Guild Wars 2

So I’ve been playing GW2 on a VERY low spec PC for the last couple of years. Still, it hasn’t stopped me from playing the game. There are maps in which my fps is 15-30 (which, for me at least, is very playable) and some in which it goes below 10 (bad). Recently I bought the HoT expansion thinking that maybe my PC would be able to handle the new maps. This was not the case, as I get like 7 fps max in the very first HoT map.
I have this program called “Hialgo Switch” which makes it so that a game runs at half the resolution that it’s set to. I’ve been using it for other single player games and it works great. So I was wondering whether i’d be able to use it with GW2 without getting banned? I read that some people have tried it and that it worked, but I’ve also read that you can get banned for using 3rd party programs because they could be used to give the player an advantage. I would just be using this for performance, which I do not think of as an advantage, really.
Opinions on this? Has any of you used Hialgo? Please no “you should upgrade your pc” as it is something I’m already working on but I kind of want to try out the expansion.
Sorry for the unnecessarily long post, and for any grammar errors (english is not my first language).
Thanks in advance!

Hi Adic…

The answer to your question is yes, you will likely get banned if you use Hialgo Switch.

Hialgo users have already been banned by ‘the other guys’ and although the Hialgo devs tried appealing directly to game publishers for white listing, their software is still not listed.

Anet’s internals will almost certainly recognize it as additional unlisted code injection software, flag it accordingly and your account will be suspended initially then banned if you continue using it – which is exactly the pattern other MMO games (WoW, LoL, Warframe, etc) have already followed.

I understand your reasons for wanting to use it to let you improve fps on a (no offence intended) ‘older’ PC, but while it’s ok for offline single player games – for online MMO’s it’s not worth losing an account over, just to have improved fps performance for the short time before they pull your account plug and your real money investment is wasted.

If you really want to play GW2/HoT then your looking at saving up, like you say your already doing, until you can afford a newer PC with better performance and newer graphics hardware/software.

Think about it and good luck whatever you decide.

Breeze

Bbear.7830:

Hi Adic…

The answer to your question is yes, you will likely get banned if you use Hialgo Switch.

Hialgo users have already been banned by ‘the other guys’ and although the Hialgo devs tried appealing directly to game publishers for white listing, their software is still not listed.

Anet’s internals will almost certainly recognize it as additional unlisted code injection software, flag it accordingly and your account will be suspended initially then banned if you continue using it – which is exactly the pattern other MMO games (WoW, LoL, Warframe, etc) have already followed.

I understand your reasons for wanting to use it to let you improve fps on a (no offence intended) ‘older’ PC, but while it’s ok for offline single player games – for online MMO’s it’s not worth losing an account over, just to have improved fps performance for the short time before they pull your account plug and your real money investment is wasted.

If you really want to play GW2/HoT then your looking at saving up, like you say your already doing, until you can afford a newer PC with better performance and newer graphics hardware/software.

Think about it and good luck whatever you decide.

Breeze

Welp, I tried. Thank you for answering!

GW2 doesn’t use spyware like some other games to detect client-side software. They instead track your actions server-side, so as long as you’re not actually cheating, it’s unlikely that anything will happen. If you were banned however, it’d only be for 24-72 hours as your first offence. Even in the worst possible case, which is for repeat exploiters, botters and the like, a “permanent” suspension is limited to 6 months.