Guild Wars 2

Before and after shots of the game. I used to get 7-10 fps on best performance with resolution set to 1280 X 768 ish now I am on ultra high and couldn’t be happier !

Nice picture.

Specs on old rig?

Specs on new rig?

welcome to gw2, we’ve been waiting for you

Welcome to 2012 graphics

hahaha i feel bad for people that have to play with the top picture’s graphics

if someone has to play with the above graphics to be able to even start the game or at least play at 15 fps please upgrade your system you’re missing out so much

if you want your mind blown go for 60 fps high graphics

My beast arrived today and I’m picking it up after work, gtx980 4gb, i7 4790 4.4ghz overclocked, 16gb 1866, liquid cooled, and rounding the corner with a 3TB hard drive, adding a 4tb secondary in a couple of months. I can’t wait to play on Ultra.

Tere.4759:

My beast arrived today and I’m picking it up after work, gtx980 4gb, i7 4790 4.4ghz overclocked, 16gb 1866, liquid cooled, and rounding the corner with a 3TB hard drive, adding a 4tb secondary in a couple of months. I can’t wait to play on Ultra.

Such an excellent rig… and then you ruin it completely with a 3TB HDD instead of an SSD. What a waste, what a waste.

I know exactly what you mean op. I recently built a brand new rig. The difference is quite nice!

I started out on an AMD….uh something or other, 4gig of ram, and I can’t even remember my last graphics card. When GW2 came out, I think my components where all 5+ years old.

I think I updated…last year? Maybe a year and a half now (time is very fluid for me). Now I’m running an i7 4770k (not overclocked, I’d fry the poor thing) on an Asus z87 Plus Mobo, with 16gig of RAM and a GTX 660 video card. Biiiiiiig difference. I still have to turn graphics down for world boss and large zerg fights, but otherwise she runs nicely.

The OP must of had a ancient rig before if it couldn’t play GW2 on ultra. It isn’t a particularly demanding game. My 3 year old gaming laptop with an equally old mobile gfx card (AMD 6990m) and second gen i7 processor plays the game at max settings without breaking a sweat.

I was running gw2 for over a year on my lappy with settings lowered.
Bought new pc i7 4770k, GTX780sli etc etc, maxed all settings out and then logged my main who was still at the swamp at Behemoth from the day before and my jaw nearly hit the floor, the difference is staggering its a beautiful looking game.

Ugh, reading all this just confirms how badly I need to update.

My biggest problem is that my game feels choppy. Sometimes running around is smooth but most of the time there feels like a lass then half a second chop between it all. This makes things like jumping puzzle-ish content very difficult. I wonder if this is a processor/gfx card issue with them being so out of date (like .. 6 years) or a connection.

Dawdler.8521:

Tere.4759:

My beast arrived today and I’m picking it up after work, gtx980 4gb, i7 4790 4.4ghz overclocked, 16gb 1866, liquid cooled, and rounding the corner with a 3TB hard drive, adding a 4tb secondary in a couple of months. I can’t wait to play on Ultra.

Such an excellent rig… and then you ruin it completely with a 3TB HDD instead of an SSD. What a waste, what a waste.

I’ve had 4 SSDs fail in the last year. No more here.

Tere.4759:

Dawdler.8521:

Tere.4759:

My beast arrived today and I’m picking it up after work, gtx980 4gb, i7 4790 4.4ghz overclocked, 16gb 1866, liquid cooled, and rounding the corner with a 3TB hard drive, adding a 4tb secondary in a couple of months. I can’t wait to play on Ultra.

Such an excellent rig… and then you ruin it completely with a 3TB HDD instead of an SSD. What a waste, what a waste.

I’ve had 4 SSDs fail in the last year. No more here.

Ouch! That’s some seriously bad luck, but most drives do come with a 1 year manufacturer’s warranty (my ssd did). Just need to contact the manufacturer and they can tell you where to send it. Some are even so nice as to honor a warranty if the item fails within 30 days of the warranty expiration (they obviously don’t have to, but some will).

Tere.4759:

Dawdler.8521:

Tere.4759:

My beast arrived today and I’m picking it up after work, gtx980 4gb, i7 4790 4.4ghz overclocked, 16gb 1866, liquid cooled, and rounding the corner with a 3TB hard drive, adding a 4tb secondary in a couple of months. I can’t wait to play on Ultra.

Such an excellent rig… and then you ruin it completely with a 3TB HDD instead of an SSD. What a waste, what a waste.

I’ve had 4 SSDs fail in the last year. No more here.

What kind of SSD did you use, lol? I have been running a Samsung for about 4 years as main, with a Plextor secondary about 3.

Make sure its not your memory (the failing SSDs)… my computer appeared to have failing SSDs till I swapped the memory out and everything started working perfectly.

All this talk of awesome rigs and I’m sitting here, with my lame laptop.

Haha I feel you OP. Had a terrible notebook with kittenty gpu and cpu and recently bought a new one. It’s like a different game lol.

SSD is also fantastic, had loading screens of 20-30 sec and now around 4-5.

I just run a current gen i5 with a GTX970 and 8GB of ram and can run everything I’ve tried on top settings. Will be upgrading and adding an i7 at some point and another grapics card, more ram and more memory too.

What case you got? I have a white NZXT with the window in the side, nice case but heavy.

GZ on the P’s BTW

EDIT:

heres my specs… GeForce GTX 970
i5-4690k CPU @ 3.50GHz
8.00 GB RAM (corsair)
Windows 7 ultimate

The motherboard is by Gigabyte and i have a 500GB SSD as well. I could do with some more memory but it runs alright, for my first ever rig i’ve built I’m really happy with the performance, even if i did get someone to help who knew what they were doing, ha ha.

Before GW2 i was playing an mmo that exists for about 7 years now( no , not the obvious one). I also upgraded my system and only recently got to start playing this game.
Although the graphics might seem not ‘up-to-date’, it is an awesome experience in comparison.

And i’m happy for OP that he finally gets some decent graphics, but trust me, you have to play this on a triple screen setup…it’s frikkin awesome (3rd person mmo’s are perfect for that).

@Tere, your gtx980 would be able to handle triple like a breeze, but it’s a sound advice to get an ssd, loading times are way less, and not only in this game.