Guild Wars 2

So I’ve heard that the 560 and the 560ti are pretty good for GW2. I have also heard good things about Radeon HD 7770 and the 7850. All of these are in my price range, but the 7850 is realllly pushing it. I won’t ask which one is best because they are all different and that would be stupid. I will ask: which one(s) (if any) will allow me to play Guild Wars 2 at 1080p without ANY lag at the highest appearance settings?!

-Thanx

I would like to hear also if someone is playing with GTX 460, how’s the performance at 1080p. I’m planning to get one for a PC I have lying around with GT 220. It kind of dies in mass fights.

have 560ti playing @ 1920×1200, can enjoy everything at max graphics (having ~70fps) except really massive wvw fights (where fps drops to like 10 for brief moments).

if i was getting video card for gw2, would get something better. unfortunately made my gaming pc for some other game, before gw2 came out. and i don’t feel its worth upgrading it now, just for playing wvw at max graphics.

so for the most gw2 content 560ti and 7850 would be more then enough for ya :p unless you are really into those epic invisible™ army battles

While your video card definitely makes a difference, a lot of this game depends on your CPU as well. So if you have an awesome GPU with an not so great CPU, you will experience FPS issues.

Running an EVGA GTX560 SC with an Intel i5 3.0ghz Quad Core and 8g of RAM. I get 50-60FPS in PvE, 40-50 in WvW and it drops to the low 20’s during the worst of the fighting. This is with all graphics maxed out.

I have both the 460 and the 560ti.

I can tell u that both will play GW2 with high settings. The 560ti though will handle it better. (Excluding: Supersampling, Full reflections, Ultra shadows ..these are all ether bugged and/or have massive performance hits)

However i should point out that with GW2, the CPU is most important, if i didnt have my CPU OC’d to 4.5ghz or above , i might aswell be running the equivalent to an integrated GPU (my cpu doesnt actually have one) ..becouse the 460 or 560ti would be being held back alot.

Unless u have a 2nd/3rd gen Intel i5 or better OC’d to 4.5ghz or above, you WILL drop below 30fps no matter what settings or GPU u have, in places like WvW and LA.

@revan

the game client is pretty resource intensive so a large part of it will be dependant on your cpu and ram. this i think is either due to the single file game client or perhaps the client engine itself isn’t really good.

I would recommend you going fer the gtx560ti
i’m on i7 3.5ghz, 16g ram, asus gtx680 and SSD. I get around 140 fps on pve and it will drop to 100-110 on WvW and world boss event. Running on ultra high settings as well.

I recommend going for the gtx560ti

Sojournion, simply entering WvW and moving the camera around is no way to test FPS… when we mention WvW we give a proper minimum fps number when in battle. .not when sitting alone.
As it stands today no computer commercialy available is able to do much better than 30 fps minimum. Most drop well below 30 fps specialy if they r not OC’d.
I do not doubt the 680 can manage 100+ fps in pve and when standing alone, but there is no way a 3.5ghz i7 can manage 100 fps in WvW battles, its just not possible.

Anyway i dont intend this to be a ‘big’ moan , but it is a hassle when people spread flase/inaccurate/unintended information around.

Still ur recomendation is sound

@solarnova

well i commented on my experience and i never on WvW in large scale battles, more like medium skirmishes. May hv stated it wrongly, I’ve OC-ed my cpu to 4.2 so yes i get 100 fps in WvW

Ok fair enough 5 -15 man skirmashes i can imagin wouldnt be a problem. I have my FPS capped and im alway stuck at 60 fps in small skirmishes like that, and my 560ti is unlikely to be able to hit 100 fps on the settings i use anyway ..so yea ok ..thats cool

@solarnova

I’ve asked friends that are playing gw2 as well and i’m pretty sure its the same all around…isn’t your cpu fan screaming “Y R U STRESSING ME OUT” during WvW and World Boss events?

Honestly, the game client/engine could be of better design than this.

I’m actually wondering if there is actually a way to benchmark which one is the source of poor performance personaly. Is it the ram, the hard drive or the usual suspects – cpu/gpu. Of course without buying additional hardware to swap it in order to see if there is an improvement. I’m running 2x Radeon HD 6850 in crossfire and in mass fights it drops down to 15-20 and if i dont look directly at the fight bumps to 25 and it reaches the cap in PvE. Of course with a lot of settings disabled but generally everything is on high. So yeah it runs well on that PC, but I want to make it so it runs on the other PC as well, it drops to 3 FPS in the big fights on minimum graphic which is just sad.

@Sojo.

No my cpu fan doesnt even speed up playing GW2 since my overall usuage is on average less than 30% and thus the heat doesnt increase much..since i have a 3930k it has 6core 12 threads ..Gw2 only fully utilizes 4 threads. But my per thread performance like any other cpu will max out in WvW. Hence why it drops to 30 fps. the only reason it doesnt go lower is becouse of my OC.

When u get into a proper Wvw battle i garuntee u will see much lower fps than 100 …its also alot ofkittennwith that many peopel playing. If however on the off chance u manage to get into a bit WvW battle and still have say 60+ fps ..i will be very very interested in seeing a video of that along with ur overall PC specs ..becouse that would be somthing to see ..and investigate

@ Raven

i went from a QX6850 3.66ghz , 4gb DDR2 ram and a 560ti.
to
My rig in my sig.

So the GPU was the same ..my fps however went from sub 10 fps in WvW to on average 45+ (30 minimum). PVE , LA and events also tripled or more the FPS.

It is most deffinatly the CPU.