Guild Wars 2

There are lots of people who would like to know how is GW2 run on some GPU and CPU. I found nice comparison that could answer most of those questions so I decided to put in topic form, maybe even as the beginning for others to put their findings.

It’s Polish site, so obviously it’s written in Polish but most important thing – graphs, are quite easy to understand. So here it is
And here is direct link to translator but it’s far from perfect

Nice find, but their numbers seem a bit low.

I’m running a 3570K + 670 and I’m getting better frame-rates than they claim (looking at their 2500K and 3930K charts).

I find, that generally, with almost any highly anticipated game, Tom’s Hardware is THE preeminent place to go for GPU/CPU benchmarks and comparison. I spent countless hours on their site looking at GPU performance for a variety of games prior to putting together the gaming rig I’m currently playing on.

Here, check out their review, they test it for 10 commonly available GPU’s over a wide price range.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/guild-wars-2-performance-benchmark,3268.html

Clem.2963:

Nice find, but their numbers seem a bit low.

I’m running a 3570K + 670 and I’m getting better frame-rates than they claim (looking at their 2500K and 3930K charts).

I have an i5 3570k myself, along with a 5 year old nVidia 8800 GTX, and I get a solid 50-100 FPS on medium settings. This game is, first and foremost, CPU heavy at its most basic settings. If I stretch the game to its highest settings, I still manage 25-30 FPS.

If you are building a budget machine, pick a quality processor like the i5 3570k before going for a high end graphics card, especially if you don’t need to play on uber-max settings.

i5 2500K overclocked to 4.4 and HD 6950 2GB with flashed bios running at 6970 specs and I average in the 60’s with all settings maxed.

Tom’s was the place I went when I built my current machine (around $900 before rebates), and it has great info for gamers. Haven’t seen if they did a specific article on GW2 yet but they break down the best parts for some of the big name games sometimes.

With Autodetect (all on high) but reflections set to Sky and shadows to low, I get 60 FPS unless there’s a large event going on or a screen full of fog + particle effects.

I have Aniso forced to 8x in the driver’s settings.

I’m still testing shadow settings but I think they only matter when then framerate drops (from many particle effects) anyway.

I’ll have to look during those big events but otherwise my cores hover ~50%.

Bsquared.3421:

Here, check out their review, they test it for 10 commonly available GPU’s over a wide price range.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/guild-wars-2-performance-benchmark,3268.html

Thx for this review but it’s outdated because they used beta client. We need to wait for updated review to see true benchmarks.

BTW I didn’t post how game runs on ma hardware: C2D E8200@3.48GHz, 6GB RAM@867MHz, GTX 560Ti. Works flawlessly…if I’m in EotN. Normally I have ~20fps max. When fighting in WvW it can drop to ~6fps. So it’s hard to play this way. Changing setting doesn’t impact performance too much so I have almost max (w/o supersample, FXAA and Ultra LoD)

Right now I’m in the middle of deciding what to buy to play smoothly.

I built a desktop the week GW2 came out – originally it was also for WoW, but I um, have since unsubbed. Will certainly enjoy single-player games on it, too, though (I couldn’t play Skyrim very well on my laptop – will enjoy seeing how it works on here).

i5-3450
HD 6870
8Gb RAM

- get 60fps while questing and in smaller DEs. Haven’t played WvWvW. I haven’t noticed a framerate loss in bigger fights – I’m sure it’s there, but it’s never been enough to look choppy.

This is on all settings (except reflections) maxed out, including FXAA.

The machine cost me $550 to build, including monitor.

@Draghmar, there was another thread, if you weren’t in it, about the C2D – with your video card, your CPU is HUGELY bottlenecking you. Someone in that thread upgraded to an i5 on my suggestion and their performance has seen a HUGE increase.

You’ll need a new motherboard, and I’d double-check your PSU. If it’s in your budget, it is very cheap to upgrade to 8Gb DDR3 1600 RAM.

Your GPU has the potential to run this game very well – the CPU is a massive bottleneck that’s stopping that from happening.

Ceallach.8740:

@Draghmar, there was another thread, if you weren’t in it, about the C2D – with your video card, your CPU is HUGELY bottlenecking you. Someone in that thread upgraded to an i5 on my suggestion and their performance has seen a HUGE increase.

Yeah, I probably even posted there. I know that my CPU is too weak for this game. Especially when I learned that GW2 really likes 4+ cores.
I would have to change my motherboard, cpu and ram and that would cost me something like 700$. Plus I would add Samsung 256GB 830 SSD and that is another 300$.
But I’m considering buying Clevo P370EM and selling my current desktop to get device I could play in any part of my home.

Bottom line – GW2 needs more then two cores and decent gpu.