Guild Wars 2

So im running an i3 with a 810a Nvidia, and didnt end up signing up for the newsletter which i kind of regret. just wondering how the frames hold up for anyone running a lower end pc while in the new borderland map. as a comparison in any current wvw/pve map my frames are fine 20-45 frames (excluding zerg fights in wvw), but while in drytop or silverwastes my frames tend to drop quite low. is this new map as demanding on frames as much as drytop or the silverwastes? or do i have nothing to worry about. (new pc, just not top end cpu and graphics)

It was not my intention to do so but I played on an i5 dual core broadwell mobile CPU (no discrete graphics so 8GB RAM shared; normally I run an i5 overclocked @ 4.6GHz, AMD GPU, and 8GB RAM) and it ran okay (not a slideshow but not 60fps always) but you need to lower settings and subsample so it looks like 2005 Guild Wars on low settings. That is if you want to stay in 45-60 FPS range.

If you can put up with ~ 20FPS you can probably run it on 1600×900 native with low settings.

The biggest constraint has always been CPU unless you turn the graphics all the way up.

For Intel mobile CPUs, the biggest difference between the same generation i3 , i5, i7 (not i7 with “Q” for quad) is clock speed and cache. There is also the consideration of Iris Pro graphics on some CPUs.

The map is huge and very vertical similar to Silverwastes & Drytop.