Guild Wars 2

Arena Net’s idea of increasing performance is adding adjustable settings/options to things that either should of been in the game at launch or just adding adjustable settings to things already in the game…

So increasing performance means being able to turn stuff down and turn off other stuff?

Erm no, all they did was give players the ability to turn stuff down or off. That is not increasing the performance of Guild Wars 2…not even close, that’s taking the lazy quick way of saying,

“here there ya go, here are some options because we can’t be bothered make performance better so here are some options to turn everything down so it runs smoother”

There you go we did some performance boosts to GW2, you see how much smoother the performance is now you have turned everything off and down? Amazing isn’t it….WOW what a massive performance boost, we are really good right?

Basically they didn’t really do jack or really did the bare minimum of giving adjustable options that should of been in the game already a long time ago…

Just to put it in even more perspective, a game that is in pre pre alpha just released a demo that is more optimized than any actual live online pc game out there right now….it uses all cores of cpu, 100% GPU loads while using 100% GPU memory, uses 8gb ram minimum and is 64 bit….because of that it has more poly’s and detail than any other game, and puts less strain on the PC while giving good frame rates because it is making full use of every inch of your pc hardware spreading out the work load.

That was the first version of a pre pre alpha demo on a game 2 years from main launch, and they have not even started fully optimizing it yet, that just off the bat…

That’s how you increase performance by allowing players to make FULL USE of there PC hardware….
Not by barely using 30-50% of the players PC hardware available and giving them adjustable options to turn stuff down…that by the way are usually in most games at their launch…as normal settings you would have in any game anyway.

So will there be any actual performance increases or just more “here are settings to turn stuff down?” Sorry we forgot to put them in the game…

Bill Friest mentioned that in a couple weeks a patch will be pushed out which will increase performance in crowded scenarios. I think this is just another culling patch and doesn’t solve the core flaws in the game engine.

So I agree with you 100%. They are dodging the core issue and are just releasing quick little bandages to make it seem like they are doing work. The intelligent people can see through that.

This game BARELY uses my video card, but instead puts all the pressure on my poor poor cpu :’(

Just the opposite here. Game uses about 20% of my CPU and 70% of my GPU.

Intel Core i7-3770K @ 4.5
Sapphire VaporX 7970 3GB

Even if the game doesn’t use all the available resources, you will still get a performance boost from raw cycles. Meaning overclocking helps even if more resources aren’t being used.

What is this magic game you are referring to?

Although substitute models do a great deal to alleviate the zerg problems, I can’t help but feel performance actually got WORSE since first release. It’s hard to tell because it’s so random and unstable to begin with.