Guild Wars 2

Looking to pick up a new GPU. I currently use a R9 290 and it’s long in the tooth, especially for this resolution. I’m eyeballing a 1070, Vega 56, Vega 64, or 1080ti. I wanted to know your experience in GW2 since it is an older engine and see how it was performing.

My EVGA 1060 6gb can do 4k at an acceptable FPS (40ish, low for me personally but its alright) so I’d imagine the 1070 would have no issues. The problem with 4k in this game is the UI is so dang small. I just play in 2K, looks great, FPS is good and the UI doesn’t need a magnifying glass.

Josh.4016:

Looking to pick up a new GPU. I currently use a R9 290 and it’s long in the tooth, especially for this resolution. I’m eyeballing a 1070, Vega 56, Vega 64, or 1080ti. I wanted to know your experience in GW2 since it is an older engine and see how it was performing.

I have a 1080 running at 3440×1440 and it’s purring like a kitten. Most areas in the game I get >60fps on max settings, in cities it can drop a little bit and it maybe hits 30 fps in big fights in WvW.

GW2’s engine is very CPU dependant though so a lot of the time performance is more bottlenecked by CPU than GPU though (I have an i7-6700K).

Also, I have a g-sync monitor so it may not be quite as smooth as I think it is. I’ll put on a FPS counter and take a look at the actual numbers I get later on tonight and post again.

Excelsior.
Pifil is right. I just upgraded my system to a powerful workhorse in all departments, because I am video enthusiast and built a system according to my needs. The CPU is as important as the GPU in GW2. Now I have a GTX 1080 and the FPS are not quite better compared to my GTX970 – Because I use a Ryzen 7 1700X. An Octacore, which is bombastic and probably the greatest purchase for my needs, but due to bad multicore optimization and a comparibly low core clock, I have gained almost zero performance boosts.

It really feels like the GPU is like: “Hey, c’mon, let’s render this game” and the CPU is split into two halves: Core 0 to 3 are like “Cough, Cough, man, gimme a break” and core 4-7 are idling: “Polishes nails Whats all the fuzz about, man?”

I turned off Anti Alias because I recently started to enjoy the crisp look and yet I can’t hold 60fps in 1080p. So slapping a powerful GPU at at is not enough, really. It’s a bit annoying because overall the Ryzen handles everything while staying cool, but GW2 really shows that a not-so-great optimized engine can cause stupid bottlenecks.

If I didn’t enjoy BF1 so much I’d upgrade to a newer CPU instead of GPU (3930K). Sounds like the Vega56 or 1070 are the sweet spot and I can probably justify the Ryzen bump then too.

I have been using (3x differrent monitors) with a custom 3840×1024 resolution for about a year and have had really good experience with it both in PvE and WvW (also huge zerg fights). Gotta tweak settings for it to work smoothly in those big number situations naturally. (i5-4460 & RX580). The feeling you get when gliding is amazing :-)

There is a command line argument for triple monitor use:
-uispanallmonitors (spreads user interface across all monitors in a triple monitor setup.)

It gives a larger HUD UI, however I prefered the HUD on the middle monitor only (default gw2), as I got tired constantly looking to the sides to read team chat spam etc. But then the text becomes too small, you can tweak UI options to Large & that helps a little.
But now with those superwide single monitor solutions becoming popular I hope Anet develops a way to scale the UI on the frontal area only (not spread out to the sides). Almost like a “3 monitor simulated on a single monitor kinda thing” for UI scaling issues. Perhaps there is already?

I know my RX470 runs 2560×1440 with my Ryzen 5 1600x at 40-60fps with Vertical Sync on. The thing to remember is your CPU will account for most of the FPS you have.