Guild Wars 2

Hi I am looking at getting this laptop how well would it run GW2 and on what settings?

Intel Core i5-4210M
8GB RAM + 1TB HDD
NVIDIA GeForce 940M

Thanks

It’s a 2.6 GHz CPU with a low-end GPU as far as games go. Not sure if it uses system shared memory, http://www.geforce.com/hardware/notebook-gpus/geforce-940m/specifications (DDR3) suggests it, but it can’t be right.

I’d say:
Textures: high
Antialias: off
Character Model limit/quality: low
Anything else probably on medium settings.

But it will never sustain >10-15 fps in larger events even on lowest settings. Probably around 20-40 fps outdoors most of the time.

Just checked your spec on notebookcheck.com and compared them to my own laptop in the benchmark section.
I play on an i7-3720QM with a GTX660m (with dedicated memory, no shared kitten).
And even though this spec is more than 3 years old now, it’s still somewhat better than what you posted.
If you aim for fluent 60fps gaming- forget it. You might get close to it now and then, especially in vanilla Tyria when no one is around, but you will have noticeable drops as soon as you enter crowded areas or simply play HoT.
And don’t underestimate the influence of your HDD. Since it’s a 1TB and everything else already shouts “budget laptop”, I expect it to be quite slow, thus loading times might be getting anoying.

So to answer your question:
Considering what my own Laptop can handle (which luckily has “only” a HD+ display) and assuming the one you posted probably comes with a full HD display, I’d say Kiza made a good guess.

Playing games on a lap top is not advisable, unless you are willing to pay good money for one.

This is my setup and I only get 50-60 fps on max settings ambling about the world. 10-15 on Tequatl. Not even going to say the specs, just do a quick Google.

Because an MSI laptop is so self identifying as to which model that is.

I know right, that mechanical keyboard especially doesn’t help with identification.