Guild Wars 2

My friend is looking to play the game and her computer is pretty outdated I was wondering if anyone here has a old computer and tell me your specs and the fps you get average in game?

I had a old computer when this game was released last year and on low graphics I usually had 15/30 fps average but since then the game has been optimised so I don’t know how it runs now on a 2gb ram system with a CPU processor speed of 2.0 GHz.

https://buy.guildwars2.com/en/

Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or better
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, Core i3, AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 or better
2 GB RAM
NVIDIA® GeForce® 7800, ATI Radeon™ X1800, Intel HD 3000 or better (256MB of video RAM and shader model 3.0 or better)
25 GB available HDD space
Broadband Internet connection
Keyboard and mouse

That is the minimum ANet specifies. The 2.0GHz looks okay but the 2gb is probably pushing things. My GW2 is using around 1.2GB right now, this could probably be lower if I lower some of the settings. If I add in what my browser is using that is 1.7GB and then you need to leave some for the OS.

Hmmm, I run GW2 on a mix of low and medium settings, with 25-50 FPS ( depending on zergs ) with an ASUS A8 4500 laptop at 1.9 GHz. I’m not sure if my laptop counts as “old” but it was made early 2012, so prior to GW2 launching. Sorry if this doesn’t help you or your friend!

On the PC I’m using for now, I literally am playing using the bare minimum, running on just a Pentium G630 2.7ghz Dual-Core. Heck, I don’t even have a dedicated graphics card, I’m just using integrated for now.

With absolutely everything turned down, I get about 15-20fps in most places, and around 15 fps in solo combat or combat with a small group. Towns and dungeons get a bit worse, but I can boost that to about 30-35 or so if I need too, by turning down my resolution and choosing subsample rendering if I really need too. Huge zerks are sorta doable by smashing buttons – I get less than 1FPS, but my attacks still go through so I get credit for the kill, but that’s about as much as I can handle. WvW and PvP is probably out of the question, so I’m not going to try..

You didn’t post your friend’s specs, just your old computer, but I’d imagine that anything worse that what I’m using right now would probably not work out too well.

GW2 has notoriously bad performance, so you’re looking for trouble either way. A new and fast CPU is the best bet to avoiding it, but that is no guarantee. Expect frames in the low 20s otherwise.

If your GPU is lacking (again, poor optimization, so it’s more demanding than you’d think), you can easily pull down some settings to compensate.

RAM is a non-issue as it’ll work fine with as low as 2Gb RAM (field-tested between my two home PCs, really not an issue).

It’s playable, but not smooth and with significant lag during medium-large events (say, 20 people) on my Athlon II X2 @ 3.1GHz (dual core), 4GB of the slowest DDR3 RAM they make (1333MHz or something), and 512MB Radeon HD 5670. Loading times are excessive on my standard 7200rpm hard drive (think it has 1MB on the L2 caches, but can’t remember for sure; if I hadn’t all but given up on the game after ~4 months, I’d’ve seriously considered getting an SSD just to take care of that).

GW2 is cpu heavy. You can get away with lower end gpu but if you want to not lag all over the place make sure your cpu can keep up. That being said 2 gb of ram i honestly feel is to low to play reliably. 4-6 gb would be much better to ensure that you dont max out your ram.