Guild Wars 2

so what are you guys running fps wise? on average just playing through the game? i don’t have a high end PC, just an HP laptop. i lag horribly during boss fights..forget WvW, but i CAN play the game smoothly during events and just regular exploration.

I will usually see between 40-80 fps just wandering around and doing events. World bosses take me down to 12-ish. I do have a nice gaming computer and fast internet. My brother gets 120 fps almost all the time on a beautiful monitor the size of my dreams.

I can get 60fps on max settings in places with not many people on screen. When doing events and wvw I change to medium and low settings (which still look amazing) and get 30fps

constant 60 fps at ultra…

maybe 40~50 fps when in a crowd(boss/event/something)

but also i did spend 1000 euros like 3 months ago on this beauty ^^

I get 40~60 when playing normally (Max settings but antialias off, as in my opinion it doesn’t make things look any better)), and 30~40 at world bosses (Except frozen maw, the snow effects there on top of the crowd pulls me down to 15~20).

I am rocking a budget gaming system that cost £400 or so. nothing amazingly spectacular but still gives great performance in every aspect of GW2

Between 4-7fps for regular game play. I drop down to 1-2fps during fights with big crowds.

Try playing on the mac “client”.

It’s a joy when it doesn’t crash haha

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Try playing on the mac “client”.

It’s a joy when it doesn’t crash haha

Haha, is it really that bad? I have a desktop I built when gw2 released that was kinda beast at the time. I wanted a dedicated laptop ONLY FOR WORK, so I just bought one of the new Macbook Pro’s…

First thing I did was install Guild Wars 2. Haven’t really played it much on mac yet though.

Edit: To stay on topic. I play on Ultra with vsync on and reflections to “sky and terrain only” (full reflections kill my fps for some reason), so it sits at 60fps during open world with not too many people, dungeons, and sPvp. During events with many people or large WvW fights, it sits around 20-25fps.

Klinch.2964:

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Try playing on the mac “client”.

It’s a joy when it doesn’t crash haha

Haha, is it really that bad? I have a desktop I built when gw2 released that was kinda beast at the time. I wanted a dedicated laptop ONLY FOR WORK, so I just bought one of the new Macbook Pro’s…

First thing I did was install Guild Wars 2. Haven’t really played it much on mac yet though.

Edit: To stay on topic. I play with vsync on, so it sits at 60fps during open world with not too many people, dungeons, and sPvp. During events with many people or large WvW fights, it sits around 20-25fps.

My mac is my sort of “work computer”, I guess. It’s a dual xeon with 32 gigs of ram etc etc specs and kitten waving.

The point is, my computer is as good as anyone elses here, but the game performs pretty awfully haha…. Honestly, I need to just get around to bootcamping it so I can just run the game in Windows….

The Mac client’s basically an emulation anyways, if I understand correctly. I get like 20 FPS in a fight, and around 40 in town. If I stand still in an empty place I get 60.

Excludee.3850:

Try playing on the mac “client”.

It’s a joy when it doesn’t crash haha

I may be alone here, but it runs pretty well on my Mac laptop. It’s from 2011 and not really meant for gaming. I don’t get great frames (10-20) but I have little to no issues with DC’s

MHCerberus.1385:

Excludee.3850:

Try playing on the mac “client”.

It’s a joy when it doesn’t crash haha

I may be alone here, but it runs pretty well on my Mac laptop. It’s from 2011 and not really meant for gaming. I don’t get great frames (10-20) but I have little to no issues with DC’s

The game crashes if you have too much stuff going on, at least on my version of the OS. WvW and world bosses are the worst offenders. Drives me nuts. Doesn’t happen as often as it used to though.

I just hate low framerates heh… Call me snobbish, I guess.

I get like 40-60 FPS depending on how busy things are. Everything on high except character model count, reflections, and sampling. I’m also running sweetfx.

carlito.8954:

so what are you guys running fps wise? on average just playing through the game? i don’t have a high end PC, just an HP laptop. i lag horribly during boss fights..forget WvW, but i CAN play the game smoothly during events and just regular exploration.

From what you described what you need is to lock your FPS at 30 and set the population limit to lowest.
You’ll still see all the name tags (if you have them on) but you won’t get 100 characters on your screen which will improve performance greatly.

Also as a laptop, make triple sure you have good ventilation, a cooler pad is a must.

on my computer i normally have 15ish all the time. i have settings on lowest and my speakers are off, but i havent DCed in a while (i rarely ever lag either, even in blob vs blob instances)

I have between 30 and 40 in normal situations (while mapping). Around 25-30 in congested areas. And 15 during most world bosses (closer to 5-10 during bosses like Maw, where there’s tons of snow effects).

60+ fps in sparsely populated maps at medium high settings. 15-30 at world bosses depending on size of zerg. Turning off player names usually give me a 5-10 fps boost.

Shrimpkin.4851:

Between 4-7fps for regular game play. I drop down to 1-2fps during fights with big crowds.

How do you manage to do anything with only 4-7 fps? O.o

Faereilos.5106:

60+ fps in sparsely populated maps at medium high settings. 15-30 at world bosses depending on size of zerg. Turning off player names usually give me a 5-10 fps boost.

Shrimpkin.4851:

Between 4-7fps for regular game play. I drop down to 1-2fps during fights with big crowds.

How do you manage to do anything with only 4-7 fps? O.o

I can move fine. Things get choppy during big fights and some cut scenes but other than that it’s ok. I do have everything set as low as it can go, so while the game doesn’t look the greatest, I can still play. I’m on an HP laptop same as the OP so upgrades are not an option. One day though, I shall build a real pc.

Shrimpkin.4851:

Faereilos.5106:

60+ fps in sparsely populated maps at medium high settings. 15-30 at world bosses depending on size of zerg. Turning off player names usually give me a 5-10 fps boost.

Shrimpkin.4851:

Between 4-7fps for regular game play. I drop down to 1-2fps during fights with big crowds.

How do you manage to do anything with only 4-7 fps? O.o

I can move fine. Things get choppy during big fights and some cut scenes but other than that it’s ok. I do have everything set as low as it can go, so while the game doesn’t look the greatest, I can still play. I’m on an HP laptop same as the OP so upgrades are not an option. One day though, I shall build a real pc.

If your computer runs that poorly, I’m amazed it’s still alive. You uh… might wanna start saving up for something new, buddy.

144 fps normally. 40 fps during large fights.

I can technically ‘get’ higher FPS, but 144 Hz is my monitor refresh limit.

Similarly anyone running 80-100 FPS values who does NOT possess a >60 Hz capable monitor should set the FPS limiter to 60 FPS, as running it above generates more heat and uses more power in exchange for giving you tearing artifacts and zero extra performance.

Sometimes running your monitor at its native resolution makes things behave better too. I get somewhat better performance out of 3840×2160 than slightly lower resolutions. Though seeing the posts here make me feel a bit better about not getting a constant 60fps. Maybe the mac client isn’t quite as terrible as I thought.

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Shrimpkin.4851:

Faereilos.5106:

60+ fps in sparsely populated maps at medium high settings. 15-30 at world bosses depending on size of zerg. Turning off player names usually give me a 5-10 fps boost.

Shrimpkin.4851:

Between 4-7fps for regular game play. I drop down to 1-2fps during fights with big crowds.

How do you manage to do anything with only 4-7 fps? O.o

I can move fine. Things get choppy during big fights and some cut scenes but other than that it’s ok. I do have everything set as low as it can go, so while the game doesn’t look the greatest, I can still play. I’m on an HP laptop same as the OP so upgrades are not an option. One day though, I shall build a real pc.

If your computer runs that poorly, I’m amazed it’s still alive. You uh… might wanna start saving up for something new, buddy.

It runs though. Sure, my game’s not as flashy and doesn’t have all the bells and whistles turned on but I still get a lot of enjoyment out of playing. After all, it’s about the fun, right?

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Sometimes running your monitor at its native resolution makes things behave better too. I get somewhat better performance out of 3840×2160 than slightly lower resolutions. Though seeing the posts here make me feel a bit better about not getting a constant 60fps. Maybe the mac client isn’t quite as terrible as I thought.

It might be. These guys probably have, system-spec speaking, only a fraction of your Mac’s performance.

80% utilisation of a 2000 point system will still exceed 100% utilisation of a 600 point system, if it was possible to somehow collapse system performance into a single variable (it isn’t). But you get my idea.

Hayashi.3416:

Excludee.3850:

Sometimes running your monitor at its native resolution makes things behave better too. I get somewhat better performance out of 3840×2160 than slightly lower resolutions. Though seeing the posts here make me feel a bit better about not getting a constant 60fps. Maybe the mac client isn’t quite as terrible as I thought.

It might be. These guys probably have, system-spec speaking, only a fraction of your Mac’s performance.

80% utilisation of a 2000 point system will still exceed 100% utilisation of a 600 point system, if it was possible to somehow collapse system performance into a single variable (it isn’t). But you get my idea.

I’m pretty sure the game doesn’t make use of all of my hardware, is the thing. It’s not really something I can complain about, but I think that’s the issue. Is the windows version 64-bit? IIRC, the emulation used for mac is only 32-bit, which is part of the issue heh… It is what it is, I guess. The game’s certainly not unplayable.

No, it’s a large-address-aware 32-bit client.

Sadly.

Hayashi.3416:

No, it’s a large-address-aware 32-bit client.

Sadly.

Gahhhhhh everything is awful in the world now

Since I got my laptop repaired, my game has been running at around 28 fps at most. It’s not much compared to what everyone else gets but it works.

300 fps on lowish settings, i care more about performance than graphics x)

Ryumi.7109:

300 fps on lowish settings, i care more about performance than graphics x)

Your monitor can’t even refresh that fast, though…

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Ryumi.7109:

300 fps on lowish settings, i care more about performance than graphics x)

Your monitor can’t even refresh that fast, though…

Nope, but I still get more than enough fps for 144hz monitor even in the most fps nuking situations

I also play CS:GO and there you can really tell the difference between 144 fps and 300 fps xd

30 ~ 40 fps during normal gameplay, 15 ~ 20 in heart of the mists during primetime :P

Ryumi.7109:

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Ryumi.7109:

300 fps on lowish settings, i care more about performance than graphics x)

Your monitor can’t even refresh that fast, though…

Nope, but I still get more than enough fps for 144hz monitor even in the most fps nuking situations

I also play CS:GO and there you can really tell the difference between 144 fps and 300 fps xd

seems a waste. On average the human eye can only really notice up to 150fps

It doesn’t matter because any number above your monitor refresh rate disappears entirely. Having spare performance is only good for keeping FPS at your monitor’s maximum at higher demands.

The only difference you can tell between 144 fps and 300 fps on any game on a 144 hz monitor is that the higher number will have more tearing artifacts.

I asked elsewhere but I’ll ask here: why do I see 60+ FPS in Fractals, but only the 30 or so in dungeons that I see in open-world when both are instanced?

Nada? Nothing? No one knows?

50 when alone, slideshow in a zerg

Shrimpkin.4851:

Faereilos.5106:

60+ fps in sparsely populated maps at medium high settings. 15-30 at world bosses depending on size of zerg. Turning off player names usually give me a 5-10 fps boost.

Shrimpkin.4851:

Between 4-7fps for regular game play. I drop down to 1-2fps during fights with big crowds.

How do you manage to do anything with only 4-7 fps? O.o

I can move fine. Things get choppy during big fights and some cut scenes but other than that it’s ok. I do have everything set as low as it can go, so while the game doesn’t look the greatest, I can still play. I’m on an HP laptop same as the OP so upgrades are not an option. One day though, I shall build a real pc.

What are the specs on your hp laptop?

Between 50-60 with 4930k @ 4.6 and gtx 970 sli @ 1500/8002 with dsr at 5120×2880 and sweetfx maxed settings with supersampling. Reflections on terrain and no post processing

100+ fps normally but drops down to 20-30 in world bosses. quite annoying /=

40-60 with GemFX Does drop down to 30 sometimes in large scale fights/zergs, but it’s not that noticable.

120+ fps if I start the game normally. A little over 30 fps if I start the game using my 3D-driver. I wish the game had a native support for 3D…

60 fps as standard on all high when roaming alone.
30fps during big events like tequatl on all high.