Guild Wars 2

My computer isn’t the best. It’s a laptop. It runs the game at 30 FPS pretty consistently. But I’m wondering will I be running around Verdant Brink with like 15 FPS? Considering how big the maps are, do they have a huge effect on performance?

Just a little concerned . Any help with this would be great!

Great question, and one I don’t have the answer to. Not sure why I felt the need to say this.

My old PC was the same. The only question I can ask is, how does it perform in areas with heavy smoke effects. So the dredge area in Frostgorge or dry top outside of the sandstorm?

If you chug badly, then you will likely be down to under 10fps. VB is intense with smoke effects and other environmental gfx. It’s a little dazzling and intense for older PCs.

If you don’t and you suffer no performance issues in SW/Dry Top or major boss fights, you will prob be OK.

In SW my FPS dips a bit, not too much though. The Black Citadel is pretty bad too… The dredge smoke effects don’t really hurt much, unless they’re right infront of my camera… Why would a simple smoke effect have such a effect on FPS anyway?

The technicalities of it are not best explained by me, all I can say is the effect they had on my PC was that it was either for me to upgrade or not play HoT. I simply couldn’t move in areas of highest smoke/steam density (which was most of VB and especially the hylek village)

Ah, well that’s a shame… let’s just keep our finger’s crossed!

I’ve been using the betas for performance testing as well as game testing. Hopefully will make some tweaks to my settings during this coming final beta

I just read up that Verdant Brink wasn’t too much of a strain on some low-end specs, but as you said the smoke effect really dragged down performance. Hopefully they’ll just optimize the smoke effects and make them not-laggy, which I’m sure they can do!