Guild Wars 2

as we heared about the upcoming removr of culling in WvW

why don’t you put an option that allow players to turn the culling on or off
cuz my PC can’t handle the game without culling and i would like to play the game while i see everyone around me

and maybe for other people who has a low performance computer they can just turn it on

Thx

To be honest, Im pretty sure your game would run fine if you just chose to show nameplates. Wait for the patch and see.

i do show nameplates for everyone but still when fighting a dragon or any other boss
i can’t see everyone and it’s annoying to me

They said they would include options to tweak the way it works. The only option that they are adding in which will help you out is to show player names only. This way it will only show the amount of player models your computer can handle and anyone else will just be invisible but you will see their player name.

Smuggler.6739:

cuz my PC can’t handle the game without culling and i would like to play the game while i see everyone around me

You’re going to need to upgrade your PC then.

Upgrade ur graphics card & memory or use the options they are going to institute. You won’t need a whole new computer, but you’ll probably be looking at ~$200. If you want to see everyone as best as possible it’s gonna require solid hardware. For more basic setup try the options or a decent graphics card perhaps $100 one. Don’t get them too cheap or you’ll just end up exchanging it & 1 with good video memory

The culling is on the game side, your graphics card should be able to tone down the lag by simply putting it on performance mode, as well as game on performance. If that doesn’t help (now) and/or doesn’t help (then), then maybe its time for an upgrade.

Culling is in place so that the client-side (graphics card/GPU) doesn’t get overwhelmed by having to render a ton of on screen animations. This basically lowers the requirement of the computer system needed to play GW2 – which is to appeal to more players that hey, you can play our game, it looks great & you don’t have to have a fancy expensive computer.

Now that they are removing culling, it will be more upto the player’s GPU to handle the new packets of information to render on screen. Basically they are undoing what they initially did to lower requirements. They are putting in place options for those whose computers might not be able to handle this once it becomes in effect.

Basically the hardware requirements to play will go up.

It probably won’t be much of a difference, on the lowest settings it will be comparable to how it is now, you will just see 50 names coming towards you rather than nothing.