Guild Wars 2

1st up, if any of you remember I posted a topic a while back about my ventures with GW2 using my PS4’s Dualshock 4 controller, I so I have an update on how that is going. I’ve been using the controller for a few months now and tried using a mouse and keyboard again and found myself unable to do it. The game is such a dream on a controller that I just can’t go back to a mouse and keyboard.

Secondly, I’m leaving GW2… for now. I can no longer take playing the game on the lowest settings at 10 fp. Going from playing my consoles, any of them, be it my PS3, PS4, or even my N64, where I get solid framerates (up to 60 on my PS4) and then go to GW2 is like not opening your parachute while skydiving. , and I just recently found out my car needs some hefty repairs, so my plans on building a new pc have come to a complete stop. Maybe sometime within the next 1, 2 or maybe 3 years I’ll hopefully be able to piece together a pc very very slowly, but for now I’m out. I’ll keep my fingers (and toes) crossed for a PS4 port, which would mean I don’t even need to build a PC, but that subject has been dead since the game’s launch so my hopes aren’t high for it.

Big thanks to those of you who helped me with picking out parts for my pc builds, I really appreciate it. I’ll probably still get on once in a rare occasion to snag something from the gem store, or just to chat and see what’s going on, but it probably won’t happen very often. I love the game to death, but I can’t do it anymore.

Even though I wasn’t insanely active on the forum, and none of you probably know who I am, I figured I’d say goodbye (for now) anyway. I’ll see you guys later.

OK cool thx 15char

I really wonder what computer you’re using if you’re getting such shockingly low framerates.

My housemate is currently borrowing my 5 year old laptop and finds GW2 playable enough.

I agree that GW2 isn’t the best performance wise (I had a few overheating issues before they fixed that) but it should be able to run at least 25FPS on even the worst hardware, as long as you configure your computer somewhat well and don’t have 2 virusscanners running in the background, etc.

I don’t understand how you’re playing at 10fps on low settings? I have a high end rig but I borrow my brothers laptop occasionally which is a £300 bog standard one with intel hd3000 graphics and I get 30-60fps easily on low graphics :S Did you try turning the resolution down at all?

No one remembers you, bro.

Grimezy.5679:

I don’t understand how you’re playing at 10fps on low settings? I have a high end rig but I borrow my brothers laptop occasionally which is a £300 bog standard one with intel hd3000 graphics and I get 30-60fps easily on low graphics :S Did you try turning the resolution down at all?

Each PC is a different bird, especially when it comes to GW2.

Grimezy.5679:

I don’t understand how you’re playing at 10fps on low settings? I have a high end rig but I borrow my brothers laptop occasionally which is a £300 bog standard one with intel hd3000 graphics and I get 30-60fps easily on low graphics :S Did you try turning the resolution down at all?

Considering that the OP is clearly mainly a console player, I could imagine him turning everything up to max and never even considering anything less.

After all, console games don’t really have varying graphic settings.

And have you tried playing the game at non-native resolutions? Looks very ugly.

Olba.5376:

Grimezy.5679:

I don’t understand how you’re playing at 10fps on low settings? I have a high end rig but I borrow my brothers laptop occasionally which is a £300 bog standard one with intel hd3000 graphics and I get 30-60fps easily on low graphics :S Did you try turning the resolution down at all?

Considering that the OP is clearly mainly a console player, I could imagine him turning everything up to max and never even considering anything less.

After all, console games don’t really have varying graphic settings.

And have you tried playing the game at non-native resolutions? Looks very ugly.

I have the game running on the “Best Performance” option in the settings, with only the screen resolution altered. The resolution that “Best Performance” gave me was disgusting hahaha. Everything was smeared together and looked like a modern art masterpiece.

Ok EQuake, see you in about a week pal and we will pretend you didn’t even write this posting.

They always come back…

Shakkara.2641:

I really wonder what computer you’re using if you’re getting such shockingly low framerates.

My housemate is currently borrowing my 5 year old laptop and finds GW2 playable enough.

I agree that GW2 isn’t the best performance wise (I had a few overheating issues before they fixed that) but it should be able to run at least 25FPS on even the worst hardware, as long as you configure your computer somewhat well and don’t have 2 virusscanners running in the background, etc.

Lenovo ThinkPad R500
http://www.laptopmag.com/review/laptops/lenovo-thinkpad-r500.aspx

One of the local schools gave them to people who needed a computer a few years back. My FPS can reach up to around 20-25 IF I’m alone and nothing is really going on around me. In minor fights (2-3 players and a handful of NPC’s) I drop down to around 10-15 fps, in the LA battle I was around 8-12 fps, and when I’m in a zerg or large event like SB and MAW… well, I’ve already missed MAW twice because my laptop froze until the fight was over, but I average about 3-5 fps on those. IF I just ran around by myself and never interacted with other players or large mobs sure I culd play, but wheres the fun in that right?

trampled underfoot.4523:

Ok EQuake, see you in about a week pal and we will pretend you didn’t even write this posting.

They always come back…

I’ll jump on to snag specials in the gem store, but that’ll be about it, but as for actually playing it’ll be a while. I plan on coming back, but only when I have a decent rig.

Come on, you and I both know you will start off that way, then the new LS will pop up and you will “kick the can” for a quick 10 minute battle, a couple of hours later you will play a little longer just to “get it out of your system”, before you know it, you are back in the swing of things swearing at the computer when a teammate doesnt res you.

I play this on Linux, WINE “emulator”, which means I can only run one processor. I play on min setting, get 15-20 fps max and accept it,. Its about the experience, not the shiny candy sometimes

EQuake.3456:

Shakkara.2641:

I really wonder what computer you’re using if you’re getting such shockingly low framerates.

My housemate is currently borrowing my 5 year old laptop and finds GW2 playable enough.

I agree that GW2 isn’t the best performance wise (I had a few overheating issues before they fixed that) but it should be able to run at least 25FPS on even the worst hardware, as long as you configure your computer somewhat well and don’t have 2 virusscanners running in the background, etc.

Lenovo ThinkPad R500
http://www.laptopmag.com/review/laptops/lenovo-thinkpad-r500.aspx

One of the local schools gave them to people who needed a computer a few years back. My FPS can reach up to around 20-25 IF I’m alone and nothing is really going on around me. In minor fights (2-3 players and a handful of NPC’s) I drop down to around 10-15 fps, in the LA battle I was around 8-12 fps, and when I’m in a zerg or large event like SB and MAW… well, I’ve already missed MAW twice because my laptop froze until the fight was over, but I average about 3-5 fps on those. IF I just ran around by myself and never interacted with other players or large mobs sure I culd play, but wheres the fun in that right?

So you’re getting poor performance running GW2 on a laptop which is a “few years old”… hmmmm…..

By the way, those specs? 2gb of ram, x4500 integrated graphics, 2.53-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T9400 cpu. Not so great…

Shakkara.2641:

I agree that GW2 isn’t the best performance wise (I had a few overheating issues before they fixed that) but it should be able to run at least 25FPS on even the worst hardware, as long as you configure your computer somewhat well and don’t have 2 virusscanners running in the background, etc.

Lolwut…. i have a computer that has a 5-6 years old motherboard and processor, everything else is kinda new in it (video card, RAM, cooling) and i still have 16 fps ON AVERAGE with medium~ish settings (meaning: textures-medium, shader-medium, animation-medium, shadows-medium, the rest is low if i remember correctly) when it comes to zerging in wvw, i don’t even have 1-2 fps….. it’s like watching a slideshow that shows a new screenshot every 2 seconds or so. And i don’t even have a virus scanner.

shinreigari.7318:

Shakkara.2641:

I agree that GW2 isn’t the best performance wise (I had a few overheating issues before they fixed that) but it should be able to run at least 25FPS on even the worst hardware, as long as you configure your computer somewhat well and don’t have 2 virusscanners running in the background, etc.

Lolwut…. i have a computer that has a 5-6 years old motherboard and processor, everything else is kinda new in it (video card, RAM, cooling) and i still have 16 fps ON AVERAGE with medium~ish settings (meaning: textures-medium, shader-medium, animation-medium, shadows-medium, the rest is low if i remember correctly) when it comes to zerging in wvw, i don’t even have 1-2 fps….. it’s like watching a slideshow that shows a new screenshot every 2 seconds or so. And i don’t even have a virus scanner.

GW2 is a CPU intensive game. If your CPU is 6 years old, I’m not the least bit surprised you are having problems. By the way, the CPU is like the heart of your system. upgrading everything but the CPU is like upgrading everything but the engine in your car.

I don’t get the point of this thread. Is it, “I like console games and my computer is bad so I quit.” Or simply “My computer is bad so I quit.” Or, “Maybe I am quitting because my computer is bad.” Or, “My computer is bad and I’m quitting unless they make a PS4 client.” Or even more simply, “Maybe I’m quitting, maybe not.”

Either way, no one really cares. Sorry for your luck with a bad comp.

Xenon.4537:

shinreigari.7318:

Shakkara.2641:

I agree that GW2 isn’t the best performance wise (I had a few overheating issues before they fixed that) but it should be able to run at least 25FPS on even the worst hardware, as long as you configure your computer somewhat well and don’t have 2 virusscanners running in the background, etc.

Lolwut…. i have a computer that has a 5-6 years old motherboard and processor, everything else is kinda new in it (video card, RAM, cooling) and i still have 16 fps ON AVERAGE with medium~ish settings (meaning: textures-medium, shader-medium, animation-medium, shadows-medium, the rest is low if i remember correctly) when it comes to zerging in wvw, i don’t even have 1-2 fps….. it’s like watching a slideshow that shows a new screenshot every 2 seconds or so. And i don’t even have a virus scanner.

GW2 is a CPU intensive game. If your CPU is 6 years old, I’m not the least bit surprised you are having problems. By the way, the CPU is like the heart of your system. upgrading everything but the CPU is like upgrading everything but the engine in your car.

I know, and worst of all, this CPU is the “best” i can get for this motherboard, so i can’t just change that alone. The reason i wrote this was Shakkara’s sentence: “it should be able to run at least 25FPS on even the worst hardware” – well this surprised me. I mean, i don’t consider my computer to have “the worst hardware” and yet the only time i see 25+ fps is when i’m almost alone on a map or when i see a loading screen.
I also have no problems with other games, and i never had any problems with any games on medium settings on my laptop (which has a worse performance than my current computer)
Anyway, i hope i’ll get the money for new hardware soon… :/