Guild Wars 2

I don’t know if this is the right place, hardware support didn’t quite feel like the right place. Anyway, I’ve noticed that many people are having issues with lag at the mega bosses and wvw zergs. It seems that the particle effects have a lot to do with that, even on higher end graphics cards. Even if they aren’t lagging, it is near impossible to what what you are doing in those settings as the paricle effects, and massive amounts of people obscure everything. Its difficult to do anything other thatn mash 1, or auto attack, because you are essentially blinded. I sometimes have to turn all graphics setting to absolute lowest just to be able to function. There needs to be a way to turn down, or off the particle effects, and allow for further limiting of character models. Maybe just limiting it to party for those events. Something like that would dramatically increase performance, not only on lower end machines, but the higher end ones as well.

Anyone else having these issues? and would like to see this type of change? It’s not a game breaker, wouldn’t really effect ANYTHING but game performance resulting in a better experience.

TURN OFF ANTI-ALIASING – that helps a bunch.

Already going to look into it, but if I remember it should be off. But that doesn’t change the fact that there are so many spell effects and other things going on in the events or zerg that you can’t even see your own character.

pdavis.8031:

Already going to look into it, but if I remember it should be off. But that doesn’t change the fact that there are so many spell effects and other things going on in the events or zerg that you can’t even see your own character.

Unless I am in a 100 V 100 – I don’t have many issues – the Anti-aliasing is a huge hog of resources.

Also this game is a huge CPU hog (single threaded too). Make sure you have many background items that are normally running turned off. That is the biggest issue not the GPU.

it sucks to have to do it, but i found that turning down the number of players shown on screen helps with the clutter a little bit.

Dusty Moon.4382:

pdavis.8031:

Already going to look into it, but if I remember it should be off. But that doesn’t change the fact that there are so many spell effects and other things going on in the events or zerg that you can’t even see your own character.

Unless I am in a 100 V 100 – I don’t have many issues – the Anti-aliasing is a huge hog of resources.

Also this game is a huge CPU hog (single threaded too). Make sure you have many background items that are normally running turned off. That is the biggest issue not the GPU.

Yeah,but I’m on a 5 year old laptop…not the greatest, but it works well, just not in large groups with lots of things going on.