Guild Wars 2

Hi all ,
Regarding the Low FPS issue that many players have(including me) (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Low-FPS-merged)
I am curious if there is any player with a DUAL core mid end system and a decent GPU that can actually play WvWvW without any FPS problems. If you have such a PC please post the frame rate you have when in large scale battles PC CPU/ GPU.

I have a core 2 duo @2.80 Ghz – ATi HD4870 DDR5 (7-14 FPS)
which is much better that the minimum requirements but when I am playing WvWvW , or events in PVE that have many people i get the amazing amount of 7 (seven) FPS !!!

I know that players who have high end systems haven ’t that kind of problem, but what about the others who have just a decent desktop but exceeding the minimum requirements of the game?

Edit :
post your FPS when inside heavy battles – CPU – GPU – resolution – settings (if not minumum)
i.e mine : 7-14 FPS Core 2 Duo @2.80 Ghz – Ati HD 4870 – 1680×1050 – minimum settings

Thanks

What video settings are you using? I’ve got a pretty strong rig (i7 920, dual SLI’d GT 580s), and even I have to tone the video settings in some zones to maintain high FPS.

If you’re getting <20 FPS at minimum settings, that does call into question the marketed “minimum settings”, though.

I know people with similar rigs to the OP who have no problems at medium settings in any aspect of the game.

@Velkyn your 920 is your weak point. It’s a decent CPU when overclocked but not the best by any stretch. However, you should be getting better results than that, have you tried disabling SLI? You shouldn’t be having to tone down anything with ingame settings.

Hey i have 7 FPS, totally unplayable so i have set the settings to the bare minimum possible without success… (everything is set to low – resolution is at 1680×1050)

I just built a computer for my brother for his birthday. It has the following:
AMD A4-3400 2.7G Dual core
MSI A55M-P33 kitten Mobo
2x 4GB G.Skill ram
Zotac GTX 560

I think that’s about as mid-range as you can get. Might even be the lower end of mid-range. It runs at a steady 45 fps on medium settings and can dip down to 30 in heavy WvW fights. Could probably squeeze a few more out it and up the texture quality if I completely turned off shadows and reflections. Those features never really seemed like they were worth the performance hit imo.

Edit: lol at kitten mobo. Srsly guys?

I am running a system over a year old, Gtx 460, i5, 8 gig ram, cheapo MOBO and cheapo power supply and cheapo HD.

I run smooth at about 55-60 FPS every where, in heavy zerg combat i drop down to about 40ish, completely tolerable and I run on max settings.

I run the game in windowed mode, and I dragged the edges to edge of my monitor(hard to recall if it did it by itself or not but I would have done it anyway.)

I do not however, have a bunch of stuff on my PC, this thing is purely for gaming and nothing else. There are no “apps” or anything useless here, just 4 games and that is all. I am the sole user as well, so there is no chance of anything getting on here when I don’t know about it. No music, no movies, no pictures.

Every now and then, my anti-virus/anit-spam/anti-malware program will update and that will give me a pop-up on my screen, this pop-up will make my FPS drop like a rock for some reason, I close the pop-up right way and everything returns immediately back to “normal”. I could turn off the notification but I like knowing it is doing it’s job, so I put up with it.

I do also run all VOIP programs aside from mumble and this other one I can’t remember. I kept skype, vent and TS, the least buggy one’s of them all. Skype is a bit RAM hungry, but vent and TS run with very little RAM consumption at all.

^ Your i5 makes a big difference, especially if its the second i5 (Ivy Bridge I think?).

I run an i7 920, GTX560ti, 6 Gigs RAM on 1920×1080 with high settings across the board except shadows and I pretty much stay right at my 60 FPS V-Sync cap all the time, dipping to something like 45 in WvWvW.

MMOs, especially this one with all the extra calculations your system has to do for combo fields and what have you, are always going to be more CPU-intensive, so dual core systems are going to struggle.

Also, I used to run a 4850 on the same system and the performance was pretty terrible in almost any game in comparison to my new card. I realize 560ti is a pretty significant upgrade from the 4850, but overall I think NVIDIA, drivers especially, are just better. Switching to NVIDIA will cost you more sure, and you probably won’t get as good a boost as you would if you upgraded your CPU, but its still going to be cheaper to get a new GPU, and you will most likely still see some gains.

AcidicVision.5498:

Edit: lol at kitten mobo. Srsly guys?

Was that A-five-five that got censored?

Jestunhi.7429:

AcidicVision.5498:

Edit: lol at kitten mobo. Srsly guys?

Was that A-five-five that got censored?

Yep.

I have a dual core AMD 2.8GHz processor, and I get 4-7 fps during large events (Dragons etc.) and WvW sieges and zergs. I’ve been reduced to playing mostly PvE and dungeons, where I can maintain 20+ fps. It’s a shame, really, because I love WvW, but the most I can do is roll with a 5 man group for capturing small objectives, and even then if my group encounters a small invader team, I can hardly be effective in combat.

it seems to me that the CPU is the problem and more precisely core 2 duo is not sufficient , while CPUs like i3 and better work fine. But this is more than a speculation as the data is not enough… let us see what the other community members report!

Velkyn.9285:

What video settings are you using? I’ve got a pretty strong rig (i7 920, dual SLI’d GT 580s), and even I have to tone the video settings in some zones to maintain high FPS.

If you’re getting <20 FPS at minimum settings, that does call into question the marketed “minimum settings”, though.

Outragous. Seriously. SLI 580s?

I have 470 in SLI and I notice heavy. real heavy drops during certain effects – fog, smoke, mesmer skills. and when they are in the highs, its just poor. GW1 ran so well on low systems. I dont understand why my Quad-Core rig is not up to the task. Even at 1900×1080 it runs unsatisfyingly. Its okay, but it still feels choppy and I have to take shadows and shaders to a low, and run in native instead of ss.

I have a dual core AMD 2.4GHz, for the most part, in PVE/Spvp it’s perfectly playable, the thing is FPS is very, very inconsistent.

I could be getting 40 fps just wandering around in a PvE zone with no one around, then in other areas I’m at 15 fps with literally no one else around, same in WvW some areas far away from all the action, I can be getting 11 fps looking at some fort, then 25+ fps chilling somewhere else.

Particle effects on certain skills seem to poop on my FPS as well, if I’m chilling with 10 people in an Event, could be getting a solid 25-30 FPS, people start spamming skills and either it doesn’t effect me at all, or my FPS plummets to 10-15 fps til everyone stops.

Zerg fights in WvW are of course horrible, sometimes as low as 4 fps, assuming it’s just people sitting there spamming abilities.

I don’t expect to have perfect FPS all the time, but the inconsistency is really annoying, and if I could atleast get 10 fps in small zerg fights in WvW I’d be estatic.

Oh, and I’ve tried all kinds of different graphic settings hoping to find some small FPS gains, but I’ve noticed turning down some settings actually HURTS my FPS even more, even just slightly, so now I just keep most settings at a good medium-high w/o any loss, atleast it looks pretty.

Do you have the latest graphics drivers for your card? It was a common issue for a big majority of models, that they simply couldn’t work correctly with GW2, even for latest and high-end models.

Most companies have published viable drivers by now, so you might want to check their sites.

Guys, in order to keep this thread more consistent when you post please write your system configuration in the format :
FPS when inside heavy battles – CPU – GPU – resolution – settings (if not minumum).
That way this thread will be much easier to read

I always thought with games like this, graphics card is the most important aspect, much more than processing power and ram. (though ofc they would have effects on your gameplay).

Also, I heard having SLIs aren’t that good yet because some games aren’t able to utilize having 2 GPUs (maybe this is one of those games) so a single GPU is just as good/better in some cases versus 2.

In any case, the machine I was running on before this one was a macbook 2009 (yes sigh). It had the 9400m nvidia card, and it ran horribly. I could get up to 25-27fps on medium on a good day. on a bad day, 7-8fps on low setting. I’m still downloading gw2 now so I’ll comment about it when I can get it up and running. still at 38% tho :P

I had to upgrade my system to play efficiently. I was running an E7500, 8GB, HD6850 small skirmish was fine but anything over that got progressively worse until it was unplayable. My video was fine, it’s the cpu that’s the bottleneck.

I built a new rig. Used my old HD, video, and PSU. Picked up i5-3550, 8 gigs, GB – Motherboard. I run on full graphics now 1920×1080 and have 0 fps issues.

ok new computer so i can give some imput. I just bought a new acer laptop with the following specs:
i5-3210M (2.5-3.1ghz)
nVidia 630m
8gig ram

so far, on low settings (which looks horrible!) I can run around 50-70fps
on mid around 30-40+
on high, 20+-30+

so far, even on 24/25 fps, the game will run smooth (just not as fluid as 60fps). However, my vid card fan seems to increase fan speed more in high, and a few times in mid, hardly in low. I think this is normal though the paranoid me is worried if it’ll fry the vidcard/laptop faster o.o

For me the settings that have most impact on performance are reflections and shadows.

If I change reflections from “none” to “terrain and sky” I have a 1-2 FPS drop but if I go to “All” it drops 10 fps.

Same with shadows, the difference between medium and high is barely 3 fps but if I go to ultra it drops 10 fps.

Everything else I can change from min to ultra and it has no impact on FPS so I leave them all at ultra.

My system is:

Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4 GHz
Geforce GTX460 1GB
3 GB RAM