Guild Wars 2

With this new culling update, the ability to turn other character names off should be available just like guild wars 1. Without culling it has caused a lot more lag in game especially towns.

this option already exists by changing it so, that you get the names only shown, if you hover the mouse over a character ..

just look more precisely into the options menu

Having just tried this myself it appears that turning ‘show all player names’ to off creates a sort of ‘dampening field’ around me which blanks out some, but not all, player names in the immediate vicinity. My hunch is that the names are showing for players whose models are not being fully rendered.

While this makes sense for WvW where it is useful and necessary to have a sense of ally and enemy numbers, this still leaves a lot of visual clutter in PvE, particularly with the changes to culling and the large zerg trains which are currently featuring in both farming and event areas. A full PvE name toggle would be preferable, IMO.

Orpheal.8263:

this option already exists by changing it so, that you get the names only shown, if you hover the mouse over a character ..

just look more precisely into the options menu

oh man im a dummy. i have been hoping for this option since the game came out but didnt know it was there. Thanks

well this post can be deleted now