Guild Wars 2

Does anyone have these cards? Can it max the setting during world boss/wvw? I’m using 1080p60 now but might upgrade to 140hz/1440/4k in the future, I know it sounds overkill for my current monitor but world boss/wvw have intensive graphics.

I believe it’s GPU bound at that point because I get smooth fps with mid/low settings. Unless it’s bounded by draw calls issued by CPU.

This game’s issues will always be the fact that it’s not optimized for 64bit. The best rigs will still crash at populated world boss events.

It’s going to rely on the CPU a lot more then it’s going to rely on the GPU. Either of those cards would have no issues maxing the game in any situation, but you’re still going to see framerate drops because of your CPU.

Frame rate drops in boss battles have more to do with CPU performance than GPU.

Behellagh.1468:

Frame rate drops in boss battles have more to do with CPU performance than GPU.

Because of draw calls or all the damage calculations?

If I lower the graphic settings (for large scale battle), I can get smoother fps. That makes me think it to be more of a graphic problem. Of course the graphic can also be CPU-bound due to draw calls but I’m not very sure about it.

I use the same i5 3570k overclocked like yours. There isn’t many better ones up there. The haswell one is better but only so much…..

I Have an MSI GTX 960 Gaming 2GB and get 100+ fps during normal map group/dungeon/sPvP, but get in a WvW zurg or world boss, and it drops to around 57 fps. I have a i5 4690K(@3.90), 8GB HyperX Savage. So a GTX 980Ti would be over kill for GW2. As others have said, CPU is the bottle neck. Untill the game has a 64 bit client, most up-to-date PC’s will struggle.

BrotherBelial.3094:

I Have an MSI GTX 960 Gaming 2GB and get 100+ fps during normal map group/dungeon/sPvP, but get in a WvW zurg or world boss, and it drops to around 57 fps. I have a i5 4690K(@3.90), 8GB HyperX Savage. So a GTX 980Ti would be over kill for GW2. As others have said, CPU is the bottle neck. Untill the game has a 64 bit client, most up-to-date PC’s will struggle.

Well then I guess good guy Anet saved me some money from upgrading the GPU.

Afya.5842:

Behellagh.1468:

Frame rate drops in boss battles have more to do with CPU performance than GPU.

Because of draw calls or all the damage calculations?

If I lower the graphic settings (for large scale battle), I can get smoother fps. That makes me think it to be more of a graphic problem. Of course the graphic can also be CPU-bound due to draw calls but I’m not very sure about it.

I use the same i5 3570k overclocked like yours. There isn’t many better ones up there. The haswell one is better but only so much…..

It will help some but not as much as you would expect when compared to other games. The GW2 game engine simply bogs down around loads of players. And you are talking about a Cadillac of graphic cards in the $600+ range. If you have the money fine but you may not need to buy bleeding edge, what video card do you currently have? We are just trying to temper expectations.

Haswell is roughly 10-15% faster per clock than Ivy Bridge. Running OC then it’s unlikely you can get that much better performance.

Behellagh.1468:

Haswell is roughly 10-15% faster per clock than Ivy Bridge. Running OC then it’s unlikely you can get that much better performance.

Especially since you can usually get a couple more .1 GHz out of an IB CPU

Afya.5842:

BrotherBelial.3094:

I Have an MSI GTX 960 Gaming 2GB and get 100+ fps during normal map group/dungeon/sPvP, but get in a WvW zurg or world boss, and it drops to around 57 fps. I have a i5 4690K(@3.90), 8GB HyperX Savage. So a GTX 980Ti would be over kill for GW2. As others have said, CPU is the bottle neck. Untill the game has a 64 bit client, most up-to-date PC’s will struggle.

Well then I guess good guy Anet saved me some money from upgrading the GPU.

Yep, I forgot to mention, that’s with everything maxed too.

Fermi.2409:

Behellagh.1468:

Haswell is roughly 10-15% faster per clock than Ivy Bridge. Running OC then it’s unlikely you can get that much better performance.

Especially since you can usually get a couple more .1 GHz out of an IB CPU

Unless you get the Devil’s Canyon version, i5-4690K, it has a touch more performance per clock plus better thermal transfer for OCing.

Gnat.9405:

This game’s issues will always be the fact that it’s not optimized for 64bit. The best rigs will still crash at populated world boss events.

I have a mediocre rig (4 year old i5 with a 700 series Nvidia card) and have NEVER crashed in a highly populated WB or WvW zerg. There is big difference between seeing slideshow like FPS numbers (single digit FPS) and crashing….they are not necessarily related and just assuming they are is a big mistake.

This game is CPU bound and no wiz-bang graphics card is going to give you silky smooth graphics in a highly populated combat scenario.

It’s a combination of multiple boss events or WvW with lots of players and play session duration that cause “out of memory” crashes.

To work around the OOM error, lower character model limit and quality to medium when you do zerg events. Annoying, I know, but apparently ArenaNet has no intention of making a 64 bit client to properly fix this issue – HoT requirements still just say Windows (doesn’t say 64 bit).

There is nothing wrong with your system … the game has not been optimised properly.

BrotherBelial.3094:

I Have an MSI GTX 960 Gaming 2GB and get 100+ fps during normal map group/dungeon/sPvP, but get in a WvW zurg or world boss, and it drops to around 57 fps. I have a i5 4690K(@3.90), 8GB HyperX Savage. So a GTX 980Ti would be over kill for GW2. As others have said, CPU is the bottle neck. Untill the game has a 64 bit client, most up-to-date PC’s will struggle.

Yea, I’m gonna call BS, I have a 3930k i7, 16gb corsair 2133mhz ram and a gtx 970 and I don’t pull anything near that with max settings, same goes with my i7 asus gaming laptop with a gtx765m. You either don’t have AA on, or are running at 720p, or just have ALL your settings turned off, including vsync.

the 980ti won’t improve your FPS in guild wars as much as you think,
i run a 980 from gigabyte on max settings 1080p and the lowest I’ll get is like 37fps, since I’m still using my i5 (forgot which one ^^ just now it’s the strongest on the market) which is overclocked as well
I wouldn’t recomend 4k, you won’t be able to run games at max settings on it most of the time, and honestly, you’ll hardly notice a difference
stick to 1080p and supersample it to 2k,3k or 4k

Darcwolf.6817:

BrotherBelial.3094:

I Have an MSI GTX 960 Gaming 2GB and get 100+ fps during normal map group/dungeon/sPvP, but get in a WvW zurg or world boss, and it drops to around 57 fps. I have a i5 4690K(@3.90), 8GB HyperX Savage. So a GTX 980Ti would be over kill for GW2. As others have said, CPU is the bottle neck. Untill the game has a 64 bit client, most up-to-date PC’s will struggle.

Yea, I’m gonna call BS, I have a 3930k i7, 16gb corsair 2133mhz ram and a gtx 970 and I don’t pull anything near that with max settings, same goes with my i7 asus gaming laptop with a gtx765m. You either don’t have AA on, or are running at 720p, or just have ALL your settings turned off, including vsync.

Call what you want. I know what I was getting. Also I didn’t say I was running the game in HD.

My rig is a beast and I run max setting all the time and literally have never crashed….

AMD FX-8350 Black Edition Vishera 8-Core 4.0GHz
16gb Corsair ram
SAPPHIRE TRI-X OC 100362-2SR Radeon R9 290 4GB 512-bit
250gb solid state
3tb HDD
Currently running on a 4k monitor as well
I render full zergs at max distance with minimal drop in FPS

Solomon Darkfury.3729:

I render full zergs at max distance with minimal drop in FPS

Yeah, no. Not a chance. Unless you count 5 people as a zerg…

Actually yes… Every zerg I come across has FULL rendered armor…