrastructures.

If you make so many players connect all at the same time, you’ll get very, very, bad connections problems that could only be solved by not making players connect all at the same time, or by placing servers in more spots all over the world like they had to do with Steam download servers to overcome the problems of massive downloads when games are released.

SUGGEST-A-TRON says:
PAY—ONCE—UNLOCKS—ARE—ALWAYS—BETTER.
No exceptions!

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Posted by: Karganeth.8417

Karganeth.8417

Fan boys – Fan boys everywhere.

Heres my BRAND new build;

Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-3820 (3.6GHz) 10MB Cache
Motherboard ASUS® P9X79 PRO: INTEL® SOCKET LG2011
Memory (RAM) 16GB SAMSUNG QUAD-DDR3 1333MHz (4 X 4GB)
Graphics Card 2GB AMD RADEON™ HD7850 – DVI,HDMI,2 mDP – DX® 11,
Memory – 1st Hard Disk 2TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 64MB CACHE

my internet 4-7 MPS. so please dont give that kitten i had lagg in excess of 2 mins. I was on a overflow but still.

Most of the fanboys think they know a lot about how computers, networks and servers work because they read an article in PC Magazine, but when they make posts like these it just shows that they really have no idea what they’re talking about. Next they’ll be telling us “You just need MOAR RAM!”

Karganeth – Warrior / Kathrogan – Guardian / Mallikith – Necromancer
www.addictguild.com

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Posted by: Horrorscope.7632

Horrorscope.7632

There must have been wide variances in server performance Sunday. Mine luckily ran solid, no one was complaining in chat either. Impressed I was, but as others say, it wasn’t like that for everyone everywhere, I also don’t think anyone is lying, your mileage can simply vary.

I still heavily recommend a newer gen quad, I have played GW2 on Duals, older quads and newer quads. The newer quads make GW 2 play like glass. On Sunday’s event (didn’t play Friday’s) I had no lag, none, smooth mouse, zero skill lag, lowest FPS I had was 25 in very dense area’s and that is plenty good for those points.

So I do really recommend something like a 2400K or better. $350 for mb/proc/ram or around a G for a whole new system.

I think it’s important to know both sides of the story, so one can formulate a proper picture.

(edited by Horrorscope.7632)

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Posted by: benfy.3541

benfy.3541

Fan boys – Fan boys everywhere.

Heres my BRAND new build;

Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-3820 (3.6GHz) 10MB Cache
Motherboard ASUS® P9X79 PRO: INTEL® SOCKET LG2011
Memory (RAM) 16GB SAMSUNG QUAD-DDR3 1333MHz (4 X 4GB)
Graphics Card 2GB AMD RADEON™ HD7850 – DVI,HDMI,2 mDP – DX® 11,
Memory – 1st Hard Disk 2TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 64MB CACHE

my internet 4-7 MPS. so please dont give that kitten i had lagg in excess of 2 mins. I was on a overflow but still.

Most of the fanboys think they know a lot about how computers, networks and servers work because they read an article in PC Magazine, but when they make posts like these it just shows that they really have no idea what they’re talking about. Next they’ll be telling us “You just need MOAR RAM!”

Totally, im sure there are a minority of people who need to upgrade but the majority have PC’s that can and will work the issue was with ANET and there further shoddy preperation.

NO BLADES. NO BOWS. LEAVE YOUR WEAPONS HERE!
NO BLADES. NO BOWS. LEAVE YOUR WEAPONS HERE!

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Posted by: Broom.2561

Broom.2561

OP… seriously, stop assuming stupid kitten like ‘oh, people must be playing on bad computers or with bad connections’. I have a 4-core machine with 12 GB RAM that runs with Windows 7 Ultimate 64bits (so yes, all of my RAM can actually be used), I have a good video card with 1 GB memory of its own. My drivers are up-to-date, my system is tuned to perfection and my internet connection is GOOD. And I lagged so badly, I had over 30 seconds ability lag. Better yet, chat pretty much broke as well.

I might add that I work in IT for a living… I know how to tune a computer, I know how to set my firewalls, and I know how to test my internet connection. BAD LAG IS BAD.

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Posted by: TWMagimay.9057

TWMagimay.9057

So I do really recommend something like a 2400K or better. $350 for mb/proc/ram or around a G for a whole new system.

GW2: $70
PC to run GW2: $2000
Your expression when the login server crashes: priceless

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Posted by: VCR.9721

VCR.9721

I don’t think getting a better PC would solve the lag problems, those were on Anet’s part.

I play on my laptop that runs the game at pretty much the bare minimum: Core i3, Intel HD 3000, and 4 GBs of RAM. Phase 1 was a completely laggy, but for Phase 3, I was fortunate to not be stricken by lag or get disconnected, and I had a brutally fun time slaughtering my way through karka for 2 hours! lol And aside from this event, I still WvW. My frame rate dips down quite a bit when there’s a MASSIVE amount of people on screen, but at least for me, I consider it playable.

So yeah, I don’t think getting a better PC would necessarily make everything better. Hopefully the next time around, Anet will nail down all the kinks for these events, and once that happens, I think they will be hitting home runs. Despite all the bugs and lag issues, I still had fun with Lost Shores! But there is definitely room for improvement

Beacon don’t fly too high.
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