Guild Wars 2

Many people still ask about DX11 support for GW2.
Devs answered and said they are looking into it…however…they may not add specific DX11 only effects so other people don’t feel left out. I feel they should incorporate these features, over 50% of steam users (which is a major chunk of the PC gaming population) have DX11 cards now and its growing.

AS OF SEPTERMBER 2012 DX11 BASED CARD ARE OVER 50%.
Click the link look at the chart.
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

So saying only a few people have DX11 cards is no longer a good enough reason.

If anything (pretty features aside) DX11 is known to give a true performance increase on GPU’s and games that support it.

So reply here and lets see what kind of card most GW2 players have.

Kind of a mini GW2 gamer population video card survey.

Keep it simple. No “we dont need DX11” or “This game sucks it should have had DX11
already”.

ALSO this isn’t a “my cards better then yours survey either” lets keep it nice so we can see what everyone is running. So dont feel embarrassed if your card isnt the best…no one cares

Just post the video card and model and if its DX9 and DX11 compatible.

Don’t worry bout DX10…like Windows ME/Vista it came at a bad time and was quickly swept under the rug.

EDIT – My other thing is a 64bit client.
Look at that last link. Almost 60% have a 64bit OS.

I use an Nvidia Geforce GTX 590
DX11 Based card.

Just bought a new (my first ever gaming PC!) rig from Falcon Northwest. It comes with an NVidia GE Force GTX 550ti =) Very happy with it.

I have two Crossfire’d Radeon HD 7870 2GB GPU’s.

I use Nvidia GTX 560. DX11

nvidia 630m 1gb.

Nvidia Geforce GTS 450

NVidia GTX 570.

HD 5850 – waiting for the next batch of 28nm cards from both teams to upgrade. It runs gw2 just fine right now. I have a lga 2011 setup and the only thing that isnt new is that card.

hd 5770, working pretty good with gw2 so far.

Sapphire OC Edition 7850 was on sale, picked that up, runs the game well

I currently using an Nvidia Geforce GTX 670 … I could go SLI, but I don’t have an immediate need to do so at this time.

So far, I have my settings jacked up to the max running at 1920×1080 and can maintain around 45~60 fps in most situations, and around 20 to 30-ish during heavy zerg-fests.

GTX 660 Ti 2Gb (DX11) on 64-bit Windows 7.

Running on maxed out settings, including supersampling, at around 45 fps most times, 40-60 generally.

Dual GTX 670 OC

ATI Powercolor Radeon HD 5850 PCS+ 1GB GDDR5 at 1920×1080

DirectX 11

Running at below average frames in zergs 10~20

Crossfire 4890s 1gb. They suit me well with all settings maxed at 1080p and supersampling on. I never dip below 30fps, although I do not play WvW yet. My video memory is a bit tight though. With supersampling on I am using 1003mb, with can introduce some very slight micro stuttering occasionally. With it off though, it’s around 700-800mb, so stuttering is a non-issue and I get 60-80fps with it off. CPU: i7920@4ghz.
Edit: I hope they don’t add dx11!! It’s nice to be able to max this game with 4 year old gpus and I don’t plan on upgrading for at least another year or two.

Had DX11 for a couple of years now.
Saying they don’t want people to feel left out makes no sense. Not our fault if some people can’t/won’t upgrade. Better to have the features for people who can use them, then not have them at all.

If they said there isn’t enough people with DX11 hardware to justify DX11 features (I doubt this would be the case), I could understand that.

Eveningstar.6940:

Just bought a new (my first ever gaming PC!) rig from Falcon Northwest. It comes with an NVidia GE Force GTX 550ti =) Very happy with it.

Bet they ripped you for that.

I use an overclocked GTX 670.

I have a Nvidia Geforce GTX 680

Funny thing is, my gf uses a 460, I think, and her frame rate is on par with mine.

The 680 was expensive when first purchased, but no regrets. It has handled everything thrown at it.

GTX 670 SC 4GB. Seems new games need a lot more video ram.

I use a HD 7970 3GB DX11.

Ari Kagura.9182:

I currently using an Nvidia Geforce GTX 670 … I could go SLI, but I don’t have an immediate need to do so at this time.

So far, I have my settings jacked up to the max running at 1920×1080 and can maintain around 45~60 fps in most situations, and around 20 to 30-ish during heavy zerg-fests.

Yep…exact same. There is no real need to go SLI for this.

But I have noticed that since the last patch/update, our framerates are in the 45-60 range when they were before in the 90-100 range before the patch.

Something changed….

Integrated intel graphic card on macbook air. Perhaps a bit laggy, but it works :p

Nvidia 555m 2gb.

Radeon HD 7850 , ful DX11 support

Radeon HD5830 1Gb DX11. I haven’t got max settings on everything because I hate going from great fps to a crawl so I have a constant 60-ish fps even in huge WvW zergs. At the same time, I haven’t really given higher settings a chance so I don’t know exactly what the performance decrease will be.

Oh, 64-bit Win7.

Honestly, I do think that there is some over-hype about the numbers of console gamers marginalising PC gamers. It seems that when a game isn’t released cross-platform, and ends up with console grade graphics rather than PC graphics (like Skyrim), the dev’s appear to think that people aren’t upgrading their PCs anymore because they have a console, so there’s no need to push graphics to their full potential. I fully expect, however, that when the next generation of consoles are released we will start seeing more and more PC titles that make full use of DX11.

nVidia 670GTX (DX11 support)

Radeon 6950

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I’m using a GTX 285 (released in January 2009). That card is GT200b which is technology released back in 2008, which makes my card pretty much a 4 years-old GPU. I skipped all generations and revisions since then.

With this said however I do plan on upgrading sometime early next year, around February or so, and I think I’ll then go with a GTX 660 Ti or something along the lines. While my current GTX 285 is old, my CPU and memory is good enough, using a Core i7 2600K along with 8GB of DDR3.

I do have many slow downs however, but I play at maximum settings except that I removed all shadows and the resolution is 1280×960, the lowest frames I get is around 25’ish to 35’ish depending on the areas (Lion’s Arch is the worst), but sometimes I get up to 45’ish. It’s acceptable for me.

Asus DirectCUII GTX 580 but I am planning to upgrade to a GTX 690. The only slowdown I experience is when activating Supersampling and in Black Citadel as there are some unoptimized areas (the entrance to the stockades one of them).

One 3GB Radeon 7970. The game is smooth like a hot knife through butter.

GTX 680 with 3770K processor. And I mainly use the computer for GW2. And Shogun 2. I feel like I could do more with it. Lol

Palit GTX 260 never had an issue with graphics, runs well even with all options turned up to full.

Radeon 6950, shaders unlocked but no O.C..

nVidia GTX 460.

Radeon HD 6850.. however, during the beta’s they tested each persons computer for hardware right? I’m pretty sure they know what percentage of users have DX11 graphics cards…

nVidia 540M — Dx11

GTX580 X 2 (SLI)

Geforce GTX 460

Good thread! I think they should really really pay attention to how much people have DX11 cards,and should implement this option when seeing how many people would benefit from this option.

GTX 560TI – 2 Way-SLI. ( DX11)

HD 6850…working great so far

Overclocked Gigabyte GTX 670 (1300 core/1700 mem) cooled by an Arctic Cooling Twin Turbo II

560ti. I play w/ everything maxed, ’cept for shadows/animations both on medium. e8400 and 4gigs ram.

Radeon HD 7850 with 2048 MB Video RAM.

I use a GTX 460 and it is working fine. I can maintain about 20-30 fps in wvw with shadows off and in the PVE zones I normally get 30-40 fps.

Laptop with GTX 2gb 580M. Thinking about getting the 680M upgrade kit for it for xmas but considering GW2 hardly stresses the 580m i really don’t need it.

Nvidia GTX 570 – GS – Goes like Hell edition in SLI. DX11.

64 bit Windows 7.

Can’t remember the whole name but it’s the Nvidia 560 Ti yadda yadda yadda one. It works very well on Best appearance settings.

ASUS EAH6850, in fact it’s Radeon HD 6850, full DX11 support. Running with the most of setting as high, only shaders and enviroment are set as medium, as I don’t like everything painfully shiny. Oh, and reflections off, no need to make the game laggy for no reason

Radeon HD 6770 on Win 7 64, I7. I’m not at home so I can’t check my settings, but most graphics settings in game are on high and it runs quite well. Would love however some DX11 support and a 64 bit client would be nice as well. Even WoW has a 64 bit client!